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Was gonna make a joke about newest countries and Israel, then I looked it up and WTF, it's not even in the top 10 most recent. Country formation is apparently a reasonably common event!
Israel was founded during the first of the three waves of decolonialization. When you look at the 1936 world map you'll notice that there's only about 10 countries that are taking most of the globe.
And yet so assertive...