http://grack.com/blog/ en-us 40 grack.com comments <p>Wow&#8230; it&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve read a news story and seen a country I haven&#8217;t heard of before. Apparently, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrea">Eritrea</a> has troops <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6057352.stm">and has sent them into Etheopia</a>.</p> <p>I&#8217;m not entirely sure how many countries exist in the world, but I am impressed that one has snuck by me for my entire life.</p> <p><span class="caps">UPDATE</span>: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries">According to Wikipedia</a>, there are 202 sovereign states, of which some are missing universal recognition.</p> <p>These are some of the ones I&#8217;ve never heard of:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhazia">Abkhazia</a>,</li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh">Nagorno-Karabakh</a>, </li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria">Pridnestrovie</a>,</li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Ossetia">South Ossetia</a></li> </ul> <p><span class="caps">UPDATE 2</span>: Funny enough, Eritrea <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:ER">has its own <span class="caps">ISO</span> country code</a>.</p> Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:14:00 EDT <a href="/blog/articles/2006/10/17/a-country-ive-never-heard-of">A country I've never heard of</a> <a href="/blog/articles/2006/10/17/a-country-ive-never-heard-of">A country I've never heard of</a>