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G7

G7 - the "Group of Seven" countries - came together in 1975 as the seven most important industrialized nations at the time.

These seven countries are the US, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada. In 1998 Russia was added and the group expanded to G8, before it was excluded again in 2014 after Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula.

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