Bathe in this sweet flood of trivia about all of the world’s countries

Unless someone is an international traveler, most of the countries of the world are little more than names on a map. Wendover Productions, a YouTube channel devoted to “explaining how our world works,” is aiming to change that with a two-part video series called “Every Country In The World.” The first part, covering 98 nations, debuted this Tuesday. The second half is due on December 13. The video jumps around the map, leaping from one continent to another, as the narrator recites a bit of trivia for each country. The idea is that the viewer will know at least one fact about each of the nearly 200 countries on the globe by the time the series is done. Naturally, there is some dispute as to what constitutes a country. That’s a recurring theme here. Not everyone recognizes Palestine, for instance, but Wendover Productions does. Greenland, however, is not a country. “I’m not allowed to talk about it,” says the narrator.