id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3326 East Timor - Wikipedia .html text/html 12334 1877 69 As "Timor-Leste", it became the first new sovereign state of the 21st century on 20 May 2002 and joined the United Nations[15] and the Community of Portuguese Language Countries.[16] In 2011, East Timor announced its intention to become the eleventh member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).[17] It is one of only two predominantly Christian nations in Southeast Asia, the other being the Philippines,[18] as well as the only country of Asia to be located completely in the Southern Hemisphere.[19] The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) official short form in English and all other languages is Timor-Leste (codes: TLS & TL), which has been adopted by the United Nations,[21] the European Union,[22] and the national standards organisations of France (AFNOR), the United States (ANSI),[23] United Kingdom (BSI), Germany (DIN), and Sweden (SIS), all diplomatic missions to the country by protocol and the CIA World Factbook.[24] East Timor is a full member state of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), also known as the Lusophone Commonwealth, an international organisation and political association of Lusophone nations across four continents. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3326.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3326.txt