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So the title of Sick man is used to describe a nation who declined or is declining slowly. The title has been used to describe the Ottoman empire in the 1850s. So since we have the Ottoman empire as a Sick man, how many of these Sick men where there? Mainly Sick men from each continent. I only know 3 of them.

Ottoman empire (Sick man of Europe)

Qing empire (Sick man of Asia)

Austria-Hungary (?????)

A few others might be

Bolivia/Paraguay (Sick man of South America)

Mexico (Sick man of North America)

Africa
Somalia


Oceania?????
Nauru

The Middle East???
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