I kind of fix the mistakes that were in the video or I talk about things that didn't quite make it into the video first

Of all wrong book monastery is actually in Tibet China not Nepal

That was a mistake now sprout to mention that although nepali is the official language

There are two other recognized languages might Ely spoken by about 12% and butch Puri spoken by about 6%

They're only Co official in the South though specifically my TV with province one

Also, I forgot to mention that Nepal has a strange time zone. They are UTC plus 5 and 45 minutes interesting

I forgot to talk about the wildlife there about 850 species of birds 185 species of mammals

There's even a species of freshwater dolphin now

We did talk a lot about Hinduism and Buddhism

But what I forgot to mention was the ki raat religion about 3% of the population actually adheres to this religion

And it's kind of like an animist shamaness type of religion

It venerates nature and ancestor worship in some areas that even follow their own unique calendar system

also

I forgot to talk about some of the controversial things that you guys wanted me to highlight in the episode some of the things that

You guys mentioned included things like human rights violations on human trafficking child labor and the underground drug trade and finally

I was told that there's kind of like a little bit of drama

between most Nepal E's and the modeski people something about Nepali is moving in the Hill people into their areas and something about

Under-representation since they don't really culturally relate to the rest of Nepal

It's a very complex issue though

If you are Modjeski, and if you want to explain write it in the comment section

That's a lot and we still got a lot more to cover to the flag. So without further ado

Now if there's any flag fan friday episode you might want to watch this would probably be one of the most important ones because

Clearly you can tell this flag is unique. There's no other country on earth that has this type of configuration shape

first of all

The flag is the only double pennant

Or double triangle edged flag used by a sovereign state in the world the upper pennant being slightly narrower than the bottom

The flag is shaped that way for a few reasons

Many will say it imitates the shape of the himalayas others will say that it also symbolizes the important families the Shahs for the upper

Areas, and the Hirata's for the lower parts. None of us the government-sanctioned

Representation states that it stands for Hinduism Buddhism the two main religions of the country. The flag has a blue border the color symbolizing

Peace and harmony, the crimson red interior stands for bravery and the rhododendron the national flower no blood this time again

Geez, we need more blood

otherwise inside the flag lies these two white simple images the upper one being a

Horizontal crescent moon with a Rising Sun and the lower one being a 12 pointed Sun

These images are placed to represent the permanence and hope for longevity as a nation. It also stands for purity of spirit

And for the temperature extremes the moon being for the cold Himalayas and the Sun for the hot warmth RI

Lowland regions in the south. All right and keep in mind

This is pretty much the only flag they had since they were never colonized. I mean prior to 1962

They actually used kind of like the exact same flag, except the symbols have little happy smiley faces on them Oh charming

All right, and that's just about it. So time for the emblem

The emblem was adopted in 2008 after the end of the monarchy and depicts the land of Nepal summarized with Mount Everest in the background

The green hilly region and the yellow Terai at the bottom the male and female

Hands joined symbolize unity between all peoples and a garland of rhododendron

flowers adorns the sides the flag and map of Nepal can be found on the top and middle of the emblem and finally at the

bottom lines a stroll with Sun script writing

Translating to something roughly along the lines of mother and motherland are greater than heaven

Now keep in mind prior to the new government switch up in the end of the monarchy

They had a few other emblems

they all usually

depicted Mount Everest with Gurkha soldiers on the sides some have the national bird the green pheasant some have the Hindu god Gorakh nut and

Some have the royal headdress. Oh, yeah after the monarchy was deposed

They kind of switched it up and took away all of the royal imagery

So yeah, that's just about it Dan. That means you know what time it is. It's time for geography fan mail time. Yeah

All right, we're gonna do this

But before we do we need a guest star so you know her for the first time Hannah is here

Hi guys, Hannah. You've never done this before basically we start off with postcards

This is Robbie from Toronto Canada. Thank you. This one is from Soren

Goodbye

Luke and ghouls shot you guys have actually mailed this before. Thank you

This is mail from Denmark is from jam from hungry, but who is in Cincinnati, Ohio?

levity visited Tangier, Morocco

Greetings from Indonesia and I think this is the coolest postcard that I've ever seen by the way. I'm sorry

I just ate a bunch of garlic he stuffs with my breath smells horrible

Craig and Amy. Joy from Johannesburg South Africa

So this is cents from Dallas Texas. It's like the most American thing ever, but you're Canadian

This is from Matthew and it's from Japan Jimmy who?

Visited no, he's from Taiwan the Republic of China. It was just really cool rock beach thing Robby from London

UK awesome quick question here. Now if you could go anywhere, would you like to go Oh

Jerusalem there's so much history so much history

Egypt, that's a cool one, too. I Daniel from Belize and there was a poster here, but

Your your letter got ripped. Sorry guys, this sometimes happens. All right Hannah. Let's learn a little bit more about you

What was your experience being on geography now for the first time? What did you think of it? It was awesome

We got to film it like this super cool YouTube space, which is sick. Yeah, and all of you guys are just so awesome

Yeah, these guys are so down to earth and chill

Great I think your name is taffy. So taffy from Madagascar you send all these really cool like Madagascar

Postcards chicasarita cont Madagascar Merciful, excellent lovicott. Why totally keep avec face

Um, um pay we have C. So to to Dawa

Mentioning to Gary. Oh did Gary he's a famous guy from Madagascar. Oh, yeah. Alright

This one is from Brian from Sacramento

and Brian is actually a social studies teacher at the only food job' uh

School charter school in the United States Wow located in Sacramento, which is so cool

I don't even know we had those in beautiful cursive. Um, look at this handwriting

Kym's graphics are awesome

It's yours less. So

Fun fact in the first few episodes

I did all the animations so they're horrible, but I was so proud of them because I had never done animations before up. Next is

Jaron from the Philippines look at all this all this information on the Philippines took a scroll

Will see 100 pesos we played a we played poker at my place

with Hannah and her husband Ian and a bunch of other Caleb and Julian the prize money was like a bunch of extra banknotes you

Guys Tintin and what happened? I won the game and I got to take it all home and it is faces on with me

Yeah, you still have everything I think we're gonna play again. Okay. Okay. It's a new game

We've created with all the stuff that you guys it random souvenirs as currency for poker. No

this is from

Yeah before you go actually, oh no

He's here too, but he's gotta leave I gotta head out

Good to see you Brian from Toronto and Ontario a lot of Canadians today Wow, but my family is from Korea

But we are hockey Oh Oh Chinese people living in Korea. Got it. They even speak their own Chinese Korean Creole

That's awesome. So this is really interesting. These are really old. They don't even make these anymore

This is like one cent and you might win them in a poker game again

Didn't you win like a constitution?

So this guy wrote in from Texas and he's French and his last name is champagne

Yeah

We got this letter from Lindsey who is from Dellen, Florida, she's learning Arabic

She wants to know is this the correct way to write their geography now in Arabic?

This is the Soviets in Canada Oh

ketchup flavored Lay's potato chips

You want to try any let's try one by the way, fun fact Hanna can eat anything

All right, what do you think let me know when you first taste it it just tastes like a McDonald's chip

They have McDonald's fries with ketchup. It kind of does yeah

One question. What was the craziest thing? You've ever eaten? Oh one time in high school. We made a pizza

that was like this big and

All yeah, I was like you stacked it like we stacked we stacked pizza on pizza on pizza it was huge it was great

Oh the Cook Islands. So for those, you know, the Cook Islands is an overseas territory of New Zealand

Rarotonga that's the capital your Barb's ken Keith Noah and the judge for now Dean

I hope you enjoyed these reusable bamboo straws that I picked up while they're on holiday with my family

So this one is from Nadia and they visited Beryl Nassau

Belgium

That goes right through Belgium and

Sofia Bulgaria from Gaudreau the packages from Bulgaria, but I'm guessing your Armenian

This book is called highest and why I love Armenia one side note when I did Armenia

That was the first time I realized this job is gonna come with a lot of controversy fun fun

Yeah that happens Hanna what's something you want people to learn about you? What's a fun fact about Hanna? Um, I can play the clarinet

That's my weirdest fact. I think favorite food go green bean casserole green bean casserole

Bama and we love our casserole

Okay with the fried onions. Oh, yeah best part. All right

Well one last package cuz this from James remove Eiland what do you know?

Watch it. We have some twisties news new InStyle twisties Kamara crisps pineapple. Um,

Whitakers creamy milk

Cha-ching says and I like how you guys I'm still so chill and simple unlike other channels. Also. I love Noah's voice

It's so smooth and flowing

I'd love to see some a piece bass laughing and episodes - oh we can get that Anna

You should give some of these to you maybe

Alright guys, so that's just about it. But you know what time it is

Reacher a dress contest

so I put all of your return addresses in this bag Hannah's gonna pick one out and whoever wins gets a

This little notepad and button and if you don't win you can get them off of geography now calm

All right and Hannah go for it. All right Hannah. Who do we got we have

Prashant from India India Prashant you just won. All right guys

Well, thank you for just sending else cool stuff

I love putting your hometowns and country's on display Thank You Hannah for being in this episode

Any last words you want to say to the jump in our community? You guys are so great. Thank you for being supportive

Yeah

Thank you guys everyone see