Top 50 oldest countries

PanosG31 Greece was once a great nation or series of nations but how the tables have turned today. Those days are LONG over and Greece's poverty today is notorious. Also a nation's continuality is not dependant on it's race. There are now many Slavs in Greece but that doesn't mean they're not Greek just because they aren't descended from Anatolian farmers the way the olive skinned ones are.

Cool Idea for a quiz but what's your source?

nice

Isn’t India suppose to be here?I mean if we’re talking about the last time it got independence from a country, then India wouldn’t be on here, but their civilization dates all the way back to 2500BC according to my research. Their name was the Indus Valley Civilization

I'm late but I don't care. Greece's first form was the Mycenaean civilization which started around 1750 BC. However, if you count the Minoan and the Cycladic civilization as well, then Greece dates back to 3400 BC. Also, there are a lot of other mistakes. For example: India is not in.

I'm pretty sure Ireland existed before some of these countries

With changes could be featured in my opinion! Cut it off at, say, 1776, accept type-ins (regex should be automatic now that jetpunk is updated)

Israel? Is the connection between ancient and modern Israel based on language, religions, genetics, borders,....? The connection is rather ambiguous. If you include Israel, you need to include Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. Their modern origins may be post WWI but the connection to the ancient versions are as strong if not stronger than Israel.

I am not sure how this quiz is being formulated.

You have morocco as a country but not tunisia even though modern morocco is not the same as the berber states of north africa.

Hungary but no romania.

Modern egypt has no relationship with ancient egypt. But is thier. however no italy despite having a closer relationship with rome than modern egypt to ancient egypt.

No india or srilanka,

It makes no sense.

The modern states of Egypt and Israel have little to do politically with Ancient Egypt or the Judean kingdoms. They are not the only ones in this situation, Morocco, Myanmar or Poland fall in the same category. There is no continuous line of power in them as there are in China or Japan.

For Spain and the UK the dates are those of unification of the modern state. By the criteria used for Egypt, it could be argued Spain's foundational date is 507 (start of the first Visigoth kingdom in the peninsula) and 1066 for the UK (start of William the Conqueror's reign).

Would consider clarifying what the dates mean.