Costa Rica:
15 September 1821 (from Spain)

Cote d'Ivoire:
7 August (1960) (from France)

Croatia:
25 June 1991 (from Yugoslavia)

Cuba:
20 May 1902 (from US)

Cyprus:
16 August 1960 (from UK); note - Turkish Cypriot area
proclaimed self-rule on 13 February 1975

Czech Republic:
1 January 1993 (Czechoslovakia split into the Czech
Republic and Slovakia)

Denmark:
first organized as a unified state in 10th century; in 1849
became a constitutional monarchy

Djibouti:
27 June 1977 (from France)

Dominica:
3 November 1978 (from UK)

Dominican Republic:
27 February 1844 (from Haiti)