Countries That No Longer Exist

Here are some countries that no longer exist in their previous form, due either to mergers or divisions. How many can you name?
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Hint
Date
Answer
Merged w/ Germany
1989
East Germany
Merged w/ Vietnam
1976
South Vietnam
Merged w/ US
1845
Republic of Texas
Merged w/ US
1865
Confederate States of America
Split into Balkan states
1990's
Yugoslavia
Merged w/ China
1950
Tibet
Parts of India and Bangladesh
1539
Bengal
Merged w/ Spain
1939
Catalonia
Merged w/ France
1769
Corsica
Split into 2 European states
1993
Czechoslovakia
Hint
Date
Answer
Merged w/ US
1898
Hawaii
Merged w/ Canada
1949
Newfoundland
Parts of Asia, Africa, Europe
1923
Ottoman Empire
Parts of Germany and Poland
1945
Prussia
Merged w/ UK
1707
Scotland
Merged w/ UK
1536
Wales
Merged w/ India
1975
Sikkim
Merged w/ Tanzania
1964
Tanganyika
Merged w/ Tanzania
1964
Zanzibar
Split into 15 Asian states
1991
USSR
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Level 57
Aug 8, 2012
Can you please accept "Soviet Union" for USSR?
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Level 80
Aug 8, 2012
Of course! A huge omission on my part....thanks!!
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Level 40
Oct 20, 2014
can you accept tanganika for tanganyika?
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Level 43
Jul 26, 2016
And Tanganiyka if we make mistakes.
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Level 85
Dec 24, 2012
The Soviet Union did not split up into 15 states in Asia - some are in Europe.
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Level 19
Mar 30, 2013
Prussia in 1945? you mean Nazi Third Reich. Prussia was canceleld in 1871 i think, when German Empire was founded.
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Level 68
Mar 24, 2022
The German states were only truly dead after the Gleichschaltung policy of the Nazis.
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Level 71
Mar 24, 2022
That's really more of an opinion.
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Level 28
Nov 6, 2013
can you please accept Confederate States for Confederate States of America?
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Level 50
Apr 25, 2014
We might not be sovereign countries any more (not for a while longer, perhaps) but I'd say Scotland and Wales still "exist" more than most of the others here.
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Level 56
Aug 30, 2014
They don't exist as independent any more. The Keltic nations were independent before those dates (as far as I know).
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Level 57
Mar 25, 2022
Wales wasn't independent before 1536, it just had a distinct legal system. The last time anything like an independent Wales existed was during the Glyn Dwr rebellion at the start of the 15th century.

If you were being mischievous, you could argue that England was merged into Wales. The relevant Acts of Union were passed under the Tudor dynasty - founded by a Welshman, who landed in Wales, marched into England and defeated the English king.

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Level 66
Nov 11, 2014
I tipped "Otoman" with one "t" -.-
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Level 70
Apr 15, 2017
HOW OLD ARE YOU? The ottoman empire collapsed in 1920. How did you 'tip' them.

Unless you meant typed

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Level 55
Mar 29, 2022
Bruh
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Level 80
Feb 19, 2015
With the "Germany and Poland" hint, I only thought of Danzig Free State which would be a viable answer for 1945. Prussia is not, unless the date is changed as explained by others before. How about Manchuria, Tannu Tuva, Roman Empire? :)
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Level 62
Oct 25, 2019
Agreed. Prussia was “merged” long before 1945
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Level 58
Mar 25, 2015
Didn't Serbia and Montenegro also split into... Serbia and Montenegro as independent states just like Czechoslovakia?
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Level 67
Nov 23, 2015
They did, but the were the last remaining states from Yugoslavia really. Slovenia and Croatia declared independance in 1991, Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina followed within a year, and that left "Yugoslavia" as just two current nations, who changed their name from Yugoslavia to "Serbia and Montenegro". Montenegro then declared independance from Serbia in 2006.

So yeah guess you're right in one way, but it probably comes under Yugoslavia.

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Level 36
Apr 6, 2015
K so on Tanganyika, i feel like that shouldn't count bc it was tanganyika and zanzibar, then they merged to make tanzania. Also on the Sikkim, Corsica, and the Catalonia questions, there could be more than one answer. India has merged and gone through several empires throughout history. Spain was once Castille and Aragon. France also had countries like Brittany, Normandy, Bourbon, and Savoy which all were separate from France at different times. Just sayin:/
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Level 36
Jan 19, 2016
CSA helped me get all of them. Sikkim was only 6 percent. I'm from India and got that right. Got all of them. Easy quiz.
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Level 67
Feb 18, 2016
I don't know if it's me being pedantic, because we all know the answer, but the clue : "Split into 15 Asian states", I'd believe you should omit the word Asian, or add European because of course, out of the 15 6 are definitely european, with one more being european in my eyes but I know it sparks debate on jetpunk so I won't!

Other than that great quiz, this.

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Level 32
May 13, 2016
East Germany did not merge with Germany, it merged with West Germany to form Germany, same thing with South Vietnam merging with North Vietnam not Vietnam and neither Tanganyika or Zanzibar merged with Tanzania, once again, this was formed from the merger.

Also, the USSR did NOT split into 15 Asian states, since when were Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus or Moldova Asian (also Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia are considered European).

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Level 43
Jul 26, 2016
Brittany was merged at France, maybe we should include...
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Level 62
Aug 9, 2016
Tanganyika didn't work for me...

Also, Hawaii threw me off big-time. It didn't become an actual US State until 1959, which looks to be what counts as "merging with US" on any other state answers.

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Level 66
Nov 13, 2019
Hawaii may not have become a state until 1959, but it became a part of the US in 1898. Just because something is a part of the US doesn't mean it's a state, eg. Puerto Rico.
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Level 80
Jan 30, 2017
Some of these did not "merge" with nations. Quite a few of them were forcibly annexed.
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Level 79
Mar 24, 2022
Indeed. Annexed would be a far better description.
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Level 50
May 28, 2017
Where's Vermont republic? California republic?
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Level 48
Aug 5, 2017
can you please add austria hungary
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Level 80
Oct 30, 2017
Should be a featured quiz
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Level 84
Mar 24, 2022
Maybe when all of the errors are corrected.
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Level 83
Nov 1, 2017
I doubt that Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine see themselves as 'Asian states',and a significant part of Russia is considered to be part of Europe.
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Level 69
Oct 6, 2018
what is this? catalonia was never a country before 1939 and never has been (i live in catalonia myself). would've never have guessed the answer to that question in a million years
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Level 84
Mar 24, 2022
Indeed. Catalonia has never been an independent country.
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Level 57
Mar 25, 2022
I tried Republican Spain which IMHO would be a more accurate answer.
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Level 50
Feb 1, 2020
You should accept confederate states or just confederate
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Level 28
Apr 14, 2021
Not all the states of the former user were Asian
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Level 69
Mar 24, 2022
The Confederate States of America was never an independent nation. People in those states fought a rebellion, but they were always part of the US.
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Level 84
Mar 24, 2022
If they were always part of the US, why did they have to be readmitted into the Union? Dates of readmission:

Tennessee: July 24, 1866

Arkansas: June 22, 1868

Florida: June 25, 1868

North Carolina: July 4, 1868

Louisiana: July 9, 1868

South Carolina: July 9, 1868

Alabama: July 13, 1868

Virginia: Jan. 26, 1870

Mississippi: Feb. 23, 1870

Texas: March 30, 1870

Georgia: July 15, 1870

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Level 69
Mar 28, 2022
That was about seating members in congress. They weren't readmitted to the country as new states. They were simply allowed, again, to be represented in congress. I believe they also had their state governments wiped of all insurrectionist members to uphold the "republican form of government" requirement for each state in the constitution.
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Level 64
Mar 24, 2022
Scotland and Wales did not merge with the UK. The UK did not exist at the time. Wales came under the English Crown in 1536 and the 1707 Act of Union created the Kingdom of Great Britain by combining both monarchies. It only became the United Kingdom once Ireland was added in 1801.
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Level 68
Mar 24, 2022
Ain't Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine, and part of Russia in Europe?
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Level 61
Mar 24, 2022
Bruh moment -_-

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Russia (part of it) is European. The people from these countries don't look Asian to me at all.

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Level 61
Mar 24, 2022
Or maybe just forgot to check lol
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Level 45
Aug 23, 2022
They aren't Asian countries. Also not always are Asian countries with people that look Asian. But yeah none of those countries are Asian, they are European. (except part of russia)
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Level 64
Mar 28, 2022
Prussia? It became Germany in 1871. Also Catalonia? They weren't independent ever..
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Level 45
Aug 23, 2022
If it says that Prussia belonged to Polish and German land, then what is Königsberg/Kaliningrad for now.
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Level 83
Feb 24, 2023
Prussia as a nation did not exist in 1945.