What country has the shortest history of human habitation?
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Wikipedia has an article called List of countries and islands by first human settlement. The latest by continuous habitation is Crozet Islands, which was discovered in 1772 but was only intermittently inhabited (by sealers) until 1963 with the establishment of the Alfred Faure research station. However it is part of France, which is obviously much older.
Another contender is Antarctica, which did not have a permanent settlement until 1948. By treaty it does not belong to any country, but this also means it is not a country itself.
This leaves Seychelles, which was first permanently settled in 1770 by France, then Britain, but gained independence in 1976.
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