Wow… it’s been a long time since I’ve read a news story and seen a country I haven’t heard of before. Apparently, Eritrea has troops and has sent them into Etheopia.

I’m not entirely sure how many countries exist in the world, but I am impressed that one has snuck by me for my entire life.

UPDATE: According to Wikipedia, there are 202 sovereign states, of which some are missing universal recognition.

These are some of the ones I’ve never heard of:

• Abkhazia,
• Nagorno-Karabakh,
• Pridnestrovie,
• South Ossetia

UPDATE 2: Funny enough, Eritrea has its own ISO country code.