3 Shortest Lived Countries in the World

What is a country? Technically, every territory that declares itself “a country” can be counted as such, though many don’t get recognized internationally and effectively stop being “countries” almost instantaneously.
Here are some prime examples:
3. Sultanate Of Zanzibar - the small island sultanate lasted less than a day after declaring independence from the British Empire, before merging with Tanganyika to form the United Republic of Tanzania.
2. Russian Democratic Federative Republic - after overthrowing the Tzars in 1918, Russia was first a democratic federative republic. Just 6 hours later, however, the Soviets took control and renamed it the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
1. The Independent State of Catalonia - it lasted just about 8 seconds after its independence declaration, before the Spanish government declared it illegal and called for new elections.

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What about the Republic of Galicia, which lasted a few hours?

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