what is the oldest country on the planet?

Answer 1

It is Iceland. It has had a parliament (Storting) since 163 AD

Answer 2

There are three different answers to this question. One is to discuss which was the first political unit comparible to a modern political unit. The answer to this is Egypt, which was the first nation-state in history, forming around 3200 B.C. However, periods of foreign rule have dominated large swathes of Egyptian history.
The second way to answer this question is to discuss which currently existing state has existed in tact for the longest. The answer here is very debateable. China stakes a good claim, since its hearland has been essentially united, though it was conquerred and underwent periods of occupation, since the end of the waring states period in the 2nd (I think) century A.D. The State which has remained in tact and unconquerred for the longest Is probably Iran, which despite internal coups has not been subjected to foreign political control since the mongol invasion of the 14th century.
The third way to look at this question is to examine what the first state in history was. The answer to this question is extremely ambiguous and complex. The oldest villages that had some degree of centralised controll probably existed in the levant during the Neolitic, though it would of course be impossible to say which came first. The first city states existed in Southern Mesopotamia, and appeared during the 5th millenium BC. The first 'state' (by which I mean an area under the controll of the elite of one settlement, but including settlements not organically joined to the controlling city) was most probably Uruk, although it may have been some where else such as Larsa. However, it was almost certainly somewhere in Southern Mesopotamia duing the late 4th Millenium BC. Outside of Mesopotamia, Jehrico is the only settlement that could legitimately claim to have possibly fouded a state earlier, although I personally doubt its credentials.

Answer 3

Greece is the oldest country on the planet

Answer 4

Define country, please. Do you want the one that's had the same name the longest or the one populated the longest?

Scientists have agreed that civilization started in the Tigris-Euphrates valley which is in Iraq. Iraq, though, has changed hands and identities so many times since that it can hardly be called the oldest country.

The oldest defined country still in existence under the same name is probably Egypt. You can't say Israel because the Israelites were nomadic shepherds before they came to Egypt. They had no defined country.

Answer 5

According to tradition, San Marino is known as the world's oldest republic. The tiny republic was founded by a Christian stonemason named Marino (or Saint Marinus) on September 3, in the year 301 C.E.

Answer 6

India. The religion practiced in India, Hinduism is the oldest religion on earth.

India is definitely the oldest civilization and country existing today. I hope it stays that because the muslims are bent on destroying it.

Lets hope we will be able to keep it intact and safe for a very long time to come.

Answer 7

China?
Or at least a unified China as we know it now. The history goes back 3300 years (first historical records are 1600B.C.). The first settlements were on the Yellow River in what is now northern China. And it sort of grew from there to become what it is now. (apart from Tibet, before anyone starts picking!)

Answer 8

Little known historical fact that people lived in Ireland during the Mesolithic Period (8000 BC - 4500 BC). There are burial mounds in Ireland that predate the Egyptian pyramids by many thousands of years.

Answer 9

i don't know, but India is one of the oldest,
to be more specific South India has the oldest tradition
and proof for well civilised activities in the early stages

Answer 10

The area between the Tigris and Eufrates rivers is known as the cradle of civilization. We now call it Iraq. Maybe they will remember someday.

Answer 11

India