Quartz Survey Maps 15 Defunct States, From the USSR to the United Arab Republic
A feature by Quartz highlights 15 nations that have disappeared in the last century along with their successors. On December 26, 1991, the Soviet Union disintegrated into 15 republics, with Russia remaining as the successor state. From 1991 to 2008, Yugoslavia split into seven countries, concluding with the Bosnian war in December 1995. Czechoslovakia separated into Czechia and Slovakia on January 1, 1993. East Germany unified with the Federal Republic on October 3, 1990. The Ottoman sultanate was dissolved in November 1922, leading to the establishment of Turkey on October 29, 1923. British India was divided on August 14-15, 1947, and South Vietnam fell on April 30, 1975. North and South Yemen unified on May 22, 1990.
Key facts
- The Soviet Union formally dissolved on December 26, 1991, into 15 independent states
- Yugoslavia broke apart between 1991 and 2008 into seven countries, including Kosovo, which declared independence in February 2008
- Czechoslovakia split into Czechia and Slovakia at midnight on January 1, 1993, without a referendum
- East Germany joined the Federal Republic of Germany on October 3, 1990, following the Two Plus Four Treaty signed in Moscow on September 12, 1990
- The Republic of Turkey was proclaimed on October 29, 1923, after the sultanate was abolished in November 1922
- British India was partitioned on August 14-15, 1947, along a boundary drawn by the Radcliffe Commission in roughly five weeks
- North and South Yemen merged into the Republic of Yemen on May 22, 1990
- Newfoundland joined Canada as its 10th province on March 31, 1949, after a July 1948 runoff vote of about 52% to 48%
Entities
Artists
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Boris Yeltsin
- Josip Broz Tito
- Václav Havel
- Václav Klaus
- Vladimír Mečiar
- Günter Schabowski
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- Franz Ferdinand
- Franz Joseph
- Karl
- Cyril Radcliffe
- Hari Singh
- Ho Chi Minh
- Ali Abdullah Saleh
- Ali Salim al-Beidh
- Dalai Lama
- Palden Thondup Namgyal
- Jamshid bin Abdullah
- Abeid Karume
- Julius Nyerere
- Joey Smallwood
- Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Ne Win
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Lord Amulree
Institutions
- Quartz
- United Nations
- League of Nations
- NATO
- European Union
- Yugoslav People's Army
- International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
- Civic Democratic Party
- Movement for a Democratic Slovakia
- Škoda Auto
- Volkswagen
- Kia
- Stellantis
- Jaguar Land Rover
- Treuhandanstalt
- Bundestag
- Communist Party
- People's Liberation Army
- People's Republic of China
- Southern Transitional Council
- National League for Democracy
- State Law and Order Restoration Council
- United Arab States
Locations
- Russia
- Ukraine
- Belarus
- Moldova
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Georgia
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan
- Turkmenistan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Tajikistan
- Slovenia
- Croatia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- North Macedonia
- Serbia
- Montenegro
- Kosovo
- Czechia
- Slovakia
- Germany
- Turkey
- Iraq
- Syria
- Lebanon
- Jordan
- Israel
- Austria
- Hungary
- Czechoslovakia
- Poland
- Romania
- Italy
- Yugoslavia
- India
- Pakistan
- Bangladesh
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Tibet
- China
- Sikkim
- Nepal
- Bhutan
- Zanzibar
- Tanzania
- Tanganyika
- Newfoundland
- Canada
- Egypt
- Myanmar
- Burma
- Moscow
- Belovezhskaya Pushcha
- The Hague
- Sarajevo
- Srebrenica
- Dayton
- Ohio
- Paris
- Bratislava
- Žilina
- Trnava
- Nitra
- Mladá Boleslav
- Berlin
- Leipzig
- Hamburg
- Munich
- Stuttgart
- Bonn
- Sanaa
- Aden
- Lhasa
- Chamdo
- Dharamshala
- Gangtok
- St. John's
- Damascus
- Cairo
- Rangoon
- Yangon
- Crimea
- Kashmir
- Suez Canal
Sources
- Quartz —