An Irish woman named Emma invented an the Animaniacs song listing the Countries of the World and jumped whenever a country that hasn't been invaded by Britain is mentioned.
Below is the lyrics with the countries she jumps for marked in RED.
United States, Canada, Mexico, PanamaHaiti, Jamaica, Peru,Republic Dominican, Cuba, CarribeanGreenland, El Salvador too.Puerto Rico, Columbia, VenezuelaHonduras, Guyana, and still,Guatemala, Bolivia, then ArgentinaAnd Ecuador, Chile, Brazil.Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, BermudaBahamas, Tobago, San Juan,Paraguay, Uruguay, SurinamAnd French Guiana, Barbados, and Guam.
Norway, and Sweden, and Iceland, and FinlandAnd Germany now one piece,Switzerland, Austria, CzechoslovakiaItaly, Turkey, and Greece.Poland, Romania, Scotland, AlbaniaIreland, Russia, Oman,Bulgaria, Saudi ArabiaHungary, Cyprus, Iraq, and Iran.There's Syria, Lebanon, Israel, JordanBoth Yemens, Kuwait, and Bahrain,The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, and PortugalFrance, England, Denmark, and Spain.
India, Pakistan, Burma, AfghanistanThailand, Nepal, and Bhutan,Kampuchea, Malaysia, then Bangladesh (Asia)And China, Korea, Japan.Mongolia, Laos, and Tibet, IndonesiaThe Philippine Islands, Taiwan,Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Sumatra, New ZealandThen Borneo, and Vietnam.Tunisia, Morocco, Uganda, AngolaZimbabwe, Djibouti, Botswana,Mozambique, Zambia, Swaziland, GambiaGuinea, Algeria, Ghana.
Burundi, Lesotho, and Malawi, TogoThe Spanish Sahara is gone,Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and LiberiaEgypt, Benin, and Gabon.Tanzania, Somalia, Kenya, and MaliSierra Leone, and Algiers,Dahomey, Namibia, Senegal, LibyaCameroon, Congo, Zaire.Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, MadagascarRwanda, Mahore, and Cayman,Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Yugoslavia...Crete, MauritaniaThen Transylviania,Monaco, LiechtensteinMalta, and Palestine,Fiji, Australia, Sudan.
list of not invaded places. All these sorts of things are arguable as the borders of countries and such change over time.Not in the song but not invaded are Andora, Belarus, Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, Kyrgyzstan, Marshall Islands, Sao Tome and Principe, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Vatican City
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