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The Rest of the Map

With the recently announced independence of Kosovo, my list of nations that don’t end up on a National Geographic fold-out map just got shorter.

Here are some of the other countries that my map recognizes:

• The Basque Country (Euskal Herria or Euskadi)
• Biafra
• Burma (Myanmar is the name given to Burma by the military junta)
• Chechnya
• Guam
• Hawai’i
• Hong Kong
• Kashmir
• Kurdistan
• Nagalim
• Palestine
• Puerto Rico
• Southern Sudan
• Tamil Eelam
• Taiwan
• Republic of Texas (just kidding about Texas)
• Tibet
• Zapatista

There are plenty others, but these are the ones that I at least have an opinion about.

And I know I might have just disqualified myself for any possibility at becoming Secretary of State—that is, unless Brent Anderson gets elected President.