NEW COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD (since 2000) :- ** May 20, 2002 - East Timor (Timor- Leste) declared independence from Portugal in 1975 but did not became independent from Indonesia until 2002. ** June 3, 2006 - Montenegro was part of Serbia and Montenegro (also known as Yugoslavia) but gained independence after a referendum. ** June 5, 2006 - Serbia became its own entity after Montenegro split. ** February 17, 2008 - Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia. ** July 9, 2011 - South Sudan peacefully seceded from Sudan following a January 2011 referendum. Sudan itself was the first to recognize South Sudan and did so one day early, on July 8, 2011.
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