Can you name the countries that have joined the United Nations since 1990?

Date of Admission	Country
July 9th, 2011
June 28, 2006
September 27, 2002
September 10, 2002
November 1, 2000
September 5, 2000
September 14, 1999
September 14, 1999
September 14, 1999
December 15, 1994
July 28, 1993
May 28, 1993
May 28, 1993
April 8, 1993
January 19, 1993
January 19, 1993
July 31, 1992
May 22, 1992
May 22, 1992

Date of Admission	Country
May 22, 1992
March 2, 1992
March 2, 1992
March 2, 1992
March 2, 1992
March 2, 1992
March 2, 1992
March 2, 1992
March 2, 1992
March 2, 1992
September 17, 1991
September 17, 1991
September 17, 1991
September 17, 1991
September 17, 1991
September 17, 1991
September 17, 1991
September 18, 1990
April 23, 1990

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Newest UN Members Quiz

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Created by: Booger -
Published: January 24th, 2010
Category: History
Plays: 34,660

Tags: Country Quizzes, united, admission, nation, United Nations, 1990, joined, world history pack, new, date, member

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	subway24:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 04:31 GMT	9 points
	This is a great quiz, I love the idea of it! Two thumbs up...:)

	cripple_creek:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 04:31 GMT	46 points
	Took a while for Switzerland to get off the couch and join the party.

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	Francisco:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 04:35 GMT	17 points
	what on earth took Switzerland, Andorra, Monaco, etc so long? These are ancient countries. Great quiz!

	Detektor:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 04:40 GMT	38 points
	Interestingly, Swiss voters rejected UN membership by 3-to-1 in 1986. I think their reluctance to join had a lot to do with their being an "ancient country" - they have a long history of independence, and tend to embrace neutrality as a culture.

	mdalloway:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 05:45 GMT	24 points
	Exactly, Detektor. Switzerland has a long history of fierce neutrality, and perhaps a touch of slight xenophobia. As for Andorra and Monaco, my guess is their size and their strong relationships with France & Spain, who represent them on the world stage.

	cripple_creek:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 05:51 GMT	12 points
	Yeah I always thought it was interesting how Swiss neutrality and diplomatic chops led to a huge UN presence in Geneva (headquarters of UNHCR, WHO, etc), despite the city being in a country that steadfastly refused to join the UN itself.

	NoVan:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 06:13 GMT	23 points
	Kyrgyzstan quiz! High-fives all around. places palms upward, expectantly

	le_affan:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 07:01 GMT	43 points
	An interesting fact: As the former Soviet Socialist Republics of the Ukraine and Belarus were co-founders of the United Nations in 1945 their respective heirs Ukraine and Belarus inherited these memberships. Both countries didn't need to apply for a separate membership as the other former Soviet Republics needed to do... Great quiz.

	MathijsP:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 07:34 GMT	4 points
	high-fives NoVan

	davidr:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 08:41 GMT	35 points
	@mdallway: `Perhaps a touch of slight xenophobia'? That's a slightly more diplomatic phrasing than the 2007 report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Racism. He said that Switzerland has `a dynamic of racism and xenophobia', supported by `deep-rooted cultural resistance within Swiss society to the multiculturalisation process' and `the growing prevalence of racist and xenophobic stances in political programmes and discourse, particularly during elections and various votes'. This is the country that, two months ago, passed a referendum banned the building of minarets and had only allowed its 400,000 Muslims to build four of them before the ban. This is the country where a 2007 election poster showed three white sheep kicking a black sheep off the national flag. That party won the largest share of the vote in that election and wants to withdraw from the UN Convention against racism...

	Detektor:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 10:18 GMT	18 points
	@davidr: This is also the country that didn't have complete suffrage until 1990. I sense a pattern.

	ig1234:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 11:56 GMT	-1 points
	Yet despite my knowledge of the UN, Switzerland was still a surprise to me...

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	RLthehammer:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 12:55 GMT	-1 points
	Switzerland was a surprise as was North and South Korea. Ha finally spelled Kyrgyzstan!

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	gene:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 13:17 GMT	11 points
	Starting right now I'm going to write Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan on a post-it note and stick it on the side on my monitor. They're always on these quizzes and when the pressure is on I can never remember how to correctly spell them.

	Bojan:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 13:26 GMT	-4 points
	Switzerland was a surprise.

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	megarockman:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 14:09 GMT	10 points
	No Kosovo. Russia and many others would almost certainly object.

	davidr:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 14:31 GMT	7 points
	@EGaffney: Being openly accepting of non-whites and non-Christians, for starters. Note that, in contrast to countries like the USA, you do not automatically become a Swiss citizen by being born there, unless at least one of your parents is a Swiss citizen (which must be your mother, if they're not married). You don't even become a citizen if you're born in Switzerland to non-citizen parents who were born in Switzerland. Unless you gain citizenship by descent, you must apply for it. One of the requirements is that you are `integrated into the Swiss way of life'. In other words, unless you give up the culture of your descent and adopt the culture of the existing Swiss people, you cannot become a citizen. So, no, despite four national languages, there's very little multiculturalism.

	cocky:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 14:50 GMT	-2 points
	Anybody know why the Koreas were so late in joining?

	davidr:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 15:17 GMT	5 points
	@cocky: North Korea believed that membership of the Koreas in the UN would make the division into North and South Korea permanent. I guess the Soviet Union would, therefore, have vetoed any unilateral application by South Korea but I don't know if any application was made.

	Jenn13Jenn:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 15:34 GMT	0 points
	Seeing North Korea and Switzerland on here were a surprise to me. Not seeing Kosovo was also surprising! Great quiz!

	icing:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 15:42 GMT	11 points
	Great quiz, as always, Monsieur Booger. That slot where San Marino appears, though, was driving me crazy, I kept thinking that I was forgetting one of the former Soviet states!

	cocky:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 15:43 GMT	1 point
	That makes sense, although both Germanys and I assume both Vietnams were members in the past.

	miyomiyo1050:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 16:27 GMT	3 points
	Did Russia and Germany inherit the memberships of the USSR and West Germany? Because I don't see how else they could have been considered members prior to 1991.

	davidr:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 16:41 GMT	3 points
	@miyomiyo: They did, yes. Likewise, Serbia continued the membership of Serbia and Montenegro which, in turn, continued the membership of Yugoslavia.

	davidr:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 16:44 GMT	3 points
	@cocky: Both Germanys were members, though only from 1973. Vietnam didn't join the UN until 1977, after reunification. As far as I can see, North and South Vietnam hadn't been members.

	cocky:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 17:30 GMT	-2 points
	@miyomiyo1050: After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany went out of business and was officially annexed by West Germany. So Germany is just the old FRG.

	nyo:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 18:55 GMT	-2 points
	@Davidr Did you choke on some Swiss chocolate this morning? I didn't think you were the person for irational ranting. The usa have been far more negative towards the anit-racism conventions than switzerland. In fact they attended the last one in Geneva. The minaret ban wasn't a good thing but more disturbing things are happening in other countries (Netherlands, with Wilders). Also the demand for integration into the culture isn't sucj a unique thing to demand. In short I don't see why you'd single out Switzerland.

	conradmcmasters:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 19:45 GMT	0 points
	Nice Quiz, barely finished with 12 seconds left. Solid idea.

	phibbyfan:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 19:47 GMT	-1 points
	Much of this is just naming the newest countries. Of course, even if you do that, there are are still some that you wouldn't get (Switzerland, North Korea, South Korea, Andorra, etc.)

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	tiagolandi:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 20:42 GMT	7 points
	Do you speak for all of France, you scumbag?

	Kauboj:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 20:55 GMT	3 points
	@davidr - to expand/clarify your explanation on the Serbian inheritance of the Serbia&Montenegro and Yugoslavia's seat: Serbia and Montenegro inherited the seat of FRY (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), which consisted only of Serbia and Montenegro (and was renamed as such in a relatively short time). SFR Yugoslavia, on the other hand, was one of the 30-odd founding members of UN and has ceased to exist as a country in 1991-92. In other words, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina did not "break away" from Yugoslavia - the FR Yugoslavia (so named mostly because it wanted to become officially a successor of SFRY) was made to apply for UN membership along with Slo, Cro, Mac and B-H as a new state.

	1234:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 21:18 GMT	0 points
	greaat quiz! extremely hard though.