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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]
Portuguese Republic (official, English), Lusitania (official, Latin), Galaico-Portuguese nation and Portucale from the Gallaeci tribe (Celtic Gale and Roman-Celtic Portus Cale) and Galician-Portuguese (ethnic term derived from the original language); Ophiussa also spelled Ophiusa (the ancient Greek name of what is now the Portuguese territory.
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 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 .
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
Satellite state, a dependent country; Satellite city, a smaller, self-contained city within a larger city's metro area; Commuter town, a residential town within commuting range of a large city
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]
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.