word | | Independence |
Italy
 map | Italy | 17 March 1861 (Kingdom of Italy proclaimed; Italy was not finally unified until 1870) |
January
map | Australia | 1 January 1901 (federation of UK colonies) |
January
map | Brunei | 1 January 1984 (from UK) |
January
map | Burma | 4 January 1948 (from UK) |
January
map | Cameroon | 1 January 1960 (from French-administered UN trusteeship) |
January
map | China | 221 BC (unification under the Qin or Ch'in Dynasty); 1 January 1912 (Manchu Dynasty replaced by a Republic); 1 October 1949 (People's Republic established) |
January
map | Czech Republic | 1 January 1993 (Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia) |
January
map | Germany | 18 January 1871 (German Empire unification); divided into four zones of occupation (UK, US, USSR, and later, France) in 1945 following World War II; Federal Republic of Germany (FRG or West Germany ... |
January
map | Haiti | 1 January 1804 (from France) |
January
map | Liechtenstein | 23 January 1719 (Principality of Liechtenstein established); 12 July 1806 (independence from the Holy Roman Empire) |
January
map | Nauru | 31 January 1968 (from the Australia-, NZ-, and UK-administered UN trusteeship) |
January
map | Netherlands | 23 January 1579 (the northern provinces of the Low Countries conclude the Union of Utrecht breaking with Spain; on 26 July 1581 they formally declared their independence with an Act of Abjuration ... |
January
map | Samoa | 1 January 1962 (from New Zealand-administered UN trusteeship) |
January
map | Slovakia | 1 January 1993 (Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia) |
January
map | Sudan | 1 January 1956 (from Egypt and UK) |
| Japan | Korea, North | 15 August 1945 (from Japan) |
| Japan | Korea, South | 15 August 1945 (from Japan) |
| JIMMU | Japan | 660 B.C. (traditional founding by Emperor JIMMU) |
| join | United Kingdom | ... 1536 with an Act of Union; in another Act of Union in 1707, England and Scotland agreed to permanently join as Great Britain; the legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland was ... |
| joint | Andorra | 1278 (formed under the joint suzerainty of the French count of Foix and the Spanish bishop of Urgel) |
July
map | Algeria | 5 July 1962 (from France) |
July
map | Argentina | 9 July 1816 (from Spain) |
July
map | Bahamas, The | 10 July 1973 (from UK) |
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