The ten nations that no longer exist

The ten extinct nations you may not be aware of

1. Prussia: was a German kingdom that lasted from the 1700s through the end of World War I. During the war, the kingdom was disbanded, and the lands were divided between the Soviet Union, Poland, and Germany.
2. Sikkim: A little monarchy in the Himalayas that existed until 1975, when India seized it.
3. Rhodesia: From 1965 to 1979, a self-declared republic in southern Africa. After attaining freedom from British colonial domination, it was called Zimbabwe.
4. East Germany: was a communist country that existed between 1949 and 1990. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, it was dissolved and reunited with West Germany to form a unified country.
5. Yugoslavia: From 1945 to 1992, it was a federal socialist state. It was dissolved after a series of ethnic conflicts caused the country to be divided into several independent states.
6. Ceylon: A South Asian British colony that gained independence in 1948 and was renamed Sri Lanka in 1972.
7. Tibet was a Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas until 1950, when it was invaded by China and became a Chinese autonomous region.
8. Czechoslovakia: A Central European country that existed from 1918 to 1993. It disintegrated peacefully into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
9. Westphalia: A western German region that was once a sovereign state in the Holy Roman Empire. It ceased to exist in 1806 when Napoleon dissolved the empire.
10. Basutoland: was a British protectorate in southern Africa that gained independence and was renamed Lesotho in 1966.

These are just a few examples of countries that have vanished from the map, often as a result of political shifts or the shifting sands of time.