Can you name the Year they became a Country? by drnorris90

Name	Date	Country they gained Freedom from
Afghanistan		From the United Kingdom
Albania		From the Ottoman Empire
Algeria		From France
Andorra		0
Angola		From Portugal
Antigua and Barbuda		From the United Kingdom
Argentina		From Spain
Armenia		From the Soviet Union
Australia		From the United Kingdom
Austria		0
Azerbaijan		From the Soviet Union
Bahamas		From the United Kingdom
Bahrain		From the United Kingdom
Bangladesh		From Pakistan
Barbados		From the United Kingdom
Belarus		From the Soviet Union
Belgium		From the Netherlands
Belize		From the United Kingdom
Benin		From France
Bhutan		0
Bolivia		From Spain
Bosnia and Herzegovina		From Yugoslavia
Botswana		From the United Kingdom
Brazil		From Portugal
Brunei		From the United Kingdom
Bulgaria		From the Ottoman Empire
Burkina Faso		From France
Burma		From the United Kingdom
Burundi		From Belgium
Cambodia		From France
Cameroon		From France & the United Kingdom
Canada		From the United Kingdom
Cape Verde		From Portugal
Central African Republic		From France
Chad		From France
Chile		From Spain
China		0
Colombia		From Spain
Comoros		From France
Congo, Democratic Republic of the		From Belgium
Congo, Republic of the		From France
Costa Rica		From Spain
Côte d'Ivoire		From France
Croatia		From Yugoslavia
Cuba		From the United States
Cyprus		From the United Kingdom
Czech Republic		Split with Slovakia
Denmark		0
Djibouti		From France
Dominica		From the United Kingdom
Dominican Republic		From Spain
East Timor		From Indonesia
Ecuador		From Spain
Egypt		Form the United Kingdom
El Salvador		From Spain
Equatorial Guinea		From Spain
Eritrea		From Ethiopia
Estonia		From the Soviet Union
Ethiopia		0
Fiji		From the United Kingdom
Finland		From the Soviet Union
France		0
Gabon		From France
The Gambia		From the United Kingdom
Georgia		From the Soviet Union

Name	Date	Country they gained Freedom from
Germany		0
Ghana		From the United Kingdom
Greece		From the Ottoman Empire
Grenada		From the United Kingdom
Guatemala		From Spain
Guinea		From France
Guinea-Bissau		From Portugal
Guyana		From the United Kingdom
Haiti		From France
Honduras		From Spain
Hungary		0
Iceland		From Denmark
India		From the United Kingdom
Indonesia		From the Netherlands
Iran		0
Iraq		From the United Kingdom
Ireland		From the United Kingdom
Israel		From the United Kingdom
Italy		0
Jamaica		From the United Kingdom
Japan		0
Jordan		From the United Kingdom
Kazakhstan		From the Soviet Union
Kenya		From the United Kingdom
Kiribati		From the United Kingdom
Korea, North		0
Korea, South		0
Kosovo		From Serbia
Kuwait		From the United Kingdom
Kyrgyzstan		From the Soviet Union
Laos		From France
Latvia		From the Soviet Union
Lebanon		From France
Lesotho		From the United Kingdom
Liberia		From the United States
Libya		From Italy
Liechtenstein		From the German Confederation
Lithuania		From the Soviet Union
Luxembourg		End of Personal Union w/ the Netherlands
Macedonia		From Yugoslavia
Madagascar		From France
Malawi		From the United Kingdom
Malaysia		From the United Kingdom
Maldives		From the United Kingdom
Mali		From France
Malta		From the United Kingdom
Marshall Islands		From the United States
Mauritania		From France
Mauritius		From the United Kingdom
Mexico		From Spain
Micronesia		From the United States
Moldova		From the Soviet Union
Monaco		0
Mongolia		From China
Montenegro		From Serbia
Morocco		From Spain & France
Mozambique		From Portugal
Namibia		From South Africa
Nauru		From Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom
Nepal		0
Netherlands		From Spain
New Zealand		From the United Kingdom
Nicaragua		From Spain
Niger		From France
Nigeria		From the United Kingdom

Name	Date	Country they gained Freedom from
Norway		Split with Sweden
Oman		0
Pakistan		From the United Kingdom
Palau		From the United States
Panama		From Columbia
Papua New Guinea		From the Australia
Paraguay		From Spain
Peru		From Spain
Philippines		From the United States
Poland		0
Portugal		0
Qatar		From the United Kingdom
Romania		From the Ottoman Empire
Russia		0
Rwanda		From the Belgium
Saint Kitts and Nevis		From the United Kingdom
Saint Lucia		From the United Kingdom
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines		From the United Kingdom
Samoa		From New Zealand
San Marino		From the Roman Empire
São Tomé and Príncipe		From Portugal
Saudi Arabia		0
Senegal		From France
Serbia		From the Ottoman Empire
Seychelles		From the United Kingdom
Sierra Leone		From the United Kingdom
Singapore		From Malaysia
Slovakia		Split with the Czech Republic
Slovenia		From Yugoslavia
Solomon Islands		From the United Kingdom
Somalia		From the United Kingdom & Italy
South Africa		From the United Kingdom
Spain		0
Sri Lanka		From the United Kingdom
Sudan		From the United Kingdom
Suriname		From the Netherlands
Swaziland		From the United Kingdom
Sweden		Split with Norway
Switzerland		From the German Confederation
Syria		From France
Taiwan		From China
Tajikistan		From the Soviet Union
Tanzania		From the United Kingdom
Thailand		0
Togo		From France
Tonga		From the United Kingdom
Trinidad and Tobago		From the United Kingdom
Tunisia		From France
Turkey		0
Turkmenistan		From the Soviet Union
Tuvalu		From the United Kingdom
Uganda		From the United Kingdom
Ukraine		From the Soviet Union
United Arab Emirates		From the United Kingdom
United Kingdom		0
United States		From the United Kingdom
Uruguay		From Brazil
Uzbekistan		From the Soviet Union
Vanuatu		From France & the United Kingdom
Vatican City		From Italy
Venezuela		From Spain
Vietnam		From France
Yemen		Fromthe Ottoman Empire & the United Kingdom
Zambia		From the United Kingdom
Zimbabwe		From the United Kingdom

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Year they became a Country Quiz

by drnorris90

Created Dec 18, 2009 in Geography
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	Hako:	Dec 18th, 2009 at 23:38 GMT		1 point
	Good one, but maybe you should let us answer in order.

	joebobs:	Dec 19th, 2009 at 01:24 GMT		1 point
	Great idea, and I can see you've put a lot of effort in. One criticism (and I'm sure you're going to see a lot of this type of comment on a subject where many points are debatable), for Iran, for example, you can't really say the founding of Persia is the same as Iran. The borders of Persia were not the same as Iran's. Many of the other countries seem to use the date when the current borders were established, such as the UK for example. If you give your source you can get around this type of thing and just blame any inconsistencies on that. Very good effort though, source it and we'll have a publishable game, IMO.

	MathijsP:	Dec 19th, 2009 at 09:33 GMT		1 point
	Not a good idea to start with (just naming random years) and poorly executed. You get two of those weird yellow things for the effort.

	mldkk:	Dec 19th, 2009 at 10:29 GMT		1 point
	Taiwan(Republic of China)'s status is controversal but is definetely on founded in 1949. Republic of China was founded in 1911 and lost civil war thus retreat to taiwan.Their offical calendar uses 1911 as the official founding year.

	zoopy:	Dec 19th, 2009 at 13:37 GMT		2 points
	needs more research. no explanation why Russia's is not 1991 like Ukraine's (ie, analogous to Turkey's 1923). or why is China 1949/1911 instead of way back, like France's 8th century date. France was liberated in 1944 after all. why is Venezuela's independence from Spain, not from Gran Colombia? Etc. too easy to guess a bunch of years to get most of them (I put in everything between 1600 and 2009).

	Psyk:	Dec 19th, 2009 at 16:41 GMT		1 point
	@joebobs: "Many of the other countries seem to use the date when the current borders were established, such as the UK for example." If that was true the date on here would be the same as Ireland's date, since that was when the UK's current border were established. Anyway, it wasn't even called the UK until the union with Ireland in 1801. I like the idea of this quiz, but it's too hard to define when most countries were founded. For example it could be argued that Ireland existed as an independent country in the middle ages. It's a bit of a grey area, and the same must be true for loads of other countries.

	ExtremeJoe:	Jan 14th, 2010 at 03:08 GMT		1 point
	This was too easy to type starting with 2009 and just counting backwards.

	gowhere:	Mar 6th, 2010 at 22:02 GMT		1 point
	I agree with many of the others that some of these countries are far too debatable to be included in a quiz of this type. For example, you use the date of 1744 for Saudi Arabia, when 1902 or 1932 are probably better candidates. I think the quiz would be more effective if you limited your scope to countries with a clearer,specific date of independence, and was less exhaustive, with a shorter time limit. This would also resolve the problem of people simply entering a run of years in hopes of hitting a lucky one (or in this case a lucky 150 or so.

	nadivereb:	Apr 9th, 2010 at 16:27 GMT		1 point
	Hungary didn't become a country in 896. The Hungarian tribes arrived to the Carpathian basin in 896, but the state was established only in 1000 (or 1001, there is a debate about this).

	yokofoxes:	Jul 7th, 2010 at 14:13 GMT		1 point
	Ireland as 1916? Afraid not. Independance was only declared in 1916 but wasn't put into force. The Republic of Ireland only officially came into existance in 1949.