| Independence | Country | Founder | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 4, 1776 | United States | George Washington, Thomas Jefferson | 94%
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| August 15, 1945 | North Korea | Kim Il-sung | 71%
|
| December 25, 1991 | Russia | Boris Yeltsin | 65%
|
| July 20, 1810 | Colombia | Simón Bolívar | 65%
|
| July 5, 1811 | Venezuela | Simón Bolívar | 65%
|
| January 1, 1959 | Cuba | Fidel Castro, Che Guevara | 59%
|
| October 1, 1949 | China | Mao Zedong | 59%
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| August 17, 1945 | Indonesia | Sukarno | 59%
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| September 2, 1945 | Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh | 53%
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| October 29, 1923 | Turkey | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | 53%
|
| April 1, 1979 | Iran | Ruhollah Khomeini | 53%
|
| August 6, 1825 | Bolivia | Simón Bolívar | 53%
|
| September 23, 1932 | Saudi Arabia | Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud | 47%
|
| October 12, 1492 | Spain | Ferdinand, Isabella | 47%
|
| July 23, 1952 | Egypt | Mohamed Naguib, Gamal Abdel Nasser | 47%
|
| May 3, 1947 | Japan | Shigeru Yoshida, Hirohito | 47%
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| April 18, 1980 | Zimbabwe | Canaan Banana, Robert Mugabe | 41%
|
| May 14, 1948 | Israel | David Ben-Gurion | 41%
|
| August 15, 1947 | India | Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel | 41%
|
| January 1, 1801 | United Kingdom | George III | 35%
|
| August 9, 1965 | Singapore | Lee Kuan Yew | 35%
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| December 16, 1991 | Kazakhstan | Nursultan Nazarbayev | 35%
|
| March 17, 1861 | Italy | Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giuseppe Mazzini | 29%
|
| June 6, 1523 | Sweden | Gustav Vasa | 29%
|
| July 1, 1867 | Canada | John Alexander Macdonald | 29%
|
| January 1, 1804 | Haiti | Toussaint Louverture | 29%
|
| October 18, 1991 | Azerbaijan | Ayaz Mutalibov, Heydar Aliyev | 24%
|
| October 3, 1990 | Germany | Helmut Josef Michael Kohl | 24%
|
| December 12, 1963 | Kenya | Jomo Kenyatta | 24%
|
| March 6, 1957 | Ghana | Kwame Nkrumah | 24%
|
| December 16, 1971 | Bangladesh | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman | 24%
|
| January 1, 1993 | Czech Republic | Václav Havel | 24%
|
| May 25, 1946 | Jordan | Abdullah I, Ibrahim Hashem | 18%
|
| May 5, 1941 | Ethiopia | Haile Selassie I | 18%
|
| January 1, 1984 | Brunei | Hassanal Bolkiah | 18%
|
| July 6, 1964 | Malawi | Hastings Banda | 18%
|
| September 1, 1991 | Uzbekistan | Islam Karimov | 18%
|
| July 21, 1831 | Belgium | Leopold I | 18%
|
| October 27, 1991 | Turkmenistan | Saparmurat Niyazov | 18%
|
| May 10, 1877 | Romania | Carol I | 12%
|
| July 14, 1789 | France | Count of Mirabeau, Marquis de Lafayette | 12%
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| September 7, 1822 | Brazil | Dom Pedro I | 12%
|
| January 23, 1579 | Netherlands * | Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland, Zutphen | 12%
|
| June 30, 1960 | D. R. Congo | Joseph Kasa-Vubu, Patrice Lumumba | 12%
|
| August 15, 1971 | Bahrain | Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa | 12%
|
| March 2, 1956 | Morocco | Mohammed V | 12%
|
| September 3, 301 | San Marino | Saint Marinus | 12%
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| August 15, 1945 | South Korea | Syngman Rhee | 12%
|
| June 19, 1961 | Kuwait | Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah | 6%
|
| September 3, 1971 | Qatar | Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani | 6%
|
| August 19, 1919 | Afghanistan | Amanullah Khan | 6%
|
| September 8, 1278 | Andorra | Bishop of Urgell, Count of Foix | 6%
|
| October 12, 1968 | Equatorial Guinea | Francisco Macías Nguema | 6%
|
| November 19, 1734 | Monaco | Honoré III | 6%
|
| May 24, 1993 | Eritrea | Isaias Afwerki | 6%
|
| September 18, 1810 | Chile | José de San Martín | 6%
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| July 9, 1819 | Argentina | José de San Martín | 6%
|
| July 28, 1821 | Peru | José de San Martín | 6%
|
| September 26, 1907 | New Zealand | Joseph Ward | 6%
|
| December 9, 1961 | Tanzania | Julius Kambarage Nyerere | 6%
|
| October 24, 1964 | Zambia | Kenneth Kaunda | 6%
|
| September 21, 1991 | Armenia | Levon Ter-Petrosyan | 6%
|
| August 14, 1947 | Pakistan | Liaquat Ali Khan | 6%
|
| October 1, 1960 | Cyprus | Makarios III | 6%
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| November 11, 1918 | Poland | Marshall Józef Piłsudski | 6%
|
| December 6, 1921 | Ireland | Michael Collins, Arthur Griffith | 6%
|
| September 16, 1810 | Mexico | Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla | 6%
|
| November 9, 1953 | Cambodia | Norodom Sihanouk | 6%
|
| May 12, 1945 | Oman | Said bin Taimur | 6%
|
| July 9, 2011 | South Sudan | Salva Kiir Mayardit | 6%
|
| March 21, 1990 | Namibia | Samuel Shafiishuna Daniel Nujoma | 6%
|
| September 30, 1966 | Botswana | Seretse Khama | 6%
|
| June 4, 1970 | Tonga | Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV | 6%
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| August 31, 1957 | Malaysia | Tunku Abdul Rahman | 6%
|
| December 17, 1907 | Bhutan | Ugyen Wangchuck | 6%
|
| December 2, 1971 | United Arab Emirates | Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan | 6%
|
| July 1, 1960 | Somalia | Aden Abdullah Osman Daar | 0%
|
| January 1, 1960 | Cameroon | Ahmadou Ahidjo | 0%
|
| July 6, 1975 | Comoros | Ahmed Abdallah | 0%
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| July 5, 1962 | Algeria | Ahmed Ben Bella | 0%
|
| October 2, 1958 | Guinea | Ahmed Sékou Touré | 0%
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| August 6, 1962 | Jamaica | Alexander Bustamante | 0%
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| May 22, 1990 | Yemen | Ali Abdullah Saleh | 0%
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| March 1, 1992 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Alija Izetbegović | 0%
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| October 21, 1986 | Marshall Islands | Amata Kabua | 0%
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| September 23, 1973 | Guinea-Bissau | Amílcar Cabral | 0%
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| September 21, 1964 | Malta | Anthony Mamo | 0%
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| November 11, 1975 | Angola | António Agostinho da Silva Neto | 0%
|
| July 5, 1975 | Cape Verde | Aristides Pereira | 0%
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| August 31, 1991 | Kyrgyzstan | Askar Akayev | 0%
|
| November 22, 1943 | Lebanon | Bechara Khalil El Khoury | 0%
|
| July 11, 1921 | Mongolia | Bogd Khan | 0%
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| December 21, 1923 | Nepal | Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana | 0%
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| August 13, 1960 | Central African Republic | David Dacko | 0%
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| February 18, 1965 | Gambia | Dawda Jawara | 0%
|
| June 5, 1849 | Denmark | Ditlev Gothard Monrad | 0%
|
| February 4, 1948 | Sri Lanka | Don Stephen Senanayake | 0%
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| January 1, 1901 | Australia | Edmund Barton | 0%
|
| April 6, 1991 | Georgia | Eduard Shevardnadze | 0%
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| August 31, 1962 | Trinidad and Tobago | Ellis Clarke | 0%
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| February 7, 1974 | Grenada | Eric Gairy | 0%
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| November 30, 1966 | Barbados | Errol Barrow | 0%
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| October 3, 1932 | Iraq | Faisal I | 0%
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| August 7, 1960 | Ivory Coast | Félix Houphouët-Boigny | 0%
|
| September 22, 1908 | Bulgaria | Ferdinand I | 0%
|
| June 3, 2006 | Montenegro | Filip Vujanović, Milo Đukanović | 0%
|
| May 26, 1966 | Guyana | Forbes Burnham | 0%
|
| September 15, 1821 | Honduras | Francisco Morazán | 0%
|
| November 28, 1975 | East Timor | Francisco Xavier do Amaral | 0%
|
| August 11, 1960 | Chad | François Tombalbaye | 0%
|
| June 25, 1991 | Croatia | Franjo Tuđman | 0%
|
| May 17, 1814 | Norway | Frederick VI | 0%
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| August 15, 1960 | Republic of the Congo | Fulbert Youlou | 0%
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| August 17, 1960 | Gabon | Gabriel Léon M'ba | 0%
|
| September 21, 1981 | Belize | George Cadle Price | 0%
|
| July 1, 1962 | Rwanda | Grégoire Kayibanda | 0%
|
| August 21, 1991 | Latvia | Guntis Ulmanis | 0%
|
| March 20, 1956 | Tunisia | Habib Bourguiba | 0%
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| August 3, 1960 | Niger | Hamani Diori | 0%
|
| January 31, 1968 | Nauru | Hammer DeRoburt | 0%
|
| June 27, 1977 | Djibouti | Hassan Gouled Aptidon | 0%
|
| August 1, 1960 | Benin | Hubert Maga | 0%
|
| July 26, 1965 | Maldives | Ibrahim Nasir | 0%
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| December 24, 1951 | Libya | Idris I | 0%
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| July 12, 1979 | Kiribati | Ieremia Tabai | 0%
|
| January 1, 1956 | Sudan | Ismail al-Azhari, Ibrahim Abboud | 0%
|
| November 28, 1912 | Albania | Ismail Qemali | 0%
|
| December 11, 1931 | South Africa | James Barry Munnik Hertzog | 0%
|
| June 29, 1976 | Seychelles | James Mancham | 0%
|
| November 25, 1975 | Suriname | Johan Henri Eliza Ferrier | 0%
|
| August 21, 1866 | Liechtenstein | Johann II | 0%
|
| February 22, 1979 | Saint Lucia | John George Melvin Compton | 0%
|
| December 1, 1640 | Portugal | John IV the Restorer | 0%
|
| May 14, 1811 | Paraguay | José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia | 0%
|
| May 24, 1822 | Ecuador | José Joaquín de Olmedo | 0%
|
| September 15, 1821 | El Salvador | José Matías Delgado | 0%
|
| July 26, 1847 | Liberia | Joseph Jenkins Roberts | 0%
|
| August 25, 1825 | Uruguay | Juan Antonio Lavalleja | 0%
|
| February 27, 1844 | Dominican Republic | Juan Pablo Duarte | 0%
|
| September 15, 1821 | Costa Rica | Juan Rafael Mora | 0%
|
| December 6, 1917 | Finland | Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Pehr Evind Svinhufvud | 0%
|
| October 10, 1970 | Fiji | Kamisese Mara | 0%
|
| September 19, 1983 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | Kennedy Simmonds | 0%
|
| September 8, 1991 | North Macedonia | Kiro Gligorov | 0%
|
| October 1, 1994 | Palau | Kuniwo Nakamura, Tommy Remengesau | 0%
|
| August 20, 1991 | Estonia | Lennart Meri, Arnold Rüütel | 0%
|
| August 24, 1991 | Ukraine | Leonid Kravchuk | 0%
|
| April 4, 1960 | Senegal | Léopold Sedar Senghor | 0%
|
| July 10, 1973 | Bahamas | Lynden Pindling | 0%
|
| January 1, 1962 | Samoa | Malietoa Tanumafili II, Fiame Mulinu'u II | 0%
|
| November 3, 1903 | Panama | Manuel Amador Guerrero | 0%
|
| July 12, 1975 | São Tomé and Príncipe | Manuel Pinto da Costa | 0%
|
| July 4, 1946 | Philippines | Manuel Roxas | 0%
|
| August 5, 1960 | Burkina Faso | Maurice Yaméogo | 0%
|
| November 13, 1918 | Austria | Michael Hainisch | 0%
|
| September 16, 1975 | Papua New Guinea | Michael Somare | 0%
|
| January 1, 1993 | Slovakia | Michal Kováč | 0%
|
| September 15, 1821 | Nicaragua | Miguel Larreynaga | 0%
|
| September 10, 1919 | Hungary | Mihály Károlyi | 0%
|
| June 25, 1991 | Slovenia | Milan Kučan | 0%
|
| October 27, 1979 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Milton Cato | 0%
|
| April 27, 1961 | Sierra Leone | Milton Margai | 0%
|
| October 9, 1962 | Uganda | Milton Obote | 0%
|
| August 27, 1991 | Moldova | Mircea Snegur | 0%
|
| September 22, 1960 | Mali | Modibo Keïta | 0%
|
| November 28, 1960 | Mauritania | Moktar Ould Daddah | 0%
|
| October 4, 1966 | Lesotho | Moshoeshoe II | 0%
|
| July 1, 1962 | Burundi | Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng | 0%
|
| October 1, 1960 | Nigeria | Nnamdi Azikiwe | 0%
|
| November 3, 1978 | Dominica | Patrick Roland John | 0%
|
| July 7, 1978 | Solomon Islands | Peter Kenilorea | 0%
|
| June 26, 1960 | Madagascar | Philibert Tsiranana | 0%
|
| June 23, 1939 | Thailand | Plaek Phibunsongkhram | 0%
|
| September 9, 1991 | Tajikistan | Qadriddin Aslonov | 0%
|
| September 15, 1821 | Guatemala | Rafael Carrera | 0%
|
| June 25, 1975 | Mozambique | Samora Machel | 0%
|
| January 4, 1948 | Myanmar | Sao Shwe Thaik | 0%
|
| March 12, 1968 | Mauritius | Seewoosagur Ramgoolam | 0%
|
| April 17, 1946 | Syria | Shukri al-Quwatli | 0%
|
| June 5, 2006 | Serbia | Slobodan Milosevic, Boris Tadić | 0%
|
| September 6, 1968 | Eswatini | Sobhuza II | 0%
|
| July 19, 1949 | Laos | Souphanouvong | 0%
|
| August 25, 1991 | Belarus | Stanislav Shushkevich | 0%
|
| June 17, 1944 | Iceland | Sveinn Björnsson | 0%
|
| April 27, 1960 | Togo | Sylvanus Olympio | 0%
|
| March 25, 1821 | Greece | Theodoros Kolokotronis | 0%
|
| October 1, 1978 | Tuvalu | Toaripi Lauti | 0%
|
| November 3, 1986 | F. S. Micronesia | Tosiwo Nakayama | 0%
|
| August 1, 1291 | Switzerland * | Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden | 0%
|
| November 1, 1981 | Antigua and Barbuda | Vere Bird | 0%
|
| March 11, 1990 | Lithuania | Vytautas Landsbergis | 0%
|
| July 30, 1980 | Vanuatu | Walter Lini | 0%
|
| April 19, 1839 | Luxembourg | William IV | 0%
|