Which one country of the following was not a part of former USSR?

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NTPC CBT-I (Held On: 12 Jan 2021 Shift 1)

Answer 1

The correct answer is Finland.

Key Points

Finland was not a part of the former USSR.
In 1991, the Soviet Union included present-day Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan.
It also included the disputed territories of Transnistria, Artkash (Nagorno-Karabakh), South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Donetsk, and Luhansk. It also included some disputed border regions (such as Tabarov Island and Bolshoy Ussuriyski Island) which have been transferred to China after the fall of the USSR.
The territories which were part of the Russian Empire but were not part of the Soviet Union are Poland, Finland, Alaska (a state of the USA), Kars and Ardahan (parts of Turkey), and some additional slices of territories in China and Iran.
The capital of the USSR was Moscow, which is also modern Russia's capital city.

Additional Information

The USSR was founded in 1922, five years after the Russian Revolution overthrew the monarchy of Czar Nicholas II.
During its existence, the USSR was the largest country by area in the world. It included more than 8.6 million square miles (22.4 million square kilometers) and stretched 6,800 miles (10,900 kilometres) from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
USSR decades after it was established, the Russian-dominated Soviet Union grew into one of the world's most powerful and influential states and eventually encompassed 15 republics–Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belorussia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.