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The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the United Nations to partition Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate.Drafted by the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) on 3 September 1947, the Plan was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 29 November 1947 as Resolution 181 (II).
The meaning of the map colors is as follows (a legend caption is available in template form here): Blue = area assigned to a Jewish state in the original UN partition plan, and within the 1949 Israel armistice lines. Green = area assigned to an Arab state in the original UN partition plan, and controlled by Egypt or Jordan from 1949-1967.
Partition reversed Split between the re-established province of Assam and the re-constituted presidency of Bengal Ceylon: 1795 Ceded by the Dutch and subordinated to the Madras presidency of British India: 1798 Separate Crown colony 1948 Independence Now the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka: Dansborg: 1801–02 Occupied 1808–1815 ...
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Asia. It includes fully recognized states, states with limited but substantial international recognition, de facto states with little or no international recognition, and dependencies of both Asian and non-Asian states. In particular, it lists (i) 49 generally recognized sovereign states, all of which are members of the United ...
Sri Lanka: 22 May 1972: Constitution of Sri Lanka: 4 February 1948: Independence from United Kingdom 14 February 1815: De jure: The Kandyan Kingdom is annexed by British Ceylon: 18 May 2009: De facto: The Sri Lankan government regains control of the whole island following the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War. Syria: 27 February 2012 ...
The following chart lists countries and dependencies along with their capital cities, in English and non-English official language(s). In bold: internationally recognized sovereign states. The 193 member states of the United Nations (UN) Vatican City (administered by the Holy See, a UN observer state), which is generally recognized as a ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 January 2025. For the League of Nations, see Member states of the League of Nations. 193 United Nations member states 2 UN General Assembly observer states (the Holy See [a] and the State of Palestine) 2 eligible non-member states (the Cook Islands and Niue) 17 non-self-governing territories ...
1947 Partition may refer to: Partition Plan for Palestine , a United Nations resolution that recommended the creation of independent Arab and Jewish States within Mandatory Palestine. Partition of India , the partition of the British Indian Empire that led to the creation of India and Pakistan.