Benin
1 August 1960 (from France)
Bermuda
none (overseas territory of the UK)
Bhutan
1907 (became a unified kingdom under its first hereditary
king)
Bolivia
6 August 1825 (from Spain)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1 March 1992 (from Yugoslavia; referendum for
independence completed 1 March 1992; independence declared 3 March
1992)
Botswana
30 September 1966 (from UK)
Brazil
7 September 1822 (from Portugal)
British Virgin Islands
none (overseas territory of the UK)
Brunei
1 January 1984 (from UK)
Bulgaria
3 March 1878 (as an autonomous principality within the
Ottoman Empire); 22 September 1908 (complete independence from the
Ottoman Empire)