Curated playlist
1991 establishments in Asia
- UzbekistanUzbekistan touches no coast, and every country bordering it is landlocked too.
- KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan lies farther from the sea than any other individual country on Earth. Even its rivers cannot reach an ocean, because every one of them empties into a closed drainage system. Yet this landlocked nation in the mountains of Central…
- TajikistanTajikistan's capital, Dushanbe, was once a mountain town of roughly 1,000 residents. Now it has 1.24 million people.
- TurkmenistanTurkmenistan banned satellite dishes the same month it launched its first satellite. That was April 2015.
- KazakhstanKazakhstan was the last Soviet republic to declare independence. It did so on the 16th of December 1991.
- Georgia (country)In 2005, Georgia fired its entire traffic police force of around 30,000 officers.
- South OssetiaOnly five United Nations members recognize South Ossetia as a country. Every other country calls it Georgian land.
- AzerbaijanAzerbaijan's name once belonged only to a region of northwestern Iran. Before 1918, no country used it.
- Commonwealth of Independent StatesUkraine helped found the Commonwealth of Independent States but never became a member. It never ratified the Charter.
- RussiaRussia spans eleven time zones, more than any other country. Its borders touch fourteen nations.