Countries of the World, By Date of Sovereignty

This is the traditional Countries of the World quiz, except that you must guess them in order of when they gained sovereignty! I gave you to (sometimes approximate) date at the bottom. Good luck, you'll need it.

In the case of the same date, alphabetical order is applied.

It is based off of the date of acquisition of sovereignty column in the Sortable List on Wikipedia

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BC Era
5300 BC	Asia	Iran
3150 BC	Africa/Asia	Egypt
2333 BC	Asia	North Korea
2333 BC		South Korea
2070 BC		China
2000 BC		India
700 BC	Africa	Sudan
338 BC	Europe	Greece
330 BC	Asia	Jordan
202 BC	Africa	Algeria
161 BC	Asia	Sri Lanka
110 BC	Asia	Israel
80 BC	Africa	Ethiopia
0-999 CE
50/68 CE	Asia	Cambodia
400 CE	Asia	Japan
481 CE	Europe	France
544 CE	Asia	Vietnam
590 CE	Asia	Bangladesh
626 CE	Europe	Croatia
650/768 CE		Serbia
681 CE		Bulgaria
711 CE	Asia	Pakistan
714 CE	Europe	Denmark
751 CE	Asia	Oman
756 CE	Europe	Vatican City
788 CE	Africa	Morocco
9th century	Africa	Mali
Aug 843 CE	Europe	Germany
849 CE	Asia	Myanmar
870 CE	Europe	Czech Republic
872 CE	Europe	Norway
880 CE	Asia/Europe	Armenia
895 CE	Europe	Hungary
930 CE		Iceland
966 CE		Poland
1000-1499
1008	Asia/Europe	Georgia
1042	Europe	Montenegro
1137	Africa	Eritrea
7/25/1139	Europe	Portugal
1140	Asia	Maldives
1156	Europe	Austria
1238	Asia	Thailand
1243	Europe	San Marino
1253		Lithuania
9/7/1278		Andorra
1285	Africa	Somalia
1/8/1291	Europe	Switzerland
1297	Europe	Monaco
1299	Asia/Europe	Turkey
1354	Asia	Laos
1368	Asia	Brunei
1377	Europe	Bosnia and Herzegovina
1397	Europe	Sweden
1465	Asia/Europe	Kazakhstan
1480	Africa	Malawi
1480	Asia/Europe	Russia
1500-1799
1516	Europe	Spain
7/26/1581	Europe	Netherlands
c. 1600	Africa	Benin
1634	Asia	Bhutan
1649	Europe	Ukraine
c. 1680	Africa	Burundi
5/1/1707	Europe	United Kingdom
1709	Asia	Afghanistan
1752		Kuwait
1768		Nepal
7/4/1776	Americas	United States
1787	Africa	Madagascar

1800-1899
1/1/1804	Americas	Haiti
1806	Europe	Liechtenstein
5/25/1810	Americas	Argentina
9/16/1810		Mexico
9/18/1810		Chile
5/14/1811		Paraguay
7/5/1810		Venezuela
1815	Europe	Luxembourg
1815	Americas	Uruguay
9/15/1815		El Salvador
9/15/1815		Guatemala
7/20/1820		Colombia
1821		Dominican Republic
7/28/1821		Peru
9/15/1821		Costa Rica
9/15/1821		Honduras
9/15/1821		Nicaragua
1822	Africa	Lesotho
5/24/1822	Americas	Ecuador
9/7/1822		Brazil
8/6/1825		Bolivia
10/4/1830	Europe	Belgium
1845	Oceania	Tonga
7/26/1847	Africa	Liberia
5/17/1861	Europe	Italy
7/1/1867	Americas	Canada
1871	Oceania	Fiji
7/13/1878	Europe	Romania
6/12/1898	Asia	Philippines
1900-1960
1/1/1901	Oceania	Australia
5/20/1902	Americas	Cuba
11/3/1903	Americas	Panama
9/25/1907	Oceania	New Zealand
5/31/1910	Africa	South Africa
1/1/1912	Asia	Taiwan
11/28/1912	Europe	Albania
12/6/1917		Finland
2/24/1918		Estonia
5/28/1918	Asia/Europe	Azerbaijan
11/1/1918	Asia	Yemen
11/18/1918	Europe	Latvia
1921	Asia	Mongolia
1922	Europe	Ireland
1932	Asia	Iraq
9/23/1932		Saudi Arabia
11/22/1943		Lebanon
8/17/1945		Indonesia
4/17/1946		Syria
12/24/1951	Africa	Libya
3/20/1956		Tunisia
5/6/1957		Ghana
8/31/1957	Asia	Malaysia
10/2/1958	Africa	Guinea
1960	Asia	Cyprus
1960	Africa	D. R. Congo
1/1/1960		Cameroon
4/27/1960		Togo
6/20/1960		Senegal
8/3/1960		Niger
8/5/1960		Burkina Faso
8/7/1960		Ivory Coast
8/11/1960		Chad
8/13/1960		Central African Republic
8/17/1960		Gabon
8/15/1960		Republic of the Congo
10/1/1960		Nigeria
11/28/1960		Mauritania

1961-1965
4/27/1961	Africa	Sierra Leone
12/9/1961	Africa	Tanzania
1/1/1962	Oceania	Samoa
7/1/1962	Africa	Rwanda
8/6/1962	Americas	Jamaica
8/31/1962	Americas	Trinidad and Tobago
10/9/1962	Africa	Uganda
8/31/1963	Asia	Singapore
12/12/1963	Africa	Kenya
9/21/1964	Europe	Malta
10/24/1964	Africa	Zambia
2/18/1965		Gambia
11/11/1965		Zimbabwe
1966-1975
5/26/1966	Americas	Guyana
9/30/1966	Africa	Botswana
11/30/1966	Americas	Barbados
1/31/1968	Oceania	Nauru
3/12/1968	Africa	Mauritius
9/6/1968		Eswatini
10/12/1968		Equatorial Guinea
9/3/1971	Asia	Qatar
12/2/1971		United Arab Emirates
12/16/1971		Bahrain
7/10/1973	Americas	Bahamas
9/24/1973	Africa	Guinea-Bissau
2/7/1974	Americas	Grenada
6/25/1975	Africa	Mozambique
7/5/1975		Cape Verde
7/6/1975		Comoros
7/12/1975		São Tomé and Príncipe
9/16/1975	Oceania	Papua New Guinea
11/11/1975	Africa	Angola
11/25/1975	Americas	Suriname
11/28/1975	Asia	East Timor
1976-1989
6/29/1976	Africa	Seychelles
6/27/1977	Africa	Djibouti
7/7/1978	Oceania	Solomon Islands
10/1/1978	Oceania	Tuvalu
11/3/1978	Americas	Dominica
2/22/1979	Americas	Saint Lucia
7/12/1979	Oceania	Kiribati
10/27/1979	Americas	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
7/30/1980	Oceania	Vanuatu
9/21/1981	Americas	Belize
11/1/1981		Antigua and Barbuda
9/19/1983		Saint Kitts and Nevis
10/21/1986	Oceania	Marshall Islands
11/3/1986	Oceania	Federated States of Micronesia
1990-Present
3/21/1990	Africa	Namibia
1991	Europe	Belarus
6/25/1991		Slovenia
8/27/1991		Moldova
8/31/1991	Asia	Kyrgyzstan
9/1/1991	Asia	Uzbekistan
9/8/1991	Europe	North Macedonia
9/9/1991	Asia	Tajikistan
10/27/1991	Asia	Turkmenistan
1/1/1993	Europe	Slovakia
10/1/1994	Oceania	Palau
2/17/2008	Europe	Kosovo
7/9/2011	Africa	South Sudan

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18 Comments

Level 66

Jul 16, 2022

I like the concept, but some countries appear out of order on the list. Also some of these dates are debatable. For example, Poland existed as of 966. Lithuania, Bulgaria, Serbia, and several others also had iterations earlier than their modern forms. In fairness, I know it's difficult to discern what counts. :)

Level 61

Jul 17, 2022

Yeah, that's quite hard to decide, I might change this to modern form only

Level 70

Jan 18, 2025

I would suggest changing it to its most recent form. For example the Iran of 7000 years ago is not the same country as today's Iran. If we went by most recent, San Marino would be first and France second.

Level 61

Jan 18, 2025

I'm considering putting some more work into this quiz and want to, but the only struggle would be finding a consistent source of dates as everything says something else.

Level 67

Jul 18, 2022

The UK did not declare independence in 1707. In fact it did not exist until 1801. The Kingdom of Great Britain was formed in 1707 but was formed from two independent nations.

Also surely Germany only became independent after reunification in 1990?

sort of stopped after that.

I really like the concept but this needs work.

Level 61

Jul 23, 2022

Currently in giant overhaul of the quiz.

Level 39

Jun 2, 2024

What! Impossible! how did Mongolia get sovereign in 1921 but existed in the 13th century! 😕

Level 61

Jun 20, 2024

I would take research from different site and sources, but then people would be questioning why some sources said a certain date while others said something else, so I decided to use what I felt was the most trusted source on this site, Wikipedia.

Level 68

Oct 21, 2024

I would also say most recent independence as the reason for that, it existed in 13th century but has been conquered a bunch.

Great quiz!

Level 61

Oct 21, 2024

Thanks MKF!

Level 63

Oct 30, 2024

i think most recent sovernization only should count

Level 63

Oct 30, 2024

so vatican would be in 1900s, etc

Level 63

Oct 30, 2024

india would be 1947, nobody really controlled the whole thing in -2000

Level 61

Oct 30, 2024

Like I said before, if I can find an EXTREMELY reliable source, I'll update. But if I can't, I don't want to start more comment wars than I have to.

Level 63

Oct 31, 2024

but the reliable source IS the sortable list, it has date of last subordination and aquisition of sovereignty, which in general (and based on the original title of this quiz) should give u an estimate of date of independence. so albania would be 1912, algeria 1962

right now the numbers dont mean anything much. no-one reall conquered the whole of India back then, etc

Level 61

Oct 31, 2024

That's fair. I am considering going back through and fact checking everything, as it's been over a year since I've even looked at it.

Level 20

Apr 19, 2025

San Marino actually gained independence in 301 AD. nice quiz tho!

Level 61

Apr 20, 2025

Thank you! I'm still trying to decide how to change this to make it more widely unquestioned.