26 Newest Nations in the World

Date of Independence March 21, 1990	Country Namibia	Event from South Africa
May 22, 1990	Yemen	unification of North Yemen and South Yemen
October 3, 1990	Germany	unification of West Germany and East Germany
April 9, 1991	Georgia	from the Soviet Union
June 25, 1991	Croatia	from Yugoslavia
June 25, 1991	Slovenia	from Yugoslavia
August 20, 1991	Estonia	from the Soviet Union
August 21, 1991	Latvia	from the Soviet Union
August 24, 1991	Russia	from the Soviet Union
August 24, 1991	Ukraine	from the Soviet Union
August 25, 1991	Belarus	from the Soviet Union
August 27, 1991	Moldova	from the Soviet Union
August 30, 1991	Azerbaijan	from the Soviet Union
August 31, 1991	Kyrgyzstan	from the Soviet Union
September 1, 1991	Uzbekistan	from the Soviet Union
September 8, 1991	Republic of Macedonia	from Yugoslavia
September 9, 1991	Tajikistan	from the Soviet Union
October 27, 1991	Turkmenistan	from the Soviet Union
December 16, 1991	Kazakhstan	from the Soviet Union
March 1, 1992	Bosnia and Herzegovina	from Yugoslavia
April 27, 1992	Serbia and Montenegro	from Yugoslavia
January 1, 1993	Czech Republic	Czechoslovakia dissolved
January 1, 1993	Slovakia	Czechoslovakia dissolved
May 24, 1993	Eritrea	from Ethiopia
October 1, 1994	Palau	from the US-administered UN Trusteeship
May 20, 2002	East Timor	from Indonesia