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 How many countries might be there by 2100 A.D.?

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Posted on 04-05-05 10:49 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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This thread is to discuss how many new countries will emerge or how many countries will lose their existence around 100 years from now. Before a hundred years, there were few independent countries, due to British and European imperialism. By 1960s, many Asian and African countries achieved independence and the number of countries increased from less than a hundred to around 150. Currently, the number of countries are 196+ and still increasing slowly, latest being East Timor. 1990s gave birth to lots of new nations, like the former Soviet bloc, splinters from Yugoslavia, Eritrea, etc.

The formation and dissolution of states involves a lot of factors like politics, language, religion, race and even geography. Its amazing how the world map (not me) is changing every century. In the eighteenth and ninteenth centuries, the world was ruled by petty rulers, since there was less development in communications, aviation, etc. Then European imperialism colonized rest of the world.

How do you think the world map(not me again!!) will look like a hundred years from now?

Are you interested in discussing the fate of the past nations which faded in history and possibilities of new nations that can emerge?



 
Posted on 01-17-06 3:03 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Its sad that many of the maps in this thread have disappeared. Anyway, I will continue this thread when I get some free time.

 
Posted on 01-17-06 6:01 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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no borders is a great thought
 
Posted on 01-22-07 3:26 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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I have attempted to dig this thread out from more than a year of hibernation. Lets travel to Macau, in the eastern shores of China, once a Portugues colony which has amalgameted with China recently.

Macau


The members of the South Sung dynasty and 50,000 followers were the first recorded inhabitants of Macau, who were seeking refuge from the invading Mongols from 1277. They were able to defend themselves and established settlement there. Macau did not develop as a major until the Portuguese arrived in the 16th century. The Portuguese used Macau as a staging port and a Portuguese Municipal government was established but China did not recognize Portuguese sovereignty.

The first Portuguese governor was appointed in Macau in 1680 but China continued to have influence, collecting tax and customs. Portugal continued to pay tax to China until 1849, when the Portuguese abolished the Chinese customs and declared Macau independent. The Chinese retaliated which resulted in the assassination of Gov. Ferreira do Amaral.

In 1887, the Manchu government acknowledged the Portugues right of 'perpetual occupation'. The Protocol of Lisbon, which was the agreement between the Manchu and Portuguese governments, contained the condition that it will never surrender Macau to a third party with permission of China.

During the second world war, Macau enjoyed a brief periof of prosperity as the only neutral port in South China, after the Japanese invaded Canton and Hongkong. When the communists came to power in 1949, they declared the Protocol of Lisbon to be invalid as an 'unequal treaty' imposed by the foreigners on China.

Portugal and China established diplomatic relations in 1979 followed by Gen. Melo Egidio's visit to China, who was the first Governer of Macau to visit China. In 1987 an agreement was signed for returning Macau to Chinese sovereignty as a Special Administrative Region(SAR) of China which materalized on December 20, 1999.

source: http://www.historyofnations.net/asia/macau.html
http://world-history-blog.blogspot.com/2007/01/history-of-macau.html

map source: http://i.infoplease.com/images/mmacau.gif

 
Posted on 01-22-07 3:30 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Zero => Because of Third World War ....
 



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