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This is a list of nations, which have been divided. The “current divided nations” section includes nations that were divided by war, colonialism, etc. The “dissolved countries” includes countries that were dissolved into other countries.

Contents 1 Current divided nations by ethnic group 1.1 Ainu people 1.2 Armenian people 1.3 Basque people 1.4 Bengali people 1.5 Berber people 1.6 Catalan people 1.7 Croats 1.8 Inuit 1.9 Irish people 1.10 Kashmiri people 1.11 Kurdish people 1.12 Magyars 1.13 Mayan people 1.14 Punjabi people 1.15 Romanians 1.16 Sami people 1.17 Serbian people 1.18 Somali people 2 Current divided nations by territory 2.1 China 2.2 Cyprus 2.3 Georgia 2.4 Guatemala 2.5 Greater Mongolia 2.6 the Guianas 2.7 Ireland 2.8 Korea 2.9 Malaysia 2.10 Marianas Islands 2.11 New Guinea 2.12 Ossetia 2.13 Pakistan 2.14 Palestine 2.15 Samoan Islands 2.16 Somalia 3 Dissolved countries 3.1 Czechoslovakia 3.2 Greater Colombia 3.3 Peru-Bolivian Confederation 3.4 Serbia and Montenegro 3.5 Soviet Union 3.6 United Arab Republic 3.7 United Provinces of Central America 3.8 West Indies Federation 3.9 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 4 Former divided nations 4.1 Germany 4.2 United States 4.3 Vietnam 4.4 Yemen 5 See also

[edit] Current divided nations by ethnic group

[edit] Ainu people

• Divided between two countries after Japanese and Russian colonization.
  • Image:Flag of Japan (bordered).svg Japan - encompasses 2 areas: Hokkaido and Honshū
  • Image:Flag of Russia (bordered).svg Russian Federation - encompasses 2 areas:Kamchatka peninsula and Sakhalin.
• Flag of the Ainu Nation:
  • Image:Flag of the Ainu people.svg

[edit] Armenian people

• Divided in two countries.
  • Image:Flag of Armenia.svg Armenia
  • Image:Flag of Nagorno-Karabakh.svg Nagorno-Karabakh (de facto independent state, but officially part of Azerbaijan)

[edit] Basque people

• • Image:Flag of Spain.svg Spain
  • Image:Flag of France.svgFrance

[edit] Bengali people

• Divided in two countries.
  • Image:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh
  • Image:Flag of India.svg Republic of India

[edit] Berber people

• Divided in six countries.
  • Image:Flag of Algeria.svg People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
  • Image:Flag of Libya.svg Libya
  • Image:Flag of Mauritania.svg Islamic Republic of Mauritania
  • Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Kingdom of Morocco
  • Image:Flag of Tunisia.svg Republic of Tunisia
  • Image:Flag of Western Sahara.svg Western Sahara

[edit] Catalan people

• Divided by the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659.
  • Image:Flag of Andorra.svg Andorra
  • Image:Flag of France.svg France
  • Image:Flag of Spain.svg Spain

[edit] Croats

• Divided in two countries by Yugoslav wars.
  • Image:Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Image:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia

[edit] Inuit

• Divided amongst four countries after American, British, Russian, and Viking colonization.
  • Image:Flag of Canada.svg Canada - encompasses 3 areas: Image:Flag of Nunavut.svg Nunavut (a territory in Canada), Nunavik (the northern part of Quebec), Nunatsiavut (the Inuit settlement region in Labrador),
  • Image:Flag of Denmark.svg Kingdom of Denmark - encompasses 1 area: Image:Flag of Greenland (bordered).svg Greenland
  • Image:Flag of Russia (bordered).svg Russia - encompasses 1 area: Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
  • Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States - encompasses 1 area: Image:Flag of Alaska.svg Alaska

[edit] Irish people

• Divided in two countries
  • Image:Flag of Ireland.svg Republic of Ireland
  • Image:Flag of Northern Ireland (bordered).svg Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdom)

[edit] Kashmiri people

• Divided in three countries.
  • Image:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg People’s Republic of China
  • Image:Flag of India.svg Republic of India
  • Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan

[edit] Kurdish people

• Divided amongst four countries.
  • Image:Flag of Iran.svg Iran - Iranian Kurdistan encompasses 4 areas: West Azarbaijan, Kurdistan Province, Kermanshah, and Ilam
  • Image:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq - Iraqi Kurdistan encompasses 3 areas: Arbil, Dahuk, and As Sulaymaniyah
  • Syria - Syrian Kurdistan encompasses 1 area: Al Hasakah
  • Image:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey - Turkish Kurdistan encompasses 17 areas: Erzincan, Erzurum, Kars, Malatya, Tunceli, Elazığ, Bingöl, Muş, Ağrı, Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Siirt, Bitlis, Van, Şanlıurfa aka Urfa, Mardin and Hakkâri
• proposed country: Image:Flag of Kurdistan.svg Kurdistan

[edit] Magyars

• Divided by the Treaty of Trianon and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
  • • Image:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary
    • Romania
    • Image:Flag of Serbia (state) (bordered).svg Serbia
    • Image:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia
    • Image:Flag of Slovenia.svg Slovenia
    • Image:Flag of Austria.svg Austria
    • Image:Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia
    • Image:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine

[edit] Mayan people

• Divided by Spanish and British colonization.
  • Image:Flag of Belize.svg Belize
  • Image:Flag of El Salvador.svg Republic of El Salvador
  • Image:Flag of Honduras.svg Republic of Honduras
  • Image:Flag of Guatemala.svg Republic of Guatemala
  • Image:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico

[edit] Punjabi people

• Divided in two countries.
  • Image:Flag of India.svg Republic of India
  • Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan

[edit] Romanians

• Divided by the Soviet Union in 1940
  • Romania
  • Image:Flag of Moldova.svg Republic of Moldova

[edit] Sami people

• Divided after Finnish and Scandinavian settlement. Located in the northern areas of:
  • Image:Flag of Finland (bordered).svg Finland
  • Image:Flag of Norway.svg Kingdom of Norway
  • Image:Flag of Russia (bordered).svg Russian Federation
  • Image:Flag of Sweden.svg Kingdom of Sweden
• proposed country:
  • Image:Sami flag.svg Sápmi

[edit] Serbian people

• Divided in two countries by Yugoslav wars.
  • Image:Flag of Serbia (state) (bordered).svg Republic of Serbia
  • Image:Flag of Republika Srpska.svg Republika Srpska (entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina)

[edit] Somali people

• Divided and added to other countries by Colonialism during The Scramble for Africa.
  • Image:Flag of Somalia.svg Somalia
  • Image:Flag of Somaliland.svg Somaliland de facto independent state, but officially part of Somalia
  • Image:Flag of Kenya.svg Republic of Kenya
  • Image:Flag of Ethiopia.svg Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
  • Image:Flag of Djibouti.svg Republic of Djibouti

[edit] Current divided nations by territory

[edit] China

• Divided by the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
  • Image:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg People’s Republic of China
  • Image:Flag of the Republic of China.svg Republic of China (recognized only by 24 countries; see political status of Taiwan)
    • Tuva (now part of Russia), part of northern Burma, and Outer Mongolia (now the independent state of Image:Flag of Mongolia.svg Mongolia) are also within the official borders of the ROC.

[edit] Cyprus

• De facto divided by the Turkish Invasion of Cyprus in 1974.
  • Image:Flag of Cyprus.svg Republic of Cyprus
  • Image:Flag of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.svg Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (only recognized by Turkey)
• Image:Proposed flag of the United Cyprus Republic.svg Proposed flag of the United Cyprus Republic

[edit] Georgia

• De facto divided
  • Image:Flag of Abkhazia.svg Abkhazia (recognized by no countries)
  • Image:Flag of Georgia (bordered).svg Georgia
  • Image:Flag of South Ossetia.svg South Ossetia (recognized by no countries)

[edit] Guatemala

• Divided after British colonization of Belize in the 18th century
  • Image:Flag of Belize.svg Belize
  • Image:Flag of Guatemala.svg Republic of Guatemala

[edit] Greater Mongolia

• Divided in the 17th century due to Manchurian invasion.
  • Image:Flag of Mongolia.svg Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia)
  • Inner Mongolia (autonomous region in China)

[edit] the Guianas

• Divided after British, Dutch and French colonization.
  • Image:Flag of France.svg French Guiana
  • Image:Flag of Guyana.svg Guyana
  • Image:Flag of Suriname.svg Suriname

[edit] Ireland

• United under High Kings from 862. Under various degrees of English rule since 1172. Part of United Kingdom from 1801-1923. Divided since the Government of Ireland Act.
  • Image:Flag of Ireland (bordered).svg Republic of Ireland
  • Image:Flag of Northern Ireland (bordered).svg Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdom)

[edit] Korea

• Divided by the Korean War in 1953.
  • Image:Flag of North Korea.svg Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)
  • Image:Flag of South Korea (bordered).svg Republic of Korea (South Korea)
• Image:Unification flag of Korea.svg Unification flag

[edit] Malaysia

• Divided after the expulsion of Singapore in 1965
  • Image:Flag of Malaysia.svg Malaysia
  • Image:Flag of Singapore (bordered).svg Republic of Singapore

[edit] Marianas Islands

• Divided within the United States.
  • Image:Flag of Guam.svg Guam
  • Northern Marianas Islands

[edit] New Guinea

• Divide after British, Dutch and German colonialization.
  • Image:Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg Papua New Guinea
  • Papua (province of Indonesia)

[edit] Ossetia

• Divided between Russia and Georgia.
  • Image:Flag of North Ossetia.svg North Ossetia-Alania (autonomous republic within Russia)
  • Image:Flag of South Ossetia.svg South Ossetia (de facto independent state, but officially part of Georgia)

[edit] Pakistan

• Divided by the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.
  • Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg Islamic Republic of Pakistan
  • Image:Flag of Bangladesh.svg People's Republic of Bangladesh

[edit] Palestine

• Divided by the 1947 UN Partition Plan
  • Image:Flag of Israel (bordered).svg State of Israel
  • Image:Palestinian flag.svg State of Palestine

[edit] Samoan Islands

• Divided by the Second Samoan Civil War in 1898.
  • Image:Flag of Samoa.svg Independent State of Samoa
  • Image:Flag of American Samoa.svg American Samoa (a territory of the United States)

[edit] Somalia

Divided by the Somali Civil War in 1991.

• Image:Flag of Somalia.svg Somalia.
• Image:Flag of Somaliland.svg Somaliland de facto independent state, but officially part of Somalia.

[edit] Dissolved countries

[edit] Czechoslovakia

• Split in 1993 by federal parliament.
  • Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Czech Republic
  • Image:Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovak Republic

[edit] Greater Colombia

• Abolished in 1831.
  • Image:Flag of Colombia.svg Republic of Colombia
  • Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg Republic of Ecuador
  • Image:Flag of Venezuela.svg Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
  • Image:Flag of Panama (bordered).svg Panama

[edit] Peru-Bolivian Confederation

• Divided by the War of the Confederation in 1839
  • Image:Flag of Bolivia.svg Republic of Bolivia
  • Image:Flag of Peru.svg Republic of Peru

[edit] Serbia and Montenegro

• Dissolved in 2006 after Montenegrin independence referendum.
  • Image:Flag of Montenegro.svg Republic of Montenegro
  • Image:Flag of Serbia (state) (bordered).svg Republic of Serbia

[edit] Soviet Union

• Dissolved by Belavezha Accords in 1991.
  • Image:Flag of Armenia.svg Republic of Armenia
  • Image:Flag of Azerbaijan.svg Republic of Azerbaijan
  • Image:Flag of Belarus.svg Republic of Belarus
  • Image:Flag of Estonia.svg Republic of Estonia
  • Image:Flag of Georgia (bordered).svg Republic of Georgia
  • Image:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Republic of Kazakhstan
  • Image:Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg Kyrgyz Republic
  • Image:Flag of Latvia.svg Republic of Latvia
  • Image:Flag of Lithuania.svg Republic of Lithuania
  • Image:Flag of Moldova.svg Republic of Moldova
  • Image:Flag of Russia (bordered).svg Russian Federation
  • Image:Flag of Tajikistan.svg Republic of Tajikistan
  • Image:Flag of Turkmenistan.svg Republic of Turkmenistan
  • Image:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine
  • Image:Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Republic of Uzbekistan

[edit] United Arab Republic

• Dissolved after the secession of Syria in 1961.
  • Image:Flag of Egypt.svg Arab Republic of Egypt
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • Image:Flag of Libya.svg Libya
  • Image:Flag of Yemen.svg North Yemen

[edit] United Provinces of Central America

• Dissolved after the members declared independence in 1840 to 1841.
  • Image:Flag of Costa Rica (state).svg Republic of Costa Rica
  • Image:Flag of El Salvador.svg Republic of El Salvador
  • Image:Flag of Honduras.svg Republic of Honduras
  • Image:Flag of Guatemala.svg Republic of Guatemala
  • Image:Flag of Nicaragua.svg Republic of Nicaragua

[edit] West Indies Federation

• Dissolved in 1962 due to disillusionment and internal conflicts.
  • Image:Flag of Anguilla.svg Anguilla
  • Image:Flag of Antigua and Barbuda.svg Antigua and Barbuda
  • Image:Flag of Barbados.svg Barbados
  • Image:Flag of the Cayman Islands.svg Cayman Islands
  • Image:Flag of Dominica.svg Dominica
  • Image:Flag of Grenada.svg Grenada
  • Image:Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica
  • Image:Flag of Montserrat.svg Montserrat
  • Image:Flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis.svg Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Image:Flag of Saint Lucia.svg Saint Lucia
  • Image:Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.svg Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Image:Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg Trinidad and Tobago
  • Image:Flag of the Turks and Caicos Islands.svg Turks and Caicos Islands

[edit] Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

• Divided by the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s and subsequent peaceful processes
  • Image:Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Image:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia
  • Image:Flag of Macedonia.svg Republic of Macedonia
  • Image:Flag of Serbia (state) (bordered).svg Serbia
  • Image:Flag of Montenegro.svg Montenegro
  • Image:Flag of Slovenia.svg Slovenia

[edit] Former divided nations

[edit] Germany

• Divided by World War II in 1945; reunified in 1991 into the Image:Flag of Germany.svg Federal Republic of Germany.
  • Image:Flag of Germany.svg Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)
  • Image:Flag of East Germany.svg German Democratic Republic (East Germany)

[edit] United States

• Divided by American Civil War in 1860 reunified in 1865 into the Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States of America.
  • Image:Confederate National Flag since Mar 4 1865.svg Confederate States of America
  • Image:US flag 35 stars.svg United States of America

[edit] Vietnam

• Divided by the Geneva Conference in 1954; reunified in 1976 after the Vietnam War into the Image:Flag of Vietnam.svg Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
  • Image:Flag of North Vietnam.svg Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
  • Image:Flag of South Vietnam.svg Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)

[edit] Yemen

• Divided by Ottoman Empire and British Empire; reunified in 1990.
  • Image:Flag of South Yemen.svg People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen)
  • Image:Flag of North Yemen.svg Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen)

[edit] See also

• Chinese reunification
• Annan Plan for Cyprus
• Irish reunificationca:Llista de nacions dividides

es:Lista de naciones divididas