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11 Country Names That Might Not Exist In The Future

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Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5337771 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy_QZ1EEY4S5YT6cmBTwMwg Twitter: https://twitter.com/NameExplainYT I'm guessing people are going to get angry at this one. That's okay, you're allowed to be angry. Also it could be 12 names not 11 depending if any happens with Moldova and Romania. SOURCES & FURTHER READING 'Nobody calls it Czechia': Czech Republic's new name fails to catch on: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/25/nobody-calls-it-czechia-czech-republic-new-fails-catch-on Czech Republic to be known as 'Czechia': http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36048186 Don't Call Me Stan: http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21597006-president-wants-change-what-country-called-dont-call-me-stan Moldova: Pondering Unification with Romania?: http://www.eurasianet.org/node/74176 How realistic is a union between Romania and Moldova?: http://theblacksea.eu/index.php?idT=88&idC=88&idRec=1196&recType=story EAC Political Federation: http://www.eac.int/integration-pillars/political-federation The language divide at the heart of a split that is tearing Belgium apart: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/09/belgium-flanders-wallonia-french-dutch Most Britons say Brexit vote makes break-up of UK more likely: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/18/majority-britons-believe-brexit-break-up-uk-nicola-sturgeon-theresa-may What would the UK be called without Scotland?: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27867406 PHOTO SOURCES Nursultan Nazarbayev: Ricardo Stuckert Palace of Brussels: Jaume Meneses Library: Gary Tamin Footballs: Matteo Canessa "Mining by Moonlight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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