If you are in Morocco, Google won't show the disputed territory "Western Sahara"

@alanraftel5033

4 жыл бұрын

@ it's disputed and many people live there! you may read about the establishment of MINURSO and its mission

@fitmotheyap

3 жыл бұрын

@@alanraftel5033 al tho idk much about this situation from what i know morocco is claiming western sahara as theirs and others are saying it's independent or somethin right?

@lucid_

3 жыл бұрын

@@fitmotheyap yeah Morocco claims it as theirs, since Morocco became independent and the famous "green march" as a symbol of independency in morocco and moroccan people reclaiming the western sahara after the Spanish colonization. and I can say that as I am from Laayoune, a city from Western Sahara as you may call it, and I consider myself morrocan and this region belongs to Morocco, and most people consider themselves moroccan in here so idk why people only try to listen to minorities who wanna be independent from Morocco

Google: Reality can be whatever i want.

@creepy_assassin6234

4 жыл бұрын

Literally

@zwidawurzn9423

4 жыл бұрын

Nah it's not about what Google wants, if Google wants to offer Maps they often have to show what the local government wants (in case you didn't watch or understand the video).

@creepy_assassin6234

4 жыл бұрын

@@zwidawurzn9423 issa joke

@aman3116

4 жыл бұрын

Its what those nations waant

@blu0x7d12

4 жыл бұрын

Google: Reality can be whatever you want, we are in this for money

India named a whole ocean and no one's complaining 😂😂

@hassanabdulahi4705

4 жыл бұрын

Well back in the day everyone on that coast used that ocean to go to India and trade

@smitigor7766

4 жыл бұрын

No country near India covers as much coastal area as India does, other countries like Sri Lanka,Indonesia,Maldives etc which are completely covered with ocean are smaller than India, hence we got Indian Ocean

@iip8948

4 жыл бұрын

No one has the power to question the name which has been used since 2000 years

@talhagrewal1609

3 жыл бұрын

well it is the 'Indian' subcontinent

@aadhi9540

3 жыл бұрын

It's a joke people, stop trying to explain -_-

Japan can’t call the sea “East Sea” because it in Japan’s west 🤷‍♂️

@hastagmjolk2527

3 жыл бұрын

Hannes Rechert no Korea and China calls it east sea

@hdskipper9878

3 жыл бұрын

It can still be called the East Sea... japan isn’t everwhere

@chadthundercock6113

3 жыл бұрын

Wow u r genius

@Sergedfabre

3 жыл бұрын

technicaly if you went east from japan you would raech the sea of japan

@ibrahimyaish5304

3 жыл бұрын

@@hdskipper9878 u don't get it do u? Smh

Any land or water near China: exists China: is this for me? 👉👈

@droftrop4135

3 жыл бұрын

Winnie the Pooh mad 😂😂

Just name everything ‘steve’.

@hushpuppy1735

4 жыл бұрын

Oaf Bro you’re a genius why haven’t we done that yet?

@ajwad3524

4 жыл бұрын

Lost my brain cells...

@rn-zu5ld

4 жыл бұрын

@@ajwad3524 I didn't expect you to even have one.

@HeadsetHatGuy

4 жыл бұрын

@Anti Mapping stfu anti mapper

@rippley09

4 жыл бұрын

Why didn't I think of that?

China if there's water near their land : "That's probably mine"

@rameshm9032

3 жыл бұрын

Not just waters but land also

@st3alth_swing

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kiror0_ also bhutan, tibet and parts of India.

@otheooo

3 жыл бұрын

OUR.

@DrDestroy

3 жыл бұрын

Even Antarctica is probably named China on their maps

@Khatulistiwan

3 жыл бұрын

China has been colonizing and conquering non-Chinese kingdoms and countries for at least 2 thousands years and forcing them become Chinese

On 6:15 Google doesn't show the border as a ukrainian-russian border, it shows it as a border between Ukraine and Autonomous Republic of Crimea (it's official name of Crimea in Ukraine).

@xaboff

4 жыл бұрын

exactly, it´s not a dispute border, it´s a region border

@ya_Bob_Jonez

4 жыл бұрын

Дякую! (Thanks from Ukraine)

@user-sk1rn4wz4w

4 жыл бұрын

@@ya_Bob_Jonez Крым это Россия

@olzhas1one755

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-sk1rn4wz4w окей срач

@rulur

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-sk1rn4wz4w ну да, и что?

1950s : Taiwan is a part of China since ancient time 1960s: Arunachal and Kashmir are part of China since ancient time 2020: South China Sea is a part of China since ancient time 2100: Moon is a part of China since ancient time

@manojpandey7895

4 жыл бұрын

140 years before 2100 communist come to the moon and now suddenly it is ancient not even historic most of our Indian buildings are 200 years old

@rdx4080

4 жыл бұрын

And corona virus is not from china for ancient time

@ADeeSHUPA

4 жыл бұрын

@@rdx4080 hM

@surplusking2425

4 жыл бұрын

Most 'since ancient time' claims are bullshit. so Ostpreußen is part of Germany since Medieval time so Kaliningrad should be renamed as 'Königsberg' and Russia should return them to the Germany? I don't think so.

@sryld

4 жыл бұрын

Incorrect: Taiwan was China The right now China was rebels.

I can understand Kashmir but the Chinese claim of Arunachal Pradesh is totally unjustified. The people living there identify themselves as Indian and every part of it is administered by the government of India. I can say so because I live in the adjacent state of Assam.

@goldenera9458

4 жыл бұрын

Greedy China

@yashvardhanthakur1968

4 жыл бұрын

No we shouldn't understand Kashmir Kashmir is India's territory and there is no if aur but about it China's claim on Arunachal Pradesh is simply stupid we should simply put our claimant on Tibet as whole

@fluff5

4 жыл бұрын

@@yashvardhanthakur1968 but kashmiri people don't want to be a part of india anymore. They have the right to be free or a part of Pakistan.

@ritwikreddy5670

4 жыл бұрын

@@fluff5 because majority of India supporters were driven out of Kashmir and took refuge in Punjab, Haryana and Delhi.

@argh2945

4 жыл бұрын

kkk kidney ☝️+ You can very easily imagine if Kashmir were to gain independence or become part of Pakistan it won't last in new situation for long. China would take over very soon thereby shifting the balance of power in the region fully into China's favours and providing them with a fresh water source they so badly need right now.

Your content is amazing, please don't stop anytime soon!

@ajwad3524

4 жыл бұрын

Ok

@nahuelc.9551

4 жыл бұрын

Ok

@ksa-xb1ji

4 жыл бұрын

ok kid

@tanmay8426

4 жыл бұрын

Ok

@qatarmmm

4 жыл бұрын

@@masterchief9177 oh f

I am from Arunachal Pradesh and we have Indian Army Camps and Airports here and I myself studied at Indian Army School I love my INDIA

@ogdogg1759

4 жыл бұрын

Yo

Japan: Sea of Japan South Korea: East Sea North Korea: Korean East Sea. South Korea: I pretend I didn't heard that bro.

@ackjeotcanary2796

4 жыл бұрын

I think Sea of Japan needs to be accepted. I expect people who live in Earth except for Korea and Japan recognize that sea as Sea of Japan. Actually, The name doesn't matter. Indian Ocean contacts with so many countries including Australia. But Australian government doesn't complain about Indian Ocean. And We have Korean strait.

@KSST-111

4 жыл бұрын

North Korea also using East sea

@PeridotFacet-FLCut-XG-og1xx

4 жыл бұрын

Many seas & oceans are one continuous body of water

@ackjeotcanary2796

4 жыл бұрын

@신광민 걍 넘어가요. 독도 영유권만 지키면 될 것 같은데

@Vysair

4 жыл бұрын

East Sea seems better because it is not claimed by both the Korean and the Japanese

In Finland we call Baltic sea "Itämeri" which literally means East sea, even though it is west of us. This is because we used to be invaded by Sweden for centuries, and from their point of view Baltic sea lies in the east. Then again Estonians call Baltic sea "Läänemeri" which means West sea. Pretty wild, right?

@hendrikheim5665

2 жыл бұрын

You're basically all swedes anyway.

@solidfuel0

2 жыл бұрын

It's south of Finland not west

Great content as always, showing how territorial claims can be strengthened or weakened by how they are labeled on maps, keep up the great work!

Google are basically like: "Hypocrisy is the safest policy" Edit: Im actually surprised you didnt mention the Palestine and Isreal Map Dispute (Back then in western country Palestine basically didnt exist, while it did in Arab country, but recently google just removed the name Palestine from the picture and just referred them as Gaza and West Bank

@MrLiam-vj4mu

3 жыл бұрын

It's obvious that the land is Israel. Palestinians have no claim to the land.

@ChangedNames

3 жыл бұрын

Mr. Liam Feasting on people while theyre weak only results in more bloodshed later on. and the cycle just keeps going on, funnily enough the only ones that did relate and gave empathy to the jews back then were the arabs while the western civilization always caused mass genocide (Surprise surprise, germans were never the first, nor will they be the last)

@MrLiam-vj4mu

3 жыл бұрын

Verry Ganteng the Jews are the proven indigenous people of the land of Israel. If you want to get into the discussion we could. But no, it wasn’t a plan to destablize the Middle East. If the Arabs accepted the first extremely generous plan then we’d already of had peace

@MrLiam-vj4mu

3 жыл бұрын

@Verry Ganteng I don't speak on behalf of all Israelis but I believe all of the West Bank is for Israel. Its historic Judea and Samaria which belonged to us and has many artifacts for us. The annexation was meant to annex all the parts where nobody lived in. It wouldn't have happened if the Palestinians accepted the 6 state/peace offers from Israel that would give them an established state in the West Bank and Gaza but they want all or nothing. It's clear these people are at fault from there clear stubborness and ignorance.

@MrLiam-vj4mu

3 жыл бұрын

Verry Ganteng half Israeli half American. My family is from Israel but I live in America.

Found your channel the other day, and I can't get enough. This is pure quality! Informative, interesting and very well executed. I did hit that follow button halfway throughout the first video and it's been a pleasure! Keep up the good work!

@neoexplains

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Thats really motivating

Your production quality is pretty neat. Keep up the great work.

I keep forgetting that this isn't a massive channel with hundreds of employees. The quality is so great!

Good Intel Making me think about maps critically

I'm surprised there is no different maps about the Palestinian/isrealy location

@neoexplains

4 жыл бұрын

There are plenty more situations like this on Google Maps. The video just presents a few examples :)

@k.h5971

4 жыл бұрын

Your username 😂

@welt2526

4 жыл бұрын

@Thomas Shelby Leader of the Peaky Fookin Blinders lol ok

@ADeeSHUPA

4 жыл бұрын

@Thomas Shelby Leader of the Peaky Fookin Blinders hM

@the1derpface

4 жыл бұрын

I'm Israeli, we don't have a different map (even though Israel considers East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights to be part of it). I also went to Palestinian google maps, looks the same. Doesn't look like there's Syria google maps.

Keep doing these sort of videos. Very interesting.

Once again a very detailed and well researched video, DJ Lenn!

I'm so glad that this channel exists. It's a whole new source of great content!

Really quality content, great as always!

When I tried to hover the street view icon over Area 51, the icon goes from a person to a flying saucer. I wonder if that happens to users outside the U.S?

@ameliawikstrom8018

4 жыл бұрын

Works for swedish google maps too. Which means it probably does for every country.

@Amghannam

4 жыл бұрын

@@ameliawikstrom8018 True, worked for google maps Belgium too.

@Cristian-nn5jj

4 жыл бұрын

Works for Australia

@furkan8540

4 жыл бұрын

Works for Turkey

@aadhi9540

4 жыл бұрын

How do you hower the street view icon?

Great video and well done on the editing and use of resources

underrated content! we need to post more comments and like the video, so that people see this channel!

Great video. It is nice to see all additions in the comments! If I could add my own: look up the Costa Rica - Nicaragua "Google maps war", the San Juan dispute. I was very surprised you didn't mention it, as it displays the consequences this policy can have.

@AnsgarisIoannes

2 жыл бұрын

Also Colombia-Nicaragua (San Andrés area) and Colombia-Venezuela (Coquibacoa Gulf)

2:36 All historical documents in the world It is registered and written in the name of the Persian Gulf.

@Alt4ir_94

2 жыл бұрын

No it's not

This video is soo underrated! Is so well done !

Story: My father is Arabian and mother is Persian. I've grown up in Kuwait where we were made to believe that the Persian Gulf is an Arabian Gulf. I looked like a fool when I moved to Australia the first time as a sponsored student and happened to mention this Arabian Gulf and got laughed at. Wasn't really fun. I personally believe that the Persian Gulf is Persian is a fact as true as the way Iran is Persia.

@mikem6468

3 жыл бұрын

I believe the whole Arabian gulf thing started around the 60's as Arab nationalism took off.

@7164227

3 жыл бұрын

yall claim its the Persian Gulf just how you claimed Emirate of Arabistan and killed its leader. Since 1500s the Arabian Gulf been surrounded by arabs it make no f*cking sense to name it the Persian Gulf. Also you gonna say that in history maps it says the Persian. We don't define ourselves based on what the greeks or the romans call us or call our land. We been living in this region for thousands of years no one can come and name our region for us like the Spanish did to the Philippines.

@7164227

3 жыл бұрын

Also the Arabian gulf is more important to us than to Iran which has no cities on its coast. Unlike Kuwait, Bahrian, Qatar, Saudi Arabian, UAE and Oman.All these Arabian states have a dense population on the coast of the Arabian Gulf. Before the discovery oil since the mid 1800s these countries economy relayed on fishing and pearling in the gulf.

@mikem6468

3 жыл бұрын

@@7164227 We have been living here too, why not be satisfied with having an entire sea?

@ariahoseinpour6934

3 жыл бұрын

@@7164227 You don't know anything about Iran or Persia, when Persia was an empire you were living as nomads in the dessert! Iran has many cities across the Persian Gulf, Bandar Abbas and Bushehr are just two examples and we have many islands. Your countries (Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain etc.) Have the same population as Iranian secondary cities like Esfahan, Mashhad, Shiraz etc. also most of your Arab countries have only a minority of Arabs livng in them as most of your population consists of foreign workers from India, Philipines,... and western expats. Persian have been there for thousands of years and your countries aren't even a 100 years old lol

Hey! I did look for the Japanese and Korean disputed sea...there is also one more interesting thing, the part of the sea surrounding Korea is named in the manner "East sea/Sea of Japan" while, the part of the sea surrounding Japan is named in the manner "Sea of Japan/East Sea" depicting naming supremacy.

There is another famous one you missed out. The historic and cultural rivalry between England and France. That narrow stretch of water between England and France, in English it is known as "The English Channel", while in French, it is known as "La Manche".

Very well made. Thank you for making this available.

For the Philippines: “West Philippine Sea” For the Chinese: “South China Sea”

@HNBGamer

4 жыл бұрын

For Vietnam: "East sea" (again)

@clarkevander

3 жыл бұрын

@abdsf eufa except that the Philippines is not claiming the whole sea.

@JulyYunico

3 жыл бұрын

Did you mean *The Province of China: Philippines*

The line which appears when zooming Crimea (Ukr. version) only shows you the border between two Ukrainian regions. Kherson region and Crimea. This line will always appear when zooming regions' borders in Ukraine.

@dmytrosergienko

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, region border

Border disputes are one thing. Naming conflicts another. Here in Germany we refer to the baltic sea as "East Sea", because it is to our east. Or the Lake Constance (named after a city on it's shores) is called "Bodensee" (after another place on it's shores) And we actually have a border "dispute" at the end of the river Ems, where the question is if the border goes in the middle of the river or following it's deepest part. The conclusion was to clear the dispute later and everyone seems happy with that ambiguous solution.

How can this video only have 7000 views ? It's excellent !

Excellent video, well done man!

China: South China Sea Indonesia : North Natuna Sea (In Indonesia Region)

The Persian Gulf has been for the Persians for 2500 years and now it is the Persian Gulf and not the Arabian Gulf 

@s1word

2 жыл бұрын

its arabian gulf

@kasrabarati1277

2 жыл бұрын

@@s1wordthise gulf for persian's for ever

@s1word

2 жыл бұрын

@@kasrabarati1277 Herodotus the father of history , mentioned that it is the Arabian Gulf, but he did not mention the Persian Gulf .The Persians were settling in Central Asia, and they were not present in the Middle East until 800 BC. so it is ( ARBIAN GULF )

@sarahkareem1251

2 жыл бұрын

@@s1word Why are you bringing a Greek historian when an Arab historian like ibn Khaldun called it Persian Gulf? Herodotus called the Red Sea as the Arabian Gulf.

Tmi: in Indonesia there are one districts called Cibubur, which located in 3 differently city border: Jakarta, Depok, dan Bogor which really confusing the people who lives there; whether they could be lived in Cibubur nearby Jakarta but in the Civil data center, they written lived in Cibubur nearby Depok.

Great work

In USA there is a Google difference between Clark's Hill lake on the Georgia side and Lake Strom Thurmond on South Carolina side. Interesting history, one should look further into the story.

@xalpacazeu1332

4 жыл бұрын

triplej 1872 boring. People in usa even protest in cars

Fun fact: North Korea claims Sea of Japan/East Sea to be named Sea of Korea. Edit: okay apparently it's "Korean East Sea" and not "Sea of Korea". I apologize lol.

@fyrhunter_svk

4 жыл бұрын

Really?

@alinek2289

4 жыл бұрын

@@fyrhunter_svk yes

@alinek2289

4 жыл бұрын

@@fyrhunter_svk well actually just searched it up... they actually call it "Korean East Sea" but i could swear i was told it was "Sea of Korea" lol. Sorry.

@arduous222

4 жыл бұрын

@@alinek2289 Sea of Korea (Mer de Corée) is name that had been used up to ~19c by European countries. I think there were a lot of different names that you (or your source) might've been confused.

@HappyBeezerStudios

3 жыл бұрын

To be fair, it is east of Korea. But it's also west of Japan.

Liked and Subscribed when you talked about the 10- Dash Line

Wow I never knew this! Thanks for the helpful information

It might be interesting to have a future that leans on this "different view from different lens" sense, where digital maps overtly show mapping from one culture's perspective *within* that culture and another's within theirs. So, if using French as the language or are located in Québec, Haiti, Louisiana, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Wallonia or France, you would see Acadia instead of the Maritime provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI; or in Inuktitut/from Iqaluit, you would see Inuit Nunangat mapped instead of/alongside Québec, NWT, Yukon, Alaska; or Kurdish/from Erbil seeing Kurdistan and Rojava The world according to _______ and then being able to see through the eyes of a German, Igbo, Mapuche or Kaurna...

@Frazier16

2 жыл бұрын

I think you can do that if u get a vpn

China in 2040: moon belongs to us since our Chinese ancestors used to look at it every day

Amazing video i subscribed with bells and liked the video for this amazing video

Well done. I really like it!

Just call it Eastern Sea of Korea and Japan.😂

@falcoperegrinus82

3 жыл бұрын

Then they'll argue over which country should come first in that name.

@vijaykumarjha7822

2 жыл бұрын

Well then it will be west of japan and name will make no sense to japan i guess?

@otherguys5557

2 жыл бұрын

or call it "It's just a fucking sea"

@Anonymous_world5000

11 ай бұрын

Its sea of Japan nothing else

Great video. The Sea of Japan/East Sea conflict is a little odd. Its not strange that Korea calls it East Sea, but demaning that everyone else do is quite unreasonable. In Sweden we call the Baltic Sea Östersjön (which is also the East Sea, or East Lake) because it is to the east of us. But demanding everyone else call it that would be strange.

@Dhjaru

2 жыл бұрын

The funny thing about this is that in all germanic languages except english its called the East Sea and even in Finnish. Then we have Estonia which calls its the West Sea and the rest of the world calls it the baltic sea.

@jjkim_study

2 жыл бұрын

That's right. It can be Sea of japan, also East sea (I'm Korean)

@alichi101

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dhjaru Was going to comment on this. Yeah, Östersjön is the name even when it is west of us in Finland :)

Wow, you're so nice to tell, this is exactly what I needed

my dude...respect... ur r some times pronounce it as w...but still u came forward to talk to thousands of people... just respect bro..and the quality is neet.

Also with reference to the East/Japanese Sea dispute. The term Japanese sea connects to name to a geographic area while naming the sea the East Sea completely depends on your point of view. Would be weird if Japan had to refer to a body of water as the East sea when it borders the western side of their Island.

That's why I prefer OpenStreet Maps. They just show the de-facto borders. Also, they don't take years to update a map. When the crimean bridge was built, or the Hong-Kong-Zhuhai Bridge they had them really fast. Google took forever to add satelite footage, and still hasn't designated the bridge on the default map.

@I_AM_HYDRAA

2 жыл бұрын

so how do they decide what the defacto borders are

@sowhat249

2 жыл бұрын

@@I_AM_HYDRAA | They don't. The decisions are made by the countries on the ground. One decides to occupy an extra km², OpenStreet updates the map accurately. That is what de-facto means. A fact. It doesn't matter what claims are made. They can say whatever they want, but facts are facts. You can't change them with words. Actions only.

@I_AM_HYDRAA

2 жыл бұрын

@@sowhat249 so how does that work for some of these examples

@sowhat249

2 жыл бұрын

@@I_AM_HYDRAA | Umm, lets see. Numerous examples but here are several of the more popular ones. Ukraine doesn't recognize Russian sovereignty over Crimea. And most of the other countries agree with Ukraine. That means that for most countries, Google Maps, will display a map in which Crimea is a part of Ukraine. But that is not true. Crimea is de facto part of Russia, and Open Street Maps shows a map depicting the real situation. Google maps will also display a different map for Japan, which shows the Southern Kuril Islands as part of Japan, whereas open street map only displays true to the situation map, a map where these islands are a part of Russia. Google maps displays a map of Israel different for different countries. For israel it will display a map where the entirety of Palestine (except Gaza), and the Golan Heights are a part of Israel. For Palestine and most arab countries it will display a map where none of the territory is under occupation. For Syria it will display Golan Heights as part of Syria. Open street maps displays the Golan Heights as part of Israel, and most of Palestine with dotten lines to show how much is occupied and how much is not, as in real life. In the case of Kashmir, for India Google displays a map where the entirety of Kashmir is in India, for Pakistan it displays a map where entirety of Kashmir (except Chinese occupied parts) are a part of Pakistan. Open street maps displays a map according to the line of control, with Kashmir divided between India, Pakistan and China. For Serbia, Google displays a map on which Kosovo is a part of Serbia. Open streets map depicts kosovo as separate, which it de facto is. For Cyprus, google displays an undivided map. Open street maps displays a map showing both Cyprus and the Turkish republic of cyprus, and also the british occupied Cyprus that acts as a buffer between the two. See... Google will just twist the map to fit a narrative, while Open Street Maps will show a map which depicts reality on the ground.

@ttanucha

2 жыл бұрын

Is OSM is blocked in China?

I'm glad to see this recomemended early.

Enjoy your unbiased presentation approach. Be well.

Arabia gulf is Red Sea, Persian Gulf is in Iran-Saudi-Iraq-Kuwait. It was name Persian because it was Persian empire, even Arab was Native to the South Iraq and Ahwaz or today Khuzestan Province, Kuwait, Arabia Peninsular and Iran Gulf Coast, it was Part of Persian Empire, that rule Iraq , Bahrain and even to Yemen.

@amonali1464

2 жыл бұрын

No we arab lived in both sides and the Persian didn’t have fled ships unlike the arab we had at Omani Earab region

There's also the Russo-Japanese dispute over the Kurill islands, the borders of Palestine, Kurdistan and the dispute over the Golan heights

@niklasmolen4753

4 жыл бұрын

But sometime a country has to realize that lost land is lost. Forget it and move on. Denmark will have the right to Norway and England. Macedonia may consider Iran to be theirs. Not to mention Caddo, Savoy and Novgorod.

@blueberrybuttercake2942

4 жыл бұрын

@@niklasmolen4753 Modern Macedonia is slav, right? So they don't have a right to claim Iran

@OmarSlloum

4 жыл бұрын

@@niklasmolen4753 I agree, which is why Israel can't claim the vague borders of the long extinct Israelites for themselves. 2000 years is far too long.

@UmutErenB

4 жыл бұрын

There is no kurdistan btw

@mirzahamzabaig5667

4 жыл бұрын

Kashmir and Kosovo: Allow us to introduce ourselves.

Great video mate!!! How i wish videos like that were the trending, popular videos... so we would have a much better educated and critically thinking human civilisation

This is so freaking good man, wow....

Google is not impartial at all, it's still writing the Essequibo region as a part of Guyana, but Venezuela claims the region longtime ago and in the country it's illegal to show a map without the Essequibo as part of Venezuela. BTW is the second largest claimed region in the World after the Cachemira.

In ancient China, Japan sea was called "Whale sea(鯨海)" and this was international name anciently. But Italian missionary Matteo Ricci named "Japan sea(日本海)" for the first time when he issued world maps in 1602 and this name have been used as international name until now.

@karateru

4 жыл бұрын

鯨海の方が紛争とか起こらないのに。

@beepbeepcasucha

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing, I learned something new today :)

@kaitlyn__L

2 жыл бұрын

Whale sea is definitely the most evocative and poetic name IMO

@macforme

Жыл бұрын

@@kaitlyn__L And the WHALING is putting them in to the endangered species category! If they love them so much they should be more careful about NOT wiping them out and stop over fishing.

I just love your videos

Well explained, i have noticed this but its now confirmed!

It’s been the Persian gulf for thousand of years. Why should the name suddenly change?

@csx03

4 жыл бұрын

no one rly cares what it's called -signed, an Arab

@leodarksam6230

4 жыл бұрын

@@csx03 They cared enough to insist it be changed.

@bestuan

4 жыл бұрын

Idk maybe dominance over the gulf or something

@thatone1280

4 жыл бұрын

I am neither Arab or Persian, but we learned it has two names and more Arab gulf is more widely used. There is also an argument to be made about it being called Arabian gulf because it is surrounded from all sides by Arabs even in Iran the people on the gulf are called the Ahwazi people and they are Arabs who live in Iran.

@thatone1280

4 жыл бұрын

@@fanta6285 that's the point on all side the gulf is surrounded with Arabs even from the Iranian side

1:10 just call it East Sea of Japan. fixed

@jaynacall2

2 жыл бұрын

it was in thewest sideof japan.

Very well presented video.

Actually quite an awesome educational video

6:15 no no, on the ukrainian version it shows the region border, but if you go to the place where russia reaches Crimea, you can see a border.

Land border should show actual control so if Russia controls Crimea then it would be shown as Russia. Sea should go by historical name because usually historical names aren’t confusing otherwise it wouldn’t have lasted so long. Korea’s East Sea and South Sea names are the same as the real East Sea and South Sea further to the south. To have multiple East Sea and South Sea in the same region is just confusing.

@user-xr4bo3ln6f

4 жыл бұрын

your comment is underrated !

@alexh1946

4 жыл бұрын

The term ‘Yellow Sea’ is commonly used in Korea as a proper name for the ‘West Sea’, as it refers to the muddy soil on the beach heads of the water mass. The ‘South Sea’ is also called as the ‘East China Sea’ and the ‘Korean Strait’ are used in Korea just as the international society recognizes. However, the dispute between ‘Sea of Japan’ and ‘East Sea’ is more of a geopolitical one since there are islands that are located in the body of water which ate disputed between the two countries such as Dokdo(KR)/Liancourt Rocks(Non-Disputed)/Takeshima(JP). Even though these islands are sovereign Korean territory both now and through history, the Japanese government claims its rule over the islands through many flawed reasons and one of them is the name of the body of water they are associated in. Just looking at this video and having biased opinions about the countries surrounding it is not a good way to approach the problem you first learned about.

@Peizxcv

4 жыл бұрын

Alex H Korea’s “East Sea”, “West Sea”, “South Sea”, “Korean Strait” names are all new creations that have no international support even if Korea tries to ram it through international bodies. “Korean Strait” is “Tsushima Strait” which is name after the island of Tsushima and where Battle of Tsushima happened more than 100 years ago. This wave of renaming and Wikipedia editing is laughable. I am surprised Korea haven’t renamed itself “Middle Kingdom” and rename China “West Kingdom”

@alexh1946

4 жыл бұрын

Peizxcv It makes me baffled how you are ignorant of East Asian history and culture. The terms introduced in the videos are just the terms ‘West Sea’ and ‘South Sea’ are used in every day life, not in official geographic documents that are published in academic use. If you want to say something of the terms with the four cardinal directions of the compass, why not question other cultures from Korean that call the surrounding natural features after it such as Estonia who calls the Baltics as the ‘West Sea’ or Vietnam who calls the South China Sea as the ‘East Sea’. These are not the only cases. You can find several examples if you just look it up. You have totally lost my point, maybe you could read what I’ve said instead of watching anime the whole time. And if you do not know what the Korea Strait is, you could just google it and see what Wikipedia has to say about it. Reply if you have further comments :D

@Valnotersc

4 жыл бұрын

@@alexh1946 Estonia calls the Baltic Sea "West Sea" while the Germans call it "East Sea" and that's totally fine. Arguing for having anybody else use that term however is insane.

this is a really great video

Google is generally different for your location(language), there are many cases of this for Wikipedia articles of contested cities or territory.

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East Sea makes no sense since it is not on the east side of Japan.

Thank you for this video,

Your videos are so awesome.

@neoexplains

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Google: we want to make easy maps. China: hold my territorial claims.

@goldenera9458

4 жыл бұрын

China - The Greedy Dog

@juyngkwogayo206

4 жыл бұрын

Golden Era can u give me an example where countries didn’t fight over territories when they can???

@juyngkwogayo206

4 жыл бұрын

Interceptor Cop haha totally the opposite...

@goldenera9458

4 жыл бұрын

@@juyngkwogayo206 but china have issues with its all neighbourhood countries

@juyngkwogayo206

4 жыл бұрын

Golden Era u think the USA doesn’t? U kidding me?

2:08 option 3 just call it the Manchurian Sea.

@emiriye

4 жыл бұрын

But. Manchuria doesn't border the Sea of Japan...

@jackyex

4 жыл бұрын

@@emiriye it does though, the part of russia that borders the sea is called outer manchuria.

@emiriye

4 жыл бұрын

@@jackyex Well, Outer Manchuria is pretty much dead, it's almost completely Russian now. And, the sea was mostly used by Koreans, Japanese and t h e d u t c h, as far as I know Manchuria weren't too effective on waters, if they did they'd claim Sakhalin anyways...

@jackyex

4 жыл бұрын

@@emiriye most of manchuria is dead now too, the majority of the population is hand Chinese but we still call it manchuria.

@emiriye

4 жыл бұрын

@@jackyex It is kind of wrong too. It's like calling Pennisylvania "Iroquis."

Japan: Sea of Japan South Korea: East Sea North Korea: The Great Sea of Kim Il-Sung

The river that serves as border between the United States of America and the United Mexican States is named “Rio Grande” by USA and “Río Bravo” by UMS.

If it was called the East Sea, Japan would then have the East Sea on its western coastine, the current name Sea of Japan seems more logical.

@user-ze4hx8sy7d

4 жыл бұрын

The North Sea is located south of Norway

@jamesl687

4 жыл бұрын

Bruh South Korea is the one claiming that its East Sea not Japan.

@beepbeepcasucha

4 жыл бұрын

East of Korea, hence East Sea to South Korean people.

@poneill81

4 жыл бұрын

@@beepbeepcasucha But you must cross the East Sea to reach Japan, like you must cross the Irish Sea from Britain or the Celtic Sea from Europe to reach Ireland. The sea of Japan is a more neutral name to those not Korean.

@A_a_A_a_A_a_A

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly

Names and language are, and have always been, expressions of power. And google maps already adjusts itself to its audience through different languages, a Germany would be called Deutschland in a German language version of the site. And so while not taking a side on name disputes might seem like the coward's way out, I can see the line of thinking as google maps is both authoritative and unqualified to weigh in on these things. For disputed borders, the most accurate way to reflect them wouldn't be prescriptive, siding with one side or another, but descriptive. Because no matter who you think *should* control disputed land, in the moment the answer is complicated. And while I understand the propaganda value of putting a hard border on land you claim you should control, even in those cases it would be more accurate to say "this should be our land for xyz reason, but if our tax collectors were sent in there, they'd probably be shot". You don't create maps that indicate you've won a war you're currently fighting, be that war military or diplomatic.

Very informative thank you

I gotta amid I'm a map addict... love the video!

In Turkey, we call it Gulf of Basra. Quite funny actually, I didn't know what Persian Gulf was. Apparently this name is what Ottoman Empire gave to it, when they controlled the land around.

@mortezaakbari4606

4 жыл бұрын

persian gulf is the 2500 y.o name of this gulf....you idiot

@ererper5434

4 жыл бұрын

Then you need to correct it because it's the Persian gulf all over the world only not in Arab countries. Or wait is Turkey already becoming an Arab country because of the Arab migration? ;)

@annahimmel

4 жыл бұрын

@@mortezaakbari4606 dude I didn't name the Gulf and I don't really care about the name. I'd like to call it Persian Gulf myself if I was able to, but again, my opinion simply does not matter.

@annahimmel

4 жыл бұрын

@@ererper5434 are you serious right now? The name "Gulf of Basra" existed for hundreds of years, as I said, when Ottomans ruled the area. How's that related to migrations? And the Arabic world calls it the Arabic Gulf. Still not related. What you're saying is so unneccesary and ridiculous. (Despite the fact that it's mainly called Basra in the Ottoman times, some old documents use the term 'Haliç-i Fars' which means Persian Gulf in Ottoman Turkish, which has more Persian influence than Arabic.)

@sarahkareem1251

2 жыл бұрын

Persian Gulf. All historical sources have referred to it as such. On almost all maps printed before 1960, and in most modern international treaties, documents and maps, this body of water is known by the name "Persian Gulf". It was referred to as the Persian Gulf by all Arab historians, geographers and political leaders such as the Saudi king Abdulaziz ibn Saud and the Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Sir Charles Belgrave (British adviser to the ruler of Bahrain) was the first known person to use and advocate the name 'Arabian gulf', first in the journal Soat al-Bahrain (Voice of Bahrain) in 1955.

The intro sounds like the Windows 95 startup noise

@cssanyo4ik

4 жыл бұрын

It's slowed Windows startup sound

Very nice video, thanks

For a long time in East Germany there were only maps showing West Germany as a white area. If private individuals got maps at all. When visiting the East, my father left the West German Road Atlas with friends. This was completely in the West and East (perhaps not entirely up-to-date in the East) but was treated like a treasure in the East. But at that time West German citizenship theoretically extended to West and East, but East German citizenship only extended to the East.

@jensschroder8214

2 жыл бұрын

The name is also interesting: From the west "German border inland" "Antifascite protective wall" from the east. But if it was a protective wall to protect against external influences, then the barriers are the wrong way round.

Name everything "New World" Minecraft reference =)

Another conflict is the "Islas Malvinas " vs "Falklands Islands "

@sebastiansantos1471

4 жыл бұрын

XDDD

@omarperriel2192

4 жыл бұрын

Solo existen las Malvinas, no hay discusión en eso.

great video my dude

@shivanshlolayekar9668

4 жыл бұрын

What're you doing here?

Well presented

The line between Crimea and Ukraine on the Ukrainian version of google is there because it shows a different region of Ukraine and considers Crimea it’s own not because there’s a international border there because that’s what you made it seem like

About the Persian gulf debate. May i remind everyone that for a long time, the power countrolling the area was... Iran. Not to mention that Iran has the most coastline in the persian gulf AND it controls the straight of hormuz, which I would say is quite important.

@ererper5434

4 жыл бұрын

Literally the Persian gulf has nothing to do with the Arabs 🤣

@alirazi9198

2 жыл бұрын

@@ererper5434 the only thing it has to do with them is that they are next to it

@user-ye1tm2uu1c

2 жыл бұрын

The Strait of Hormuz is located in the Arabian Gulf region and separates the waters of the Arabian Gulf on one side and the waters of (Makran Gulf) and the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean on the other. It is overlooked from the north by Iran, and from the south by the Sultanate of Oman, which (supervises) the maritime traffic in it, considering that the passage of ships comes within its territorial waters. just for your info

@alirazi9198

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-ye1tm2uu1c well since u used "Arabian" gulf your whole comment is null

@user-ye1tm2uu1c

2 жыл бұрын

@@alirazi9198 ru fkn kidding me ??? bro . This is not my words, I took it from a website after I searched for the real place

Amazing video! + 1 sub!

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