Nations Younger than Virginia (Patreon)

This is map of nations that came into existence more recently than the state of Virginia, which was founded in 1607. All nations founded after 1607 are in red. I'm counting countries in their modern iteration, with there being "a Germany" in the form of the Holy Roman Empire since the 9th century but modern Germany only came into existence in 1871. India, Italy and the UK, among others, all have long histories of government but have only existed in their modern forms since 1947, 1870 and 1707 respectively.

I did this to demonstrate how relatively unstable borders are and how our current ideas of nationality are relatively recent, even if the underlying ethnic groups aren't.