Geography Now Opening Lines - "U" Countries

"Alright, it is end game, we are now in the U countries getting closer to the end of the alphabet, this episode: [country]. Known as the pearl of Africa, despite having virtually no pearl industry. Along with Tanzania and Kenya, [country] is the last member of the Swahili powerhouse triplets." "Uh, don't you mean quadruplets?" "Uh, it's more like your third de facto language, plus you guys had that weird thing with Belgium, and you guys only have like 13 million people." "Yeah, but we have a consistently rising GDP index with an emerging startup industry surpassing all other powerhouses." "Okay, fine, Swahili quadruplets. Geez, whatever, let's move on. [country] is a complex nation, riddled with everything from crowns on the constituent monarchs to the crowns on the crowned cranes. [pun with country's name] be kidding me. Yeah, I had to."

"Hey Geograpeeps! As you know, I'm American and I just got my Anglophone Family reunion invite, so I guess I have to show up to be polite and all. Hi Dad."

"Home."

"Okay, so, I made a video explaining the [country]-Russia conflict in 10 minutes, I made a Geography Go video where I actually went to [country], now there's only one thing left to do: The actual [country] episode."

"So, for all you newbies out there that don't really geography much: Holland is not a country, it's a region in the Netherlands; Bali is not a country, it's a province of Indonesia; Tahiti is not a country, it's an overseas territory of France; and in that regard, Dubai is not a country, it's a [part of country's name] within [country]. And it's also a city in that [part of country's name]. And there's like six other [part of country's name] to talk about. Let's get started."

"So, we've scaled the oil fields of Azerbaijan, tamed the horses of Kazakhstan, climbed the mountains of Kyrgyzstan, crossed the cities of Turkey, jumped through the marble and fires of Turkmenistan, and now, it is our last and final Turkic country. Welcome to the Silk Road powerhouse: [country]."

"[country]! Our last South American country!" "Nope, one more." "Our second to last South American country! In the Latin American world the stereotype is that [country] is just Argentina's Canada or Argentina Light. But that's not fair! [country] has its own distinct identity, okay? I mean, they drink mate." "Yeah, we do that too, we drink mate." "Yeah, but we do it like a little differently, like we're more inclined to bring those thermos things in public, whereas you guys don't do that as much. The Tango was invented here." "Uh, that's debatable." "Okay, yeah, much of it was inspired from the Candome ceremonies that were distinctly from Montevideo, and you don't have that. They invented Chivito." "Okay, I'll give you that." "See? We're getting somewhere, alright."