Countries That MAYBE Shouldn't Exist

Are there any other countries that shouldn't exist?

You were wise enough not to bring up any Balkan country, this whole comment section would have exploded if you did.

About Belgium: even tough the languages are different, Flanders and Wallonia are culturally more linked with each other than any neighboring country and more than they’d both want to acknowledge.

Love how Moldova is the country almost everyone agrees should unite with Romania, even Moldovans!

As Belgians, we question our own existence and governmental structures constantly. But when foreigners question our existence, we stand united in saying "mind your own f*ing business!". What I'm saying is: the more we hear that we shouldn't exist from the outside, the higher the chance that we will stay together out of pure spite

Gotta point out Uruguay as well. A place colonized by both Spain and Portugal, became part of the United Provinces of Rio de La Plata upon independence from Spain, rose up against the Buenos Aires government together with other provinces to establish federalism but was opportunistically annexed by Portugal/Brazil as part of the new United Kingdom. Then Brazil became independent, a bunch of rio-platenses invaded the territory and started a rebellion to rejoin the United Provinces, but the war was inconclusive so the British intervened and proposed that neither side should have it and instead it should become a buffer state between the two continental giants, as well as a free port city in Montevideo to counter Buenos Aires’ attempts to tax access to the Plata river system. So, a place with almost identical culture to Argentina, historical claims by Brazil and is very sparsely populated is an independent state basically because neither side could beat the other and the British wanted an international port in the region.

Lots of former colonies are recent creations, but Pakistan is probably the only country whose name is an acronym created in 1933. The borders were arbitrarily drawn in 1947 and it gained independence the same year. It’s national language is basically a dialect of Hindi written in Arabic which is only the 5. most spoken native language (less then 8%). Pakistani national identity is pretty strong even though it’s national history is less then 70 years old and extremely culturally diverse

As a Spaniard 🇪🇸, it doesn't bother me that Andorra 🇦🇩 exists. And as a fun fact, it has a football team that currently plays in the Second Division of Spain (Futbol Club Andorra, based in Andorra la Vella and owned by Gerard Piqué)

There was a time when both the North and South Koreans viewed the current status as temporary, and the Korean War was a civil war. But that ship sailed a long time ago.

I'm from El Salvador and I think all 7 central american countries should merge into one single country. We all speak spanish, we have common history and culture and we could be more relevant politically and economically in case a union ever happens

As someone with half the familly from Chișinău, Republic of Moldova and half from Maramureș, România, I really hope to see the two countries unite as soon as possible for there simply is no other scenario leading to Republic of Moldova ever being safe and prosperous. At the end of the day they are two romanian states and the only reason they are not one today is the USSR invasion during WW2 and all the sovietization and brainwashing that followed. One can only pray and hope the re-union will happen soon for things regionally and globally only seem to be getting rougher.

I recommend watching History Matters’ series of ‘Why Does X Country Exist.’ You’d be amazed at the amount of political intrigue and historical conundrums that influence the existence of these countries.

For me, makes more sense Andorra being the only Micro-State of Europe

“Why does this planet exist?” -Aliens

Bonus fact about Luxembourg: the reason the Dutch king isn’t ruling it like William III did…..is because in contrast to the Netherlands only male inheritance was allowed in Luxembourg. It went to a different branch, but still in the same family. Though that has been growing apart since the la te 1800’s.

Amazing knowledge 🙏

Great work!

Such a nice video. Pretty sure you can have a part 2 or even 3!

The federated states of Micronesia probably should be joined to the Solomon Islands and a few other small pacific nations and territories, it would help boost their economic competitiveness and promote tourism. I don’t think that it would happen, but since they’re US protectorates anyway, their governments would be similar and they also have a similar culture as well. And if I’m calculating correctly, their combination would make them the 11th largest country in the world by sovereign territory, but still be only 106th per land area, which is wild. Get places to visit when you get the chance!

Great video