Tuvalu
1 October 1978 (from the UK)
Uganda
9 October 1962 (from the UK)
Ukraine
24 August 1991 (from the Soviet Union)
United Arab Emirates
2 December 1971 (from the UK)
United Kingdom
1927; England has existed as a unified entity since
the 10th century; the union between England and Wales, begun in 1284
with the Statute of Rhuddlan, was not formalized until 1536 with an
Act of Union; in another Act of Union in 1707, England and Scotland
agreed to permanently join as Great Britain; the legislative union
of Great Britain and Ireland was implemented in 1801, with the
adoption of the name the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland; the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 formalized a partition of
Ireland; six northern Irish counties remained part of the United
Kingdom as Northern Ireland and the current name of the country, the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, was adopted in
1927
United States
4 July 1776 (from Great Britain)
Uruguay
25 August 1825 (from Brazil)
Uzbekistan
1 September 1991 (from the Soviet Union)
Vanuatu
30 July 1980 (from France and the UK)
Venezuela
5 July 1811 (from Spain)