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Which of these nations / defacto independent territories will survive 2025?
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84%
Hamas Gaza
80%
Zapatista territories / ACGAZ / EZLN
Resolved
YES
Rojava / DAANES / SDF
Resolved
YES
Ukraine
Resolved
YES
Taiwan / ROC
Resolved
YES
Myanmar junta / SAC
Resolved
YES
Sudan junta / TSC
Resolved
YES
Houthi Yemen / SPC
Resolved
YES
Taliban Afghanistan
Resolved
YES
Russia

Survive here means any controlled territory with a permanent population under their control and not under the control of any other government

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Banner art foreshadowing that Tunisia and Mali will split in 2, and that Eswatini and Equatorial Guinea will cease to exist?

@TheAllMemeingEye Eswatini doesn't exist. It's Swasiland. 😂 It's "Turkiye" (and, for that matter, "Iran" - that was always Persia's endonym - but here, it at least does come from a different root) all over again.

@b575 endonyms can and have become exonyms, right?

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@TheAllMemeingEye They have, sure, but the problem is that we're trying to get a top-down enforcement for these (and only for non-European countries: Greece and Germany do not become Ellatha (or Ellada) and Deutschland).

@b575 I think it's about whether the country's government requests it because it's important to them, rather than about geographic location. As for top-down enforcement, in most cases I prefer to follow linguistic prescriptivism i.e. the meaning of a given word (or the word for a given thing) in a language is defined by what is used by the speakers. In this case both Swaziland and Eswatini are used and thus both are valid. You have made it clear that for you Swaziland is preferred, but in my initial comment I used Eswatini because I expected that to have wider acceptance due to its more prominent use on the Wikipedia page. I hope that makes sense, but let me know if there's still confusion or disagreement.

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