How is the oldest country in the world?

Answer 1

China or Egypt. China has been an isolationist state run by absolute monarchs from ~2700 B.C. to 1921, a shattered nation controlled by warlords until 1949, and a dictatorial communist state fromm then onwards. Egypt has been a country for way longer, but in many different forms. Starting with the Old Kingdom, ~4000 B.C. - ~2700 B.C, the Middle Kingdom, ~2700 B.C.- ~1000 B.C, and to the New Kingdom, ~1000 B.C. - 337 B.C. It was conquered by Rome in 27 B.C, and remained a province of Rome until ~ 400 A.D. It remained under Visigoth control until 634 A.D. when the Muslims overran it. The Muslims held it until Ottomans took Egypt in the 1500s. The British conquered the Ottoman Empire at the end of WW1, holding Egypt until independence was granted in the 30s. The final government started with a Baathist revolution in the 50s. If Egypt is the oldest it lasted: 6000 years If it's China, it lasted: 4600 yrs.