Sentence examples for split into two countries from inspiring English sources

6Czechoslovakia, a member from 1945, split into two countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in 1993.

The Berlin Wall was gone, Hungary was on the way to joining Nato, Czechoslovakia had split into two countries and the Soviet Union no longer existed.

The Hyphen War ultimately ended in the so-called Velvet Divorce, when the Czech Republic and Slovakia split into two countries in 1993.

A heart-wrenching epistolary novel about Nisha, a half-Hindu, half-Muslim girl whose life is upended after her homeland of India is split into two countries, the other being Pakistan.

General Musharraf's accusation about an Indian nuclear test underscored the lingering worries about a confrontation between the two powers of the subcontinent, who have fought three wars since the territory of the old British Raj split into two countries, India and Pakistan, in 1947.

China invested some $20bn £12bnn) in Sudan before it split into two countries in 2011, according to Chinese media reports.

The Ngok Dinka, non-Arab subsistence farmers who reside permanently in Abyei, believe the land should be part of South Sudan when Sudan splits into two countries on July 9.

The school [Maryland primary] was split into four countries – I was in Northern Ireland, and we came second.

Gloom was so deep, in fact, among the opinion leaders that at least 40percentt in each category predict that Iraq will split into three countries, representing Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, Pew said.

"We give the regime this ultimatum: either you acknowledge our legitimate demands to self-determination or you will soon find Yemen split once again into two countries," said General Nasser al-Taweel, a prominent leader of the Hirak, or southern secessionist movement.

In August 1947 India gained independence from the British and split into two separate countries - the secular state of India, dominated by Hindus, and Muslim Pakistan.