Editing Buffer state (section)

===Asia===
* [[Kingdom of Judah]] was a buffer state between [[Late Period of ancient Egypt|Egyptian Empire]] and [[Neo-Babylonian Empire]].<ref>{{Cite web|author=Dennis Bratcher|title=Old Testament History The Rise of Babylon and Exile (640 BC-538 BC)|url=https://www.crivoice.org/othbabylon.html|website=THE VOICE|access-date = 2024-08-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|author=Laurie Pearce|title=Babylonian Accounts of the Invasion of Judah|url=https://www.bibleodyssey.org/articles/babylonian-accounts-of-the-invasion-of-judah/|website=Bible Odyssey|access-date = 2024-08-06}}</ref>
* Multiple buffer states played major roles during the [[Roman–Persian Wars]] (66 BC – 628 AD). [[Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)|Armenia]] was a frequently contested buffer between the [[Roman Empire]] (as well as the later [[Byzantine Empire]]) and the various [[Achaemenid Empire|Persian]] and Muslim states.
* {{Flagicon|North Korea}} [[North Korea]], during and after the [[Cold War]], has been seen by some analysts as a buffer state between the military forces of [[China]], the [[Soviet Union]] and those of [[South Korea]], [[Japan]], and the [[United States]] (stationed in South Korea, Japan, and [[Taiwan]] from 1954 to 1979).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Getting China to Become Tough with North Korea |url=http://www.cato.org/blog/getting-china-become-tough-north-korea |access-date=2016-02-10 |website=[[Cato Institute]]}}</ref>
* {{Flagicon|Manchukuo}} [[Manchukuo]] was a pro-Japanese buffer state between the [[Empire of Japan]], the Soviet Union, and the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] during [[World War II]].
* {{Flagicon|Thailand}} [[Thailand]], historically known as Siam, was an independent buffer state between the [[British Raj]], [[British Malaya]], [[French Indochina]], and their competing colonial interests in [[History of Laos#Siam and Suzerainty (1779–1893)|Laos]] and [[History of Cambodia|Cambodia]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pholsena |first=Vatthana |title=LAOS, From Buffer State to Crossroads |publisher=Silkworm Books |year=2007 |isbn=978-9749480502}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Macgregor |first=John |title=Through the Buffer State : Travels in Borneo, Siam, Cambodia, Malaya and Burma |publisher=White Lotus Co Ltd; 2 edition |year=1994 |isbn=978-9748496252}}</ref>
* {{Flagicon|Korean Empire}} [[Korean Empire|Korea]] acted as a buffer zone between the growing superpowers of Imperial Japan and the [[Russian Empire]].
* {{Flagicon|Far Eastern Republic}} The [[Far Eastern Republic]] was a formally independent state created to act as a buffer between [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Bolshevik Russia]] and the Empire of Japan.<ref name="Wood">Alan Wood, "The Revolution and Civil War in Siberia," in Edward Acton, Vladimir Iu. Cherniaev, and William G. Rosenberg (eds.), ''Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution, 1914–1921''. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997; pp. 716–717.</ref><ref name="Dict">George Jackson and Robert Devlin (eds.), ''Dictionary of the Russian Revolution''. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989; pp. 223–225.</ref>
* {{Flagicon|Emirate of Afghanistan}} [[Emirate of Afghanistan|Afghanistan]] was a buffer state between the [[British Empire]], which ruled much of [[South Asia]], and the Russian Empire, which ruled much of [[Russian Turkestan|Central Asia]], during the [[Great Game|Anglo–Russian conflicts]] of the 19th century. Later, the [[Wakhan Corridor]] extended the buffer eastwards to the Chinese border.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Debarbieux |first1=Bernard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MtUpCwAAQBAJ |title=The Mountain: A Political History from the Enlightenment to the Present |last2=Rudaz |first2=Gilles |last3=Todd |first3=Jane Marie |last4=Price |first4=Martin F. |date=2015-09-10 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=9780226031118 |page=150 |language=en}}</ref>
* The [[Himalayas|Himalayan]] nations of {{Flag icon|Tibet}} [[Tibet (1912–1951)|Tibet]],  {{Flag icon|Kingdom of Nepal}} [[Kingdom of Nepal|Nepal]], {{Flag icon|Bhutan}} [[Bhutan]], and {{flagicon image|Flag of Sikkim (1877-1914; 1962-1967).svg}} [[Kingdom of Sikkim|Sikkim]] were buffer states between the British Empire and [[Qing dynasty|China]]. Later, during the [[Sino-Indian War]] of 1962, they became buffers between China and [[India]] as the two powers fought along their borders.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nepal: Dictated by Geography {{!}} World Policy Institute |url=http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/winter2013/nepal-dictated-by-geography |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831045939/http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/winter2013/nepal-dictated-by-geography |archive-date=2017-08-31 |access-date=2016-02-10 |website=www.worldpolicy.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=The World Today; Bhutan and Sikkim: Two Buffer States Vol. 15, No. 12 |publisher=Royal Institute of International Affairs |year=1959 |pages=492–500}}</ref>
* {{Flagicon|Mongolia}} [[Mongolian People's Republic|Mongolia]] acted as a buffer between the Soviet Union and China until 1991. It currently serves as a buffer between [[Russia]] and China.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mongolia, the uncontested buffer state |url=http://www.russia-direct.org/opinion/mongolia-uncontested-buffer-state |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190204190410/https://www.russia-direct.org/opinion/mongolia-uncontested-buffer-state |archive-date=4 February 2019 |access-date=3 March 2017 |website=Russia Direct |language=en}}</ref>
* {{Flag|Lebanon}} is a buffer state between [[Israel]] and [[Syria]].
* {{Flag|Iraq}} and {{Flag|Bahrain}} are buffer states between [[Iran]] and [[Saudi Arabia]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kader |first=Ariz |date=July 2020
|title=Iraq: Battleground or Buffer State? |url=https://www.cidob.org/en/publications/publication_series/notes_internacionals/n1_218/iraq_battleground_or_buffer_state |website=CIDOB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |title=Bahrain as the area of Saudi‑Iranian rivalry in the second decade of the 21st century |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338150134 |journal=Studia Politicae Universitatis Silesiensis}}</ref>