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Faculty member in Geography and Native American Studies, The Evergreen State College Lab 1, Room 3012, 2700 Evergreen Pkwy. NW, Olympia, WA 98505 USA Tel. (360) 867-6153 |
| Country & maps link | Formerly in | Capital | Majority religion | Majority language branch (*-Family not Indo-European) |
| Hungary | -- |
Budapest | Catholic | Finno-Ugric* |
| Poland | -- |
Warsaw | Catholic | Slavic |
| Bulgaria | -- |
Sofia | Orthodox | Slavic |
| Romania | -- |
Bucharest | Orthodox | Romantic |
| Albania | -- |
Tiranë | Sunni Muslim | Albanian |
| Mongolia | -- |
Ulaanbataar | Buddhist | Mongol (Altaic)* |
| Slovenia | Yugoslavia | Ljubljana | Catholic | Slavic |
| Croatia | Yugoslavia | Zagreb | Catholic | Slavic |
| Bosnia & Hercegovina | Yugoslavia | Sarajevo | Sunni Muslim/ Orthodox/Catholic | Slavic |
| Serbia & Montenegro | Yugoslavia | Belgrade | Orthodox | Slavic |
| Macedonia | Yugoslavia | Skopje | Orthodox | Slavic |
| Czech Republic | Czechoslovakia | Prague | Catholic | Slavic |
| Slovakia | Czechoslovakia | Bratislava | Catholic | Slavic |
| Latvia | USSR (as Latvian SSR) | Riga | Protestant | Baltic |
| Lithuania | USSR (as Lithuanian SSR) | Vilnius | Catholic | Baltic |
| Estonia | USSR (as Estonian SSR) | Tallinn | Protestant | Finno-Ugric* |
| Belarus | USSR (as Byelorussian SSR) | Minsk | Orthodox | Slavic |
| Ukraine | USSR (as Ukrainian SSR) | Kyyiv (Kiev) | Orthodox | Slavic |
| Moldova | USSR (as Moldavian SSR) | Chisinau | Orthodox | Romantic |
| Russia | USSR (as RSFSR) | Moscow | Orthodox | Slavic |
| Georgia | USSR (as Georgian SSR) | Tbilisi | Orthodox | South Caucasian* |
| Armenia | USSR (as Armenian SSR) | Yerevan | Orthodox | Armenian |
| Azerbaijan | USSR (as Azerbaidzhan SSR) | Baku | Shi'a Muslim | Turkic (Altaic)* |
| Kazakhstan | USSR (as Kazakh SSR) | Astana | Sunni Muslim | Turkic (Altaic)* |
| Uzbekistan | USSR (as Uzbek SSR) | Tashkent | Sunni Muslim | Turkic (Altaic)* |
| Kyrgyzstan | USSR (as Kirghiz SSR) | Bishkek | Sunni Muslim | Turkic (Altaic)* |
| Turkmenistan | USSR (as Turkmen SSR) | Ashgabat | Sunni Muslim | Turkic (Altaic)* |
| Tajikistan | USSR (as Tadzhik SSR) | Dushanbe | Sunni Muslim | Iranian |