article: List of countries in the 2000s
links: Pondicherry Jharkhand Iceland Amur Oblast Leningrad Oblast Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija New Jersey Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Kamchatka Krai Indiana Buenos Aires New Caledonia Oyo State Santa Catarina (state) Tierra del Fuego Province (Argentina) New Hampshire Fujairah Chhattisgarh Mauritania Gagauzia Formosa Province Barbuda West Papua (province) Benue State Kansas Tripura Volgograd Oblast Morelos Jamaica Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Sharjah (emirate) Kedah Río Negro Province Albania Ross Dependency Gambela Region Ekiti State Jervis Bay Territory Danish Realm Afghanistan Appenzell Innerrhoden San Juan Province (Argentina) District of Columbia Bahia Honduras Baja California Senegal Maakhir Basque Country (autonomous community) Bihar Veracruz Argentina Central Bosnia Canton Uruguay Gujarat Palmyra Atoll Kaduna State Newfoundland and Labrador Salta Province Dodoma Guerrero Brunei 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence Chiapas Comoros Svalbard Malacca West Darfur Canton of Jura Ohio States of Austria Yucatán (state) Ebonyi State Chad Burkina Faso Jordan West Bank Kosrae Sri Lanka Príncipe Serbia Querétaro Saint Lucia Lara (state) Irkutsk Oblast Wisconsin Florida Sverdlovsk Oblast Kiribati Brandenburg Zulia Cantons of Switzerland Kinyarwanda Mongolia Maranhão Ryazan Oblast Panama Australian Antarctic Territory The New York Times Cotonou Special Region of Yogyakarta Rodrigues Madeira Yaracuy Táchira (state) Sonora Kelantan Guadeloupe North Dakota Ingushetia Espírito Santo Taipei Malawi Iran East Timor Corrientes Province Region of Murcia Oregon Guanajuato Mayotte Korea Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan Xinjiang Kerala Vorarlberg President of France Matsu Islands Quebec Solomon Islands French Guiana Tromelin Island Salzburg Malta Brčko District Astrakhan Oblast Mount Athos Pope States of Venezuela Yaren District Niger State Queen Maud Land Brussels-Capital Region Obwalden Tennessee Uttar Pradesh Penza Oblast Kemerovo Oblast Nova Scotia Federal District (Brazil) Zambia South Ossetia Utah Northern Cyprus São Paulo (state) Wales Udmurtia San Luis Province Yamoussoukro Alagoas Bhutan Punjab (Pakistan) Dadra and Nagar Haveli Delaware Lebanon Washington (state) New South Wales Guinea-Bissau Andalusia Mordovia States and territories of India Madagascar Santiago del Estero Province Guangxi Vienna Lakshadweep Ajman Quintana Roo Maine Ontario Castile and León La Paz, Bolivia Azores Kwara State Valencian Community Ras al-Khaimah Cantabria Republic of Cyprus Golan Heights Sucre Oryol Oblast Saxony-Anhalt Madhya Pradesh Spratly Islands Nasarawa State Zacatecas Pretoria Krais of Russia Sokoto State Melilla Serranilla Bank Kuala Lumpur Nebraska East Jerusalem Michigan Tobago Algeria Palestine Liberation Organization Provinces and territories of Canada Kentucky Haiti Rio Grande do Norte Wallonia Somaliland Tlaxcala Heard Island and McDonald Islands Vatican City Tibet Taraba State U.S. state Samara Oblast Lipetsk Oblast Arkhangelsk Oblast Chechnya Catalonia Chuuk State Republic of Buryatia Aguascalientes Adjara Tasmania Iraq Oklahoma Czech Republic Delhi Akwa Ibom State Canton of Lucerne Karakalpakstan United Nations Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug Autonomous Region of Bougainville South Korea Autonomous Republic of Crimea Nevada Argentine Antarctica New Brunswick Andhra Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir (state) Tucumán Province Canton of Bern Amapá Colombia Peru Putrajaya Daman and Diu Nunavut Uganda Kuwait Overseas departments and territories of France Northwest Territories Missouri Porto-Novo Assam Haryana Kurgan Oblast Perm Krai Chilean Antarctic Territory Aceh Pahang Manitoba Autonomous oblasts of Russia Sergipe Costa Rica Palau Sikkim Canton of Schaffhausen Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Paraíba Rwanda Burundi Appenzell Ausserrhoden Provinces of Argentina Western Australia Sindh Vladimir Oblast Timor-Leste Nagorno-Karabakh Adamawa State Inner Mongolia Rostov Oblast Falkland Islands Nayarit Jan Mayen Lobamba Bouvet Island Kandahar Bajo Nuevo Bank Namibia Thurgau Jewish Autonomous Oblast Balochistan (Pakistan) Cuba Estonia Dominican Republic Morocco Vietnam La Pampa Province States and territories of Australia Latvia Bauchi State Magadan Oblast Goa Libya Kursk Oblast Paraná (state) Massachusetts Guárico La Rioja (Spain) Enugu State Orenburg Oblast Jujuy Province Afar Region Sierra Leone Miranda (state) Mbabane Nauru Kashmir Sarawak Palestinian National Authority Addis Ababa People's Republic of China Bolívar (state) Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Anambra State Punjab (India) Saratov Oblast Oaxaca Karnataka Tamil Nadu Trinidad and Tobago Saint Petersburg Redonda Bavaria Illinois Saxony Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Crown dependencies Canton of Neuchâtel Western Sahara Castile-La Mancha Swaziland Ivanovo Oblast Aragon Martinique Federated States of Micronesia Yap Plateau State Galmudug La Rioja Province (Argentina) El Salvador San Luis Potosí Ticino Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China Rivers State Republika Srpska Kurdistan Region Novosibirsk Oblast Suriname Cojedes (state) Maryland Thuringia Canton of Geneva Lithuania Tuva Connecticut Baja California Sur Islamic State of Afghanistan Chubut Province Uttarakhand Mohéli Liancourt Rocks Hidalgo (state) Prince Edward Island Puebla Kabul Katsina State Jigawa State Yaroslavl Oblast Kenya Provinces of Pakistan Krasnoyarsk Krai Osun State Moscow Oblast New York (state) Georgia (U.S. state) American Samoa Santa Cruz Province (Argentina) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Smolensk Oblast Sakha Republic Republic of Karelia Trujillo (state) Bremen United Nations General Assembly observers Northern Areas Michoacán Edo State Vanuatu South Africa Antarctica Pará Texas Scotland Mérida (state) Kingdom of Nepal Mari El West Virginia Minnesota Nueva Esparta Tambov Oblast Valais Vojvodina Hesse Imo State Belgrade Roraima Kebbi State Republic of China Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Asturias Colorado Papua (province) Monagas Thailand Styria Ondo State Canton of Zug Zamfara State State of Mexico Clipperton Island Terengganu Yobe State Gaza City Venezuela Countries of the United Kingdom State of Palestine Johor Political divisions of Mexico Canton of Uri Coahuila Graubünden Nuevo León Montana Ogun State Rajasthan States of Germany North Korea Mozambique Dire Dawa British Columbia Borno State Kirov Oblast Belgorod Oblast Mauritius Azerbaijan Ceuta Canton of Schwyz Kosovo Kachin State Queensland Kogi State Tula Oblast El Aaiún Bryansk Oblast Stavropol Krai Orissa, India Arkansas Tajikistan Aargau Gilgit-Baltistan Ulyanovsk Oblast Victoria (Australian state) Upper Austria Tigray Region Lower Saxony Sabah Hamburg Seychelles Himachal Pradesh Federal cities of Russia Canary Islands Ramallah Baden-Württemberg Misiones Province South Carolina Bulgaria Chelyabinsk Oblast Hatay Province South Dakota Japan Kabardino-Balkaria Malaysia Tabasco Tyumen Oblast Podgorica Mali Al-Shabaab (militant group) Saarland Community of Madrid German-speaking Community of Belgium Canton of St. Gallen Cape Town Abia State Apure Galicia (Spain) Taiwan Guatemala Maldives Khabarovsk Krai Montenegro Cape Verde Mizoram Mexico City Neuquén Province Somali Civil War Nagaland Bayelsa State Saint Kitts and Nevis Laos Catamarca Province California Bashkortostan Meghalaya Papua New Guinea Somalia Tatarstan Arizona Somali Region Oblasts of Russia Guantánamo Bay Pskov Oblast Barinas (state) Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Liberia Saskatchewan Transnistria Antarctic Treaty System Canton of Glarus Cambodia History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi UN Chihuahua (state) Altai Republic Kinmen Antigua and Barbuda Rio de Janeiro (state) Rhode Island San Marino Hawaii Nevis Idaho Azad Kashmir Grande Comore Wakhan Corridor Virginia The Hague Co-Princes of Andorra Karachay–Cherkessia Kano State Tomsk Oblast Gombe State British Indian Ocean Territory Naypyidaw Croatia Slovenia Sakhalin Oblast Vologda Oblast Acre (state) Murmansk Oblast Rhineland-Palatinate Paraguay Holy See States of Brazil Wake Island Myanmar Koror Carabobo Rondônia Selangor Monarchy of the United Kingdom Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean Paracel Islands Ecuador Peter I Island Rio Grande do Sul Barbados Alberta Ningxia Dominica Geography of Taiwan Associated state Bolivia Maharashtra Dar es Salaam Lagos State Coral Sea Islands Chaco Province Pennsylvania Bahrain Autonomous communities of Spain Grenada Manipur Saudi Arabia Republics of Russia Pernambuco Durango Wyoming Navarre Monaco Sinaloa Buenos Aires Province Nigeria Komi Republic Basel-Landschaft Kaluga Oblast Marshall Islands New Mexico Alaska Iowa Región Autónoma del Atlántico Norte Burgenland Samoa Goiás Belize Flemish Region Adélie Land Northern Ireland Campeche Extremadura South Tibet Botswana Fayzabad, Badakhshan United Arab Emirates Tver Oblast Israel Tanzania Piauí Nagorno-Karabakh Republic South Australia European Union Hamas Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Córdoba Province (Argentina) Khakassia Bloemfontein Perlis Mato Grosso do Sul Yemen Primorsky Krai Harari Region Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Gaza Strip Kostroma Oblast Novgorod Oblast Perak Aragua (state) South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Chuvash Republic Commonwealth realm Benishangul-Gumuz Region Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Bangladesh Islamabad Capital Territory Puntland Ngerulmud Schleswig-Holstein São Tomé and Príncipe Basel-Stadt Entre Ríos Province Jalisco Carinthia (state) Sudan Abkhazia Antarctic Treaty Amsterdam Jerusalem Kaliningrad Oblast Louisiana Easter Island Negeri Sembilan Tamaulipas Rotuma Angola Mississippi Sri Lankan Civil War North Ossetia–Alania Tuvalu Northern Territory Sucre (state) Sovereign Military Order of Malta Yukon Zanzibar Georgia (country) Jakarta Liechtenstein Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah Guyana Southern Lebanon Trans-Karakoram Tract Ashmore and Cartier Islands Lesotho Alabama Ghana Santa Fe Province Republic of Adygea Krasnodar Krai Abidjan Philippines Arunachal Pradesh Luxembourg Ethiopia North Carolina Abu Dhabi (emirate) Taloqan Omsk Oblast Cross River State Republic of Macedonia Penang Indonesia Autonomous okrugs of Russia Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Balearic Islands Nidwalden States of Sudan Mexico Moldova Andaman and Nicobar Islands Vermont Canton of Fribourg Delta State Canton of Solothurn Hugo Chávez Dubai Minas Gerais Republic of Dagestan Hizbul Islam Tocantins (state) North Rhine-Westphalia Región Autónoma del Atlántico Sur Nenets Autonomous Okrug Amazonas (Brazilian state) Réunion Nicaragua Lower Austria Mendoza Province Republic of Chechnya Mato Grosso Ascension Island Yangon Jeju Island Aksai Chin Uttaranchal Umm al-Quwain Anjouan Macedonia naming dispute British overseas territories Olivenza States and federal territories of Malaysia West Bengal Ceará Tyrol (state) Chandigarh Amhara Region Collectivity of Saint Martin Colima Anzoátegui Syria Vargas (state) Voronezh Oblast China Zabaykalsky Krai Australian Capital Territory Federally Administered Tribal Areas Vaud Canton of Zürich Federal Capital Territory (Nigeria) Altai Krai Delta Amacuro Zimbabwe Pohnpei