Just something that popped into my head the other day; there's lots and lots of cases of countries splitting off or seceding, such as South Sudan becoming its own country just last year, to name one example. But does the opposite ever happen? Are there any cases of countries (ones that are already countries, not like the US binding its colonies into one country) joining together to form a single country? It should happen more often, I think, than it does. People can usually get along fine in many areas, and it'd be a nice way to break the trend! :P
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