Statistics for Shortest- Lived Sovereign States

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Length of Soverigntey	Clue	State	% Correct
1992, 1 day	Annexed by Russia in 2014	Crimea	87%
1813, 134 days	2nd biggest U.S. state	Texas	86%
1846, 25 days	Southwestern state famous for celebrities	California	83%
1971, 1 day	Well-known emirate in UAE	Emirate of Dubai	83%
1840, 294 days	Also a river in between Texas and Mexico	Rio Grande	76%
1860-1861, 13 days	U.S. state famous for Mardi Gras	Louisiana	73%
1964, 104 days	Island of the coast of Tanzania	Zanzibar	68%
1885, 62 days	Canadian province with the capital city Regina	Saskatchewan	54%
1960, 5 days	Now an unstable country in a 25-year civil war	State of Somaliland	37%
1945, 58 days	Autonomous region of China	Inner Mongolia	31%
1946, 2 days	Group of islands with their own soccer team	Faroe Islands	25%