10 Countries You Didn't Know Existed

ten countries you didn't know existed number tone the republic of lakota most people wouldn't believe it if he said there is a country the size of syria in the middle of the united states of america but the inhabitants of the republic of lakota would argue that there is stretching over 1,600 kilometers and the kotor is the homeland of the lakota sioux an ancient tribe who lived there long before the european colonial settlers in 1868 the american government signed the Treaty of Laramie giving that Lakota Sioux the rights to the land however in the 1870s the government apparently forgot this promise when they allowed thousands of miners to swarm to the land with the promise of gold today the Lakota still consider themselves an independent state they are fighting for international recognition number nine Transnistria Transnistria has its own president Parliament currency and army it even won a war of independence in 1992 yet some people still argue that it's part of Moldova in 1990 Moldova broke away from the USSR this was a decision that Transnistria a thin strip of land on the border of Moldova and Ukraine didn't agree with Transnistria with its population of more than 500,000 still felt a strong allegiance to Russia they wished to declare themselves as Socialist Republic and remain part of the USSR and so they fought a war to achieve this but by the time a ceasefire was reached and Transnistria was able to make steps towards its goal the Soviet Union had crumbled this through Transnistria into disarray and their official status as a country remained unresolved number eight Bharat's island located between Namibia Botswana Zimbabwe Zambia and Angola Bharat's island is home to a unified group of diverse tribes historically the region used to be an independent nation but it was incorporated into Zambia in 1964 its current claim for independence comes from the idea that it was incorporated into Zambia under false pretences as the 1964 treaty between the two peoples had promised autonomy to Bharat's a land that it did not receive instead Bharat's island was just treated like any other province after years of rising tensions the Baraat zealand national council retaliated by declaring its independence from Zambia in March 2012 if it were to become internationally recognised this would make Bharat's island the world's youngest nation-states number seven chin chin land whose territories originally included parts of Myanmar Bangladesh and India is home to around 1.5 million people they consist of six major unique ethnic groups who speak a total of 20 languages when the British Empire began to decline during the 1940s chin land was unofficially swallowed up into what was then called Burma in March 1988 that chin the National Front was established this was in reaction to the fact that in its current state the chin people didn't have any exclusive rights despite having their own leaders and national de Chin nationalists believe that thanks to their rich history distinct culture and independent political system they are a country in their own right but the UN continues to consider them as part of former Berner Miami number six Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic located in Western Sahara in Africa the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic also known as the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic declared independence in 1976 almost a third of the countries in the UN recognized the state but the rest still consider it part of Morocco for almost a century the region had been a Spanish colony until Spain withdrew in 1976 and things just got a little complicated Morocco Mauritania and the indigenous inhabitants of Western Sahara all lay claim to the territory leading to a bitter conflict in 1979 Mauritania abandoned its claim but Morocco remains stubborn it has repeatedly postponed referenda on the topic and the UN's efforts to resolve the conflict have proved inconclusive number 5 Abkhazia you would think that having a distinct ethnic population historically defined boundaries a separate military a government a National Bank and its own passports would be enough for a region to gain country status but this isn't the case for Abkhazia at the beginning of the 11th century Abkhazia was very much its own country only to then be subsumed into Georgia and then centuries later the USSR when the USSR collapsed in 1991 things got a bit confusing Abkhazia declared a return to their medieval borders winning a war of independence against Georgia in 1993 surprisingly despite this victory all but four members of the UN still refused to recognize Abkhazia as anything other than a province of Georgia [Music] and before nagorno-karabakh Republic nagorno-karabakh is yet another region whose country status has been utterly complicated by the messy dissolution of the Soviet Union following the 1991 collapse of the USSR nagorno-karabakh became the central focus of a war between Azerbaijan the country that completely surrounds it and the region's ethnic Armenian majority a truce was signed in 1994 putting temporary control of the region known to its inhabitants as art sack into the hands of the ethnic Armenians now despite nagorno-karabakh having its own government military and even a legal Constitution no other country in the world recognizes its legitimacy this is because negotiations have failed to produce a permanent peace agreement that the UN could recognize number three Balochistan a vast province that makes up 44% of Pakistan Balochistan is a region that has been clouded by turmoil for well over half a century bilac nationalists argue that the province is actually an independent nation even celebrating August the 11th 1947 as their Independence Day they assert that on this day towards the end of British rule in Pakistan the British gave Balochistan autonomy only for a Pakistan to overturn this decision illegally an Xing the region less than a year later since then the Pakistani government has used military force to quell independent uprisings in the 1950s 60s and 70s number two south osetia in 2006 the people of south osetia in georgia held a referendum that demonstrated its people's desire to become an independent nation the small but proud population of 50,000 people have their own language and are ethnically closer to Russia's Ossetians and their fellow Georgians since then South Ossetia has been effectively independent with their own government and president Leonid Tibble of sadly the referendum result and subsequent South Ossetian Declaration of Independence went unrecognized by the international community with the exception of Russia two years later Georgia sent tanks into the country to stop the growing unrest with force only serving to aggravate the situation further and increase the tensions between the Georgian and South Ossetian governments number one the Sovereign Military Order of Malta unlike many of the other countries on this list the Sovereign Military Order of Malta has notable recognition from other countries around the world it has strong political relations with 105 countries and diplomatic relations with another six it even has permanent observer status at the United Nations yet the utterly bizarre thing is this country has absolutely no physical territory nor does it claim any basically what happened is that Malta used to be occupied and owned by an order of Catholic Knights when Napoleon invaded Malta in 1798 this order was forced to relocate to Italy where Catholic nations still continued to recognize them as a legitimate nation and this has continued to this day despite the order now only having control of two buildings in Rome hi everyone thank you so much for watching this video we really cannot thank you enough and if you enjoyed it wanting you check out 10 weird wonders of the world is paint on screen now and the link in the description is going to check out and as always thank you for watching peace

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Length: 9min 30sec (570 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 23 2016

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Tri-Sovereign States. The Vatican, The City of London, and The District of Columbia.