What is 2023?
{{Year nav|2023}} {{Year in various calendars|2023}} '''2023''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MMXXIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Sunday]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]], the 2023rd year of the [[Common Era]] (CE) and [[Anno Domini]] (AD) designations, {{Year article header/year number|2023}}. The year started with the continuation of the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]] which began in early 2022. In January, July and September, [[Islamist]] [[suicide bomber]]s killed a total of over 200 people in [[Pakistan]]. In February, [[2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake|an earthquake]] struck [[Turkey]] and [[Syria]], that killed more than 50,000 people, making it one of the [[:en:Lists of 21st-century earthquakes|deadliest earthquakes of the 21st century]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=2023-02-24|title=Earthquake death toll surpasses 50,000 in Turkey and Syria|language=en|work=[[Reuters]]|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/earthquake-death-toll-surpasses-50000-turkey-syria-2023-02-24/|access-date=2023-09-16}}</ref> in April, [[India]] became the [[List of countries and dependencies by population|world's most populous country]], overtaking [[China]]. In September, [[Storm Daniel]] killed nearly 7,000 people in [[Bulgaria]], [[Greece]], [[Libya]] and Turkey.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Najjar|first=Linah Alsaafin,Urooba Jamal,Farah|title=Libya floods updates: Aid sent to Derna, death toll expected to rise 6000|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/9/13/libya-floods-live-thousands-missing-as-derna-counts-human-cost-of-disaster|access-date=2023-09-14|website=[[Al Jazeera]]|language=en}}</ref> In September, [[Azerbaijan]] [[:en:2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh|launched an offensive]] which ended the existence of the [[Republic of Artsakh]], causing its [[Armenians|Armenian]] inhabitants to [[:en:Flight of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians#:~:text=Faced with threats of ethnic,dozen people within the region.|move back]] to [[Armenia]]. Between October to December, over 23,000 Palestinians and 1,300 Israelis were killed du