Top Ten Places That Are Viewed As a Country But Are Not a Country

The Top Ten
1 Kosovo Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a partially recognised state in Southeastern Europe. It lies at the centre of the Balkans, occupying an area of 10,887 km2 (4,203 sq mi), with a population of 1.8 million; and is bordered by the uncontested territory of Serbia to the north and east, North Macedonia to the southeast, Albania to the southwest, and Montenegro to the west. Kosovo unilaterally declared its independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008 and has since gained diplomatic recognition as a sovereign state by 98 member states of the United Nations. Most of central Kosovo is dominated by the vast plains and fields of Metohija and Kosovo. The Accursed Mountains and Šar Mountains ...read more.

Claimed by Serbia, run by Serbian government

Kosovo is serbia!

Lol you get it?

2 Palestine Palestine (State of Palestine, is a de jure sovereign state in Western Asia. It is officially governed by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and claims the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. However, its claimed territory has been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967; the West Bank is ...read more.

Palestine has a huge claim by Israel and is recognized by most countries in UN, Hope it regains its territories from Israel.

3 Hong Kong Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.

Controlled by the Chinese government, but has its own currency equaling to the Chinese currency

4 Bermuda

Bermuda is controlled by the British government and has no independent political powers

5 Puerto Rico

Everyone always says most other countries on this list are countries, and some of them are recognized by several federal governments- but not Puerto Rico. EVERYONE calls it a country, but not a single real country does.

6 Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. The territories controlled by the ROC consist of 168 islands, with a combined area of 36,193 square kilometres (13,974 sq mi). The main island of Taiwan, formerly known as Formosa, has an area of 35,808 square kilometres (13,826 sq mi), with mountain ranges dominating the eastern two-thirds and plains in the western third, where its highly urbanised population is concentrated. The capital, Taipei, forms along with New Taipei ...read more.

Part of China since 1928

This is 100% a country.

7 Isle of Man

Not seen as independent, but rather a British Crown colony.

8 Greenland Greenland is an island country part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is the world's largest island, it is one of the three constituent countries that form the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark and the Faroe Islands; the citizens of these countries are all Danish nationals. Greenland is divided into five municipalities: Sermersooq, Kujalleq, Qeqqata, Qeqertalik and Avannaata. The northeast of the island composes the unincorporated Northeast Greenland National Park. Thule Air Base is also unincorporated, an enclave within Avannaata municipality administered by the United States Space Force. ...read more.

Actually, It's Part Of Denmark

9 Northern Cyprus
10 Virgin Islands
The Contenders
11 Somaliland
12 Abkhazia
13 Dubai Dubai is the largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates. Established in the 18th century as a small fishing village, the city grew rapidly in the early 21st century into a cosmopolitan metropolis with a focus on tourism and hospitality. Dubai is one of the world's most popular tourist destinations with the second most five-star hotels in the world, and the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa. ...read more.

People think Dubai is a country, when it is a city in the UAE

14 Kurdistan
15 South Ossetia
16 Karachi
17 North Sentinel Island
18 West Papua
19 Transnistria

The Last Soviet Republic Ather The Death Of The Soviet Uion. Transnistria Was Born On 1945. He Went To Millatary Training And Made Moldova His Slave Until 1991.

20 Sealand

Size of 28 square meter.
well, this isn't a nation, but a microNATION lol

21 Serbia Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungary to the north, Romania to the northeast, Bulgaria to the southeast, North Macedonia to the south, ...read more.
22 Other World Kingdom
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