Setting up a country is a tricky business. You can have your own army, passports, territory, head of state, and legal system and still not count as a real nation. Just ask Kosovo, which remains part of Serbia in the eyes of
nearly half the world, or Somaliland, which is recognized by literally nobody despite having a strong legal case for statehood.
These are just the big names, the ones that get into the news. Step behind the headlines, and you’ll uncover a whole host of nations-in-waiting, crying out for recognition. Some exist very far away. Others are closer to home than you might think.

Okay, am all eyes **quickly grabs my koffkorn**

Pls let the cat out of the bag.....Waiting secretly

make we wait?

10 The Republic Of Lakotah
Imagine you could visit a brand new foreign nation in North America. A country the size of Syria, where non-European languages are spoken; an ancient land that has been home to a proud people for centuries. Well, we’ve got news for you. Lakotah is real and
you can find it in the Midwest.
Stretching over 1,600 kilometers (1,000 mi) across Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota, Lakotah is the ancient tribal homeland of the Lakota Sioux, who considered the Black Hills sacred. Back in the day, the US government agreed. In 1868, the tribe signed a deal with Washington that gave it the right to the territory.
That Montanans aren’t now all speaking Sioux is down to the Gold Rush. Faced with an onslaught of prospectors rushing into the Black Hills, the government quietly forgot all about its own treaty and let the Lakota get kicked off their land. Reviewing the evidence in 1998, the Supreme Court declared “a more ripe and rank case of dishonest dealings may never be found in our history.”
Although the Court offered the Lakota $600 million in compensation, they rejected the money and instead announced they would unilaterally withdraw from the United States. In 2007, the tribe made a formal petition to Washington, asking for its reservations to be joined into a sovereign nation. As of 2015, the Lakota still consider themselves an independent state and are fighting to be recognized internationallyg

Am hia

the official flag of republic of lakotah

OP Please bolden the numbers and countries for legibility

9 THE REPUBLIC OF BALOCHISTAN
August 11, 1947 is an important day in the Baloch region, a vast province that makes up nearly 45 percent of Pakistan. It’s the day that Balochistan
became an independent nation .
At least, that’s the story according to Baloch nationalists. They claim the British recognized the territory as a state just before leaving, only for Pakistan to illegally annex it less than a year later. On the other side, Pakistan claims the four provinces making up Balochistan individually agreed to join their country. Whatever the historical truth is, there’s no doubting that relations between modern Balochistan and its rulers are strained. Following the rape of a local girl by a Pakistani army captain in 2005, the province
exploded into unrest that has gripped it ever since.
At the time of writing, the wannabe nation is under de facto military control , but its government in exile continues to push for either full independence from Pakistan or at least full autonomy. Although most Balochs view Islamabad with suspicion and want to break away, it seems unlikely they will ever achieve this aim.

8 NORTHERN EPIRUS
In 2008, Kosovo declared independence from Serbia and, with the support of Albania, set up its own functioning government. The move outraged Belgrade for a number of reasons, one of which may have been Albania’s hypocrisy. Despite backing Kosovo’s move to statehood, Albania has long ignored the wannabe state in its own south: Northern Epirus . An enclave of 40,000 ethnic Greeks living in Albania, the province has endured uneasy relations with Tirana for decades. Between 1946 and 1986, Greece and Albania were technically in a state of war over its status. As late as 2013, Albania’s foreign minister was complaining that Greece had yet to abolish a law relating to the province that left the two countries in a state of frozen conflict .
Although the goal of Greeks living in Northern Epirus is to become part of Greece, the province already functions as a kind of autonomous state. During the Communist years, the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha gifted the community control of 99 villages in the area. Today, Greeks in the region claim this means they’re now discriminated against by Tirana.

7 ABKHAZIA
What makes a nation? Abkhazia has a distinct ethnic population, borders based on historical boundaries, its own military, a functioning government, a national bank, its own passports, and recognition from at least four UN member nations (Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Nauru). Yet, to over 90 percent of the world, it remains a province of Georgia, the country it
broke away from in a devastating 1992–1993 war. Historically, Abkhazia is as much an independent nation as somewhere like Wales. Between the ninth century and 1008 AD, it operated as a sovereign kingdom, before being subsumed into Georgia and then into Russia. When the USSR collapsed, the people of Abkhazia declared a return to their medieval borders, sparking off a ferocious war with Georgia. As a result of large-scale ethnic cleansing, most Georgians have now fled the province, while most Abkhazians have fled Georgia. Since 1999, it has claimed itself an independent state.
That it hasn’t garnered greater recognition may be due to Russia’s involvement. Since the early 2000s, Russia has been using Abkhazia as a way of irritating its enemy Georgia. Putin even used the wannabe state to
open up a new front against Tbilisi in the 2008 Russia-Georgia war.

6 SOUTH OSSETIA
A tiny stretch of land in the north of Georgia, South Ossetia is barely 4,000 square kilometers (1,500 mi ) of rugged, windswept, mountainous terrain that houses a mere 50,000 people. Yet its citizens believe their territory constitutes an independent nation. They have their own distinct language and are ethnically closer to Russia’s Ossetians than to their fellow Georgians. Like Abkhazia, they also responded to the breakup of the USSR
by declaring independence.
This time, however, the war wasn’t so conclusive. At its end in 1992, South Ossetia was still an uneasy part of Georgia, only now patrolled by peacekeepers from both countries plus Russia. For the next 14 years, the war’s resentments simmered away, until a referendum on autonomy brought them boiling over in 2006. A mere two years later, Georgia sent the tanks in to bring its restive province to heel, only to be chased away when Russia invaded.
Since then, South Ossetia has been de facto independent, with its own government. This state of affairs probably won’t last long. In October 2015, president Leonid Tibilov declared his intention to make the territory a
formal part of Russia.

List to be continued tomorrow gotta catch me some sleep...orun re ni a o sun o,ase.

Following.... (obscure)

never heard of them before!!

**spreads mat with 5 bags of popcorn and 2 Hollandia Yoghurt**

I know of Balochistan,Marrio Balotelli is the president there

I dey hear

kindly confirm the presence of our Jew brothers in those places on your way back....thank you

Kontinu.....

SuperSupremo:
I know of Balochistan,Marrio Balotelli is the president there

Why always me

And some think getting a country is moi moi n beans.

They dont even av defined govt or currency. Awon alainikanse

Biafra

abeg I wan create my own country, just for me and my kids

BIAFRA

5 Barotseland
A stretch of central African floodplain roughly the size of England, Barotseland considers itself the world’s youngest nation state. In March 2012, the Barotse National Council decided to unilaterally declare independence from Zambia over a promise broken nearly 50 years earlier.
According to the Barotseland royal household, its 1964 treaty to join Zambia was supposed to give the kingdom complete autonomy within the country. Up until that point, the region had been an independent nation, recognized as such by the colonial British administration. However, the moment the treaty was signed, Zambia incorporated Barotseland fully, rendering it little more than a regular province with no special status . In the decades since, attempts to agitate for independence have been broken up with beatings and bullets.
This is particularly galling, as Barotseland was once the heart of an Namibia and up into the modern Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as controlling most of Zambia. Although the current royal household only wants a small strip of 126,000 square kilometers (50,000 mi ) returned to it (the whole western province), the government in Lusaka has chosen to ignore its pleas entirely. that stretched from Angola to Namibia and up into the modern Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as controlling most of Zambia. Although the current royal household only wants a small strip of 126,000 square kilometers (50,000 mi ) returned to it (the whole western province), the government in Lusaka has chosen to ignore its pleas entirely.

4 CHINLAND
Comprising the western edge of Myanmar along the border with India and Bangladesh, Chinland is home to around 1.5 million people and more tribes than you can shake a proverbial stick at. There are at least six major ethnic groups in the region, subdivided into 63 tribes that speak around 20 languages. The one thing they all have in common is their historical grievance against Myanmar.
Prior to the 18th century, Chinland’s borders encompassed large tracts of both Myanmar and Bangladesh, along with a chunk of northeastern India. Then the British arrived and conquered everything. Not only did they screw up Chinland’s present, they screwed up its future. When the empire pulled out of the subcontinent in the late 1940s, it left the fledgling nation at the mercy of its bigger neighbors. In no time at all, Chinland was swallowed up by what was then called Burma.
Since then, Chin nationalists have agitated for either a separate state or for Myanmar to become a full federation, granting them exclusive rights . With the government in Naypyidaw currently going through a
once-in-a-lifetime upheaval, it’s impossible to say whether their wish might soon be granted.

olumide81:
kindly confirm the presence of our Jew brothers in those places on your way back....thank you

if you mean Biafra,I'm sorry they are no where near the list.

greatness22:
**spreads mat with 5 bags of popcorn and 2 Hollandia Yoghurt**

only you,don't be stingy oh

3 Degar
Like many others on this list, the Degar were screwed over by the collapse of colonialism. A Christian people based in the central mountains of Vietnam, they had long been persecuted for their religion. That changed with the arrival of the changed with the arrival of the French, who knew them as the Montagnard. The Degar formed an alliance with their colonizers and in return were rewarded with a state of their own .
Drawn up in 1946, the Pays Montagnard du Sud would be ruled by an emperor and be separate from the rest of Vietnam. For a few years, this seemed on the verge of becoming a reality. Then 1954 came, and the French abruptly decided to abandon their ambitions in the region. Before the Degar state could be established, they’d pulled out, leaving a vacuum in their wake.
With the French gone, the Degar allied themselves with US special forces in the region. Soon, they controlled their own bases in the kingdom’s proposed territory, in return for fighting against the Viet Cong. Again, they had hopes of formalizing their nation. Again, history intervened.
After the Vietnam War ended in a Communist victory, the Degar lost everything. Many fled to the US or Cambodia. Today, they consider themselves a repressed minority in Vietnam, still trying to regain the state that history cruelly denied them.

3 DEGAR
Like many others on this list, the Degar were screwed over by the collapse of colonialism. A Christian people based in the central mountains of Vietnam, they had long been persecuted for their religion. That changed with the arrival of the changed with the arrival of the French, who knew them as the Montagnard. The Degar formed an alliance with their colonizers and in return were rewarded with a state of their own .
Drawn up in 1946, the Pays Montagnard du Sud would be ruled by an emperor and be separate from the rest of Vietnam. For a few years, this seemed on the verge of becoming a reality. Then 1954 came, and the French abruptly decided to abandon their ambitions in the region. Before the Degar state could be established, they’d pulled out, leaving a vacuum in their wake.
With the French gone, the Degar allied themselves with US special forces in the region. Soon, they controlled their own bases in the kingdom’s proposed territory, in return for fighting against the Viet Cong. Again, they had hopes of formalizing their nation. Again, history intervened.
After the Vietnam War ended in a Communist victory, the Degar lost everything. Many fled to the US or Cambodia. Today, they consider themselves a repressed minority in Vietnam, still trying to regain the state that history cruelly denied them.

dwilliams:
abeg I wan create my own country, just for me and my kids

you could do it if you are committed...you don't even need to have a big land just know that by the age of 200 your dream would've come through.