Can you name the country that these Independence Movements are trying to break away from? by caramba

Can you name the country that these Independence Movements are trying to break away from?

created by caramba

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Source: Maximiliano Herrera - New Countries
These are the current most active independence movements, with long term and short term estimates of success by the Source Site's author. My own opinion varies on these, but it's an interesting site.
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Territory	Current Sovereignty	S Term L Term
Abkhazia		40% 55%
Abyei		5% 20%
Aceh		5% 40%
Adzharia		5% 25%
Andine Regions		5% 20%
Anjouan (Nzwani)		25% 40%
Aruba		5% 35%
Bakassi Peninsula		5% 25%
Balawaristan		5% 30%
Balochistan		5% 30%
Bioko		5% 35%
Bougainville		45% 60%
Cabinda		5% 30%
Casamance		5% 35%
Chagos Islands		10% 45%
Chechnya		10% 55%
Chin State		5% 25%
Crimea		10% 35%
Curacao		5% 35%
Dagestan		5% 40%
Darfur		15% 35%
Donetsk		10% 35%
Easter Island		10% 35%
Faeroe Islands		5% 35%

Territory	Current Sovereignty	S Term L Term
French Polynesia		20% 50 %
Galmudug		5% 15%
Greenland		30% 55%
Guam		5% 40%
Hunza-Brooshal		5% 25%
Kachin State		5% 25%
Karen State		5% 25%
Kashmir		5% 35%
Kurdistan		5% 45%
Los Llanos		15% 30%
Maakhir		5% 15%
Malaita		5% 35%
Marquesas Islands		5% 30%
Mindanao		5% 35%
Moheli (Mwali)		10% 30%
Nagorno Karabakh		40% 50%
Nakhichevan		10% 35%
Nevis		20% 50%
New Caledonia		35% 65%
Niger Delta		5% 30%
Northern Ireland		5% 40%
Northern Marianas		15% 50%
Palestine		55% 90%
Pemba		5% 35%

Territory	Current Sovereignty	S Term L Term
Puerto Rico		10% 40%
Puntland		25% 40%
Quebec		25% 45%
Rakhine (Arakan)		5% 20%
Santa Cruz		20% 35%
Scotland		5% 30%
Shan State		5% 35%
Shiis State (Shi'i, Shia)		15% 40%
Sindh		5% 25%
Somaliland		50% 65%
South Ossetia		35% 55%
Srpska Republic		40% 45%
Tarija		10% 20%
Tartarstan		5% 40%
Tokelau		10% 45%
Transnistria		30% 40%
Turks and Caicos		5% 40%
Wa State		5% 30%
Wallis and Futuna		10% 50%
Waziristan		5% 25%
West Papua		15% 40%
Western Sahara		40% 75%
Zanzibar		10% 45%

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Freedom for all! Independence Movements! Quiz

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	caramba:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 03:25 GMT		5 points
	I am curious about this sort of thing and the source is updated regularly. I have no opinion on the validity of the Short Term or Long Term probabilities. If someone else has come up with a similar quiz and would like me to remove this one, please let me know.

	googlebird:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 04:08 GMT		6 points
	Is it possible that I live on a different planet? I've never heard of many of these places. I am in awe of your knowledge, and I'm pretty certain no one else made this quiz. I mean that as a compliment.

	caramba:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 04:10 GMT		6 points
	Either Maximiliano Herrera himself just did this quiz, or someone was doing it with the source open - 100%??? Didn't expect that from ANYBODY! I sure couldn't do it and this stuff interests me.

	googlebird:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 04:13 GMT		2 points
	It wasn't me. That's for sure.

	bsd987:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 04:47 GMT		3 points
	What do you define as success? International recognition? In the case of Somalia, it is already 100 percent successful in gaining independence outside of international recognition. The state has operated without any interference from the Somalian "government" for 19 years but, outside of unofficial recognition from Ethiopia, has yet to be recognized by any other country.

	bsd987:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 04:49 GMT		1 point
	And where's Northern Ireland?

	caramba:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 06:04 GMT		3 points
	@bsd987: As I said, I am not the one defining success; the source is. Just an interesting exercise of identifying places in the news if you keep up on foreign affairs. And thanks for noticing the absence of Northern Ireland - added after 33 plays. I tried to use all places with at least 5% short term rating, omitting a few with the current government in the names, like Iraqi Kurdistan.

	Flick:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 06:42 GMT		5 points
	caramba you have made me 30 minutes late for work. 14 minutes playing the game and another 16 minutes looking at the data. Awesome ! (Sure is going to make the geography category a tad more difficult mind)

	marsco:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 08:38 GMT		5 points
	Very interesting quiz. I read your comment about the source above, but I still wonder why some Western European movements aren't included (Catalonia, Flanders, Basque Country, Bavaria, ...).

	bart122333:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 09:07 GMT		2 points
	Where's Flanders?

	Roman:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 13:03 GMT		1 point
	some of these are dubious. Darfur NEVER wanted independence from Sudan, they wanted more recongition of themselves in Khartoum. and since when does Tartarstan or Guam have an independence movement? Abyei is also a stretch. Abyei is in the middle of contention between North and South Sudan and AByei wants to join as a state of Southern Sudan when teh South becomes independent NOT INDEPENDENT ON IT's OWN

	newenglander:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 14:05 GMT		4 points
	although there have been variations on this quiz, this is by far the best made/most extensive one. 5 stars!

	caramba:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 14:45 GMT		2 points
	@marsco: Yes, those arre good ones, but the source has rated the short-term prospects as < 5%, vene though the long term prospects may be quite high, so they fell out of the scope of this quiz. @Roman: I guess the term "independence movement" May be a little general; some of these places may find themselves independent through circumstances other than popular demand.

	joebobs:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 14:59 GMT		4 points
	I was hoping to see Sealand on here! :P As for someone getting 100%, I made an impossibly difficult quiz recently and someone got 100% - I'm suspicious some people are simply googling it. Anyway, really brilliant quiz, 5 globes and nominated. :)

	puckett86:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 15:22 GMT		3 points
	You would think if Somaliland were serious about independence from Somalia they would come up with a more independent name.

	RuBarb:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 15:25 GMT		2 points
	Puerto Rico certainly has no desire to be independent of the USA.

	lukebradford:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 15:31 GMT		1 point
	I would have enjoyed this quiz more if it were not an in-order quiz - obviously it would be much easier, but if you cut down the time limit I think it would be fun for the average person who doesn't have such specific knowledge.

	Hamburger:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 15:44 GMT		9 points
	Wow. Taiwan and Tibet absent?

	otis89:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 15:55 GMT		5 points
	China may claim Taiwan, but they have no control over it. Taiwan is already a de facto independent country.

	Hamburger:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 16:04 GMT		4 points
	That's different than Somaliland, how? And Tibet not on here is suspiciously pro-PRC.

	caramba:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 17:09 GMT		3 points
	@Hamburger: Per the source, Tibet is forecated to have a very low short-term chance of independence, though its long-term prospects are better. Personally, I thought Katanga and Biafra would be on here, as they have fought actual wars for independence.

	caramba:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 17:38 GMT		5 points
	@puckett86: Somaliland is roughly comprises the area previously occupied by the UK, known as the Somaliland Protectorate, so the name has some history behind it.

	dfishman:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 18:08 GMT		2 points
	Great quiz - a fascinating but little-known topic, and really well presented - asking for the country they are trying to become independent of is a brilliant idea. One you appear to have missed, though: SINT MARTEEN NETHERLANDS 5 30

	yippeeyappee:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 18:32 GMT		2 points
	@bart122333: At the Leftorium!

	WeaselKing1000:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 18:53 GMT		1 point
	Sorry, I have read the previous comments, but Turks & Caicos Islands? 'Trying to break away'? Um...?

	Auguste:	Sep 9th, 2010 at 20:43 GMT		1 point
	Never heard of independence movements in Wallis and Futuna as well as in Marquesas Islands (Marquises) which are fully part of French Polynesia.

	Czarsy:	Sep 10th, 2010 at 04:27 GMT		5 points
	Although obvious, it's probably worth including Canary Islands, Basque Country, Corsica, Tibet, Xinjiang, Tamil Eelam. The desire for separation in these territories has been fairly pronounced compared to places like Malaita. Another note, Balochistan extends into Southeastern Iran.

	SpaceTourism:	Sep 10th, 2010 at 21:18 GMT		2 points
	No Tibet?! No Flanders?! No Dixie?! No Cascadia?!

	chriskotx:	Sep 11th, 2010 at 04:46 GMT		4 points
	And gosh...nobody's even mentioned Texas.

	shakescene:	Sep 11th, 2010 at 05:49 GMT		1 point
	Is Shiis State (rather than, say, Shiis', Shii, Shi'i or Shia) the best spelling? That completely threw me.

	AtomicIce:	Sep 11th, 2010 at 19:14 GMT		2 points
	AWESOME idea for a quiz. I am very familar with that source page, and still I couldn't quite make 100%. Mad I didn't think to make this quiz myself.

	gowhere:	Sep 13th, 2010 at 16:25 GMT		1 point
	I like the quiz, although like others I disagree with some of the sources assessments.

	Freakzilla:	Sep 14th, 2010 at 08:14 GMT		2 points
	Tibet and Flanders should definitely be included here

	welshie:	Jan 5th, 2011 at 19:53 GMT		1 point
	Why is Scotland and Northern Ireland included but Wales not!?

	KaiserMacCleg:	Jan 13th, 2011 at 00:46 GMT		2 points
	Northern Ireland shouldn't really be included...half the province wants to stay joined to one country and the other half wants to be joined to another. I don't think anyone much actually advocates for independence there.

	anarresti:	Jan 26th, 2011 at 15:02 GMT		1 point
	Fine quiz - many thanks!

	Imperium:	Aug 10th, 2011 at 14:07 GMT		1 point
	Puntland doesn't even want independence. They're currently fighting a war with Somaliland to try and stop them from declaring independence from Somalia.

	zNATOz:	Jun 18th, 2012 at 23:03 GMT		1 point
	It's interesting for the independence movements, even if a lot of these areas have pretty much no chance of succeeding/enjoy tepid support.