Mulitple Left/Right Joins with the second one taking the first as table 1

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Hello,

my question is regarding the code below. I usually see double left joins which refer to the table1 for both LEFT JOINS (FROM cities/cities as tabl1), this one is referring to countries.code as table1 in the second LEFT JOIN which confuses me somewhat. Is the first or second LEFT JOIN excecuted first? Basically I'm asking which has priority and which table gets LEFT JOINed first.

 

SELECT cities.name AS city, urbanarea_pop, countries.name AS country,

       indep_year, languages.name AS language, percent

FROM cities

  LEFT JOIN countries

    ON cities.country_code = countries.code

  LEFT JOIN languages

    ON countries.code = languages.code

ORDER BY city, language;

 

SELECT cities.name AS city, urbanarea_pop, countries.name AS country,

       indep_year, languages.name AS language, percent

       from languages

       right join countries

        on languages.code = countries.code

        right join cities

        on countries.code = cities.country_code

order by city, language;