Lampy Country Collage

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