Newest Countries A-Z

For each letter A to Z, what are the youngest countries?
Measuring the birth of the current form of government
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Year
Letter
Country
1991
A
Armenia
1992
B
Bosnia & Herzegovina
1993
C
Czech Republic
1978
D
Dominica
2002
E
East Timor
1991
F
FS of Micronesia
1991
G
Georgia
1989
H
Hungary
Year
Letter
Country
1948
I
Israel
1962
J
Jamaica
2008
K
Kosovo
1990
L
Latvia
2006
M
Montenegro
1990
N
Namibia
1650
O
Oman
1994
P
Palau
Year
Letter
Country
1971
Q
Qatar
1991
R
Russia
2011
S
South Sudan
1991
T
Turkmenistan
1991
U
Uzbekistan
1980
V
Vanuatu
1990
Y
Yemen
1980
Z
Zimbabwe
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Level 66
Apr 8, 2015
Nice quiz, but I have two corrections: You have to write Antigua to guess Armenia, and Timor-Leste is in Portuguese, and all the quizzes are in English, so the correct name should be East Timor.

Hope you can fix those because is a good quiz.

Good luck!

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Level 76
Apr 8, 2015
+1; and also surely Iran and Hungary were countries even before the regime changes that happened in those years?
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Level 89
Apr 9, 2015
Have to agree with Jerry928. Iran has been an independent country for much much longer than since 1979. It has gone through regime changes but that doesn't mean that it has been under the control of another country. Systems of government can and do change within a country.
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Level 74
Apr 9, 2015
Nonsense. Persia was renamed Iran in 1935. Exactly whom did they gain independence from in 1979? It was an internal civil war that deposed the Shah and set up the Islamic Republic. If there's a revolution in Norway tomorrow to depose Harald V, does Norway cease to exist? The Ivory Coast gained independence from France in 1960; Israel was created by UN fiat in 1948.
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Level 65
Feb 10, 2016
All comments taken into consideration; quiz adjusted. :)
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Level 65
Feb 10, 2016
:) thanks
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Level 90
Apr 8, 2015
Hungary was never part of the Soviet Union, and I agree with the above comments. Shouldn't Georgia be the G answer (1991)?
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Level 65
Feb 10, 2016
Correct; it is now :)
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Level 75
Apr 10, 2015
Going by the Countries of the World quiz on this site, East Timor and Micronesia are the accepted names for those countries. It's confusing to have some quizzes accept one name and others require others.
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Level 65
Feb 10, 2016
Notice the date made - April 9, 2015. I had only been on JetPunk for about a month, so I wasn't truly aware of the actual names (I'd never heard of such countries as East Timor, prior to!). After a couple days short of one year on here, it's definitely fixed. Honestly, I do feel a tad stupid for doing that! Anyway thanks, ander.
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Level 37
Apr 19, 2019
Quizer6794: Don't berate yourself. Timor L'este, Cote d'Ivoire and Cabo Verde are the correct names for the countries. It's amazing that the very same people who have an issue with those names have no trouble with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Mozambique, Benin, etc., etc., etc.
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Level 76
Apr 10, 2015
The quiz has been entertaining, but watching the feedback has been even more fun :)
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Level 41
May 9, 2015
Montenegro exists since 1042, and it is called Montenegro since 15th century, also it gained independence from Ottoman empire in 1878, so it existed a lot earlier.
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Level 72
Sep 17, 2015
But in 2005 there was no country called Montenegro.
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Level 51
Jan 21, 2016
when we learned all the european countries in the 90's montenegro wasn't one of them.
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Level 65
Feb 10, 2016
Montenegro gained its independence from Serbia and Montenegro (in which the "Serbian part" of it was in rule) after a referendum. [June 3, 2006]
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Level 67
Feb 18, 2016
I'm just wondering, For answers such as A, L and T... Wouldn't Armenia AND Azerbaijan, Latvia AND Lithuania, Turkmenistan AND Tajikistan all be applicable as they are all dissolved USSR states? Or did they break off one by one and those you've listed are the latest ones? I don't know I just tried each of the incorrect three first haha.
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Level 67
Feb 18, 2016
Oh and same for K there's two former USSR states there too.
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Level 65
Feb 23, 2016
Well, they did dissolve in the same year but different dates.
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Level 70
Feb 29, 2016
Honduras is the OLDEST country with "H".

Hungary was founded in 1920, and in 1989 the Third Republic was declared.

And also Haiti is newer than Honduras

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Level 65
Mar 1, 2016
The formation of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1000 A.D by Stephen I. Honduras became a state of the Federal Republic of Central America, braking free from from Spain, in 1821, then got full independence from Central America in 1838. Haiti's birth of its current form of government was back in 1804.
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Level 63
Oct 15, 2016
I first read "Stephen I. Honduras" as one name (I. as middle initial) and thought you were just joking. It makes much more sense the right way
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Level 46
Jun 2, 2016
There is an oxymoron here. If Honduras is the youngest country starting with 'H', then why is Montenegro the youngest country starting with 'M'? Montenegro existed long time ago just like Hungary and others.
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Level 80
Jun 11, 2016
Should be a featured quiz!
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Level 65
Jun 11, 2016
Thanks!!
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Level 60
Jun 17, 2016
Based on the "Current form of government" caveat, Hungary was founded in 1989. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary
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Level 65
Jun 17, 2016
Thanks, again!
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Level 45
Mar 8, 2019
Can you accept "Czech" for Czech Republic? It takes very long to write the full name; maybe you could also just write CR. Thanks in advance...
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Level 66
Dec 31, 2020
You can write Czechia.
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Level 53
Jun 11, 2020
Hungary became independent from Austria-Hungry in 1920. It's still the oldest H-Country, but it certainly existed before 1989.
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Level 70
Dec 7, 2020
I agree