How many different countries could a person alive today have lived in without leaving their hometown?
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I think the Carpathian Ruthenia area (the little triangle on the "end" of Czechoslovakia after the end of WW1) gives us five bona fide separate national entities and more if pseudo-states (such as your Fiume) and other periods of loose or brief control are allowed.
up to 1918 Austria-Hungary
1918 Hungary
1918 West Ukraine
1918-1939 Czechoslovakia
1939 Carpatho-Ukraine Republic
1939-1944 Hungary
1944-1945 Czechoslovakia
1945-1991 USSR
1991 - Ukraine
I've marked in bold where nation states were recognisably exercising full sovereignty over the area. Looser claims in italics.
Memelland (now Klaipeda) in Lithuania is another possible candidate.
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Cešký Těšin, the western part of Cieszyn, Silesia:
- to 1918: Austria-Hungary
- October 31-November 5 1918: competing Czech and Polish local administrations
- November 5 1918- Jan 30 1919: Polish occupation
- 1919-1920: Czech occupation
- 1920-1938: First Czechoslovak Republic (formalized by 1920 Spa Conference)
- 1938-1939: Second Polish Republic (Polish occupation after Munich Agreement)
- 1939-1945: Großdeutsches Reich (i.e. annexed by Nazi Germany)
- 1945-1992: Czechoslovakia
- 1993-: Czech Republic/Czechia
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Lviv:
- Austria-Hungary (until 1918)
- Western Ukrainian National Republic
- Poland (1918-1939)
- USSR (1939-1941)
- Reichskommissariat Ukraine (1941-1944)
- Poland (1944-1946)
- USSR (1946-1991)
- Ukraine (1991-now)
This does not qualify as the most number of different countries, but probably qualifies as the most number of changes in national flag.
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- Ottoman Empire (until 1912)
- Montenegro (1912-1915)
- Austria-Hungary (1915-1918)
- Serbia (1918)
- Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1918–1929)
- Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929–1941)
- Italian protectorate of Albania (1941-1943)
- Nazi Germany (1943-1944)
- Serbia (1944-1946)
- Yugoslavia (1946-1991)
- Federal Republic of Yugoslavia(1992-2003)
- Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006)
- Serbia (2006-2008)
- Kosovo (2008-
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