A lot of these countries are not supposed to be independent, for example, Greenland and Faroe Islands are constituent countries of Denmark, Gibraltar is an overseas territory of the UK, Tibet is and Autonomous region of China, Hong Kong is an Administrative Territory of China, along with Macau, Crimea is a peninsula that is either part of Russia or Ukraine but is not supposed to be an independent nation and the Aland Island are a Swedish speaking autonomous region of Finland. Azawad also is not a self declared nation of Mali anymore. Cook Islands and Niue are in free association with New Zealand and are recognized as a sovereign state by some countries, but they are not fully recognized by the UN.