The newest internationally recognized country in the world is the African country of South Sudan, which declared independence on July 9, 2011. In the following days, it became also the newest member of the United Nations.
What are the 10 oldest countries? Egypt, Iran, Armenia, China, Japan, Ethiopia, Greece, Portugal, San Marino, and France are the top 10 oldest countries in the world.
Greece. Dating back to the Ancient Greek era, the country of Greece has remained firmly in the grasp of Grecians for at least 5,000-6,000 years. The Greeks were known to have taught the world revolutionary concepts and created the foundations of modern Western civilization.
It is one of the youngest countries in terms of European settlement, yet it boasts the world's oldest culture (the earliest Aborigine arrived 50,000 years ago).
1. Iran. Iran is the oldest country in the world founded in 3200 B.C. and has a topography characterized by numerous mountains and mountain ranges. Iran was established as a country in 3200 B.C.
On the other side of the scale, the CIA estimates Monaco has the lowest birth rate in the world at 6.63 average annual births per 1,000 people per year.
Examples of first world countries include the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. Several Western European nations qualify as well, especially Great Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland, and the Scandinavian countries. The ways that first world countries are defined can vary.
Based on the latest UN population projections, the world's youngest countries in 2050 are most likely to be Niger and Mali, with more than half their populations aged 20 or under.
Countries are regions with borders that make up the large masses of land we call continents. People living in a country generally have shared languages, traditions and beliefs, and a country has its own set of laws, or rules, that everyone living there has agreed to live by.
New Zealand is one of the youngest countries on Earth, having first been discovered and settled by Polynesian explorers around 700 years ago. The early Polynesian settlers became the ancestors of the modern day Māori people, known in New Zealand as tangata whenua, or the 'people of the land'.
Mid-18th to Late 19th Century, the Industrial Revolution pushed countries in Europe as well as the U.S., Japan, and Australia into Stage 2.
Indigenous Australia culture is tens of thousands of years older than many other ancient civilisations that are revered around the world, such as Mesopotamia (dating back as early as 3500 B.C.), Egypt (3100 B.C.), Greece (2700 B.C.), Maya (2600 B.C.) and China (1600 B.C.).
Australia became a nation on 1 January 1901, when the British Parliament passed legislation enabling the six Australian colonies to collectively govern in their own right as the Commonwealth of Australia.
With more than 4,000 years of recorded history, China is one of the few existing countries that also flourished economically and culturally in the earliest stages of world civilization.
An old missionary student of China once remarked that Chinese history is “remote, monotonous, obscure, and-worst of all-there is too much of it.” China has the longest continuous history of any country in the world—3,500 years of written history. And even 3,500 years ago China's civilization was old!
New Delhi: According to a list by the World Population Review (WPR), India is the seventh oldest country in the world by date of earliest known organized government.