While it happens more often than you think, new nations are not "born" every day. South Sudan has joined the ranks of the world's newest nation, obtaining independence on 9 July 2011. Below are some images and links to the latest references and population of South Sudan. It should come as no surprise, forming a nation is just the beginning (and no guarantee of permanence). While I wish the South Sudanese well in their independence, here is a list of former sovereign states (Wikipedia - List of former states)...
CIA Factbook - Listing by Nation:
CIA Factobook by Country |
| Continent/Country Listing - CAI Factbook |
CIA Factbook of South Sudan:
Specific to population cartograms, here is a quick "cut and paste" of a interesting population analysis of the now subdivided region:
"The following gridded population cartogram shows the population distribution within and between these two nations, giving every person living in the region the same amount of space. For the much smaller population in the south it will be hard work ahead in building a new nation.... (Guardian news article - "South Sudan: a nation in the making" ) Full credits to Views of the World for brining this top my attentions. In particular special map creation credit to: The map was created by Benjamin D. Hennig and is property of the Sasi Research Group (University of Sheffield). PhD research project of Benjamin David Hennig, University of Sheffield supervised by Professor Danny Dorling, Dr Mark Ramsden, Dr Dimitris Ballas.
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Thanks for posting this. I'm glad the country was formed. I know much pride had to be swallowed and I hope this finally brings some peace to the Sudan.
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