- Take Somaliland,
a self-declared country located in the Horn of Africa. Though it has
many of the trappings of statehood—its own flag, its own currency, its
own government—no foreign government formally recognizes it as a sovereign state.
"If Somaliland isn't a country," Keating asks, "then what is?" There's
also Kiribati, a deeply isolated island nation of 33 atolls in the
Pacific. But it may be on the brink of disappearing in the
not-so-distant future:
Keating cites a Kiribati government report
stating that, by 2050, significant portions of the country's highly
populated atoll of Tarawa could be consumed by rising seas, while
smaller islands could be swallowed up even sooner.
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