Countries that participated in their first possible Olympic Games

These countries didn't wait a single edition of the Summer Olympic Games to happen without them as independent nations. Can you name them?
If independence occured during an edition of the Games, the corresponding country is considered if it participated in the following edition.
Countries in red don't exist anymore.
Non sovereign countries that participated inside an union are not considered.
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First sovereign participation
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1896
Bulgaria
1896
Chile
1896
Denmark
1896
France
1896
Germany
1896
Great Britain
1896
Greece
1896
Hungary
1896
Italy
1896
Switzerland
1896
United States
1904
Australia
1908
New Zealand
1908
Norway
1908
South Africa
1908
Sweden
1920
Czechoslovakia
1920
Estonia
1920
Finland
1920
Yugoslavia
1924
Egypt
1924
Egypt
1924
Ireland
1948
Iceland
1948
India
1948
Lebanon
1948
Myanmar
1948
Pakistan
1948
South Korea
1948
Sri Lanka
1948
Syria
1952
West Germany
1956
Cambodia
1960
Ghana
1960
Malaysia
1964
Algeria
1964
Jamaica
1964
Kenya
1964
Mali
1964
Nigeria
1964
Tanzania
1964
Trinidad and Tobago
1964
Uganda
1964
Zambia
1968
Barbados
1968
Guyana
1968
Singapore
1972
Fiji
1976
Bahamas
1976
Papua New Guinea
1976
Suriname
1980
Zimbabwe
1984
Antigua and Barbuda
1984
Belize
1992
Armenia
1992
Azerbaijan
1992
Belarus
1992
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1992
Croatia
1992
Georgia
1992
Kazakhstan
1992
Kyrgyzstan
1992
Latvia
1992
Lithuania
1992
Namibia
1992
North Macedonia
1992
Russia
1992
Slovenia
1992
Tajikistan
1992
Turkmenistan
1992
Ukraiine
1992
Uzbekistan
1996
Czechia
1996
Slovakia
2004
East Timor
2008
Montenegro
2008
Serbia
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