Statistics for Countries Created from other Countries

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Original Country	New Country	Year	Explained	% Correct
Sudan	South Sudan	2011	Referendum	100%
China	Taiwan	1949	ROC government relocated to the island of Taiwan	97%
Pakistan - West Pakistan	Bangladesh	1971	Liberation War	93%
Serbia	Kosovo	2008	Self-declared independence	90%
India - British Raj	Pakistan	1947	Partition of India agreement	90%
Malaysia	Singapore	1965	Expulsion from Malaysia	90%
Portugal	East-Timor	1975	Colonised by Portugal and independent in '75	87%
Spain - Léon	Portugal	1143	Treaty of Zamora with Léon	87%
Norway	Iceland	~970	First permanent settler was a Norwegian chieftain, Ingólfr Arnarson	83%
Spain - Catalonia	Andorra	1278	Count of Foix and the Bishop of La Seu d'Urgell govern the region	70%
Netherlands	Belgium	1830	Flandres	67%
Finland	Estonia	~400	Finnish peoples migrated to the region	63%
France	Monaco	1297	The Grimaldi Family bacame ruler of Monaco	57%
Yugoslavia	North Macedonia	1991	NM was never an independent country until the dissolution of Yugoslavia	50%
USA	Liberia	1822	Freed American slaves	33%
Russia - USSR	K{azakhstan}	1991	Fall of the Soviet Union	27%
Russia - USSR	K{yrgyzstan}	1991	Fall of the Soviet Union	23%
Russia - USSR	T{ajikistan}	1991	Fall of the Soviet Union	23%
Russia - USSR	U{zbekistan}	1991	Fall of the Soviet Union	23%