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Can you name the countries that have lost territory as a percentage of their greatest extent?

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% of territory lost	country	context
99.999%		Papal States held much of central Italy
99%
99%		18th century: Held Brazil
99%
99%		19th century: Held Belgian Congo
97%		18th century: Held much of the Americas
95%
95%		1861: Lost inland towns to France
95%
89%
88%		Pre WWI: Austro-Hungarian Empire
87%
87%
85%		Ottoman Empire
77%
77%
75%		1967-1979: Held Sinai, etc.
75%
70%		Yugoslavia
66%		Union of Kalmar (14th century)
65%		1830s: Peru-Bolivia Confederation
64%
58%		Amazonian territory lost to Peru (1941)
55%		Northern territories lost to USA
55%		Mid 19th Century: Gran Colombia
54%
48%

% of territory lost	country	context
40%		Loss of Namibia
38%		Loss of Slovakia
38%
34%
27%
26%
25%
25%
25%		Recent loss of South Sudan
22%		De facto inpendence of Somaliland
20%
20%
18%		South Ossetia and Abkhazia
16%		Loss of Bangladesh
16%
12%		WWII: Losses to Soviet Union
11%		Loss of Transnistria
10%		Loss of Veltlin and Bormio (1815)
10%		Loss of Eritrea
9%		Loss of Nagorno-Karabakh
6%		Loss of West Bank to Israel
5%		1980s: Confederation with The Gambia
3%
3%		Loss of Hatay province to Turkey (1939)
0.77%		East Timor
0.21%		Loss of Singapore (1965)

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