Supplement to Issue 23, Emmanuel Research Review

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Supplement to Issue No. 23, December 2006

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Three Tables of Nations

Table 1: 193 Nations of the World with Capital Cities
Table 2: Nations Changing Names, Some Recent Examples
Table 3: Nations with Conflict: The Biggest Conflicts of the 20th Century by greatest number of casualties, and Places of Conflict in the World Today

Table 1

193 Nations of the World with Capital Cities
Afghanistan – Kabul	Dominica – Roseau	Lesotho – Maseru	Saint Kitts and Nevis – Basseterre
Albania – Tirane	Dominican Republic – Santo Domingo	Liberia – Monrovia	Saint Lucia – Castries
Algeria – Algiers	East Timor – Dili	Libya – Tripoli	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Kingstown
Andorra – Andorra la Vella	Ecuador – Quito	Liechtenstein – Vaduz	Samoa – Apia
Angola – Luanda	Egypt – Cairo	Lithuania – Vilnius	San Marino – San Marino
Antigua and Barbuda – Saint John’s	El Salvador – San Salvador	Luxembourg – Luxembourg	Sao Tome and Principe – Sao Tome
Argentina – Buenos Aires	Equatorial Guinea – Malabo	Macedonia – Skopje	Saudi Arabia – Riyadh
Armenia – Yerevan	Eritrea – Asmara	Madagascar – Antananarivo	Senegal – Dakar
Australia – Canberra	Estonia – Tallinn	Malawi – Lilongwe	Serbia – Belgrade
Austria – Vienna	Ethiopia – Addis Ababa	Malaysia – Kuala Lumpur	Seychelles – Victoria
Azerbaijan – Baku	Fiji – Suva	Maldives – Male	Sierra Leone – Freetown
The Bahamas – Nassau	Finland – Helsinki	Mali – Bamako	Singapore – Singapore
Bahrain – Manama	France – Paris	Malta – Valletta	Slovakia – Bratislava
Bangladesh – Dhaka	Gabon – Libreville	Marshall Islands – Majuro	Slovenia – Ljubljana
Barbados – Bridgetown	The Gambia – Banjul	Mauritania – Nouakchott	Solomon Islands – Honiara
Belarus – Minsk	Georgia – Tbilisi	Mauritius – Port Louis	Somalia – Mogadishu
Belgium – Brussels	Germany – Berlin	Mexico – Mexico City	South Africa – Pretoria (administrative) Cape Town (legislative) Bloemfontein (judiciary)
Belize – Belmopan	Ghana – Accra	Federated States of Micronesia – Palikir	Spain – Madrid
Benin – Porto-Novo	Greece – Athens	Moldova – Chisinau	Sri Lanka – Colombo
Bhutan – Thimphu	Grenada – Saint George’s	Monaco – Monaco	Sudan – Khartoum
Bolivia – La Paz (administrative) Sucre (judicial)	Guatemala – Guatemala City	Mongolia – Ulaanbaatar	Suriname – Paramaribo
Bosnia and Herzegovina – Sarajevo	Guinea – Conakry	Montenegro – Podgorica	Swaziland – Mbabana
Botswana – Gaborone	Guinea-Bissau – Bissau	Morocco – Rabat	Sweden – Stockholm
Brazil – Brasilia	Guyana – Georgetown	Mozambique – Maputo	Switzerland – Bern
Brunei – Bandar Seri Begawan	Haiti – Port-au-Prince	Myanmar (Burma) – Rangoon but moving to Pyinmana	Syria – Damascus
Bulgaria – Sofia	Honduras – Tegucigalpa	Namibia – Windhoek	Tajikistan – Dushanbe
Burkina Faso – Ouagadougou	Hungary – Budapest	Nauru – no official capital; government offices in Yaren District	Tanzania – Dar es Salaam
Burundi – Bujumbura	Iceland – Reykjavik	Nepal – Kathmandu	Thailand – Bangkok
Cambodia – Phnom Penh	India – New Delhi	Netherlands – Amsterdam	Togo – Lome
Cameroon – Yaounde	Indonesia – Jakarta	New Zealand – Wellington	Tonga – Nuku’alofa
Canada – Ottawa	Iran – Tehran	Nicaragua – Managua	Trinidad and Tobago – Port-of-Spain
Cape Verde – Praia	Iraq – Baghdad	Niger – Niamey	Tunisia – Tunis
Central African Republic – Bangui	Ireland – Dublin	Nigeria – Abuja	Turkey – Ankara
Chad – N’Djamena	Israel – Jerusalem	Norway – Oslo	Turkmenistan – Ashgabat
Chile – Santiago	Italy – Rome	Oman – Muscat	Tuvalu – Funafuti
China – Beijing	Jamaica – Kingston	Pakistan – Islamabad	Uganda – Kampala
Colombia – Bogota	Japan – Tokyo	Palau – Koror	Ukraine – Kyiv
Comoros – Moroni	Jordan – Amman	Panama – Panama City	United Arab Emirates – Abu Dhabi
Congo, Republic of the – Brazzaville	Kazakhstan – Astana	Papua New Guinea – Port Moresby	United Kingdom – London
Congo, Democratic Republic of the – Kinshasa	Kenya – Nairobi	Paraguay – Asuncion	United States – Washington D.C.
Costa Rica – San Jose	Kiribati – Tarawa	Peru – Lima	Uruguay – Montevideo
Cote d’Ivoire – Yamoussoukro (official) Abidjan (de facto)	Korea, North – Pyongyang	Philippines – Manila	Uzbekistan – Tashkent
Croatia – Zagreb	Korea, South – Seoul	Poland – Warsaw	Vanuatu – Port-Vila
Cuba – Havana	Kuwait – Kuwait City	Portugal – Lisbon	Vatican City (Holy See) – Vatican City
Cyprus – Nicosia	Kyrgyzstan – Bishkek	Qatar – Doha	Venezuela – Caracas
Czech Republic – Prague	Laos – Vientiane	Romania – Bucharest	Vietnam – Hanoi
Denmark – Copenhagen	Latvia – Riga	Russia – Moscow	Yemen – Sanaa
Djibouti – Djibouti	Lebanon – Beirut	Rwanda – Kigali	Zambia – Lusaka
Source: United Nations			Zimbabwe – Harare

Table 2

Nations Changing Names, Some Recent Examples
1998	Western Samoa : Changed its name to Samoa in 1998.
1997	Zaire : Changed its name to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997.
1993	Czechoslovakia: Peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993.
1991	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR): Broke into fifteen new countries in 1991: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldovia, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
1990	North Yemen and South Yemen : Yemen split in 1967 into two countries, North Yemen (a.k.a. Yemen Arab Republic) and South Yemen (a.k.a. People's Democratic Republic of Yemen). However, in 1990 the two rejoined to form a unified Yemen.
1990	Southwest Africa : Gained independence and became Namibia in 1990.
1990	Yugoslavia : The original Yugoslavia divided up into Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Slovenia in the early 1990s.
1989	Burma : Burma officially changed its name to Myanmar in 1989 but many countries still aren't recognizing the change, such as the United States.
1989	East Germany and West Germany : Merged in 1989 to form a unified Germany.
1980	Rhodesia : Zimbabwe was known as Rhodesia (named after British diplomat Cecil Rhodes) prior to 1980.
1972	Ceylon : Changed its name to Sri Lanka in 1972.
1971	East Pakistan : This province of Pakistan from 1947-1971 became Bangladesh.
1971	Taiwan : While Taiwan still exists, it is not considered to be an independent country. However, it did represent China in the United Nations until 1971.
1966	Basutoland : Lesotho's name prior to 1966.
1964	Tanganyika and Zanzibar : These two African countries united in 1964 to form Tanzania.
1961	United Arab Republic : From 1958 to 1961, non-neighbors Syria and Egypt merged to become a unified country. In 1961 Syria abandoned the alliance but Egypt kept the name United Arab Republic itself for another decade.
1950	Tibet : A kingdom established in the 7th century, Tibet was invaded by China in 1950 and has since been known as the Xizang Autonomous Region of China.
1946	Transjordan : Became the independent kingdom of Jordan in 1946.
Source: http://geography.about.com

Table 3

Nations with Conflict
The Biggest Conflicts of the 20 th Century by greatest number of casualties		Places of Conflict in the World Today
Second World War (1939-45)	20 million casualties	Afghanistan
First World War (1914-17)	8.5 million killed	Algeria
Korean War (1950-53)	1.7 million killed	Angola
Chinese Civil War (1945-49)	1.2 million killed	The Caucasus and Russia
Vietnam War (1965-73)	1.2 million killed	Colombia
Iran-Iraq War (1980-88)	1 million killed	Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire)
Russian Civil War (1918-21)	1 million killed	Ethiopia and Eritrea
Burundi-Rwanda civil war (1993-2000)	1 million killed	Indonesia
Chinese Civil War (1927-37)	400,000 casualties	India and Pakistan
French Indochina (1945-54)	400,000 killed	Iraq
Mexican Revolution (1911-20)	250,000 killed	Israel
Spanish Civil War (1936-39)	200,000 killed	Turkey and Kurdistan
Algerian Civil War (1954-62)	160,000 killed	Kosovo
Afghanistan (1980-89)	150,000 killed	Mexico
Russo-Japanese War (1904-05)	130,000 casualties	Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, & Liberia
Chaco War (1932-35)	130,000 casualties	Sri Lanka
		Sudan
Source: http://www.didyouknow.cd/story/conflicts.htm		United States of America (war on terrorism)
		Northern Ireland
		The Philippines
		South Africa