List of divided nations

This is a list of nations, which may 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.

List of divided nations

Current divided nations by ethnic group
Ainu people
*Divided between two countries after Japanese and Russian colonization.
** - encompasses 2 areas: and HonshÅ«
** - encompasses 2 areas:Kamchatka peninsula and Sakhalin.
* Flag of the Ainu Nation

Armenian people
*Divided amongst two countries.
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** (de facto independent state, but officially part of )

Assyrian people
*Divided amongst four countries.
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Baloch people
*Divided amongst three countries.
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Basque people
*Divided amongst two countries.
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*Proposed country: Euskal Herria

Berber people
*Divided amongst nine countries.
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Bengali people
*Divided amongst two countries.
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Catalan people
*Divided amongst three countries.
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Inuit
*Divided amongst three countries.
** - encompasses 3 areas: (a territory in Canada), Nunavik (the northern part of ), Nunatsiavut (the Inuit settlement region in Labrador),
** - encompasses 1 area:
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Irish people
*Divided amongst two countries
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Kashmiri people
*Divided amongst three countries.
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Kurdish people
*Divided amongst four countries.
** - Iranian Kurdistan encompasses 4 areas: West Azarbaijan, Kurdistan Province, Kermanshah, and Ilam
** - Iraqi Kurdistan encompasses 3 areas: Arbil, Dahuk, and As Sulaymaniyah
** - Syrian Kurdistan encompasses 1 area: Al Hasakah
** - Turkish Kurdistan encompasses 17 areas: Erzincan, Erzurum, Kars, Malatya, Tunceli, , Bingöl, , , AdÄ±yaman, DiyarbakÄ±r, Siirt, Bitlis, Van, , Mardin and Hakkâri
*Proposed country:

Mayan people
* Divided by Spanish and British colonization.
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Punjabi people
*Divided amongst two countries.
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Pashtun people
*Divided amongst two countries.
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*Proposed country: Pashtunistan

Sami people
*Divided after Finnish and Scandinavian settlement. Located in the northern areas of:
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*Proposed country:

Somali people
*Divided and added to other countries by Colonialism during The Scramble for Africa.
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** de facto independent state, but officially part of Somalia
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Tamil people
*Divided amongst two countries.
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Current divided nations by territory
China
*Divided by the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
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** (recognized only by 25 countries; see political status of Taiwan)
*** (now part of Russia), part of northern Burma, and Outer Mongolia (now the independent state of ) are also within the official borders of the ROC.

Cyprus
*De facto divided by the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974.
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** (only recognized by Turkey)
*22x20px Proposed flag of the United Cyprus Republic

Georgia
*De facto divided
** (recognized by no countries)
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Greater Mongolia
*Divided in the 17th century due to Manchurian invasion.
** (formerly Outer Mongolia)
**Inner Mongolia (autonomous region in China)

India
*Divided since the Partition of India in 1947.
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** separated in 1947.
** separated from Pakistan since the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.

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.
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Korea
*Divided by the Korean War in 1953.
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Malaysia
*Divided after the expulsion of Singapore in 1965.
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Marianas Islands
*Divided within the United States.
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New Guinea
*Divided after British, Dutch and German colonialization.
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**Papua (province of Indonesia)

Ossetia
*Divided between Russia and Georgia.
** (autonomous republic within Russia)
** (de facto independent state, but officially part of Georgia)

Pakistan
See: India

Palestine
*Divided by the 1947 UN Partition Plan
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Samoan Islands
*Divided by the Second Samoan Civil War in 1898.
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** (a territory of the United States)

Somalia
Divided by the Somali Civil War in 1991.
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* de facto independent state, but officially part of Somalia.

Dissolved countries
Czechoslovakia
* Split in 1993 by federal parliament.
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Federation of Arab Republics
* Dissolved after disagreements in 1977.
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Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
* Dissolved in 1963.
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Greater Colombia
*20px Abolished in 1831.
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Peru-Bolivian Confederation
* Divided by the War of the Confederation in 1839
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Serbia and Montenegro
* Dissolved in 2006 after Montenegrin independence referendum.
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Soviet Union
* Dissolved by Belavezha Accords in 1991.
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United Arab Republic
* Dissolved after the secession of Syria in 1961.
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United Arab States
*Dissolved in 1961.
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United Provinces of Central America
* Dissolved after the members declared independence in 1840 to 1841.
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West Indies Federation
* Dissolved in 1962 due to disillusionment and internal conflicts.
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Kingdom of Yugoslavia
* Divided by the Invasion of Yugoslavia during World War II
**Independent State of Croatia
**Independent State of Montenegro
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Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
* Divided by the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s and subsequent peaceful processes
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Former divided nations
Germany
*Divided by World War II in 1945; reunified in 1990 into the .
** (West Germany)
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Italy
*Divided by World War II in 1943; reunified in 1945 into the Kingdom of Italy.
** Kingdom of Italy
** Italian Social Republic

United States
*Divided by American Civil War in 1860; reunified in 1865 into the .
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Vietnam
*Divided by the Geneva Conference in 1954; reunified in 1976 after the Vietnam War into the .
** (North Vietnam)
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Yemen
*Divided by Ottoman Empire and British Empire; reunified in 1990 into the .
** People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen)
** Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen)

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