00:00Most people don't know this, but there is a country nobody wants.
00:03I'm talking about Bir Tawil, a small piece of desert located between Egypt and Sudan.
00:08In 2014, a U.S. citizen named Jeremiah Heaton traveled all the way to Bir Tawil
00:13and created the Kingdom of North Sudan, since nobody wanted it.
00:16But why?
00:17This all started in the 19th century, when the British drew a straight-line border,
00:21giving Bir Tawil to Sudan and the Haleib Triangle to Egypt.
00:24However, just three years later, they redrew it, this time giving Bir Tawil to Egypt,
00:28and the Ricer, Haleib Triangle to Sudan.
00:31And here is where it gets messy.
00:32Both countries want the Haleib Triangle, which is a lot bigger and has huge reserves of oil.
00:37However, if either country takes Bir Tawil, they would automatically lose the Haleib Triangle.
00:42And since nobody wanted that, this makes Bir Tawil a country nobody wants.
