Redraw the world map with half as many countries
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Restore the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, unite North and South Korea. Oh, and East African Federation.
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CthulhuFhtagn
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Annex every country with fewer than 9 million people into one of their larger neighbors (Paraguay into Argentina, Latvia into Russia, Bahamas into the USA, etc.). That should do it.
Federalize the Pacific Islands and the Caribbean. The Caribbean gets rid of 10-13 (depending on how you want to treat Cuba and Hispaniola), Melanesia is 4-5 (with Papua either connected or disconnected), Micronesia is 5 more, and Polynesia has 3-4, depending on how NZ is counted.
So if we keep the major ones independent, that's already 15 countries down.
Annex Andorra, Monaco, Vatican City, Liechtenstein, and San Marino into their closest neighbors (Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Italy again), and that's 4 more, for a total of 19
Comoros, Mauritius, Seychelles, and some of the nearby colonies can be combined into the East African Islands Union, that gets rid of 2 more for 21
The Gambia should be an autonomous area within Senegal. There's no real reason for it to be separate. 22.
Sao Tome and Principe can join Equatorial Guinea. They both speak Portuguese (okay, EG actually doesn't, but it claims to, so that's close enough.) 23.
Guinea-bissau ought to be part of Guinea. 24.
Cape Verde might as well rejoin Portugal now that Salazar's been dead for a generation and a half. 25.
Liberia and Sierra Leone can join up, given their close ties and history. 26.
Belize ought to join the Caribbean, Guatemala, or Mexico. 27.
Ruanda-urundi can be one country again. 28.
Guyana and Suriname don't have much reason to exist separately; join 'em up. 29.
Lesotho and Swaziland can both join South Africa. It'll probably be good for both of them. 31.
Central African Republic. Why is it a thing? Annex it to big Congo. Done. 32.
Djibouti can join any of its 3 neighbors. It's barely even a country anyway. 33.
Maldives can join India. 34
Togo and Benin are separate. Why? 35.
Bhutan and Nepal can join India. They're really close, anyway. 37.
Niger and Chad can federalize. Bond over their shared French and Islam. 38.
Bring back the federation of Nyasaland and Rhodesia, but obviously don't call it that. Zambia, Malawi, and Zimbabwe all under one state. 40.
Laotian culture is really close to Thai. Just join 'em. 41.
Montenegro can either rejoin Serbia or be part of Bosnia-Herzegovina. It's barely even a country. 42.
Kosovo can go to Albania. Serbia already got Montenegro, so they shouldn't complain. 43.
Mauritania... where to put you? A desert country with slavery and shit. Meh, just give it mostly to Mali, and the south can go to Senegal. 44.
Guinea and Guinea-Bissau aren't even that distinct when together. Join them to Senegambia, call it the West African Federation. 45.
Moldova goes to Romania. 46.
You know what? Equatorial Guinea shouldn't even be a country. Cameroon already has French and English, let's give it Spanish. 47.
Mali-Mauritania and Niger-Chad can join up. Hell, throw Burkina Faso in there, too. Call it the Federation of the Sahel. 49.
You know what? I liked the UPCA. Bring it back, with Panama thrown in. 54.
Malta is barely big enough to be a country. Let them join whoever they want. 55.
South Sudan can join the other poor central african nations in the Federation of the Central Congo, with the DRC and CAR. 56.
Why is Mongolia independent? They're practically a part of China anyways. 57.
Tajikistan ought to join Afghanistan. They both speak Persian. 58.
Little Congo and Gabon go together like peas in a pod. 59.
Mozambique can join the other Southeast African countries. Call it the Republic of Zambezia. 60.
Namibia can go back to South Africa. You know what? So can Botswana. 62.
I've been holding off on it, but I don't think I can avoid it any more. Kenya, Uganda, Ruanda-urundi, and Tanzania can join in the EAF. 65.
Federalize the Baltics. 67.
Brunei and Singapore can join malaysia, 69.
Fuck it, Nigeria can gobble up Benin-Togo and Cameroon. Ghana too. Make a nice Union of Biafra. 71.
Sierra Leone-Liberia can just join Cote d'Ivoire. I don't think they'd mind too much. 72.
Cyprus has no reason to be independent now that Greece is no longer fascist. It can go back to Greece. 73.
Federate Benelux. 75.
Uruguay to Argentina. 76.
Tunisia can join Algeria. 77.
Slovenia-Croatia. 78.
Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and the UAE to Saudi Arabia. 82.
Sri Lanka to India. 83.
Bosnia-Herzegovina to Croatia-Slovenia. 84. Macedonia to either Serbia or Bulgaria, whichever makes them whine less. 85.
Sudan to Egypt. Fuck it. 86.
Belarus-Russia-Kazakhstan Union State. 88.
Czechoslovakia and Poland can federate into the Polish-Czechoslovakian Commonwealth. 90.
Azerbaijan can join Turkey. 91.
GRAN COLOMBIA (minus Panama), 93
Bangladesh to India. 94.
Libya to Egypt. 95.
Morocco and Algeria-Tunisia to Maghrebi Federation. 96.
UNITED KOREA 97.
Australia-New Zealand, 98.
Portugal-Spain, 99
Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, and Norway can federalize into Scandinavia. 102.
Anschluss Austria to Germany. 103
There. 103 countries removed.
So if we keep the major ones independent, that's already 15 countries down.
Annex Andorra, Monaco, Vatican City, Liechtenstein, and San Marino into their closest neighbors (Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Italy again), and that's 4 more, for a total of 19
Comoros, Mauritius, Seychelles, and some of the nearby colonies can be combined into the East African Islands Union, that gets rid of 2 more for 21
The Gambia should be an autonomous area within Senegal. There's no real reason for it to be separate. 22.
Sao Tome and Principe can join Equatorial Guinea. They both speak Portuguese (okay, EG actually doesn't, but it claims to, so that's close enough.) 23.
Guinea-bissau ought to be part of Guinea. 24.
Cape Verde might as well rejoin Portugal now that Salazar's been dead for a generation and a half. 25.
Liberia and Sierra Leone can join up, given their close ties and history. 26.
Belize ought to join the Caribbean, Guatemala, or Mexico. 27.
Ruanda-urundi can be one country again. 28.
Guyana and Suriname don't have much reason to exist separately; join 'em up. 29.
Lesotho and Swaziland can both join South Africa. It'll probably be good for both of them. 31.
Central African Republic. Why is it a thing? Annex it to big Congo. Done. 32.
Djibouti can join any of its 3 neighbors. It's barely even a country anyway. 33.
Maldives can join India. 34
Togo and Benin are separate. Why? 35.
Bhutan and Nepal can join India. They're really close, anyway. 37.
Niger and Chad can federalize. Bond over their shared French and Islam. 38.
Bring back the federation of Nyasaland and Rhodesia, but obviously don't call it that. Zambia, Malawi, and Zimbabwe all under one state. 40.
Laotian culture is really close to Thai. Just join 'em. 41.
Montenegro can either rejoin Serbia or be part of Bosnia-Herzegovina. It's barely even a country. 42.
Kosovo can go to Albania. Serbia already got Montenegro, so they shouldn't complain. 43.
Mauritania... where to put you? A desert country with slavery and shit. Meh, just give it mostly to Mali, and the south can go to Senegal. 44.
Guinea and Guinea-Bissau aren't even that distinct when together. Join them to Senegambia, call it the West African Federation. 45.
Moldova goes to Romania. 46.
You know what? Equatorial Guinea shouldn't even be a country. Cameroon already has French and English, let's give it Spanish. 47.
Mali-Mauritania and Niger-Chad can join up. Hell, throw Burkina Faso in there, too. Call it the Federation of the Sahel. 49.
You know what? I liked the UPCA. Bring it back, with Panama thrown in. 54.
Malta is barely big enough to be a country. Let them join whoever they want. 55.
South Sudan can join the other poor central african nations in the Federation of the Central Congo, with the DRC and CAR. 56.
Why is Mongolia independent? They're practically a part of China anyways. 57.
Tajikistan ought to join Afghanistan. They both speak Persian. 58.
Little Congo and Gabon go together like peas in a pod. 59.
Mozambique can join the other Southeast African countries. Call it the Republic of Zambezia. 60.
Namibia can go back to South Africa. You know what? So can Botswana. 62.
I've been holding off on it, but I don't think I can avoid it any more. Kenya, Uganda, Ruanda-urundi, and Tanzania can join in the EAF. 65.
Federalize the Baltics. 67.
Brunei and Singapore can join malaysia, 69.
Fuck it, Nigeria can gobble up Benin-Togo and Cameroon. Ghana too. Make a nice Union of Biafra. 71.
Sierra Leone-Liberia can just join Cote d'Ivoire. I don't think they'd mind too much. 72.
Cyprus has no reason to be independent now that Greece is no longer fascist. It can go back to Greece. 73.
Federate Benelux. 75.
Uruguay to Argentina. 76.
Tunisia can join Algeria. 77.
Slovenia-Croatia. 78.
Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and the UAE to Saudi Arabia. 82.
Sri Lanka to India. 83.
Bosnia-Herzegovina to Croatia-Slovenia. 84. Macedonia to either Serbia or Bulgaria, whichever makes them whine less. 85.
Sudan to Egypt. Fuck it. 86.
Belarus-Russia-Kazakhstan Union State. 88.
Czechoslovakia and Poland can federate into the Polish-Czechoslovakian Commonwealth. 90.
Azerbaijan can join Turkey. 91.
GRAN COLOMBIA (minus Panama), 93
Bangladesh to India. 94.
Libya to Egypt. 95.
Morocco and Algeria-Tunisia to Maghrebi Federation. 96.
UNITED KOREA 97.
Australia-New Zealand, 98.
Portugal-Spain, 99
Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, and Norway can federalize into Scandinavia. 102.
Anschluss Austria to Germany. 103
There. 103 countries removed.
Here is my version:
Abhakhazia and South Ossetia remain part of Georgia (204)
Northern Cyprus Joins Turkey, Southern Cyprus Joins Greece (202)
Kosovo Joins Albania (201)
Somaliland Joins Somalia (200)
Western Sahara annexed by Morocco (199)
Israel and Palestine join together (198)
South Sudan remains part of Sudan (197)
Eritrea remains part of Ethiopia (196)
United Arab States Survives to the Present Day (194)
The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is annexed by Azerbaijan (193)
Korea remains united (192)
Bhutan becomes a state of India (191)
Iceland remains a colony of Denmark (190)
Czechoslovakia remains united (189)
Senegambia remains United (188)
Mali Federation remains United (187)
Union of African States remains United (185)
Monaco annexed by France (184)
Vatican remains part of Italy (183)
Colombia negotiates a lease on the Panama Canal (182)
Singapore remains part of Malaysia (181)
Soviet Union survives with Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus (178)
Norway remains a part of Sweden (177)
Cuba becomes a U.S. State (176)
Gran Colombia survives (174)
United Provinces of Central America Survives (170)
West Indies Federation Survives (163)
Rest of British Caribbean joins the West Indies (162)
Belize and Guyana join the West Indies (160)
East African Community Federalizes (156)
Caucasus remain part of the USSR (153)
Brunei joins Malaysia (152)
The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands remains part of the USA (149)
Transnitria remains part of Moldova (148)
Peru-Bolivia Confederation survives (147)
Hispaniola joins the West Indies Federation (145)
Arab Maghreb Union survives (141)
China becomes a Democratic state, unites with Taiwan (140)
Arab League Federalizes (126)
Central Asia remains part of the USSR (120)
ECOWAS joins the Union of African States (110)
Yugoslavia remains united (105)
Albania joins Yugoslavia (104)
Suriname joins the West Indies (103)
Abhakhazia and South Ossetia remain part of Georgia (204)
Northern Cyprus Joins Turkey, Southern Cyprus Joins Greece (202)
Kosovo Joins Albania (201)
Somaliland Joins Somalia (200)
Western Sahara annexed by Morocco (199)
Israel and Palestine join together (198)
South Sudan remains part of Sudan (197)
Eritrea remains part of Ethiopia (196)
United Arab States Survives to the Present Day (194)
The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is annexed by Azerbaijan (193)
Korea remains united (192)
Bhutan becomes a state of India (191)
Iceland remains a colony of Denmark (190)
Czechoslovakia remains united (189)
Senegambia remains United (188)
Mali Federation remains United (187)
Union of African States remains United (185)
Monaco annexed by France (184)
Vatican remains part of Italy (183)
Colombia negotiates a lease on the Panama Canal (182)
Singapore remains part of Malaysia (181)
Soviet Union survives with Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus (178)
Norway remains a part of Sweden (177)
Cuba becomes a U.S. State (176)
Gran Colombia survives (174)
United Provinces of Central America Survives (170)
West Indies Federation Survives (163)
Rest of British Caribbean joins the West Indies (162)
Belize and Guyana join the West Indies (160)
East African Community Federalizes (156)
Caucasus remain part of the USSR (153)
Brunei joins Malaysia (152)
The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands remains part of the USA (149)
Transnitria remains part of Moldova (148)
Peru-Bolivia Confederation survives (147)
Hispaniola joins the West Indies Federation (145)
Arab Maghreb Union survives (141)
China becomes a Democratic state, unites with Taiwan (140)
Arab League Federalizes (126)
Central Asia remains part of the USSR (120)
ECOWAS joins the Union of African States (110)
Yugoslavia remains united (105)
Albania joins Yugoslavia (104)
Suriname joins the West Indies (103)
Cool! Tsochar, I'd love to see a map of yours (I'd make it myself but GIMP keeps hanging on me). I like that neither of you took the cop out of uniting existing supranational federations. Out of curiosity, here are the results:
The 28 European Union states federalize, bringing the number of states down to 179. The Union of South American Nations (12), Central American Integration System (8), and Association of South East Asian Nations (10) follow, bringing the number of states down to 152. Putin recreates the Soviet Union in the guise of the Eurasian Union, which includes Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. The number of states now stands at 147.
Then the East African Federation happens. Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, and Rwanda put aside their differences to bring the number of countries in the world down to 143. The Islamic Stating, noting the importance of this task, successfully incorporates Syria and Iraq into its territory and uses them as a base from which to incorporate the Arabia and North Africa. Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Chad, Niger, Mali, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, and Burkina Faso join the new caliphate (22). The number of countries now stands at 126.
Europe integrates the balkans and accepts Norway and Iceland as members. It splits Ukraine with the Eurasian Union. The number of countries now stands at 117. The Eurasian Union annexes Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan, bringing the number of countries to 114. China goes expansionist, annexing Taiwan, Mongolia, and Nepal. India takes Bhutan, Sir Lanka, and the Maldives. The number of countries stands at 108. The European Union adds the micro-states of Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Liechtenstein, and the Vatican to its federation, bringing the number of countries down 103. Huzzah!
I'm thinking this should be about half of em' gone. I had no clue what was and wasn't counted as a country so I just went with erasing stuff for a while until I lost interest. There's some real stuff, some less than real stuff and some plain odd stuff. None of the colours are correct either because I couldn't be arsed to get an RCS key out.
Okay, here is my stab, based on basically all OTL possibilities or near-possibilities (sorted by region with a cumulative total in brackets):
Americas:
Santo Domingo/Dominican Republic is annexed to the United States in the 1870s (-1 country)
The 1896 Republic of Central America does not dissolve in 1898 and instead in 1921 Guatemala and Costa Rica rejoin (-5 countries)
Cuba is annexed to the United States in the 1890s or early 1900s (-6 countries)
Panama does not successfully secede from Colombia after Colombia comes to an agreement on the Canal Zone with the US (-7 countries)
West Indies Federation does not dissolve and instead the Bahamas, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, British Honduras and British Guiana join it (and Anguilla never gets separated from St. Kitts and Nevis) (-23 countries)
Africa and the Middle East:
The UAR between Egypt and Syria does not dissolve(-24 countries); North Yemen joins the UAR in the late 1960s following the success of the Unified Political Command (-25 countries); Iraq joins the UAR in the late 1960s following the success of the other Unified Political Command (-26 countries); Libya and Tunisia form the Arab Islamic Republic in 1974 (-27 countries); The UAR and AIR form the Federation of Arab Republics (FAR) in 1976 (-28 countries) and Sudan* joins the FAR in 1977; South Yemen unites with the FAR in 1990 (-29 countries)
*Sudan is given independence in 1956 while the southern three provinces remain a colony and are attached to the East African common services (such as the East African Court of Appeal, etc). In 1961 Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Southern Sudan form the East African Federation (-32 countries)
British and Italian Somalilands gain independence and form Somalia. French Somaliland is later joined to it in the 1960s/1970s. (-33 countries)
Barthélémy Boganda of what in OTL became the Central African Republic proposes a "United States of Latin Africa" in 1957 but doesn't die in a mysterious plane crash in 1959. He and his successors (via some handwavium and the initial desire for African unity in the 1960s) manage to get Chad (1960), Congo-Brazzaville (1960), Congo-Leopoldville (1960), Gabon (1960), Rwanda (1962), Burundi (1962) on board over time (-39 countries), but they fail to convince Equatorial Guinea (1968) and Angola (1975) to join and it later becomes the Francophone "Federal Republic of Central Africa" (Note this is not a stable country and is full of various rebel groups and has had quite a few civil conflicts)
Mali Federation between French Soudan and Senegal does not dissolve in 1960 (-40 countries)
Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde gain independence and form a union (having been run by the same political party which was interested in unifying the two countries anyway up until 1980) called Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (-41 countries)
King Hassan II of Morocco gains Ifni, the Tarfaya Strip, the Rif (most of Spanish Morocco) as well as in the 1970s, most of Spanish Sahara, followed by all of Mauritania when it collapsed into civil war in 1978 and Moroccan forces intervened. (-43 countries)
Eritrean and Ethiopia rebels overthrow the communist government in Ethiopia and work out a new federal arrangement in the late 1980s (-44 countries)
British place Bechuanaland, Swaziland and Basutoland under the Union of South Africa. South-West Africa is also annexed to South Africa (not recognized). After apartheid, the Bantustans (including an enlarged Botswana, Swaziland and Lesotho) rejoin South Africa and Namibia hold a referendum on joining the new democratic South Africa (which passes in favour). (-48 countries)
Qatar and Bahrain and the other Trucial Oman emirates agree on a plan of Federation in 1971 to form the United Arab Emirates (-50 countries)
Asia:
East Bengal does not separate from Pakistan after East Bengali concerns are addressed in the late 1960s/early 1970s (-51 countries)
The Indochinese Communist Party does not split into its constituent parts and instead fights for an independent and unified (and communist) Indochinese federation. Eventually after much bloodshed this happens. (-53 countries)
The Nationalists don't escape to Taiwan and are completely defeated on Mainland China (-54 countries)
Korean reunification occurs in the 1990s after the USSR and China agree to it on the condition of US withdrawal of forces from Korea and Korean neutrality (-55 countries)
Brunei joins Malaysia and Singapore is not expelled from Malaysia (-57 countries)
The Maphilindo initiative isn't killed off by Sukarno's Confrontation and eventually develops into a real political union of Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines (-59 countries)
The Pacific:
Micronesia, Palau and the Marshall Islands don't vote for independence and instead become US territories (-62 countries)
a Pacific Islands Federation is formed from the British, Australian and some New Zealand possessions in the Pacific (first through a smaller Pacific Federation of most of Britain's Pacific possessions and a Melanesian federation of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands and then a wider Pacific Federation involving what are now Fiji, Tonga, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Nauru and Samoa) (-70 countries)
Europe and northern Eurasia:
Albania joins Yugoslavia in 1947 (-71 countries)
Czechoslovakia does not split (-72 countries)
Germany reunites in 1990
Cyprus attempts to unite with Greece in the 1960s/1970s and the Turks invade and occupy the northern half. After the rump Cyprus unites with Greece, the northern Turkish part of Cyprus votes to unite with Turkey. (-73 countries)
Malta fully integrates with the United Kingdom by 1960 (-74 countries)
The USSR does not split (so this removes Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia and Abkhazia as well) and Bulgaria joins the USSR in the mid 1960s (-92 countries)
Yugoslavia does not split so no Kosovo, Bosnia, etc (-99 countries)
Following Coudenhove-Kalergi's parliamentary poll on European Federation to 4,000 MPs of Western European parliaments in 1946-1947 he gets 1,735 answers of which 52 are negative and the rest positive. With Italy receiving the most positive responses (64.5% in favour), followed by Luxembourg, Greece, Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland with percentages greater than 50% (the UK, Austria and Ireland returned results under 30% and Denmark, Sweden and Norway returned results under 15%, in keeping especially with Norwegian rebuffs of Swedish attempts to establish a post-war Scandinavian federation); Italy, France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands commit themselves to eventually establishing a European Federation. This is eventually achieved in 1995 through progressively ever closer union. (-103 countries)
Americas:
Santo Domingo/Dominican Republic is annexed to the United States in the 1870s (-1 country)
The 1896 Republic of Central America does not dissolve in 1898 and instead in 1921 Guatemala and Costa Rica rejoin (-5 countries)
Cuba is annexed to the United States in the 1890s or early 1900s (-6 countries)
Panama does not successfully secede from Colombia after Colombia comes to an agreement on the Canal Zone with the US (-7 countries)
West Indies Federation does not dissolve and instead the Bahamas, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, British Honduras and British Guiana join it (and Anguilla never gets separated from St. Kitts and Nevis) (-23 countries)
Africa and the Middle East:
The UAR between Egypt and Syria does not dissolve(-24 countries); North Yemen joins the UAR in the late 1960s following the success of the Unified Political Command (-25 countries); Iraq joins the UAR in the late 1960s following the success of the other Unified Political Command (-26 countries); Libya and Tunisia form the Arab Islamic Republic in 1974 (-27 countries); The UAR and AIR form the Federation of Arab Republics (FAR) in 1976 (-28 countries) and Sudan* joins the FAR in 1977; South Yemen unites with the FAR in 1990 (-29 countries)
*Sudan is given independence in 1956 while the southern three provinces remain a colony and are attached to the East African common services (such as the East African Court of Appeal, etc). In 1961 Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Southern Sudan form the East African Federation (-32 countries)
British and Italian Somalilands gain independence and form Somalia. French Somaliland is later joined to it in the 1960s/1970s. (-33 countries)
Barthélémy Boganda of what in OTL became the Central African Republic proposes a "United States of Latin Africa" in 1957 but doesn't die in a mysterious plane crash in 1959. He and his successors (via some handwavium and the initial desire for African unity in the 1960s) manage to get Chad (1960), Congo-Brazzaville (1960), Congo-Leopoldville (1960), Gabon (1960), Rwanda (1962), Burundi (1962) on board over time (-39 countries), but they fail to convince Equatorial Guinea (1968) and Angola (1975) to join and it later becomes the Francophone "Federal Republic of Central Africa" (Note this is not a stable country and is full of various rebel groups and has had quite a few civil conflicts)
Mali Federation between French Soudan and Senegal does not dissolve in 1960 (-40 countries)
Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde gain independence and form a union (having been run by the same political party which was interested in unifying the two countries anyway up until 1980) called Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (-41 countries)
King Hassan II of Morocco gains Ifni, the Tarfaya Strip, the Rif (most of Spanish Morocco) as well as in the 1970s, most of Spanish Sahara, followed by all of Mauritania when it collapsed into civil war in 1978 and Moroccan forces intervened. (-43 countries)
Eritrean and Ethiopia rebels overthrow the communist government in Ethiopia and work out a new federal arrangement in the late 1980s (-44 countries)
British place Bechuanaland, Swaziland and Basutoland under the Union of South Africa. South-West Africa is also annexed to South Africa (not recognized). After apartheid, the Bantustans (including an enlarged Botswana, Swaziland and Lesotho) rejoin South Africa and Namibia hold a referendum on joining the new democratic South Africa (which passes in favour). (-48 countries)
Qatar and Bahrain and the other Trucial Oman emirates agree on a plan of Federation in 1971 to form the United Arab Emirates (-50 countries)
Asia:
East Bengal does not separate from Pakistan after East Bengali concerns are addressed in the late 1960s/early 1970s (-51 countries)
The Indochinese Communist Party does not split into its constituent parts and instead fights for an independent and unified (and communist) Indochinese federation. Eventually after much bloodshed this happens. (-53 countries)
The Nationalists don't escape to Taiwan and are completely defeated on Mainland China (-54 countries)
Korean reunification occurs in the 1990s after the USSR and China agree to it on the condition of US withdrawal of forces from Korea and Korean neutrality (-55 countries)
Brunei joins Malaysia and Singapore is not expelled from Malaysia (-57 countries)
The Maphilindo initiative isn't killed off by Sukarno's Confrontation and eventually develops into a real political union of Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines (-59 countries)
The Pacific:
Micronesia, Palau and the Marshall Islands don't vote for independence and instead become US territories (-62 countries)
a Pacific Islands Federation is formed from the British, Australian and some New Zealand possessions in the Pacific (first through a smaller Pacific Federation of most of Britain's Pacific possessions and a Melanesian federation of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands and then a wider Pacific Federation involving what are now Fiji, Tonga, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Nauru and Samoa) (-70 countries)
Europe and northern Eurasia:
Albania joins Yugoslavia in 1947 (-71 countries)
Czechoslovakia does not split (-72 countries)
Germany reunites in 1990
Cyprus attempts to unite with Greece in the 1960s/1970s and the Turks invade and occupy the northern half. After the rump Cyprus unites with Greece, the northern Turkish part of Cyprus votes to unite with Turkey. (-73 countries)
Malta fully integrates with the United Kingdom by 1960 (-74 countries)
The USSR does not split (so this removes Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia and Abkhazia as well) and Bulgaria joins the USSR in the mid 1960s (-92 countries)
Yugoslavia does not split so no Kosovo, Bosnia, etc (-99 countries)
Following Coudenhove-Kalergi's parliamentary poll on European Federation to 4,000 MPs of Western European parliaments in 1946-1947 he gets 1,735 answers of which 52 are negative and the rest positive. With Italy receiving the most positive responses (64.5% in favour), followed by Luxembourg, Greece, Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland with percentages greater than 50% (the UK, Austria and Ireland returned results under 30% and Denmark, Sweden and Norway returned results under 15%, in keeping especially with Norwegian rebuffs of Swedish attempts to establish a post-war Scandinavian federation); Italy, France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands commit themselves to eventually establishing a European Federation. This is eventually achieved in 1995 through progressively ever closer union. (-103 countries)
Wait, why did Belgium annex the Netherlands (and Luxembourg) rather than the other way around? The Netherlands have more people than the other two combined, so if that union would get any color, it would be orange.
Poland can into space-filling empire !
Just use the Visegrad Union, like in one of my TLs. You'll throw Hungary into the mix as well and instantly reduce the number of participating countries.
Gian
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My attempt to halve the numbers.
Americas
1) The governments of Central America (except Panama, who instead decide to pursue "reconciliation talks" with Colombia) begin forming a close political union that eventually winds up creating a single federation by 1995. Belize also joins too. (5)
2) The West Indies Federation does not collapse, and instead brings in other colonies and even the nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic together. British and Dutch Guiana (despite being in South America) join this union in 1976, and the U.S. commonwealth of Puerto Rico votes to join the Federation in 1990. (19)
3) By 2001, Panama finally votes in a referendum to rejoin Colombia. (20)
4) Brazil's military government finally decides to "pull off a Galtieri" and declares war on Uruguay in 1984. By May, the country is fully occupied and is reintegrated as the state of Cisplatina. The war manages to surge the generals' popularity (though by 1992, they are forced to cede power to a newly restored Brazilian monarchy). While this goes on, Argentina sneakily snatches the Falklands; why Britain did not act is unknown. (21)
Africa and the Middle East
5) Britain decides to give to the Union of South Africa all of Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland, and in the 1960s, President Verwoerd annexes Soutwest Africa (though it is unrecognized). After apartheid, the Bantustans (which include expanded Swaziland, Lesotho, and Bophuthatswana) all "rejoin" South Africa, while Namibia votes to legally join SA (25)
5) Rhodesian President Ian Smith sends troops to Zambia and Nyasaland (Malawi) in order to "reunify the two Rhodesias". Militarily, he suceeds, though the anger against his white-minority government ensures Robert Mugabe's rise to power in the "Union of Zambezia" (27)
6) The East African Union is formed with Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi as initial members. Over time, the union morphs into a federation (31)
7) Mussolini decides to stay neutral, and as a result, Italian East Africa stays intact and after the Duce's death, becomes the Kingdom of Ethiopia (under a personal union with the King of Italy). Italy was given Malta, Tunisia (which later declares independence), and French and British Somaliland in order to stay neutral. (35)
8) Increased Jewish immigration into Palestine (and especially Transjordan; spearheaded by Irgun) leads to the Great Arab Defeat of 1948, where a newly independent Israel seizes all of Palestine and Transjordan, as well as the Sinai. (37)
9) Western indifference in 1991 leads to Saddam Hussein keeping his Kuwaiti conquests (38)
10) Qatar and Bahrain were invited to the negotiations that led to the formation of the UAE (40)
11) Sudan's civil war escalates by several degrees, leading Egypt to seize northern Sudan (perhaps to make up for the loss of the Sinai to Israel). The southerners become independent, and later join the East African Federation when it does form. (41)
12) With Gaddafi's support, the Central African Empire declares war on Chad (to unite the lands of French Equatorial Africa under Emperor Bokassa I). They succeed, and Libya gains the Aouzou Strip as part of their agreement (42)
13) The FLN fail to dislodge the French from Algeria, leading to French Algeria surviving to this very day. (43)
14) Morroco takes Ifni, Tarfaya, and Western Sahara, but fails to dislodge the Spaniards from the Rif when Franco turns to Mussolini for protection. (44)
15) The Federation of Mali doesn't die off, and instead Gambia joins as well in 1975, as well as Mauretania after a brutal civil war leads to Malian intervention (47)
16) Charles Taylor's machinations wind up bringing the RUC to power in Sierra Leone. With Foday Sankoh at the helm, the country gets dragged into a union with Liberia (48)
17) Franco and Salazar retain control of Fernando Pó (Spain), Cape Verde, Sao Tome, and Cabinda (all Portugal) (51)
Europe
18) As aforementioned in 7), Italy receives Malta in exchange for Mussolini's neutrality (53)
19) The Benelux nations form a close political union that becomes the second bedrock (besides the main Franco-German friendship) of the European Union. As for the countries themselves, they grow closer until it finally unites (55)
20) The Balkan Federation is formed under Tito (despite the Tito-Soviet split by 1950). Though still communist, it becomes largely pro-Western, and by 1980 has abandoned communism altogether. (63)
21) After lengthy negotiations, the military regimes of Greece and Turkey decide to divide Cyprus between them. Turkey gains the northern half, Greece the southern half (not counting of course, the SBAs of Akrotiri and Dhekelia) (65)
22) The Soviets decide to set up an independent East Austria, with the other Western powers forced to prop up a West Germany that combines the three nations's occupation zones in Germany and Austria. After the Iron Curtian falls, West Germany unifies with East Germany and East Austria on 3 October, 1990 (67)
23) The Velvet Divorce does not happen (due to calls for unity from both Czech and Slovak leaders) and Czechoslovakia stays united (68)
24) Romania manages to keep Bessarabia (though it does cede northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union) (69)
25) The August plot by hardline Communists gets discovered before it could be started, and thus Mikhail Gorbachev's New Union Treaty gets signed, reforming the Soviet Union as the "Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics" (NOTE: Some of the Republics of the USSR were formed in the 1990s) (84)
Asia-Pacific
26) The Pakistan Movement never becomes as popular, and as a result, India remains united and independent (88)
27) After Kim il-Sung's death brings North Korea into chaos, China and the U.S. agree to allow South Korea to reunify the Korean peninsula, provided the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Korea and the unified country's political neutrality. (89)
28) Hong Kong and Macau still remain under British and Portuguese control (remains the same)
29) The Indochinese communists don't fight amongst themselves, and instead unite to fight as a united front against the French. (91)
30) The Communists mount a surprise amphibious assault against the Nationalists in Taiwan. Their defeat marks the final victory for Mao and the People's Republic of China (92)
31) Indonesia retains control of East Timor, while Singapore never gets kicked out of Malaysia, while Brunei is enticed to join (95)
32) The Maphilindo union never gets dissolved (due to the Konfrontasi never taking place), with the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia join the union. Later, Papua New Guinea gets persuaded to join the union (98)
33) The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands all vote to join the U.S. as the state of Pacifica (101)
34) New Zealand votes to join Australia (in return for respect for Māori treaties and increased autonomy), and becomes one of the Commonwealth's original members (102)
TOTAL: 102 countries removed.
Americas
1) The governments of Central America (except Panama, who instead decide to pursue "reconciliation talks" with Colombia) begin forming a close political union that eventually winds up creating a single federation by 1995. Belize also joins too. (5)
2) The West Indies Federation does not collapse, and instead brings in other colonies and even the nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic together. British and Dutch Guiana (despite being in South America) join this union in 1976, and the U.S. commonwealth of Puerto Rico votes to join the Federation in 1990. (19)
3) By 2001, Panama finally votes in a referendum to rejoin Colombia. (20)
4) Brazil's military government finally decides to "pull off a Galtieri" and declares war on Uruguay in 1984. By May, the country is fully occupied and is reintegrated as the state of Cisplatina. The war manages to surge the generals' popularity (though by 1992, they are forced to cede power to a newly restored Brazilian monarchy). While this goes on, Argentina sneakily snatches the Falklands; why Britain did not act is unknown. (21)
Africa and the Middle East
5) Britain decides to give to the Union of South Africa all of Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland, and in the 1960s, President Verwoerd annexes Soutwest Africa (though it is unrecognized). After apartheid, the Bantustans (which include expanded Swaziland, Lesotho, and Bophuthatswana) all "rejoin" South Africa, while Namibia votes to legally join SA (25)
5) Rhodesian President Ian Smith sends troops to Zambia and Nyasaland (Malawi) in order to "reunify the two Rhodesias". Militarily, he suceeds, though the anger against his white-minority government ensures Robert Mugabe's rise to power in the "Union of Zambezia" (27)
6) The East African Union is formed with Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi as initial members. Over time, the union morphs into a federation (31)
7) Mussolini decides to stay neutral, and as a result, Italian East Africa stays intact and after the Duce's death, becomes the Kingdom of Ethiopia (under a personal union with the King of Italy). Italy was given Malta, Tunisia (which later declares independence), and French and British Somaliland in order to stay neutral. (35)
8) Increased Jewish immigration into Palestine (and especially Transjordan; spearheaded by Irgun) leads to the Great Arab Defeat of 1948, where a newly independent Israel seizes all of Palestine and Transjordan, as well as the Sinai. (37)
9) Western indifference in 1991 leads to Saddam Hussein keeping his Kuwaiti conquests (38)
10) Qatar and Bahrain were invited to the negotiations that led to the formation of the UAE (40)
11) Sudan's civil war escalates by several degrees, leading Egypt to seize northern Sudan (perhaps to make up for the loss of the Sinai to Israel). The southerners become independent, and later join the East African Federation when it does form. (41)
12) With Gaddafi's support, the Central African Empire declares war on Chad (to unite the lands of French Equatorial Africa under Emperor Bokassa I). They succeed, and Libya gains the Aouzou Strip as part of their agreement (42)
13) The FLN fail to dislodge the French from Algeria, leading to French Algeria surviving to this very day. (43)
14) Morroco takes Ifni, Tarfaya, and Western Sahara, but fails to dislodge the Spaniards from the Rif when Franco turns to Mussolini for protection. (44)
15) The Federation of Mali doesn't die off, and instead Gambia joins as well in 1975, as well as Mauretania after a brutal civil war leads to Malian intervention (47)
16) Charles Taylor's machinations wind up bringing the RUC to power in Sierra Leone. With Foday Sankoh at the helm, the country gets dragged into a union with Liberia (48)
17) Franco and Salazar retain control of Fernando Pó (Spain), Cape Verde, Sao Tome, and Cabinda (all Portugal) (51)
Europe
18) As aforementioned in 7), Italy receives Malta in exchange for Mussolini's neutrality (53)
19) The Benelux nations form a close political union that becomes the second bedrock (besides the main Franco-German friendship) of the European Union. As for the countries themselves, they grow closer until it finally unites (55)
20) The Balkan Federation is formed under Tito (despite the Tito-Soviet split by 1950). Though still communist, it becomes largely pro-Western, and by 1980 has abandoned communism altogether. (63)
21) After lengthy negotiations, the military regimes of Greece and Turkey decide to divide Cyprus between them. Turkey gains the northern half, Greece the southern half (not counting of course, the SBAs of Akrotiri and Dhekelia) (65)
22) The Soviets decide to set up an independent East Austria, with the other Western powers forced to prop up a West Germany that combines the three nations's occupation zones in Germany and Austria. After the Iron Curtian falls, West Germany unifies with East Germany and East Austria on 3 October, 1990 (67)
23) The Velvet Divorce does not happen (due to calls for unity from both Czech and Slovak leaders) and Czechoslovakia stays united (68)
24) Romania manages to keep Bessarabia (though it does cede northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union) (69)
25) The August plot by hardline Communists gets discovered before it could be started, and thus Mikhail Gorbachev's New Union Treaty gets signed, reforming the Soviet Union as the "Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics" (NOTE: Some of the Republics of the USSR were formed in the 1990s) (84)
Asia-Pacific
26) The Pakistan Movement never becomes as popular, and as a result, India remains united and independent (88)
27) After Kim il-Sung's death brings North Korea into chaos, China and the U.S. agree to allow South Korea to reunify the Korean peninsula, provided the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Korea and the unified country's political neutrality. (89)
28) Hong Kong and Macau still remain under British and Portuguese control (remains the same)
29) The Indochinese communists don't fight amongst themselves, and instead unite to fight as a united front against the French. (91)
30) The Communists mount a surprise amphibious assault against the Nationalists in Taiwan. Their defeat marks the final victory for Mao and the People's Republic of China (92)
31) Indonesia retains control of East Timor, while Singapore never gets kicked out of Malaysia, while Brunei is enticed to join (95)
32) The Maphilindo union never gets dissolved (due to the Konfrontasi never taking place), with the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia join the union. Later, Papua New Guinea gets persuaded to join the union (98)
33) The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands all vote to join the U.S. as the state of Pacifica (101)
34) New Zealand votes to join Australia (in return for respect for Māori treaties and increased autonomy), and becomes one of the Commonwealth's original members (102)
TOTAL: 102 countries removed.
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Gian
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I've re-worded my post. (in italics)
Americas
1) The governments of Central America (except Panama, who instead decide to pursue "reconciliation talks" with Colombia) begin forming a close political union that eventually winds up creating a single federation by 1995. Belize also joins too. (5)
2) The West Indies Federation does not collapse, and instead brings in other colonies and even the nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic together. British and Dutch Guiana (despite being in South America) join this union in 1976, and the U.S. commonwealth of Puerto Rico votes to join the Federation in 1990. (19)
3) By 2001, Panama finally votes in a referendum to rejoin Colombia. (20)
4) Brazil's military government finally decides to "pull off a Galtieri" and declares war on Uruguay in 1984. By May, the country is fully occupied and is reintegrated as the state of Cisplatina. The war manages to surge the generals' popularity (though by 1992, they are forced to cede power to a newly restored Brazilian monarchy). While this goes on, Argentina sneakily snatches the Falklands; why Britain did not act is unknown. (21)
Africa and the Middle East
5) Britain decides to give to the Union of South Africa all of Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland, and in the 1960s, President Verwoerd annexes Soutwest Africa (though it is unrecognized). After apartheid, the Bantustans (which include expanded Swaziland, Lesotho, and Bophuthatswana) all "rejoin" South Africa, while Namibia votes to legally join SA (25)
5) Rhodesian President Ian Smith sends troops to Zambia and Nyasaland (Malawi) in order to "reunify the two Rhodesias". Militarily, he suceeds, though the anger against his white-minority government ensures Robert Mugabe's rise to power in the "Union of Zambezia" (27)
6) The East African Union is formed with Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi as initial members. Over time, the union morphs into a federation (31)
7) Mussolini decides to stay neutral, and as a result, Italian East Africa stays intact and after the Duce's death, becomes the Kingdom of Ethiopia (under a personal union with the King of Italy). Italy was given Malta, Tunisia (which later declares independence), and French and British Somaliland in order to stay neutral. (35)
8) Increased Jewish immigration into Palestine (and especially Transjordan; spearheaded by Irgun and the Stern Gang) leads to the Great Arab Defeat of 1948, where a newly independent Israel seizes all of Palestine and Transjordan, as well as the Sinai. (37)
9) Western indifference in 1991 leads to Saddam Hussein keeping his Kuwaiti conquests (38)
10) Qatar and Bahrain were invited to the negotiations that led to the formation of the UAE (40)
11) Sudan's civil war escalates by several degrees, leading Egypt to seize northern Sudan (perhaps to make up for the loss of the Sinai to Israel). The southerners become independent, and later join the East African Federation when it does form. (41)
12) With Gaddafi's support, the Central African Empire declares war on Chad (to unite the lands of French Equatorial Africa under Emperor Bokassa I). They succeed, and Libya gains the Aouzou Strip as part of their agreement (42)
13) The FLN fail to dislodge the French from Algeria, leading to French Algeria surviving to this very day. (43)
14) Morroco takes Ifni, Tarfaya, and Western Sahara, but fails to dislodge the Spaniards from the Rif when Franco turns to Mussolini for protection. (44)
15) The Federation of Mali doesn't die off, and instead Gambia joins as well in 1975, as well as Mauretania after a brutal civil war leads to Malian intervention (47)
16) Charles Taylor's machinations wind up bringing the RUC to power in Liberia. With this victory, President Foday Sankoh brings Sierra Leone into a union with Liberia (48)
17) Franco and Salazar retain control of Fernando Pó (Spain), Cape Verde, Sao Tome, and Cabinda (all Portugal) (51)
Europe
18) As aforementioned in 7), Italy receives Malta in exchange for Mussolini's neutrality (53)
19) The Benelux nations form a close political union that becomes the second bedrock (besides the main Franco-German friendship) of the European Union. As for the countries themselves, they grow closer until it finally unites (55)
20) The Balkan Federation is formed under Tito (despite the Tito-Soviet split by 1950). Though still communist, it becomes largely pro-Western, and by 1980 has abandoned communism altogether. (63)
21) After lengthy negotiations, the military regimes of Greece and Turkey decide to divide Cyprus between them. Turkey gains the northern half, Greece the southern half (not counting of course, the SBAs of Akrotiri and Dhekelia) (65)
22) The Soviets decide to set up an independent East Austria, with the other Western powers forced to prop up a West Germany that combines the three nations's occupation zones in Germany and Austria. After the Iron Curtian falls, West Germany unifies with East Germany and East Austria on 3 October, 1990 (67)
23) The Velvet Divorce does not happen (due to calls for unity from both Czech and Slovak leaders) and Czechoslovakia stays united (68)
24) Romania manages to keep Bessarabia (though it does cede northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union) (69)
25) The August plot by hardline Communists gets discovered before it could be started, and thus Mikhail Gorbachev's New Union Treaty gets signed, reforming the Soviet Union as the "Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics" (NOTE: Some of the Republics of the USSR were formed in the 1990s) (84)
Asia-Pacific
26) The Pakistan Movement never becomes as popular, and as a result, India remains united and independent (88)
27) After Kim il-Sung's death brings North Korea into chaos, China and the U.S. agree to allow South Korea to reunify the Korean peninsula, provided the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Korea and the unified country's political neutrality. (89)
28) Hong Kong and Macau still remain under British and Portuguese control (remains the same)
29) The Indochinese communists don't fight amongst themselves, and instead unite to fight as a united front against the French. (91)
30) The Communists mount a surprise amphibious assault against the Nationalists in Taiwan. Their defeat marks the final victory for Mao and the People's Republic of China (92)
31) Indonesia retains control of East Timor, while Singapore never gets kicked out of Malaysia, while Brunei is enticed to join (95)
32) The Maphilindo union never gets dissolved (due to the Konfrontasi never taking place), with the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia join the union. Later, Papua New Guinea gets persuaded to join the union (98)
33) The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands all vote to join the U.S. as the state of Pacifica (101)
34) New Zealand votes to join Australia (in return for respect for Māori treaties and increased autonomy), and becomes one of the Commonwealth's original members (102)
TOTAL: 102 countries removed.
My take on it:
Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan do not leave the USSR (203)
Abkhazia and South Ossetia are annexed to Russia (201)
India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Maldives united into the South Asian Federation (196)
Upon leaving the Soviet Union, Tajikistan, Turkestan, and Uzbekistan join with Afghanistan become the Central Asian Federation (193)
The EAC united into the East African Federation (189)
Scandinavian countries and Iceland formed the Scandinavian Union (186)
There is no occupation of Korea, so it stays as one country (185)
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania become the Baltic Federation shortly after declaring independence from the USSR (183)
No Belgian revolution (182)
West African countries create the West African Federation (173)
The northern part of French West Africa remains united after independence as the Republic of West Sudan; Gambia also joins (168)
The former Federal Republic of Central America does not dissolve, and later Panama joins (163)
The Peru-Bolivia Confederation remains (162)
Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, and Palestine join together as the Federation of Syria (158)
The 1970 Federation of Arab Republics proposal between Egypt, Libya, and Sudan is successful. Later Tunisia also joins (155)
CEMAC, excluding most of Chad, become the Federation of Central Africa (151)
Moldova joins Romania when it leaves the USSR (150)
Kosovo joins Albania after gaining independence from Serbia (149)
Serbia, Montenegro, and Macedonia do not leave Yugoslavia (147)
Lichtenstein becomes a canton of Switzerland (146)
China invades Taiwan during the civil war (145)
East Timor doesn’t declare independence from Indonesia (145)
Czechoslovakia is does not dissolve (143)
Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar create the Confederation of Southeast Asia (140)
Singapore and Brunei join Malaysia (138)
Kuwait becomes a member of the UAE (137)
The West Indies Federation is stays together (129)
Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland are included in South Africa (126)
Monaco joins Italy during unification (125)
Western Sahara is partitioned between Morocco and West Sudan in the Madrid Accords (124)
Rhodesia does not separate (123)
The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands becomes a state of the USA (120)
New Zealand is included as a state of Australia (119)
Ireland does not leave the UK (118)
Malaysia and Brunei join Indonesia (116)
Bhutan remains part of India (115)
Nauru and the Solomon Islands remain part of New Guinea (113)
Andorra joins Spain (112)
San Marino joins France (111)
Luxembourg agrees on union with the Netherlands (110)
Nagorno-Karabakh joins Armenia (109)
Cyprus unites with Greece after independence from Britain (107)
Namibia stays with South Africa (106)
Seychelles remains part of Comoros (105)
Somaliland remains part of Somalia (104)
Djibouti joins Somalia after gaining independence (103)
Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan do not leave the USSR (203)
Abkhazia and South Ossetia are annexed to Russia (201)
India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Maldives united into the South Asian Federation (196)
Upon leaving the Soviet Union, Tajikistan, Turkestan, and Uzbekistan join with Afghanistan become the Central Asian Federation (193)
The EAC united into the East African Federation (189)
Scandinavian countries and Iceland formed the Scandinavian Union (186)
There is no occupation of Korea, so it stays as one country (185)
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania become the Baltic Federation shortly after declaring independence from the USSR (183)
No Belgian revolution (182)
West African countries create the West African Federation (173)
The northern part of French West Africa remains united after independence as the Republic of West Sudan; Gambia also joins (168)
The former Federal Republic of Central America does not dissolve, and later Panama joins (163)
The Peru-Bolivia Confederation remains (162)
Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, and Palestine join together as the Federation of Syria (158)
The 1970 Federation of Arab Republics proposal between Egypt, Libya, and Sudan is successful. Later Tunisia also joins (155)
CEMAC, excluding most of Chad, become the Federation of Central Africa (151)
Moldova joins Romania when it leaves the USSR (150)
Kosovo joins Albania after gaining independence from Serbia (149)
Serbia, Montenegro, and Macedonia do not leave Yugoslavia (147)
Lichtenstein becomes a canton of Switzerland (146)
China invades Taiwan during the civil war (145)
East Timor doesn’t declare independence from Indonesia (145)
Czechoslovakia is does not dissolve (143)
Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar create the Confederation of Southeast Asia (140)
Singapore and Brunei join Malaysia (138)
Kuwait becomes a member of the UAE (137)
The West Indies Federation is stays together (129)
Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland are included in South Africa (126)
Monaco joins Italy during unification (125)
Western Sahara is partitioned between Morocco and West Sudan in the Madrid Accords (124)
Rhodesia does not separate (123)
The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands becomes a state of the USA (120)
New Zealand is included as a state of Australia (119)
Ireland does not leave the UK (118)
Malaysia and Brunei join Indonesia (116)
Bhutan remains part of India (115)
Nauru and the Solomon Islands remain part of New Guinea (113)
Andorra joins Spain (112)
San Marino joins France (111)
Luxembourg agrees on union with the Netherlands (110)
Nagorno-Karabakh joins Armenia (109)
Cyprus unites with Greece after independence from Britain (107)
Namibia stays with South Africa (106)
Seychelles remains part of Comoros (105)
Somaliland remains part of Somalia (104)
Djibouti joins Somalia after gaining independence (103)
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