If a Line Touches Your Country, It's Deleted. Only 1 Survives (Map Animation)

Every round, we draw one new line across the world map. If it touches your country, even one tiny island, your country is deleted. 🗺️ First the famous lines: the Equator, the tropics, the polar circles, the Prime Meridian and the 180° line. Then the lines turn into a grid that gets tighter every round, until only one of 195 countries is left. ⚠️ This is a geography game played on real map data. It is not a prediction and nothing here really happens to any country. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 The rule 0:17 Round 1: The Equator 1:11 Round 2: Tropic of Cancer 1:51 Round 3: Tropic of Capricorn 2:20 Round 4: The polar circles 3:14 Round 5: The Prime Meridian 3:44 Round 6: 180° 4:12 Out of famous lines: the grid 4:34 Round 7: every 30° 4:59 Round 8: every 15° 5:25 Round 9: every 10° 5:45 Round 10: every 5° 6:03 Round 11: every 2° 6:22 Round 12: every 1° 6:45 Round 13: every 0.5° 7:15 Round 14: every 0.25° 7:45 Round 15: every 0.1° 8:08 The last country 8:35 Real life 📏 Rules: 195 countries = the 193 UN member states plus Vatican City and Palestine. A country counts the land that is legally part of it (for example Alaska, Hawaii, French Guiana or Bornholm), but not dependencies or self-governing territories (for example Greenland, Puerto Rico or Bermuda). Morocco is counted without Western Sahara. 📊 Data: country borders from Natural Earth (1:10m Admin 0), so small islands and borders are approximate. The tropics and polar circles use Earth's 2026 axial tilt (23.44°). The shapes of San Marino, Monaco and Vatican City, and the islet of Ilhéu das Rolas, were corrected by hand from their real extreme points. Real facts in this video: the Equator is about 40,075 km long · Ecuador is named after the Equator · the Equator crosses land in São Tomé and Príncipe only on the islet of Ilhéu das Rolas · in the Maldives and Kiribati the Equator only crosses water · the Tropic of Cancer passes through 8 Indian states · a spire in Rockhampton, Australia, marks the Tropic of Capricorn · the Arctic Circle crosses Iceland only on the island of Grímsey, drifts north about 14.5 m a year and is expected to leave Grímsey around 2047 · in 1884 the International Meridian Conference chose Greenwich as 0° longitude · GPS puts 0° about 100 m east of the Greenwich line · the 180° meridian crosses the island of Taveuni in Fiji, and the International Date Line bends so all of Fiji shares one date · 30°N crosses the Japanese island of Kuchinoshima · 15°E crosses the Danish island of Bornholm · Sierra Leone's northern border stops just short of 10°N · the Degree Confluence Project has been visiting whole-degree crossings since 1996 · Nauru is the smallest island country · 12.5°E clips the eastern edge of San Marino · Vatican City (0.49 km²) is the smallest country on Earth; its southern tip is at 41°54′00.78″N, about 24 m north of 41.9°N. 👉 More from Panic Maps: What If the Ocean Kept Rising Until Only 2 Countries Were Left?    • What If the Ocean Kept Rising Until Only 2...   🔔 Subscribe for more map animations. #MapAnimation #Geography #Countries #Equator #OnlyOneSurvives