Can you imagine having access to, AND being allowed to document a closed off "new Capital city" AND a heavily closed off island? - This is what makes me feel alive.

@ChrisFan890

9 ай бұрын

First reply

@JNSP-kk7py

9 ай бұрын

Hi

@itsjustch1ll

9 ай бұрын

Epic geography content is only on Geography Now.

@imtyler99yearsago90

9 ай бұрын

🇬🇶

@AntiFascismIndia

9 ай бұрын

This country is a dictatorship

YES THANK YOU FOR SPENDING TIME IN MY HOME COUNTRY!🇬🇶🇬🇶

@Mikoleseuyy69

9 ай бұрын

yes

@GeographyNow

9 ай бұрын

Whoo ho!!! IT was great!

@asoroseraitv

9 ай бұрын

@@GeographyNow I’m so glad you enjoyed man!

@OGrandomunknownperson

9 ай бұрын

escapre

@jojocat8637

9 ай бұрын

you live in an awesome country widh i could visit

imagine going to one of the least visited countries in the world that most people haven't even heard of and then seeing an embassy for the Military order of Malta there

@GeographyNow

9 ай бұрын

RIGHT?!?!

@valhalla-tupiniquim

9 ай бұрын

It's really crazy. 🤯

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

9 ай бұрын

It's like the Starbucks of geopolitics. It's just everywhere.

@joshjones6072

9 ай бұрын

That is really cool and weird haha

@tintin6053

9 ай бұрын

Imagine

I'm from Argentina and Equatorial Guinea is a place I really need to visit one day. The idea of having hispanic brothers in a unique place like Africa is just too interesting to not give it a try

@GeographyNow

9 ай бұрын

El español (en mi experiencia) fue muy claro y comprensible. Sin acento fuerte. Y no soy un hablante nativo, entonces no deberías tener una problema.

@taisgrim

9 ай бұрын

Por lo que vi en videos es un acento un poco parecido al gallego, pero menos pronunciado.

@carpetano4491

9 ай бұрын

Spanish is also spoken in Western Sahara, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

@alexseeto2251

9 ай бұрын

Why Equatorial that's not a name it's a position on the map

@taisgrim

9 ай бұрын

@@alexseeto2251 You can thank colonization and its lack of originality for that. The name "Guinea" had already been used, so Spain named this one for its geographic location.

It's so interesting to see a country in Africa speaking Spanish. It would be interesting comparing it to my time in Mexico

Love seeing countries like this get recognition

@RichardJames-iq9on

9 ай бұрын

To be fair it looks like they paid him. They are known as the North Korea of Africa.

@brevorik6649

5 ай бұрын

​@@RichardJames-iq9onisnt Eritrea the north korea of Africa?

"Fun" fact: Equatorial Guinea exists because Spain complained that Portugal trespassed a lot of the Tordesillas Treaty and got most of Brazil. As a compensation, Portugal gave away its smallest possession in Africa, Rio Muni, along with Anno Bom and Bioko. But out of pettyness, Portufal demanded the possession of the two islands in between these, so the country São Tome and Principe came to be.

@nunolip

5 ай бұрын

It was not "out of petiness"... The islands of São Tome, Príncipe and Anno Bom were the only ones with effective Portuguese presence. Bioko and Rio Muni had impenetrable jungle and too much exposure to malaria, so they only had occasional visits. Thus the Portuguese ceded to Spain the smallest island where there was a permanent base for the Spanish to settle, and the rights to two areas not settled. The population of Anno Bom was not happy about this, they preferred to stay under Portuguese rule. The Portuguese kept the islands of São Tome and Príncipe, where most of the population with ties to Portugal lived.

Most planned capitols don't do well. It will be interesting to see how Ciudad de la Paz changes over the next few decades. Hopefully Barbs will still be travelling and giving us updates then!

@VashdaCrash

9 ай бұрын

That'd be nice! Maybe it's just me but the country looks pretty poor aside from that luxury hotel. It's like there's not much development being done.

@davedavids57

9 ай бұрын

They're a Stalinist dictatorship so they can just poor bodies at any problem.

@markomatic5469

9 ай бұрын

@@VashdaCrash It is under heavy dictatorship for decades already.President and his family get richer and richer and normal people stay poor.

@Mat3906_

9 ай бұрын

That name is probably gonna trigger bolivians 😂

@kant.68

6 ай бұрын

@@VashdaCrash There isn’t. Is quite poor

This totally deserted luxury city in the middle of the rainforest is one of the most surreal things I have ever seen.

@RichardJames-iq9on

9 ай бұрын

Crime pays.

I've been wondering how this channel will do once the countries are all done, and if it becomes about trying to visit every country in the world I'm totally up for that.

@TheNeo349

9 ай бұрын

In alphabetical order!

@Leo-mu8kn

9 ай бұрын

​@@pelletrouge3032what's wrong with Afghanistan

@cvspvr

5 ай бұрын

mars

Ah yes, the random Spanish Speaking nation surrounded by French and Portuguese.

@menotyou4289

9 ай бұрын

Huh. That also describes Spain, technically.

@GeographerWilson

9 ай бұрын

@@menotyou4289 well- *actually you have a point*

@GeographyNow

9 ай бұрын

French is their 2nd language however their accent is very heavy and "Spanish" -sounding - like the "R's" are rolled and often they substitute the "Sh" sounds with "Ch"

@Brendo2386

9 ай бұрын

​@@GeographyNowJust wanted to say I have been here since the Australia episode. In a 45 days I am heading off on an 11 country 2 month holiday including Finland, Iceland and Slovenia among others :D I'm so nervous/excited

@Baltic_Juez

9 ай бұрын

@menotyou4829 wait a second 𝙤𝙢𝙜 𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩

Growing up in Texas near the Mexican border, Spanish has always been my second language to English. I've done some traveling in Mexico and Costa Rica, I've always been very curious about Equatorial Guinea. Thank you so much for giving us this look into the country, this looks like an amazing experience! I'm gonna have to make plans to travel there someday.

“So. What is it like in Equatorial Guinea?” Equatorial, I imagine

@itsjustch1ll

9 ай бұрын

Yet it's not even on the equator...

@mathguy37

9 ай бұрын

And guinea

@wilyriley_

9 ай бұрын

@@itsjustch1llI mean, Annobón Island is south of the equator, so sort of? (it still doesn’t directly touch the equator, though)

I love the new direction your channel is taking and I'm so happy you have the opportunity to travel, especially to these very unusual places. You deserve it so much! ❤

@davedavids57

9 ай бұрын

To be fair he took money to help white wash the genocidal crimes of one of the worse regimes in the world. He literally went to Annobón Island, an Island synonymous with the worst human rights abuses, chemical and nuclear dumping in the world. An island where the population aren't allowed to leave and are kept in abject poverty surrounded by chemical and nuclear waste. Don't believe me just google Annobón chemical dumping, or human rights abuses. There are articles from the New York Times, Guardian etc and dozens of academic pieces. It's quite shocked me that Barbs has done this tbh.

@zach2382

9 ай бұрын

@@davedavids57 I did Google that stuff and it says they were forced to leave the island. Nothing on the website about for independence of the island about them being forced to stay, and he did not take any money. The government saying it was OK for him to come to the country and sponsoring and paying for hotels is not him taking money from the government but you don’t know that because you just want to say that somebody who went to a dictatorial regime, must be supporting the dictatorial regime because it’s too complicated to you. Do you find them someone going showing off the poverty of a country showing that the government is kind of creepy all while acting like they’re just there to sightsee

It’s the oft overlooked countries like Equatorial Guinea that always have the most fascinating details to offer 🇬🇶 Thanks for showing this side of the world to us Barbs

This is amazing! I actually worked in Malabo for a time and my Father lived there as well. Its awesome to see the island again and to actually see Annobon as I helped work on the solar panels they installed there to feed their electrical grid. Thanks for taking us with you on this journey!

I really wish this video was longer. I find this place fascinating. There's not a lot of countries I particularly want to go to, but this one is pretty high up on my list.

I admire their vision, but personally I can't get behind building a giant city in the middle of pristine rainforest. The amount of ancient woodland that must've been cleared for that golfcourse alone makes me cringe

@davedavids57

9 ай бұрын

Equitorial Guinea is a Stalinist dictatorship that murders and enslaves it's own people in a violent cult of personality. Stalinism needs grand plans and builds to survive.

@taisgrim

9 ай бұрын

Hard agree. Deciding to build a new capital in the middle of a rainforest during a climate crisis is awful and the golf course got to me especially, considering how high maintenance those are.

@idk-ye7ur

9 ай бұрын

Isn't the woodland the least o worries? What about structure cost and integrity, aren't better places? Also what EG does would have zero impact (Except themselves)on the global climate, it's not Brazil.

@maximipe

9 ай бұрын

​@@idk-ye7ur Funny how it's always some random developing country's fault. Brazil is 9th place on the top 10 greenhouse gas emitters per capita (and let's not even talk about historical emissions) might wanna point fingers elsewhere

@Inzersdorf93

8 ай бұрын

​@@maximipeof course its not their fault. Global warming has been caused by industrial countries. But its important that developing countries right now dont make the same mistakes that other countries made before them.

No suelo comentar, pero como hispano que soy me gustan mucho los documentales de nuestro hermano pequeño africano, y este video fue muy exclusivo y me encantó. Saludos desde Perú. 🇵🇪🇬🇶

First off thank you for bringing us on the journey with you. As you reach the end of the regular country videos, beyond going back to update the older ones, this is like the sweetest smoothest transition ever and I can't wait to see what's next! Oh yeah, Uruguay is next. You told us that already. Duuuhhhh

Paul, nice job! Being a geography nut from my high school days, it's great to watch these. I get to live vicariously through you.

Is it weird to like the fact that he used the song 'Dreams' in the video? Because I like it. Also, it must've been one heck of an adventure. Wish you even more like this!

@GeographyNow

9 ай бұрын

All the music in this video is just public domain from the youtube creator tool lol

@Gamer-xy9rf

9 ай бұрын

@@GeographyNow That's not what I meant. I was just surprised, because I like this song a lot. I listen to it quite often. Sorry if I offended you in any way

How many countries have you been to so far? One day you should do a video featuring your tips and recommendations for traveling internationally. Thanks

@BlueManIan

9 ай бұрын

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Wow, Barbs, what a unique experience. You are truly blessed! Thanks for sharing these once-in-a-lifetime adventures with your audience!

Seeing you take these trips is so joyful for me because I've been following you since the Afghanistan episode and seeing you almost finish the countries and seeing all of the wonderful people you've met and the countless experiences you've had, I feel like it's coming around full circle! Thank you for showing us another side of Equatorial Guinea! and Thanks for all of the hard work you put in with each episode and video!

@RichardJames-iq9on

8 ай бұрын

It's sad he's selling his soul to Dictators though :(

As an Equatorial-Dutch I'm so happy to find a video that can enlighten me more about this Equatorian fellowship kinda thing

I did a lot of research about eq. guinea for a college report some time ago and your video helped me hugely. Been immensely curious about the nation since, thanks for showing us a firsthand look! I'd love to go there myself one day.

This is so cool. Thanks for showing us this beautiful country.

Love you Barby! This type of view into rarely seen areas is a real treat!

I'm so jealous in the most amazing way! I'm so glad you got to experience this, thank you for bringing us along! Its my dream to travel like this one day

I fell in love with this country over 27 years ago. Thank you for sharing your experience. So much potential. I hope to make it there some day.

Any video from GN is a treat to watch!

Love this kind of videos! Thanks for sharing your experience with us Barbs!

Thanks for sharing this and, on that last note you made, I really look forward to what the next chapter of this channel is after all of the country episodes are complete.

Congratulations 🍾 Paul 😊 on completing your 200 video for geographyNow!

Wow, Barby! That’s sooo cool that you went to Equatorial Guinea! Keep up the awesome content. Your channel is truly a gift to the internet world! ❤

It's great you got this opportunity! Can't wait to see more!

Thank you for sharing all those magnificent memories you made.

Excited for you Barbs for thinking about starting to see the world for yourself, there's so much to see and taste in our beautiful little ball we have

awesome video!! hope to see more like this and maybe spotlights on nations/human geography instead of countries/states/physical geography, either way can't wait to see what the future holds for you and this channel!!

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing all your travels with us. ❤

Thank you for doing this episode. It’s my dream to explore that country.

Fine drone shots --- and overview, as usual! Looking forward to the new chapter of your channel.

I never known such a specific country would have so much of significant facts that excited me to study more. Thanks for your introduction!

Omg! This is so satisfying to see! Perhaps you haven't thought about this country, Paul but I have certainly been wondering about what's going on there. I have literally found no recent information about the building process of Ciudad de la Paz/Oyala on the for the past 5 years. The Wikipedia page has basically been empty and not updated for years, both the English and the Spanish one. The Swedish one (my first language) still says it's supposed to be done by 2020. And the youtube videos I have found have been so sparse. No real news articles either. It's so weird and I even thought the city had become a flop and money dried out. But now the world knows that things are rolling and that the building process is ongoing. This is so exciting. As a former Spanish language-student I've kept my interest in the only Spanish speaking country in Africa and it's really nice to see that the infrastructure development is actually happening. Would be cool to visit too some day! :))

Very informative video, Ecuatorial Guinea was certainly never on my radar before this. Well done.

I really love geography go, maybe when you finish the last episode, you can make a lot more of these

Very interesting episode! Thanks for letting us see this beautiful exotic land!

@RichardJames-iq9on

8 ай бұрын

It was a supervised propaganda trip paid for by one of the most brutal and despotic regimes on Earth.

Here's my votes for once you've finished all of the countries (someone else mentioned it in a comment): 1. Cover the 50 states in USA (solely for selfish reasons because there is just not good material on them for teaching about it) 2. More Geography Go! 3. Revisit the early countries 4. Cover some of the dependent territories like they were countries That could keep you busy for another 10-15 years, easy.

@Clateon

9 ай бұрын

I like all of those, but the early alphabet section could really use the 2023 video writing treatment.

@TiciaM

9 ай бұрын

@@Clateon so true!

Yes!!!! So excited for the future of Geography Now if this is what post country review videos will be about!

Kinda funny timing, "Equatorial Guinea" was the answer to last night's Final Jeopardy! question.

thanks for sharing quality touring content..nature is so beautiful to watch

Amazing content as always.

I'm so happy for you, Barbs! Your dreams finally come true. Not a plenty of people can brag about that.

Fascinating video I really enjoyed it Thank you for posting

This is honestly one of the coolest things ever!

I love geography and I love geography now :-) you have a great program and you’re doing a great service for the world community - letting us appreciate the beauty of our one human family with all of its similarities and diversity :-) thank you Barb thank you

Congrats Barbs! You're definitely the person who deserves opportunities like this and will make the most of them.

thank you for showing my original homeland that ill never get a chance to see in person but now i have seen some of it thanks to you

Nice to see you visit such an underrated country

@RichardJames-iq9on

8 ай бұрын

It's a Stalinist absolute dictatorship that paid him to promote them. They don't let regular people in, only people on supervised propaganda trips.

that looks so cool now i want to go there!

Loved it, Paul! Quite a description! Hope to see you again somehwere out there! Sofia Ribeiro

I did a project on Equatorial Guinea for my Spanish class and I used the Equatorial Guinea video now I wish it was later so I could use this

Crazy that this came out today - Equatorial Guinea was the answer to the Final Jeopardy question last night!

Great video! Thanks for showing us a place that very few will go to!

@davedavids57

9 ай бұрын

To be fair he was being paid to make a propaganda piece for a genocidal Stalinist regime.

Excited for what is to come after the country videos! I would love to see you back in Japan! My wife is a professional tour guide in Tokyo and we could give you a deeper, local oriented tour instead of the whirlwind run through you did a few years back.

Great episode, thank you!

Waoo! Gracias por la visita un vídeo precioso ✌🏾

Amazing trip! I wish I could've been there! 😱

Looks like a nice country. I hope it becomes the new vacation craze! 🇬🇶

This was so amazing

That was an awesome GEO GO episode! I bet nobody ever imagined how it would be visiting Equitorial Guinea, due to being such a remote nation and unpopular( I'm not saying that in a rude way). It is a magnificent country! The way life flows there is magic and the scenery, WOW! The fact that they;'re rebuilding their capital was something that I knew nothing about AT ALL! Although it concerns me that they are building it in the middle of the Tropical Jungle ( that might cause future catastrophies in the area, but nevertheless I hope they respect their invironment as all of us do!). Thank you so much for bringing this vid to us, I feel more than blessed that someone who is obsessed with Geography, like I am, is travelling to those special places, feel free to do so in the future as well! Much love from Greece

Thanks barbs, this cheered me up

Hell yeah bruv. That's awesome.

Barbs, I wanted to go to Equatorial Guinea since I was a kid. You took the whole tour! You ARE THE MAN!

@RichardJames-iq9on

8 ай бұрын

The man who got paid by EG to try and spin their brutal dictatorship.

Hey Geography Now: Dawn Dishsoap Platinum is a really good way to get the pomade off of your hands after you put it in your hair. You put it on the first time without water and rub it in and wait for a couple of seconds before running your hands under water. Then, you apply it again and rinse it off with soap and water.

Barbs please don't stop making videos, you can travel the world for your new content

Great video watched it all

The best swim shorts ❤️🦈

I like how this acts like a spiritual sequel to the country episode

What a beautiful and intresting place ❤ 🇬🇶

Very informative and interesting. Thanks!

Just want to say: It is crazy seeing you being able to explore remote paces of the world, while still filming in a home studio. I followed this channel for about 5 years now and i'm happy that you get the opportunity to visit all of these places because of your work. Keep it up and hopefully we'll get to see a few more travel videos along the way

Whqt a beautiful travel, Barbs. I hope that beautiful country will be opened to all. God bless and mabuhay! ❤

Great video Paul!

Great to see you traveling more and for free!! You deserve it. As a costarrican 🇨🇷 I’m so interested on visiting Guinea Ecuatorial 🇬🇶. Aaahh and just a suggestion: to include conversations with locals in your geo go videos, people are the best part of every country. Writing this from Cartagena 🇨🇴 while traveling!

@RichardJames-iq9on

8 ай бұрын

EG is a Stalinist Dictatorship so it's like North Korea you can't really talk to the locals. Barbs was paid by their government to show the country looking normal.

Great timing! Last night's Final Jeopardy was about E.G.!

Wow, as geographic and political nerd this video was sooo interesting and I didn't know almost any of that, great video!

Great video Barbs!

Cool. I would love to visit Equatorial Guinea someday.

Annobom (from Portugueses Ano Bom> good year) used to be part of the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe (which makes sense when you look to a map). Random colonial power treaties made the island be changed to Spanish rule. Hence why they speak a Portuguese based creole.

@RichardJames-iq9on

8 ай бұрын

Most the native Annobom people have been either deported (in the 1960s), murdered or enslaved sadly. The EG government regard them as subhuman and have been slowly reducing the population of the island. Annobom is also the largest toxic waste dump on Earth with the EG government paid huge amounts to dump just about anything there. Which is reducing the island population even more. The EG government also doesn't allow free access on or off the island for the remaining population. Unfortunately Barbs took money to do a propoganda piece.

embarking on a journey to one of the lesser-explored African countries where Spanish is spoken, only to stumble upon an unexpected sight-an embassy of the Military Order of Malta. btw, can i get a "hi" from Barby? 🥺🙏 althought i don't have patreon account

This was such a high quality and entertaining video. Thank you to Barbs and the MTP organization

That hotel was insane seemed like such a cool experience.

@RichardJames-iq9on

9 ай бұрын

It's very similar to North Korea.

It's amazing what oil can buy, even in developing countries. Would love to see a video on Gabon.

this is a good video, good job

The real question that’s need answering … did the grease hold up to the Guinea heat ??

That hotel is incredible.

Hey barbs I know you said you’re looking forward to traveling and doing more stuff you want but I was hoping you’d start a mini series about constituent countries! I just think it would be cool for the GN team to keep making videos! Just think about how intriguing it would be to just learn about the differences between Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire!

@diegomaloney2712

9 ай бұрын

L comment

Keep going. I hope you get to travel to every country on the planet. I like way you show each country. You show the real life not a fake tourist ad.