Who is the oldest 5 countries in the world?
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It depends on what you count as a country - is Germany, for example, the same country as it was 150 years ago, when it was much larger and encompassed many other lands?\n\nFor the sake of argument, let's say that a country is one that can show continuity of government - that is, not being taken over, breaking apart, or falling into anarchy.  Among the oldest countries would be:\n\nChina - The first king can be traced to approx. 1617 B.C.E.\nJapan - they can trace their monarchy (and thus the government) to approx. 270 C.E.\nSan Marino - was founded in 301 C.E.\nFrance - Can trace its roots to 486 C.E.\nVatican City - as a successor nation to the old Papal States, they can trace to around the 6th century C.E.
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the iran empire is near to 3560 but <Iran> is the oldest name of country in the world the kourosh name his region in3500 year ago Iran and it is came from the ARYA
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The largest is Tokyo, Japan.\n\nDamascus, Syria is the oldest.
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7th-Australia, 6th-Brazil, 5th-China, 4th-United States, 3rd-Canada, 2nd-Antarctica, Largest Country--RUSSIA
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5,000,000,000 years, more or less
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Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic\n\nI think that's it
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France.\n\nIndo-China had been a colony since before WWII.
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One list includes the following:\n1. Gaziantep, Turkey 3650 B.C.\n2. Jerusalem, Israel 3000 B.C \n3. Kirkuk, Iraq 3000 B.C.\n4. Zurich, Switzerland 3000 B.C.\n5. Konya, Turkey 2600 B.C.\n6. Giza, Egypt before2568 B.C. \n7. Sian, China 2205 B.C.\n8. Asyut, Egypt before 2160 B.C. \n8. Luxor, Egypt before 2160 B.C. \n10. Shaohing, China 2000 B.C.\n\nAnother lists the following as the 20 oldest continuously inhabited cities. Note that most are in the Middle East:\n1. Damascus Syria 4,500 BC\n2. Medinat Al-Fayoum (Crocodilopolis/Arsinoe) Egypt 4,000 BC\n3. Gaziantep Turkey 3,650 BC\n4. Hebron Palestine/Israel 3,500 BC\n5. Byblos Lebanon 3,000-4,000 BC\n6. Arbil Iraq Before 2,300 BC\n7. Kirkuk (As 'Arrapha') Iraq 2,200-3,000 BC\n8. Varanasi (Benares) India Before 2,000 BC\n9. Adana Turkey c. 2,000 BC\n10. Hama (as Hamath) Syria Before 2,000 BC\n11.  Jerusalem Israel 2,000 BC\n12. Luxor (as Thebes/Weset) Egypt c. 2,000 BC\n13. Jaffa Israel 1,800 BC\n14. Aleppo Syria 1,800 BC\n15. Kutaisi Georgia 1,700 BC\n16.Asyut Egypt Before 1,500 BC\n17. Gaza Gaza Strip Before 1,500 BC\n18. Jericho (Present Site) Palestine/Israel 1,400 BC\n19. Tyre Lebanon 1,300-2,700 BC\n20. Hamedan Iran 1,100 BC
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I am thinking the city of Jericho is one of the oldest cities.\nBUT we have signs of Indo Eruopean civilizations 10,000 years old and older.
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Here they are: \n1. China\n2. India\n3. US\n4. Indonesia\n5. Brazil\n6. Pakistan\n7. Russia\n8. Bangladesh\n9. Japan\n10. Nigeria
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I think it`s Brazil. they only have 5
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2,000 years old is the oldest.
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By most counts 192, but it is not as simple as that.  Many places that consider themselves countries are not included in that number - for example, Scotland, Taiwan, Bermuda, Greenland, Western Sahara, Palestine, etc.\n\nThese links should help.
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Seven.  \n\nEngland, France, Italy, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, and Uraguay.
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7\nNorth America\nSouth America\nAfrica\nAntartica\nAsia\nAustralia\nEurope
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China\nIndia \nUS\nGermany\nUK
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Basque - Pyrenee mountains\n\nAboriginal languages - Australia\n\nTamil - Southern India\n\nArabic - Middle East\n\nMalayalam - Southern India.\n\nI'm not sure of the others. But Basque i think is one of the five oldest languages.