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  • Everybody Welcome Back to flag

  • Fan Friday Hope you like the ivory Coast

  • Episode I still Can't believe That fact About Michael Jackson it Literally Happened and it also happened again in

  • 2013 as his son was inaugurated as a prince via Skype I

  • Love Africa Only Stuff Like That Can Happen and it's not even Shocking Anyway Today

  • We covered the ivorian Flag in The Coat of Arms so Without Further Ado?

  • so before

  • We get Into this one Thing I really Wanted to talk about but I didn't have Time in the Ivory coast Episode was the legend?

  • Of Queen Polk who She was Queen of the bowels a people which Make Up one of the largest tribes in the Ivory Coast

  • According to legend A long Time Ago her and her People

  • Were Fleeing from the Ashanti People in Ghana as they Approached the kuhmo a river

  • They Were Told that in Order to cross you must Sacrifice your most prized Possession for Queen Puku that

  • Was her son so According to legend again she Had to Throw her son Into the River and When that happened

  • Hippos Rose Up and They, were Allowed to cross the river after the Crossing all she could Say

  • Was ballet which Means the Child is dead and that's how the tribe Gets Their Name yeah that and I

  • Also wanted to Talk About how a bichon House like this beautifully the most Developed Skyline in all

  • of west Africa Anyway

  • The Flag The flag of the ivory Coast is A vertical tricolour of orange White and Green yes it is the exact Mirror Image of

  • The Ireland Flag Adopted in

  • 1959 The Flag was modeled After the french Tricolour and Later Inspired the flag of New Year the orange Stands for the Savannas Found in

  • The North of the Country the White stands for Peace and the green Stands for the Force of the south and Hope except for the

  • Time That They're under The french Empire This is the first and Only Flag that they have ever Had

  • Also it might be important to note that this Is One of the only Few Flags in The Region that Does not Utilize the pan

  • Africanist Movement Colors of Red Black and Green

  • Or red

  • Golden Green Some Say it might have to do with the fact that they Didn't want to Follow in the Lead of ghana who kind

  • of Started it all even Though they

  • Were inspired Off of Ethiopia but that's Just kind of a joke Maybe

  • Anyway Moving on the Coat of Arms the image Contains A

  • Green Shield With the Head of Their national Animal the African elephant Which was Symbolically Important for the ivory Trade that they used to be

  • A part of Hence Where They got Their Name Behind the Shield Lies a rising sun

  • Symbolizing the New Beginning on the Sides Two golden Palm Trees and A golden Banner Below With the Phrase the publique Dakota

  • Wow which i'm Sure you need no Translation?

  • For Now Unlike the Flag that have Had historical Variants of Their Coat of Arms the first one Depicted Many Flags on it with A

  • Blue Shield and Bubbly Trees the Second One and L

  • That wasn't Gold and The Final One With the Elephant That Became Gold done hey

  • I'm just Saying like the sale of Ivory is Mostly illegal now and They are like the Number One Cocoa Producer in the World I

  • Personally Like The Name Cocoa coast but Yeah

  • I'm not the Guy in Charge Anyway With all that being Said and done you know what Time it Is

  • Ja, Graph and build Time okay so kind

  • Of like last Time I filmed Myself Opening up all the packages but I accidentally Deleted all the Footage However I still have all of

  • Your Letters and Stuff so I'm Just Gonna Kind of do This in Reverse

  • Okay, first of all I don't know who sent this but Somebody sent me a package with this Shirt Asia

  • But it's Africa I love it I love it it's Hilarious Thank you Whoever you are Michael Came from Austria sent A bier

  • Poster Postcard He, Saw That Another Person that he's like hey, why

  • Don't i do it too I think your name is aakash he sent a ton of These Indian snacks and This Thing it's A

  • Alphabetic Oil I've Never Even Heard of it, oh it's Stress Relieving Hair Oil

  • Yeah yeah, okay, yeah I appreciate that man

  • Samantha Is in the Navy and She was Deployed all over the Middle east first of all Thank you for your services Samantha and She

  • sends These Really cool

  • Kuwaiti Banknotes Now Here's the Deal I Promised my Bahraini

  • Friends That After I Pass A million subscribers if I do I would go back to Bahrain However if I go back I want to

  • Check out some of the other Gulf Countries I haven't Seen like kuwait Oman and yemen yemen Would Probably be very difficult but if I

  • Could I Would love to thanks A lot Samantha dan from new Jersey's he sends This

  • Bangladeshi Banknote and He Says his Brother is teaching english at the american University of Central Asia and Bishkek Kyrgyzstan

  • Here Are Some Cookies Words, hello

  • Salamat Singh B what is your Name cking A?

  • Pinky's King man These Turkic languages Are Just so Complex I just I don't see Myself Understanding them Anytime soon

  • Okay This is Really, cool G Here is Sonya I think that's your Name he Wrote a really cool, letter but he

  • Also wrote in The traditional bio by in Alphabet script I believe it's Actually an Abugida

  • Or like a syllable Read they used to write in This script A long Time Ago in the Philippines and before They Adopted latin that's

  • So cool I love it when People try, to like revive Cultural Traits of Their Ancestors it's Just Sometimes it's so cool when People

  • Do that I ryan from the uk Says his dad is Jamaican and his Mom is irish

  • And he's excited for the Country's Coming Up I got this nice letter from Bob Three new, odd?

  • Florian I think that's your Name he sent me some Stamps from Romania

  • I can't find them but I did get Them I did get them so thank you now We got Another

  • Romanian Stefan This is Really cool

  • It's a reproduction of the Old Inscription Found in Tart Aria Said to be over

  • 7,000 Years Old and some Claim it is the first example of Human writing

  • No One Knows what the symbols Mean Or who wrote them and he?

  • Also sent some Badges With the Country's Emblems Both the communists and The present Coat of Arms

  • Stefan man I think you put Romania on the map this is really cool thanks A lot Christopher from Houston He's very Proud of his

  • Norwegian Heritage You, did Send me A cool little map Thing

  • Of like the Sami People i can't find it I put it somewhere but I did get it thank you so much ah

  • Somebody from New Zealand You Didn't write your Name on your letter but you said you're a kiwi of Indian descent and you sent me

  • A ton of Kiwi snacks Lp Lemony Fizzy Drink I remember I had this when I was in New Zealand council sent peanuts Slap and?

  • Pineapple Lumps but the most important Thing he sent me

  • Marmite I love this stuff Thank you so much man I

  • Ran out of it like A long Time Ago now I have some more I got this letter from Thailand. Hi Paul or

  • Sawasdee Coupe my Name is Paul

  • Chara da Night but don't worry you Can Call me Jack I

  • Started Watching since The Gambia Episode and I loved the Haiti Video Thank you and of Course Jack put a little Thai flag at the

  • Back of his Letter Hector I got your letter you sent me some Postcards from the Netherlands but

  • I can't find them Maybe I'll find them later but uh Thank you for your Postcards I did get Them and Finally Guys I am

  • So Disappointed that I lost the Footage of me Opening this Package because it was so Amazing an Epic it's from Paul

  • Joseph who is from new Jersey?

  • he Says as you know When a channel reaches 100,000 subscribers They're Eligible for the Silver Play Button

  • Yeah I got mine When They reach a Million

  • Subscribers They May Receive A Gold Play Button and don't got one yet but Anyway Please Accept the Geography now Play Button so i open

  • The Package and This Is what he Sent he Actually Made a play Button award the Congratulations Geography now you have reached

  • 650,000 Subscribers that Is so creative and Unique I've Never I think you know

  • I don't know if I'll ever get the Gold play Button but This One Definitely Makes Me Feel great to paul Jones if This Is

  • Literally Like The coolest Thing ever Thank you so much for Sending it you Rock that was fun but before We go you know what

  • Time it is it's return Address

  • Test I put all of your return Addresses in This Bag then I pick one Out Whoever wins i get to send a little gift

  • - cool so here We go just gonna pick one Just Gonna pick one uh

  • Was this?

  • Jordan From Miles City Montana

  • you Just won so thank you Guys for Sending everything that you Said I love Putting your Countries and your Hometowns on Display

  • Subscribe to this Channel if You want and I yes they tuned for the next One Stay cool stay Tuned

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