Can you name the 50 countries in the world that formed the most recently.
Note that the former Soviet "Republics" of Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have existed as independent states prior to joining (or being annexed by) the Soviet Union and therefore don't count.
According to Wikipedia "By the 12th century, Tongans and the Tongan paramount chief, the Tuʻi Tonga, had a reputation across the central Pacific—from Niue, Samoa, Rotuma, Wallis & Futuna, New Caledonia to Tikopia—leading some historians to speak of a Tuʻi Tonga Empire." Why isn't this enough to say that Tonga was a country before being colonized by Europeans, just like, say, Armenia was a country before being absorbed into the USSR?
They were both independent prior to WW1 and were integrated with other remnants of the Austrian-Hungariqn Empire to form Yugoslavia, which started busting apart in the early 1990s.
This quiz will forever be full of contention because of murky definitions of what was once a country using the same name albeit drastically different borders, how far back, how specific the name, etc.
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Estonia
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lithuania
Moldova
Russia
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
Uzbekistan
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatia
Macedonia
Montenegro
Serbia
Slovenia
Czech Republic
Eritrea
Germany
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Namibia
Palau
Slovakia
Yemen
East Timor
South Sudan