Editing Buffer state (section)

===Americas===
* {{Flagicon|Bolivia|variant=1826}} [[Bolivia]], created by [[Gran Colombia]] as a buffer between [[Peru]] and [[Argentina]] during the [[Upper Peru]] question<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bolivia |year=1826 |title=Colección oficial de leyes, decretos, ordenes, resoluciones &c. Que se han expedido para el regimen de la Republica Boliviana |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iOMoAAAAYAAJ&q=resoluci%C3%B3n+del+congreso+23+febrero+1825&pg=PA6}}</ref>
* {{Flagicon|Uruguay}} [[Uruguay]], served as a demilitarised buffer between Argentina and the [[Empire of Brazil]] during the early independence period in [[South America]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Uruguay – From Insurrection to State Organization, 1820–30 |url=http://countrystudies.us/uruguay/4.htm |access-date=3 March 2017 |website=countrystudies.us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Phelps |first=Nicole |date=1 January 2014 |title=Review of Knarr, James C., Uruguay and the United States, 1903–1929: Diplomacy in the Progressive Era |url=http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=37009 |access-date=3 March 2017 |website=www.h-net.org |language=en}}</ref>
* {{Flagicon|Paraguay|variant=1842}} [[Paraguay]], maintained after the end of the [[Paraguayan War]] in 1870, as a buffer separating Argentina and Brazil<ref>{{Cite news |title=Paraguay: Regional Geopolitics and a New President |url=https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/paraguay-regional-geopolitics-and-new-president |access-date=3 March 2017 |work=Stratfor |language=en}}</ref>
* {{Flagicon image|Colonial-Red-Ensign.svg}} [[Province of Georgia|Georgia]], a [[colony]] established by [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] in 1732 as a buffer between its other [[Thirteen Colonies|colonies along the Atlantic coast]] of [[North America]] and [[Spanish Florida]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Colonies {{!}} Georgia |url=http://www.smplanet.com/teaching/colonialamerica/colonies/georgia |access-date=20 November 2015 |website=www.smplanet.com}}</ref>
* {{Flagicon|Ecuador}} [[Ecuador]], served as a "cushion state" between Colombia and Peru, which had a bigger extension{{clarify|surface area maybe?|date=May 2023}} and military force and fought a [[Gran Colombia–Peru War|war in the 1820s]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Zepeda |first=Beatriz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vVYGkG1b9qgC&q=ecuador+estado+colchon+colombia+peru&pg=PA17 |title=Ecuador: Relaciones exteriores a la luz del bicentenario |year=2009 |publisher=Flacso-Sede Ecuador |isbn=9789978672242}}</ref>