De Facto Independent, Breakaway and Disputed States
| De Facto Independent/Breakaway/Disputed State | Former/Disputed Sovereign Power | Population Density |
Area |
Population |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kosovo | Serbia | 159 | 10,908 | 1,733,872 |
| Transnistria | Moldova | 133 | 4,163 | 537,000 |
| North Cyprus | Cyprus | 78 | 3,355 | 285,356 |
| Abkhazia | Georgia | 29 | 8,432 | 242,862 |
| South Ossetia | Georgia | 18 | 3,900 | 72,000 |
| Nagorno-Karabakh | Azerbaijan | 12 | 11,458 | 141,400 |
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