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| 46097446 | Quebec | This province is predominately French; in 1995 it avoided secession | |
| 46097447 | South Africa | Boers (Afrikaners or DUtch descendents) began Apartheid after the Britsh gave this country independence | |
| 46097448 | Denmark | Europes best example of a nation state, it's 97% one ethnicity | |
| 46097449 | Poland | When this country was invaded WWII began | |
| 46097450 | United Kingdom | This country's state is made of 4 nations, is an example of devolution. | |
| 46097451 | Russia | The world's largest multinational state with 39 nationalities | |
| 46097452 | Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania | These European countries were the first to withdraw from the USSR | |
| 46097453 | New Eastern Europea nation-states | Theses former Soviet republics include Ukrain, Belarus, and Moldova | |
| 46097454 | New Central Asian States | These former Soviet republics' names include "stan" wich means "land of" | |
| 46097455 | Chechnya | This mosly Muslim province is currently at civil war with Moscow | |
| 46098046 | Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia | Theses countries in the Caucasus region have instability becaus of ethnic competition (They are also former Soviet republics.) | |
| 46098047 | Czech Republic and Slovakia | These two countrie emerged when a former satellite of the Soviet Union divided peacefully. | |
| 46098048 | Slovenia | When Blkanization occurred, this country emerged rather peacefully | |
| 46098049 | Yugoslavia | This country was created after WWI uniting ethnicities that spoke similar Slavic languages | |
| 46098050 | Bosnia | It's plurality is Muslim; it had a violent "breakaway" from Yugoslavia. | |
| 46098051 | Kosovo | Now separate from Servia, its ethnic Albanians were persecuted under Slobodan Milosevic | |
| 46098052 | Rwanda and Burundi | These African countries suffered horrific genocide in conflict between Hutus and Tutsis. | |
| 46098053 | Congo | This country, once controlled by the Belgians, became independent as Zaire. | |
| 46098054 | Ethiopia and Eritrea | One of these African countries fought a 30-year war of independence agains the other. | |
| 46098055 | Sudan | This country includes the Darfur region where genocide is taking place | |
| 46098056 | Somalia | This country in the Horn of Africa was the site of "Blackhawk Down" | |
| 46098057 | Lebanon | This country has suffered political instablility since 1975. In 2006, a militant group, Hezbollah, kidnapped an Israeli soldier and a short war began | |
| 46098058 | Cyprus | This island is divided between Turkish and Greek nationalities | |
| 46098059 | Kurdistan | The northern part of Iraq used to be part of this now non-existant country | |
| 46098060 | Kashmir | The region in conflict between India and Pakistan; it is mostly Muslim | |
| 46098061 | Sri Lanka | Where the Tamils (Hindu minority) are fighting the majority Buddhist Sinhalese. | |
| 46098062 | Israel | It became a state in 1948 | |
| 46098063 | Northern Ireland | THe UDF and the IRA have used violence here to achieve political means. | |
| 46098064 | Tibet | This country was absorbed into CHina by force in the 1950's | |
| 46098065 | France | An "ethostate" that has had conflict with immigrants from N. Africa |
