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Written, presented and edited by
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MARK COOPER-JONES / markcooperjones
Director/DOP
JADE NAGI / jade_nagi
Song produced by
BEARDYMAN / beardyman
/ beardyman
Re Ukraine: Many people wondering if Map Men are legitimising the Russian annexation of Crimea at 2:39. We are not. We had intended to make Crimea a different colour, as a way of saying 'look, sticky outy bit that's also currently disputed', but we just forgot to do it. We are sorry. This KZhead account is not, actually, a Kremlin propaganda bot.
I will not write a comment about that then
But that's exactly what a Kremlin propaganda bot would say!
You forgot to Putin a different colour for Crimea?
You sure?
It was like have a second on screen.
This would've been the perfect video to be sponsored by Squarespace.
The pun would be to strong
WHAT A MISSED OPPRETUNITY!
I think they have a long standing agreement with stereo
@@boomamathics2666 For mortal minds
ohhh boiiii
As a German I can say: we tried becoming a square twice: The Rest of the world didn‘t like it
The Brits went with the opposite approach and tried to get all the coastline in the world.
@@Zraknul we Turks went with opposites of those 2 and just ate anything close to us and created one of the biggest long lasting empires and post ww1 we destroyed the entente bit too easily ngl.
You are still on timeout, btw, no more becoming a square for You.
I don't think you tried becoming "square" more "globe" shaped.
Under performers.
The "San Marino? San Mari-no", and "the Vatican? The Vatican't" are the best sounds to have ever graced my ears
It's so fucking incredible to me that you nail the expression for anger in Paraguay, because contrary of what everyone must asume we won't react in spanish in that situation. Let me explain: the expression "nde" it's in guaraní (the native lenguage of the country still speak till this day alongside spanish) and it's so crazy because if you try to translate it it's literally "You", so you have to have so inside knowlege to know that's also used like the expression "hey! 😡" 3:14
I lived in Villa Hayes for a year. Mba’eichapa!
@@JayForeman haha hope you had a good experience here! Come back any time!
@@JayForemanlived in Paraguay for a year? I want to hear that story!
Let's see Jay do his "one syllable out of sync trick" on this song
Can't, the lyrics are already bollocks
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"THATS A FUCKING DIFFICULT ONE"
not going to be long until some cheeky bugger requests this at karaoke
I hope so
hi graf
lmao
verified lemme get some of that clout
When this stupid pandemic is over, Jay needs to bring back his live songs, and this needs to be the first thing he plays.
Amazing video! My 13yo is totally obsessed by this -- enough so that he's dragged me down the hole. I ended up writing a program to calculate the squareness of countries, and according to my metric Egypt is indeed the winner at 89.5% square, followed by (North) Sudan and Cote D'Ivoire both at just over 83%. Interestingly (to me at least), these seem to be the only countries that score higher than a circle, which scores exactly 2*sqrt(2)-2, or roughly 0.828, on my metric. So rejecting countries for being "too round" may not be valid, at least not if you're interested in finding square-ish countries beyond the top 3.
WOW
I'm curious. Which country scored the lowest
@@notjeff7833 I didn't trawl through all the low ranking ones, but it's surely going to be a far-flung archipelago. If you come up with a shortlist I'll be happy to compare them!
Did you include Kosovo in your calculation too? It seems to be a fairly good square too.
0:08 Start 0:47 What About This Little Countries 0:53 Song Start 1:21 What About Landlocked Countries 2:22 Island Countries 2:34 Countries With sticky outy bit 3:46 List Of Countries 4:52 Square Countries 5:14 The winner 5:37 The Capital Cities question 6:38 Stereo app
I literally said "Egypt is kinda square" at the beginning of the video and I think I've peaked in life.
Me: The squarest country? You mean Egypt? Also me: What if it's NOT Egypt?!
Same.
I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one, was dreading Egypt popping up before the end
Lol, my first thought was actually Ivory Coast
SAME
San MariNO and the Vatican't Name a more iconic duo
You San Mari-Know that you VatiCan't
Botswana and Zimbabwe
Cameroon and a chicken with a huge badonadonk.
IT('s) A LY
furnace and crafting table
This show is so good 😄 the memorization in this video is incredible
I have just re-watched this video, and I find it quite a catchy tune! To the people of Egypt, congratulations on having the squarest borders! Also, nice "Egguatorial Guinea" at 3:29! I didn't notice it until just now! Thanks for the video!
The Japanese sentence reads: "Dear volunteers, can you translate this sentence? Thank you very much! - Map Men"
No the sign off is more like "male map"
@@Hydrophiidae now we know the gender of the map men's map
Oh gosh. The sign off is more like " Map of Men"
@@anishraja9655 Sounds more like an artifact than a KZhead show!
World need more people like u
Finally, the British drawing straight lines all over the map pays off!
Africa: Lots of geographical features with occasional rivers, ponds and lakes along with countless tribal areas, ethnic groups and races Europe: imma pretend I didn’t see that
You're welcome
I am the 669th like
@@SacsachCCABP You realize they only drew straight lines in Egypt because literally nobody lives in the middle of the Sahara desert, right?
@@smfe Egypt isn’t the only country that Europe slapped together. They made so many borders throughout Africa ignoring the geography and cultural borders.
I never thought I'd listen to a song on how square countries can be. I love it.
This is probably my favourite video (and song) ever! 😆🤍
u guys are built different
You know, I suspect they have different mothers.
the chicken agrees
YES
Built better
lmao
New episode of mapmen, now that's worth cleaning your phone screen for.
I even turned the brightness up
Yep
@@Aezeus careful with that battery percentage
It's worth stopping everything else for; these guys are brilliant!
That's worth putting in the good headphones for.
I also love the way the adverts at the end are as entertaining as the documentary ❤
I really wasn't expecting a song, but I love it
The perfect song does exist.
qatar looks like a bean
I dont know IMO Wacko did it better but then he is out of date now so...
Jay: Hold my stolen foods
@@lucie4185 "Germany now on one piece" shows pretty much how old the song is.
Sam why are you here?
-Sombody asked what country is the squarest -What a stupid question -Totally pointless I see what you did there
But a square has 4 points...
somebody once asked me what country is the squarest I told them what a stupid question I was thinking it was pointless with my finger and my thumb in the shape of a hmm on my chin.
I dont get it
@@latesthope A square has 4 points. Him saying that it's a pointless question is funny. Least from what I can make from it
It would be better if they were discussing the most circle shaped nations.
I know this by heart and it's one of the best videos on youtube.
2:36 Afghanistan 4:39 Albania 3:01 Algeria 3:47 Andorra 4:58 Angola 3:47 Antigua and Barbuda 3:20 Argentina 4:23 Armenia
You’ve got this buddy. I believe in you
You were mentioned on Jay’s twitter!
@@Alienguy500 thanks!
Almost there, good luck!
only about 190 to go!
I would like to congratulate you for making the best video the internet has ever seen.
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Vice presidential tier list please
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this was impressive, my applause to you both!)
this is by far the most useful resource and device for geography games I have ever used
Petition for these two to have their own horrible histories show but for geography
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes and YES
Gorgeous Geographies? ;-)
Gregarious Globetrotters
There is a book series called Horrible Geography (as well as Horrible Science and Horrible Histories) and, as the TV shows for the other 2 are Horrible Histories and Horrible Science, it would probably called Horrible Geography.
They do. That's what Map Men is, basically.
Chicken with a huge badonkadonk
Best part
The world needs more chicken-countries with huge badonka donks
Seniac with a huge robloxablox
Yes
Seniac you fool
I feel a little disappointed because it didn't include my homeland Taiwan, but truly a masterpiece! Well done!
Same. I was excited when they didn't include Taiwan in the map of China, but then they didn't mention Taiwan at all... Since I live here and am married to a Taiwanese guy, I'm always looking to see Taiwan included 😣
Yes, I’ve been trying to find you guys forever!!!
Jay’s impression of a call service lady is absolutely gold
he got all the specifics right, down to the slight uptalk that comes from repeating a phrase over and over
I'll just put that through for you.
So so so so ... lol
BEST KZhead CHANNEL EVER MADE
facts
Wtf is avantgardevegan doing here
Thanks for the compliment
BEST VEGAN KZheadR EVER MADE.
Yeah
Saved the video and it automatically saved to my last playlist. A crochet tutorial playlist. One called ‘squares’.
1) That you wrote that song is incredible! 2) I guessed Egypt before you started, and thought of Libya as a backup 😎
This series feels like I'm in a cult.
This cult has wizards the downside is that you have to bring your own cookies.
What do you mean, "like"?
Always have been.
Cant wait for Jay to jonestown us :^)
Nicest cult ever though. And remember: Hexagons are the bestagons
I love that the Japanese speech bubble was signed “a male map” or perhaps "a map of males" rather than map men
Zoo
It could also mean 'a man's map' as in a map (maps) owned by a man or a map (maps) for men. Time code: 01:30.
I was able to translate it roughly as "dear volunteer, can you translate this sentence? Thanks! --a male map"
@@throckmortonvanhouten5430 That is correct. Although the Japanese was a bit awkward. I found that if you translate 'Map Men' or 'Map men' (but not 'map men') to Japanese in Google Translate, it gives the exact phrase in the video.
@@phileo_ss Maybe a translation like "地図の男 (roughly 'man of the map')" would be better?
Hi Men, that last bit is danceable. 💃 🕺. Thanks
I only found this channel today and this thing is hilarious
For Britain's skill at drawing straight lines through Africa, they managed to make surprisingly few square countries.
I am very dissapointed in my country
Egypt?
@@loqi453 still very few. And it my memory serves i don't think Britain was involved with Egypts borders. My comment was really more about the colonial powers in general (france, belgium etc). I know Libya was colonised by Italy, and they share a border with Egypt so it's probably something to do with them.
@@chriswyatt9869 im pretty sure map men have got another video, where they show what the borders were before and after they were changed by the British to better reflect tribal boundaries, Bir Tawil in particular the borders pre tribal influence changes were extremely square
- Daddy, how did the Bolivian War of Territorial Squarisation began? - I believe all began with a catchy song...
This is the best comment in KZhead history
"ok listen you guys, we are explictly NOT actually trying to take away your land from you: all we want from you is to trade bits of land with your neighbors so we can make all the nations square like they should be. ....but we don't even understand wh--- SHUT UP YOU AND JUST DO AS WE SAY ALREADY"
LMFAO :-)
In the 1930s, Bolivia already tried to conquer the north of Paraguay (Chaco War). They lost.
Bolivian here, I honestly think it's a really bad idea Bolivia pushing for a war since we have only won ONE war since our independence. Just search the the map of bolivia in 1936, we used to have sea. 😫
3:56 that one
I legit thought this was some kind of documentary or something but this is still pretty impressive
Our 8yo has this almost completely memorized. (The blobby ones trip him up.). He’s been serenading his globe with it, finding all the countries as he goes. 😂
Aw, that’s adorable! Hope it comes in handy in future geography lessons/quizzes. 🏆
Lol
Me too
wait til he's 18.
Go to sporcle then let's see if your 8 year old can name every country in the world
I am Egyptian and i just reliazed how hard it was for some people to draw the map of their country in the geography class xD
أخوويااااا🇪🇬😍
@@stella_s yeah...
Well drawing straight lines are hard
just imagine lmao uzbecistan and i live in india but it's still hard :(
You think it's hard to draw one country I can draw all 195
So I finally found the original? I love it.
I didn't know I needed this but thanks
I am from Egypt and since the beginning I am like, "hey Egypt is a square!" I feel like we had just won an award somehow for being a square country although we used to be one nation with Sudan before and then we weren't a square at that time! nevertheless WE WON! WE WON!
WE WON FELLOW EGYPTIAN -(IM EGYPTIAN TOO ( مصر ام الدنيا)
Yes, you won. I am from Poland (look at 01:50) which's shape also resembles a square.
Praise Amun!
I was literally thinking what a little moment of national proud...we won being a square xD
@@damianbla4469 you need to do more conquering man.
I feel honored that the first country you thought of is Slovakia even though it look like a literal *cheeto*
And they puted Czech swear word in the video. We are honored too
@@muffin_the_great Czech swear word?
@@harrisonofcolorado8886 1:52
@@muffin_the_great but the sentence is in Slovak... hmm
Come on, let's be serious. If there's any country that looks like a Cheeto it's obviously Chile.
i bought a world map shower curtain and this only just occured to me to listen to the this song and the animaniacs song about the countries in the shower. i usually listen to a book. thanks for this. amazing work.
Delighted I finally found these guys, and it was late enough for them to have built up an impressive body of work, but I think I'm running out of videos now 😢 😭 .
The fact that it's Egypt didn't dawn on me except halfway through the video even though I live here.
You and me both brother
It's the first place I thought of, I sent to long looking at maps of this wonderful place back in the 1990s whilst on holiday there, the Cairo museum is fantastic and the people were very friendly.
I actually was thinking Egypt before I clicked on the video... I'm Egyptian too
America: Panhandle Britain, intellectuals: Sticky outy bit
The fancy term cartographers use is "salient".
The Map Men musical episode
Great video - Just one (perhaps slightly odd) question: What website/application did you use to get the images of the countries coloured in?
Jay showing up the Animaniacs by not only making an accurate and exhaustive map of the world in song, but even working in the whole shapes thing.
I like the hint at the end about all the capitols of the world making a much better song :)
I like to think this isn't scripted and they turned on the camera and just started spitting bars.
They would need to know all the exact shapes of every country on earth tho
@@poodiepie6140 That's not hard actually, but what would be really hard is to think about something that look a like or describe the shapes in one verse and making it rime
If this made you feel like that way, then the Map Men™ have succeed in this video!
Yo yo yo they like spitting bars and sheeit
You guys are the best. Really square yourselves, but the best nonethess(t).
i have no words for the beauty of this song. except these ones.
As a Czech, the "pal do piče" with the Polish invasion bit made me crack up.
what does it mean?
@@mikaoleander nearly impossible to translate well but it means something like "go to hell"!
@@mikaoleander "bugger off" (not very politely)
@@mikaoleander Basically "Fuck off"
It's "fuck off", right? Also, greetings from Poland. :D
I was screaming "Equatorial Guinea" in my head the entire song, and then when they finally got to it that damn island ruined everything! Lol
Lol that’s embarrassing I guessed Egypt the entire time
Island nations tend to do that
@@jasoncallow860 but most of it isn’t an island
Lol
I knew it was gonna be Egypt, but after looking into Africa before guessing, I too fell for EG.
I've been trying to learn this for the past couple weeks and i think I've finally mastered it
Wow I thought I'd seen all the videos on your channel. This hilarious gem proved me wrong 😂much love from the oblate rectangle-ish that is colorado! ❤
I think you guys would really suit Louis with the groups
Jay and Mark, vote for this guy to take London to the max!
Keep up the fight max
mr.Fosh, you would have my vote if i lived in London
@@goawayimsleeping509 max fosh can finish london
London London London
Video: describes what every country looks like Sweden: *starts sweating*
Sweden looks like Finland 🇫🇮
Norway, Sweden and Finland together are the real thing.
@@gabor6259 No. Just Sweden and Finland.
DONG
@@gabor6259 Just sweden and finland.. though Norway would make it a thick uncercumcised one
I just found you guys.i love your attitude plus you seem very creative.have a sub
What a wonderful channel this is.
“Bangladesh looks like a wizard” That’s the best compliment we’ve ever gotten on the internet.
Buy India's map n get Bangladesh map free😝😅😅🤣
@@vimdhayakjiofhimachal6448 Bangladesh and Pakistan will be claimed for the glory of the indian nation!
Do you also look like a wizard?
Better than being a square!
Hagrid: Yer a wizard, Bangladesh!
I thought "Egypt" in the beginning and it's the proudest moment of my life.
Same :,)
That’s amazing. You have won geography
Same! Very happy about it.
Ah, but you neglect Bir Tawil. The Sudanese will be after you!
I was waiting for it the entire time, it made my day
Great song! In the middle of the song I opened the map of Africa (simply because there're more straight lines than other continents) and caught Egypt at the first sight
Wow that advert was clever. Damn!!! I was wondering where this is going and boom. Impressive.
"Oh I'll just watch this new map men before I got to bed, there definitely won't be an incredibly catchy song that I won't be able to stop humming." - me, a fool, 5 minutes ago.
I read this in the voice of Jay pretending to be a character in the sponsor segment.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 oh no, my identity as a Jay-bot has been revealed!
I'm Bangladeshi and I confirm my country is a wizard.
To me, it looks like a dragon.
WINGARDIUM LEVIOSA
😂😂😂
better than me, my country is considered just "too triangular" :'-(
@@joaofabio5927 which one?
2:00 Switzerland looks happy
Wow, this is brilliant!
“There’s one asking for all the capitals of the world.” “Well, that would’ve made a much better song.” Yakko Warner: *heavy breathing*
"Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Indianapolis Indiana and Columbus is the capital of Ohio." Oh wait, you mean the other one.
@@DrZaius3141 no, that was Wakko singing state capitals (not country capitals), but Yakko has sung a lot more songs listing things.
Bizzare bits
That's the joke
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte enters the chat
Egypt: Wins Sinai Peninsula: Wait that's illegal
eh close enough
I would agree ( I'm Egyptian )
If it weren't for the Sinai Peninsula, then Egypt would be more like a trapezoid. In this case, having an extra bit sticking out improves the country's squareness.
Israel try to correct that
Sinai peninsula: *is ceded to israel* Egypt: Wait that's illegal but at least i'm a square
I listed to this so much when I was ill a few months ago, I ended up accidentally memorising almost all of it (except the island and blobby countries)! Me accidentally memorising some weird geography thing happens a lot
I literally guessed it from the beginning. Too good. (In my opinion its honestly more like a triangle, but everyone always argues with me about it)
Top 10 rappers Eminem is too afraid to diss
I never get tried of this joke
Haha here before it got lots of likes
@@junaidlabaso *O K*
Was anyone else really suprised by the lack of the Map Men intro song? I thought the cold open was just lasting longer than usual, took me until botswana to come to terms with it
"Took me until Botswana to come to terms with it" is a lovely phrase
@@Kimberton149 If there's any country to come to terms with, it's Botswana. Or maybe Belgium, either one.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 idk mate, i'm just thankful it wasn't lesotho, then i coulda been in a bad place
I am honestly not too surprised that Egypt is the most square, as I'm a geography nerd Also fun fact: Cleopatra was not Egyptian, she was actually Greek!
I love KZhead for recommending this video, you got a new subscriber+1❤
The amount of brainstorming and the number of times seeing the world map for writing this song can only be the work of these two geniuses
Yes
Now you have 193 like, which is like the 69 for geography nerds
@@aagamjain1395 Indeed! Now that you mention it, that would make it a lot of effort! Thanks for mentioning it!
Hey Jay, which was more difficult, getting the lyrics right or not laughing? I tried but it was actually very funny
We used autocue and a backing track for the majority of this song. Apart from the spoken intro, which took several excruciating takes and was no laughing matter.
@@JayForeman One topic for Map Men or something like that is an idea for a UK Motorway or an Underground line, something like that?
Im so happy you included north Macedonia, you have no idea how little recognition it has Im Macedonian btw
THIS IS AMAZING AND I LOVE IT.
I'm from Egypt, and as the video began I thought "Egypt is kinda square-ish..... But I'm sure there are other more square like countries.... I'll just sit here and wait for Egypt to be disqualified" Then as the video progressed i was like OOOOOH SHIT, NO, NO, IT CAN'T BE !! Then once they said the land of the pharoes I threw my arms up so hard i think i dislocated my shoulder. Gods know we needed a win.
I shouldn't have read comments first huh
You did it Egypt you won. Enjoy it because this is the last victory you'll get for another century, you long dead empire you.
@@somerandomname3124 thats a bit mean, no?
but its true
@@teiman truth hurts 😭
Jay's "girl voice" is shockingly good
Literally sounds like every customer service person I've ever spoken to on the phone. Uncanny
This needs to be released as a song!
i need a karaoke version of this since i have been obsessed with listening to the song for 2months
Thank you for correctly pronouncing 'scheduling'.
Hard k forever
@@ntlespino yee
The ultimate crossover doesn't exist. YET.
Wait I didn't know there were multiple pronunciations. Can someone enlighten me?
@@majorfallacy5926 some brits say "shed jewel"
i love that they're doing a square dance at the end
Holy shit
HOLY COW
OH HOLY SMOKES
Comments like these always make me wonder how many other genius jokes I've missed in their videos...
Holy wisdom!!!
4:43 My country! It's an upside down, rectangular triangle.
I know i'm two years late, but we need an instrumental version. It sounds so good! Jay, I beg of you!!
Seeing there was still nearly 3 minutes left when they talked about doing every capital city made me terrified they were actually going to do it. They've raised the bar that high...
I was fully expecting them to launch into some Eminem-style blitz of all the capitals
@@thelonesculler And somehow getting a legit cameo from Wako at the same time.
The Monty Python energy in this one is stronger than usual
The Animaniacs Energy
And bonus points for the H2G2 reference
4:05
Nicaraguan here! Quite the imagination for the 3d approach