The End of the World Map as We Know It?

- 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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