I guess I live under a rock

[Allen]

Seems like every day I'm hearing of a country that I'm unfamiliar with. I know names change and there are 195 countries in the world, many being like states here.

I admit I don't keep up with it but I didn't realize that Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia were among those that no longer exist, being split up into other countries. That's where some of the "new" names have come from.

There's plenty of others but I believe these are the most recent having taken place back in the 90's.

I guess production of the Yugo was enough to finish off Yugoslavia.

[lyman]

yugo broke up in the 90's,

my brother from another mother got the pleasure of being deployed there during that conflict, based in Hungary, and crossed the border almost every day,

[Phloating Phlasher]

I've actually been expelled from a country that no longer exists (Czechoslovakia) by a regime that no longer exists, (The USSR).
I was installing photographing film processing equipment that Britain had gifted to the Technical School (now the The Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava "S.T.U."), there, trying to wean them off of Communism in the Bratislava complex when the Soviets decided to "visit" in the late summer of 1968.
I outlived both of them!