Bir Tawil: The Land Nobody Wants

Bir Tawil is a 2,060 square kilometre patch of desert between Egypt and Sudan that no country claims. This video explains why Egypt and Sudan both refuse it, how two British boundary lines from 1899 and 1902 created the gap, who tried to claim it with a flag, and what the law says. Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:40 The Place 01:36 Two Lines 02:39 The Trap 03:54 The Prize 04:53 The Other Leftover 05:42 The King 06:54 The Second King 07:35 Why a Flag Is Not Enough 08:34 Another Nobody's Land 09:05 The Answer 09:51 Outro Notes on accuracy Area and geography follow Wikipedia (Bir Tawil, Halaib Triangle, Wadi Halfa Salient). The Hala'ib figure of 20,580 km² is the one given by Wikipedia. The 1899 and 1902 lines and each country's position are described neutrally; the dispute is unresolved. The claims by Jeremiah Heaton (2014) and Suyash Dixit (2017) were never recognised by any government. Maps use Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap boundary data; the Hala'ib outline is approximate. The narration uses a synthetic voice cloned from the channel owner's own voice. Sources Wikipedia: Bir Tawil; Halaib Triangle; Egypt–Sudan border; Wadi Halfa Salient; Marie Byrd Land UN Digital Library: letter from Sudan to the Security Council, 16 March 2016 TIME, The Columbian, Al Jazeera on Jeremiah Heaton; Fox News, YourStory on Suyash Dixit Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States (1933) Credits Photos (Wikimedia Commons): Aerra Carnicom (CC BY-SA 4.0), Vyacheslav Argenberg (CC BY 4.0), Gerhard Haubold (CC BY-SA 3.0), Thomon (CC BY-SA 4.0), Marc Ryckaert (CC BY 3.0), Klaus Polak (CC BY-SA 3.0), Hatem Moushir (CC BY-SA 4.0), Mohamed Shokry Algarnosy (CC BY-SA 4.0), Przemyslaw Idzkiewicz (CC BY-SA 2.0), Richard Buchta, Harris & Ewing, Maximilian Dörrbecker, NASA Johnson Space Center, NASA/Michael Studinger (public domain). Video clips: Pixabay (Pixabay Content License). Map data: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Natural Earth. #borders #geography #maps