How Many New Countries

I was having a disagreement with someone about how many independent countries former Yugoslavia has been split into, I came up with four and he came up with six.  Turned out we were both wrong, it's five.

Then I started guessing how many new countries have been created in the last decade or so and

I came up with 16, but........

.....I was wrong again.

1. Armenia
2. Azerbaijan
3. Belarus
4. Bosnia and Herzegovina
5. Croatia
6. Czech Republic
7. Eritrea
8. Germany
9. Latvia
10. Lithuania
11. Moldova
12. Russia
13. Serbia and Montenegro
14. Slovakia 
15. Ukraine
16. Uzbekistan

Take a guess and see how well you do.

Find your answer here.