What is the oldest civilized country still populated?
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If you judge it by it's written history, China far outweighs any other country. If you judge it by it's inception, Africa.
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ancient India.  its very old, and yes it still exists.\n\nPS.  I want my cape back.
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China. \n\nTaiwan was in the UN in the place of China until the 60's
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the oldest that we can find and have full knowledge of it.is VEDA.\nit is about 7500 years old,with some fascinating transcript of general belief of this religion
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China.\n\nChina has just over 20% of the world's population--1,306,724,037 2006 (2006 estimate)
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oldest human races are farthest away from cradle land
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Chinese might be the Oldest . But languages in Ancient Scriptures found for Ancient Egyptian and Indus Valley Civilizations might also be older than Chinese. And so could be predecessors of Greek and Latin . So it is an Open ENDED Question  !!!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilisation\n\nwhat, where, how, when...
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The oldest mother in the world to date is Adriana Iliescu from Craiova, Romania.\n\nShe was 66 years old when she gave birth to her daughter back in 2005
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It is generally supposed that Damascus, the chief city of Syria, is the oldest city in the world.
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This depends upon your definition of what a country is/was.  It appears that the first signs of civilization (building cities) was in Sumer in southern Mesopotamia sometime between 3500 and 3300 BCE.  Soon after, Egypt and the Indus River Valley began.\nSargon of Akkadia was the first ruler to keep a standing army and the first human to rule over multiple city-states.  This was about 2300 BCE.
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the iran empire is near to 3560 but <Iran> is the oldest name of country in the world the kourosh name his region in3500 year ago Iran and it is came from the ARYA
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The following countries claim to have the longest continuous democracies:\n * The first democracy was  founded by the Ancient Greeks in 508BC, but was dissolved following Roman and later Turkish invasions. \n* Iceland since 930 has the oldest democratic assembly dissolved in 1430 so 500 years of continuous democracy. \n* The Iriquois Nation claims 800 years as the oldest participatory democracy. \n* England has had a parliament since 1265 though the monarch (unelected) has the right to block laws.\n* Switzerland at the town level since 13th Century but as a nation since 1648. But only gave the right to vote to women in 1971.\n* New Zealand if you include all citizens regardless of race, sex or creed since 1893 \n* USA  \n   > New Jersey for landowners since 1776\n   > For both men and women since 1920 \n   > For all citizens regardless of race, sex or creed since the 1960s following the civil rights movements.
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Vatican state but it is one of the richest countrys and the only one with a 0% birth rate
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Surviving with civilization intact!
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It is generally assumed that Damascus in Syria is the most ancient city known to man.  As far back as 4,000 years ago, it was a major city of importance, in the time of Abraham.\n\nThere is also certain evidence pointing to Jericho as being over 9,000 years old, which would make it the oldest city man has found evidence of.\n\nOver 9,000 years ago, there was no record of history.  Anything before that would be a mere guess.
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the oldest univeristy built in the new world is in the dominican republic funded in 1538 32 years before harvard oky.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in_continuous_operation\n\nAutonomous University of Santo Universidad\n Autónoma de Santo Domingo (Domingo