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In what year did Madagascar become fully independent from France?
1848Switzerland has existed since 1291, but prior to 1848 it was technically a defence alliance of independent countries.
The term Iraq has existed as a regional term in Arabic for Mesopotamia more or less since the Arab conquest of Mesopotamia in the 7th century C.E. However, as the name of an independent or quasi-independent region, it only gained the name Iraq in 1919, when it was designated as the British Mandate for Iraq.
The Republic of Iraq has an official land area of 437,072 sq km or 169,234 sq mi.
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