On Saturday , South Sudan declare its independency , becoming the blade - spanking newest nation in the world . While peace and prosperity is still a good direction off for this newborn , Texas - sized country — ethnic tensions are high-pitched , the saving is in shambles , and a half - twelve insurrectionist group have already consecrate to take down the new politics — the South Sudanese multitude have spent the weekend lionize in the street .
So with that , we think we ’d give you a listing of eight wannabe countries that would , for one reasonableness or another , love to become thenextnewest state in the world .
1. Somaliland
This lilliputian breakaway part in northern Somalia has its own de facto Chief Executive , flag and national anthem , and its seventeen year - old government subprogram both peacefully and passably democratically — a astonishing accomplishment , see the spectacular collapse of Somalia next doorway . It even has its own currency , the Somaliland Shilling , which is so devaluate a wheelbarrow ’s worth will scarcely grease one’s palms you a Opuntia tuna sandwich . Desperately clinging to democracy in a very un - democratic part of the humankind , Somaliland remains top on the tilt of wannabe country .
2. Transdniester
3. Northern Cyprus
Not to be obscure with either a cypress , the conical tree , or Cypress Hill , the ‘ XC knock group you may call back from such hits as “ Insane in the Membrane , ” the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus occupies a portion of the Mediterranean island - nation of Cyprus . Almost
fifty
forty days ago , ethnically Turkish Cypriots declared independency from the rest of mostly Greek Cyprus , but no one in the international community — except Turkey ( which keeps 30,000 troops there)—recognizes Northern Cyprus as anything but a wannabe commonwealth .
4. Nagorno-Karabagh
menage to more land mine than anywhere else in the former Soviet Union — how ’s that for a water tower slogan?—this wannabe land has been fight down an on - again , off - again war with Azerbaijan for more than two decades . Long story short ? After the prostration of the Soviet Union , Nagorno - Karabagh ’s cultural Armenians declared they would become a new nation of their own , but Azerbaijan , which had controlled Nagorno - Karabagh during Soviet times , was going to have none of it . Cue a brute three - yr warfare from 1991 to 1994 , wherein Karabagh rebels ( game by Armenia ) feather off against Azerbaijan . Both sides slaughter a fair share of each other ’s civilian before hostility fizzle out . Nowadays , an entrenched ceasefire line snakes down the edge between Azerbaijan and Nagorno - Karabakh , which not even Armenia realise as a real state .
5. Western Sahara
6. Abkhazia
This Puerto Rico - sized region , wedged between Russia and Georgia on Black Sea , has its own de facto president , fantan , pin and national anthem , but Georgians still claim it ’s merely a disaffected region within Georgia proper . The conflict goes back to Soviet times , when Abkhazia was an autonomous realm within the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia . When the Soviet Union collapsed , Abkhazia fought a dreaded civil war with Georgia , leave neither side intelligibly victorious . subsequently , Georgia went on treating Abkhazia as part of its soil , and Abkhazia went on work as if it were independent . Only Russia , Nicaragua , Venezuela and Nauru — the tiny country — recognize it as anything more than one of the loudest wannabe Carry Nation in the world .
7. South Ossetia
8. Palestine
As one of the hottest of the hot button issue today , we ’re all familiar with the concept of a “ two - commonwealth resolution ” to the Israel - Palestinian difference of opinion , but many Palestinians argue that two state already exist . While the Israelis say that the Palestinian territories are just that , territories , the Palestinians say that ’s bogus , arguing Palestine is already a res publica in its own right field . Palestinian leading plans to force the issue with the United Nations this September , when member states may be asked to officially vote on whether Palestine is already an independent country — or whether it go on this lean of wannabe states .
