What Is The World's Oldest Country?

You didn't mentioned the holy penguin empire of antarctic. With almost 20 million citizens/militia they can put up a good fight with Australians + who knows how long they have been living there or how much advanced their tech is....

This is really historical throughout but you mentioned something called "Belgium" and I don't think that exists.

Iran's history is way older than Achaemenids, it dates back to the Medes, and the Median king Deioces who founded Iran and Achaemenids just took over and made it larger. The best thing about Iran is that ever since it's existence, it has been multicultural, no matter if we're Turk, Arab, Persian, Kurd, we are Iranians because our culture is Iranian.

Came for the history, stayed for the unicorn the light-saber wielding platypus and the jet-ski lama !!!

i have so much apperction for how much the animation and editing have improved over time video look so great who every animate this need a raise and love

It's unfair to not point out to india if u are mentioning Greece...Greece too was more of a civilization and collection of states than a unified country....india meanwhile Was also United in a large part by mauryas etc but the scripts,language,religion,cultural self awareness has been there since centuries...even our ancient scripts mentions the extent of bharata or india

I didn't know "0 - 5 historically accurate chihuahuas" was a rating system that existed until now.

As an Ethiopian, this is a well researched and narrated video. I enjoyed every moment of it.

India was never a country. India was always a cultural nation. Not completely united under any single king but stayed together in cultural sense for most part of history. Not under a single culture though but mix of autonomous cultures and mutual respect of each other. That's why India still have more languages, cultures, tribes, cuisines and people than most of the world. My polity teacher called India salad bowl of cultures instead of melting pot because we were/are still together but we still have our cultures intact. India will never become a single country in terms of language, culture, cuisine, race or even religion.

I just started watching your channel recently. A person who loves to explore cultures, sings poorly to prevent getting sued by the LOTR film studio, and ranks things on a Chihuahua-based system is awesome in my book. Life can be hard sometimes, but videos like yours are pretty awesome. Thank you.

For all the indians out there as an Indian let me clarify that this video is not about oldest/advance civilization but oldest country. Most will agree that India did not remain united for most of time in history and thus our country is included in honorable mention.

I was just watching some videos of yours and wanted more and this got recommended,perfect timing!Love your videos!

Surprised Japan didn't get at least a shout out, they have the oldest conception of continuous statehood represented in the emperor (the oldest royal dynasty, not the oldest practical governing system), it is nearly completely culturally and linguistically homogenous, hasn't undergone any invasions that brought the islands under long term foreign rule, speaks the same language that they were speaking thousands of years ago (albiet with a newer Japanese script), still have a generally Shinto based society that is thousands of years old, the only issue is cultural conception of themselves where due to their isolation Japanese didn't really start concieving of themselves as consciously Japanese until perhaps the early modern era.

I found it’s fascinating to summarize this all information in 25 minutes touching all important points. Looking forward to new videos!

I would love a video on the Persian empire that part of the vid was awesome!! Great work man

ngl it's refreshing to see historical content on youtube being subjective and embracing it :p

What an awesome video. I always love your videos because they’re very visually pleasing and the topics are interesting. What a great idea for a video, awesome stuff.

When Iran popped up, I was expecting the Safavid to be brought in. But to my surprise, it did not. And I felt sad by this. By I read the other comment about it and I understand. So I will be looking forward for the video about Safavid Iran in the future!

Very well done. Thanks for this.

Bro, your videos are all of such high quality! Keep up the great work!