Kameruun - E Ngel Laawol

Winner of the week: 🥇2

Cameroon is a country in Central Africa. It borders Nigeria, Chad, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea. The country has a coastline on the Atlantic Ocean in the southwest. The largest cities are the capital, Yaoundé, and the port city of Douala.

Cameroon is governed by an authoritarian regime, and freedom of expression is severely restricted. Corruption and human rights violations are widespread, with torture and arbitrary arrests occurring regularly.

On January 1, 1960, French Cameroon gained independence following a referendum and the expiration of the UN mandate and renamed itself the Republic of Cameroon. In December 1960, the 15th United Nations General Assembly decided that the trust territories should also be granted independence. This could be achieved through full independence, free association with an already independent state, or integration into an independent state. The British trustees denied their trust territories the first option—full independence. The north of the British Mandate trust territory therefore voted in a referendum to join Nigeria, while the southern part opted for federation with the Republic of Cameroon. Independence and simultaneous annexation took place on October 1, 1961. The state thus formed was called the Federative Republic of Cameroon. This is the reason why two official languages, French and English, are now recognized in Cameroon.

Cameroon - E Ngel Laawol

Cameroon 🥇 - E Ngel Laawol

Vietnam Ranking: https://soundcloud.com/josef-schweinzer/sets/ramixjoeworldcontest2025?si=8772ffb0264f4695abcdc0b4214718da&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Originaltitle: Việt Nam - Ta Cùng Đi

Vietnam is an elongated coastal state in Southeast Asia. It borders China, Laos, Cambodia, the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea. The capital of Vietnam is Hanoi, the largest city by population is Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon); other important metropolises in the country are Hải Phòng, Cần Thơ and Đà Nẵng. The majority of the population are Vietnamese.

The first historically documented kingdom in what is now Vietnam emerged in the 1st millennium BC. Afterwards, peaceful coexistence developed between the Yue and the Han during the Triệu dynasty. 111 B.C. The dynasty came under the control of the Han Chinese as a province of the Han dynasty in 200 BC and remained so - interrupted by brief periods of independence - until 939 AD, when it was defeated after the Battle of the Bạch-Đằng River (Autumn 938 AD) gained independence. In the following centuries, Vietnam expanded southward with successive dynasties and a period of Chinese occupation from 1407 to 1428.

In the 19th century, the area gradually came under French colonial rule as part of French Indochina. Japan occupied the region during World War II. From 1946 to 1954, France tried unsuccessfully to restore its colonial rule in the First Indochina War. As a result of the French defeat in 1954, Tonkin and the northern part of Annam became the socialist North Vietnam with the capital Hanoi, and Cochinchina and the southern part of Annam became the Western-supported South Vietnam with the capital Saigon. From 1964 to 1973, the United States failed in the Vietnam War to defeat North Vietnam and its allied National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam. Instead, the two Vietnamese states were reunited under communist leadership in 1976.

Vietnam remains a one-party dictatorship to this day. The authoritarian government regularly commits serious violations of human rights.

Vietnam - Ta Cùng Di

República Federativa do Brasil - Estamos Avançando

Winner of the week: 🥇37

Brazil is the fifth largest country in terms of area and, with around 214 million inhabitants, the seventh largest country in the world. It is also the largest country in South America in terms of area and population, occupying 47.3 percent of its area. With the exception of Chile and Ecuador, Brazil shares a border with every other South American country. The name Brazil comes from the Portuguese name pau-brasil for the brazilwood tree (Paubrasilia echinata).

According to a “sensational discovery”, the traces of human settlement are said to go back around 30,000 years, but according to current scientific opinion, a maximum of 15,000 years. After the European discovery of America and the division of the South American continent by the Treaty of Tordesillas, Brazil became a Portuguese colony. This colonial period, which lasted more than three centuries and in which immigrants of various origins came to Brazil (voluntarily or by force), contributed significantly to Brazil's current ethnic diversity. After gaining state independence in 1822, which was followed by a period of constitutional monarchy, the country became a republic in 1889 as the United States of Brazil. After the period of military dictatorship from 1964, the country returned to democracy with a presidential system of government in 1985.

Brazil - Estamos Avancando

Brazil 🥇 - Estamos Avancando

Italia - Siamo In Cammino

Winner of the week: 🥇40

Italy is a country in southern Europe. The capital and most populous city is Rome and the economic and financial center is Milan.

The Italian territory lies largely on the Apennine Peninsula, which is surrounded on three sides by the Mediterranean Sea, the adjoining northern Italian plain and in the southern Alpine arc. There are also the large islands of Sicily and Sardinia as well as several smaller island groups. Land borders exist with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia as well as with the small states of Vatican City and San Marino, which are completely surrounded by Italian territory.

Many significant contributions to the cultural and historical heritage of Europe and the world have been made in Italy. The area that is now Italy was the core region of the Roman Empire in ancient times. The city of Rome has also been one of the most important centers of Christianity since late antiquity until today. Tuscany and the rival Italian city-states formed the heartland of the Renaissance. Italy was also a cultural center in the Baroque and Classical eras. Italy is now the country with the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites (58) and one of the most visited countries in the world with around 65 million tourists every year.

With the Risorgimento, the modern Italian nation state emerged in the 19th century: from 1861 to 1946, the Kingdom of Italy existed under the House of Savoy, which was rapidly industrialized, rose to become a major European power and, from the 1880s, established a colonial empire in North and East Africa. The costly and costly participation in the First World War from 1915 to 1918 led to the expansion of the national territory, but also to serious social unrest and paved the way to power for the Italian fascists. The fascist regime ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943/45 and led the country into the Second World War on the side of the Axis powers in 1940, which ended in defeat in 1945 and led to the loss of colonies and minor cessions of territory. In June 1946, the monarchy was abolished by a referendum and the current republic was proclaimed.

According to the Human Development Index, Italy is one of the most developed countries in the world as an industrial country. In terms of gross domestic product, Italy is the third largest economy in the European Union and the eighth largest in the world. The country enjoys a high standard of living and education and has one of the highest life expectancies. The Italian armed forces are among the most powerful in the world and are ranked as the fourth strongest within NATO.

Italy is a co-initiator of European integration and a founding member of the European Union, the Council of Europe, NATO and the Latin Union. The country is a member of the G7, the G20, the United Nations (UNO), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Italy - Siamo In Cammino

Italy 🥇 - Siamo In Cammino

Bŭlgariya - Nie Sme Na Pŭt

Bulgaria is a republic in southeastern Europe with around 6.5 million inhabitants. The country occupies most of the eastern Balkan Peninsula and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. Bulgaria covers an area of ​​110,994 square kilometers and lies in the temperate climate zone. Sofia is the capital and also the largest city in the country; other larger cities are Plovdiv, Varna and Burgas. Bulgaria has been a member of NATO since 2004 and joined the European Union in 2007.
In what is now Bulgaria there is the earliest evidence of the presence of humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and the Neolithic Karanovo culture, which dates back to 6500 BC. Dating back to the 1st century BC, one of the earliest settlements on the continent. In the 6th to 3rd centuries B.C. In the 4th century BC the region came under tension between the Thracians, Persians, Celts and Greeks. Stability came when the Roman Empire managed to conquer the region in 45 AD. With the decline and division of the empire, invasions by different groups began again in the region. The Goths immigrated in the 4th century and created the only written source of their language here. Around the 6th century, the areas were settled by the early Slavs. The Proto-Bulgarians, led by the brothers Asparuch and Kuwer, left the territory of (old) (Greater) Bulgaria and settled permanently on the Balkan Peninsula in the late 7th century. They founded two empires called Bulgaria, one between the Danube and the Balkan Mountains and one in the area around today's Bitola in the west of the peninsula. The Danube Empire, which was recognized by treaty by the Eastern Roman Empire in 681, over time united with the Empire of Kuwer. This First Bulgarian Empire ruled most of the southern Balkan Peninsula and significantly influenced Slavic cultures through the development of the Cyrillic script at the court of the Bulgarian tsars and the establishment of the Bulgarian Patriarchate.
Old Bulgarian literature and literature formed the third largest cultural and religious area in medieval Europe. The empire existed until the early 11th century, when the Byzantine Emperor Basil II conquered and subjugated it. A successful Bulgarian revolt in 1185 established a Second Bulgarian Empire, which reached its peak under Ivan Asen II (1218–1241). After numerous exhausting wars and feudal struggles, the empire dissolved in 1396 and the region fell under Ottoman rule for almost five centuries.

Today Bulgaria is a parliamentary republic consisting of 28 provinces with a high degree of political, administrative and economic centralization. With an upper-middle income economy, the United Nations Development Program ranks Bulgaria among high human development countries. Its market economy is part of the European internal market and is based largely on services, followed by industry - particularly engineering and mining - and agriculture. Bulgaria is the world's largest producer of lavender oil and has a long tradition of rose cultivation and rose oil production. The country is facing a demographic crisis as its population has been shrinking annually since around 1990. Compared to a peak of almost nine million inhabitants in 1988, today there are only around 6.5 million. Bulgaria has been a member of NATO since March 29, 2004 and a member of the European Union (EU) and the Council of Europe since January 1, 2007, a founding member of the OSCE and has held a seat on the United Nations Security Council three times.

Bulgaria - Nie Sme Na Put

Canada - On The Move

Winner of the week: 🥇41

Canada is a state in North America that lies between the Atlantic Ocean in the east and the Pacific Ocean in the west and extends northward to the Arctic Ocean. The federal capital is Ottawa, the most populous city is Toronto.

Canada borders the United States to the south and northwest, the French overseas territory of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon to the east and Greenland with the border created in 2022 across Hans Island. In terms of area, it is the second largest country in the world after Russia, has around 40 million inhabitants and a population density of just four people per square kilometer.

Settlement by the First Nations began at least 12,000 years ago, and the Inuit followed around 5,000 years ago. Europeans reached what is now the state's territory no later than the 11th century and again from the late 15th century and began colonizing around 1600. The French and British were the first to take hold. At that time the name “Canada” spread, originally the name of an Iroquois village. France ceded its colony of New France to Great Britain in 1763 (see below). In 1867, three British colonies formed the Canadian Confederation. The Statute of Westminster gave the state legislative independence in 1931. Further constitutional ties to the United Kingdom were severed in 1982.

Canada is a kingdom within the Commonwealth of Nations. The nominal head of state is King Charles III, who is represented by the Governor General of Canada. Canada is a parliamentary democratic federal state based on the British Westminster system and a parliamentary monarchy. The official languages ​​are English and French.

Québec's aspirations for independence, the position of Francophone Canadians and the rights of indigenous peoples (in addition to the First Nations and Inuit, the Métis) are important lines of conflict in the state and society. The topics of climate change and environmental protection, immigration policy and dependence on raw materials as well as the relationship with the United States - of which there is an ambivalent image for cultural and historical reasons - characterize the public debates.

Canada - On The Move

Canada 🥇 - On The Move

Untergrund (Joe Bin Hood Version)

Republic of South Africa - Siyahamba

South Africa is a country in southern Africa. It is the most developed economic area on the African continent.

There are three capitals: the government is in Pretoria, the parliament in Cape Town and the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein. The largest metropolises in terms of population (as metropolitan municipalities) are Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. English is the country's lingua franca, but the most widely spoken language is isiZulu, followed by isiXhosa. In addition, Afrikaans and seven other Bantu languages ​​are official languages ​​of the country.

South Africa is the only African country to be one of the G20 economic powers and is counted among the nine BRICS countries. The seat of the African Union Parliament is in Johannesburg-Midrand. South Africa is one of the founding members of the United Nations and also a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

The Republic of South Africa is a culturally diverse state in which people of several ethnicities live and which is often referred to as the “rainbow nation” due to this diversity. Since the various population groups did not always live side by side without conflict, complex problems and unrest over the course of history strained the relationship, for example between the non-European majority population and the European-born ("white") immigrants and their descendants born in the country, but also between different nationalities within these groups defined during apartheid, with serious effects on the history and politics of the country. The Khoisan indigenous population, some of which still live as foragers, is largely marginalized today.

As a result of its election victory in 1948, the Nasional Party, a party of Afrikaans-speaking people of European descent - mostly of Dutch, but also of German or French descent - reshaped all areas of South African society according to the programmatic principle of "separate development" that it represented. However, this development had already begun under the state governments that were both British and Boer-oriented and was officially declared state policy until shortly after the election of the moderate and understanding President Frederik Willem de Klerk. The change in politics began in 1990. It was a consequence of years of struggle by the disadvantaged majority of the population under political leaders such as Nelson Mandela and was largely peaceful. The 1994 elections in South Africa brought equal voting rights for all citizens for the first time and fundamentally changed political life in the country.

The state is one of the few states in Africa in which non-European official languages ​​are given such great freedom and there has not yet been a coup. Free and secret elections, although only with preference for the white population, have been held since the 19th century. The state's economy is the most developed on the entire African continent.

South Africa - Siyahamba

საქართველო (Sakartwelo) - ერთთად მივდივართ (Ertad Mivdivart)

Georgia is a Eurasian state in the South Caucasus, located east of the Black Sea and south of the Greater Caucasus. It is bordered by Russia to the north, Turkey and Armenia to the south, and Azerbaijan to the east. The regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are occupied by Russian forces and are not under the control of the Georgian government. With around 3.7 million inhabitants (2020) in an area of ​​57,215 km² (excluding the occupied regions), Georgia is rather sparsely populated. About a third of the population lives in the capital region around Tbilisi; other major cities include Batumi, Kutaisi, and Rustavi.

The former Soviet republic encompasses mountain villages in the Caucasus as well as beaches on the Black Sea. Famous are the sprawling 12th-century Vardzia cave monastery and the ancient wine-growing region of Kakheti. The capital, Tbilisi, boasts diverse architecture and a labyrinthine old town with cobblestone streets.

The Georgians call their country "Sakartvelo" in Georgian, which roughly translates as "Land of the Kartvels." The word is said to originate from the god Kartlos, the progenitor of the Kartvels, who was worshipped in pre-Christian times.

The Kartvelians
The Georgians are one of the few peoples for whom no migration has been documented to date. It is certain that Georgia was already inhabited in the Paleolithic period. Recent archaeological excavations in eastern Georgia attest to cultivation 1.8 million years ago, long before the settlement of Central Europe. This includes the spectacular discovery of the oldest European humans in Dmanisi.

Slightly further south, in present-day Turkey, lies Mount Ararat, the legendary landing site of the Ark. According to historical sources from the 11th century, the Georgians trace their origins to the mythical ancestor Kartlos, the son of Targamos, who was a great-grandson of Noah (Genesis 10:1-2). The native name for Georgia is "Sakartvelo" (English: Sakartvelo), "Land of the Kartvelians."

Kartvelian tribes are mentioned as early as the 12th century BC. The first mention of the region dates back to the 2nd century BC in Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions. Urartian sources report the state structure "Diaochi" as their first unified union (Heinz Fähnrich, German cultural historian). The Greeks called the people Taochi (Xenophon, Anabasis, IV, 71); the territorial designation Tao persisted until the 20th century.

Georgia - Ertad Mivdivart

Монгол Улс (Mongol Uls) - бид хамтдаа алхаna (Bid Khamtdaa Alkhana)

Winner of the week: 🥇50

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, between Russia and China. Territorially over four times the size of Germany, the country is the least populated country in the world with around three million inhabitants. More than 40 percent of the country's population lives in the capital Ulaanbaatar. The majority of the population are Mongolians, the slight majority of whom follow Mongolian Buddhism.

The national territory covers most of the Mongolian Plateau. Due to the nature of the soil and the climate, agriculture can hardly be practiced in Mongolia. The landscape is dominated by grassy steppes, with mountains to the north and west, and the Gobi Desert to the south. The most important economic sectors are nomadic livestock farming and mining. The country is one of the ten countries richest in raw materials in the world.

Excavations in the Gobi show that Homo erectus lived in what is now Mongolia 500,000 years ago. Even before the beginning of the Christian era, equestrian nomads such as the Xiongnu or Xianbei united to form large tribes. In 1206, Genghis Khan founded the Mongol Empire, which stretched across Asia and into Europe and was the largest territorially contiguous empire in human history. His grandson Kublai Khan conquered China and founded the Yuan dynasty. After the collapse of this empire, Buddhism increasingly dominated the state. During the Qing Dynasty, “Outer Mongolia” was created as a Chinese province in 1644 on the territory of today's Mongolian state.

From 1912 the region gained extensive autonomy rights. In 1921, the Soviet Union established a puppet government, which proclaimed the Mongolian People's Republic in 1924. During its existence, it was completely dependent on the Soviet Union politically, militarily and economically. It was only during the revolutions in 1989 that the country made the peaceful transition to a democratic parliamentary system of government. On February 12, 1992, parliament sealed the end of the communist system by adopting a new constitution. Since then, Mongolia has been a stable democracy. According to the 2022 Democracy Index, Mongolia is the only democracy in the world completely surrounded by clear dictatorships. The Mongolian population is particularly concerned about the relationship with China, as they are aware of the lack of chances in a possible military conflict and are increasingly becoming dependent on this threatening backdrop.

Mongolia - Bid Khamtdaa Alkhana

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المملكة العربية السعودية (al-Mamlaka al-ʿarabīya as-saʿūdīya) - على دروب (Ealaa Durub)

Winner of the week: 🥇43

Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy in the Near East. It is located on the Arabian Peninsula and borders on its neighboring states (see “National Border” section below), the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. The country has existed within its current borders since 1932. The country's capital and largest city is Riyadh, the second largest is the port city of Jeddah.

Two of Islam's three holiest sites, the Kaaba in Mecca and the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, are in Saudi Arabia. Islam of the Hanbali school of law in the special form of Wahhabism is the state religion in Saudi Arabia. The public image of religion in the country is fundamentalist and there is a conservative interpretation of Islamic law. Saudi Arabia supports and finances the spread of Islamist neo-fundamentalism. The views of the terrorist organization Islamic State were strongly influenced by the Saudi Arabian interpretation of Islam, of which they are a particularly violent continuation.

In 1992, absolutism was enshrined as a form of government in the basic order. To this day, the country is governed by authoritarian rule and there is no freedom of expression. Serious human rights violations occur every day in Saudi Arabia; Punishments such as amputation, stoning, flogging and the death penalty are regularly carried out, the latter also for homosexuality (see also: Homosexuality in Saudi Arabia). Although social restrictions have been somewhat reduced since Mohammed bin Salman took over the reins of government, the country is still one of the lowest places in the world when it comes to women's rights, according to the Global Gender Gap Report.

Through its army, Saudi Arabia is the largest military power in the Middle East. Its military intervention in Yemen since 2015 is considered destabilizing and a contributing factor to the humanitarian catastrophe there. Despite the various criticisms of domestic and foreign policy, most governments in the Western world maintain good relations with Saudi Arabia because their countries are dependent on its oil. Saudi Arabia is one of the richest countries in the world thanks to its oil exports; In terms of gross domestic product per capita (adjusted for purchasing power), it was ranked 29th worldwide in 2021. The United Nations Development Program ranks Saudi Arabia as one of the countries with very high levels of human development.

Afghanistan - Mog Gamuna Akhlo

Saudi Arabia 🥇 - Ealaa Durub

Even as a small child I wanted to learn a musical instrument...

...since there was a music school in our small town where I grew up, but it was limited to the activities of the local musicians' band, the choice was rather limited... because piano, guitar or saxophone were not offered and that's why I decided me for the trumpet, which was not used for cast-technical reasons, so the FLÜGELHORN became my instrument...
In my youth I turned my back on music and was active in sports towards the end of my teenage years.

Saudi Arabia 🥇 - Ealaa Durub

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