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The name change was due to the unflattering meaning of the original toponym (something like "Little dirty one"). Astana, Kazakhstan – renamed Nur-Sultan from 2019 to 2022. Kazakhstan's legislature passed a law on 20 March 2019 to rename the Central Asian nation's capital city from Astana to Nur-Sultan.
List of countries and territories by land borders; List of countries and territories by land and maritime borders; List of countries and territories by maritime boundaries; List of international border rivers; List of land borders with dates of establishment; List of political and geographic borders
Over 40% of the world’s borders today were drawn as a result of British and French imperialism. The British and French drew the modern borders of the Middle East, the borders of Africa, and in Asia after the independence of the British Raj and French Indochina and the borders of Europe after World War I as victors, as a result of the Paris ...
Countries by land border length Antarctica and countries in purple are those without any land border. This list gives the number of distinct land borders of each country or territory, as well as the neighboring countries and territories. The length of each border is included, as is the total length of each country's or territory's borders. [1]
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 ...
Socialist Republic of Vietnam (official, English), An Nam (former name in other foreign languages and central Vietnam under French colonization), Champa (historical kingdom), Đại Việt (historical kingdom), Giao Chỉ (former Chinese province or vassal kingdom), French Indochina (former name under French colonization when united with Laos ...
The Republic of Bolivia changes its name to the Plurinational State of Bolivia. [30] 1 April: Albania and Croatia join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the alliance's sixth enlargement. 14 July: China is ceded 9 km 2 (3.5 sq mi) of land by Kyrgyzstan as part of a treaty delimiting the borders between the two countries. [31] [32] 1 ...
Image:BlankMap-World-v4.png – Version of v2, but it increases the size of other tiny countries as well, for visibility purposes, and uses white borders even for the microstates. Image:BlankMap-World-v4-Borders.png – Version of v4 with borders around each country.