Declared Jokes

Did you hear that cats have carried out a Coup in Barcelona and declared independence from Spain?
They're calling themselves the Republic of Catalo-nya.
Did you hear about the Frenchman who jumped into the river in Paris?
He was declared to be in Seine.
Yetis have declared their own independent state in the Himalayas.
It's an abomi-nation.
There was a Young Lady of Portugal,
Whose ideas were excessively nautical:
She climbed up a tree,
To examine the sea,
But declared she would never leave Portugal.