The following excerpt is from an article written by Sophie-Claire Hoeller and posted August 12, 2015 at businessinsider.com. Pretty fascinating…
There’s nothing quite like the bragging rights of a new, exotic stamp in your passport. However, that won’t be happening with the following countries, which, as of astonishingly recently, no longer exist.
Whether they lost wars, were adopted by other countries, or simply got forgotten, here are nine countries that ceased to exist in the 20th century.
I found it interesting that seven of the nine disappeared during my lifetime…
