Has the number of countries in Europe changed since 1990?

Question

I need the number of countries in Europe in the past 16 years. I need to know if the number has changed.

Answer 1

Absolutely. Don't have the exact number, but let's see:
* Czechoslovachia split into two countries.
* Yugoslavia into 7.
* And Germany unified into one.
* And if you were to count Russia into Europe (which I do) that's where it gets tricky... First of all, count the 3 Baltic states which splitted; then Ukrania and Belarus, then Moldova and Georgia and etcetera.

Answer 2

There were many more countries before WWII. Many of the smaller ones (Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia...) became part of Soviet Russia until the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991 and all of the countries became sovereign again. So those countries were considered one, the United Soviet Socialist Republic USSR. On top of that some countries like Yugoslavia have splintered and become a few new countries.

For more info google the subject...look for maps from the 1970's and compare to the current ones.

Answer 3

Of course Besides crashing of USSR, Yugoslavia and Chehoslovakia, that year there wer 2 new countries - that are the indipendent countries 1 Serbia and 2 Montenegro After a referendum Montenegro decided to declair its Indipendece

Answer 4

YES, consider former Czechoslovakia, and members of the Soviet Union,
former Yugoslavia's Bosnia, Herzegovina, Slovenia, Croatia,
and now Montenegro and Kosovo, also Cyprus,

they have asserted sovereignty in the past 15 years or so,
and there may be other countries i am missing