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The Tuvan People's Republic was proclaimed a nominally independent state in 1921, although it was tightly controlled by Moscow and is considered a satellite state of the Soviet Union until 1944, when the USSR annexed it into the Russian SFSR. [9] Another early Soviet satellite state in Asia was the short-lived Far Eastern Republic in Siberia. [9]
The term has also been applied to states which are extremely economically dependent on a more powerful nation. The three Pacific Ocean countries associated with the United States under the Compact of Free Association (the Federated States of Micronesia , the Marshall Islands , and Palau ) have been called client states.
The following is a list of the largest satellite cities worldwide, with over 500,000 people. A satellite city is defined as subordinate to a central city in a business or infrastructure sense, and it may or may not have more population than the central city due to arbitrary municipal definitions. Excluded are transborder agglomerations.
Soviet satellite states — the Communist satellite states of the Soviet Union The Soviet states were primarily part of the Soviet Eastern Bloc in Eastern Europe ; and in Central Asia . See also the categories Former socialist republics and Soviet republics
East Germany was the most advanced industrial nation of the Eastern Bloc. [186] Until the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, East Germany was considered a weak state, hemorrhaging skilled labor to the West such that it was referred to as "the disappearing satellite". [222]
Qatar's first satellite flew as a joint project with the French corporation Eutelsat Qatar: Es'hail 1: Es'hailSat: SS/Loral: Ariane 5ECA: Kourou: 29 August 2013: Full ownership of the joint France-Qatar satellite Eutelsat 25B / Es'hail 1 was sold to Es'hailsat in 2018 [24] Peru: PUCP-Sat 1: Dnepr: Dombarovsky: 21 November 2013: Pocket-PUCP ...
United Nations: United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space [100] UNCOPUOS Dec 12, 1959 — — — — United Nations: United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs [101] UNOOSA 13 Dec 1958 — — — — United States: National Aeronautics and Space Administration [102] NASA 29 Jul 1958 (Alan Shepard) (Discoverer 13) Uzbekistan
The First French Empire and its satellite states in 1812 The Batavian Republic was established in the Netherlands under French revolutionary protection. In Italy, the French First Republic encouraged a proliferation of small republics in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known as sister republics .