A song of Xinling Jun Xinling tells the history
There are more than two hundred countries and regions in the world, but in recent decades, some countries have ceased to exist and are buried under the dust of history. Some were annexed, some were dissolved, and some were merged into new states. Let's take 1949 as a starting line and see which countries are history.
Regime changes and country name changes are not counted in this list, such as the French Third Republic was replaced by the Fifth Republic, but it is still France; Afghanistan was replaced by the Taliban, and although the ruling party is not the same, it is still considered a country; The Khmer Republic is also considered a historical regime in Cambodia.
- Republic of Vietnam
The Republic of Vietnam, abbreviated as South Vietnam, was the regime of Diệm with Saigon as its capital in 1955 with the support of the United States; In 1961, the Vietnam War broke out between North and South Vietnam, which was annexed by North Vietnamese forces in 1975 and ceased to exist.
- United Arab Republic
It is a federal state formed in 1958 by Egypt, Syria and North Yemen to resist Western invasion and revive the Arab world, and later dissolved in 1962 due to Egyptian hegemony and other reasons.
- Kingdom of Sikkim
The Kingdom of Sikkim is located in the southern foothills of the Himalayas, since its establishment in 1642, has been a vassal state of China, late Qing Dynasty became a British "protectorate", after the British withdrawal from the South Asian subcontinent suzerainty was inherited by India, in 1975 was annexed by India in the form of a "referendum" to become a state of India, the king of Sikkim is still wandering abroad, we did not acquiesce to this established fact until maps after 2006.
- People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
South Yemen for short, located in the southwest of the Arabian Peninsula in West Asia, bordered by the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea to the south; In 1934, Britain forced the Kingdom of Yemen to sign an unequal treaty and formally occupied South Yemen, and in 1967, South Yemen became independent, pro-Soviet and anti-American, and was incorporated into North Yemen while the Soviet Union was overwhelmed.
- German Democratic Republic
Referred to as East Germany, it was founded after World War II with the support of the Soviet Union and merged into the Federal Republic of Germany in Eastern Europe to form the current Germany.
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Referred to as the Soviet Union, the socialist federal state that existed from 1922 to 1991 was dissolved in 1991 due to a series of reasons such as institutional rigidity, and was divided into 15 countries.
- Yugoslavia
It was a federal state of southern Europe that existed from 1929 to 2003, and began to dissolve into six countries from 1991 to 2003: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia, and the main body of Yugoslavia is today's Serbia.
- Serbia and Montenegro
After the breakup of Yugoslavia, the federation of two states, Serbia and Montenegro, was dissolved in 2006.
- Czechoslovakia
It existed in central Europe from 1918 to 1992 and was dissolved into two countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in 1992.