How Many Countries Are There In The World?

How many countries are there in the world? As of 9 July 2011, when South Sudan declared its independence, there were 195 sovereign states in the world (not including the disputed but de facto independent Taiwan), plus approximately 60 dependent regions and numerous disputed territories, such as Kosovo.

There are 193 independent countries that are all part of the United Nations and have equal voting power in the General Assembly.
The Holy See and the State of Palestine are the only two non-member nations with permanent observer states.

Here is an alphabetical list of countries and regions of the globe, including their official names and any other names by which they are commonly known.

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#	Country	Population (2020)	Region
1	Honduras	9,904,607	Latin America
2	United Arab Emirates	9,890,402	Asia
3	Djibouti	988,000	Africa
4	Seychelles	98,347	Africa
5	Antigua and Barbuda	97,929	Latin America
6	Vietnam	97,338,579	Asia
7	Hungary	9,660,351	Europe
8	Tajikistan	9,537,645	Asia
9	Belarus	9,449,323	Europe
10	Austria	9,006,398	Europe
11	Fiji	896,445	Oceania
12	DR Congo	89,561,403	Africa
13	Papua New Guinea	8,947,024	Oceania
14	Serbia	8,737,371	Europe
15	Comoros	869,601	Africa
16	Israel	8,655,535	Asia
17	Switzerland	8,654,622	Europe
18	Turkey	84,339,067	Asia
19	Iran	83,992,949	Asia
20	Germany	83,783,942	Europe
21	Togo	8,278,724	Africa
22	Holy See	801	Europe
23	Sierra Leone	7,976,983	Africa
24	Guyana	786,552	Latin America
25	Andorra	77,265	Europe
26	Bhutan	771,608	Asia
27	Laos	7,275,560	Asia
28	Dominica	71,986	Latin America
29	Paraguay	7,132,538	Latin America
30	Thailand	69,799,978	Asia
31	Bulgaria	6,948,445	Europe
32	Libya	6,871,292	Africa
33	Solomon Islands	686,884	Oceania
34	Lebanon	6,825,445	Asia
35	United Kingdom	67,886,011	Europe
36	Nicaragua	6,624,554	Latin America
37	France	65,273,511	Europe
38	Kyrgyzstan	6,524,195	Asia
39	El Salvador	6,486,205	Latin America
40	Montenegro	628,066	Europe
41	Luxembourg	625,978	Europe
42	Italy	60,461,826	Europe
43	Turkmenistan	6,031,200	Asia
44	Tanzania	59,734,218	Africa
45	South Africa	59,308,690	Africa
46	Marshall Islands	59,190	Oceania
47	Suriname	586,632	Latin America
48	Singapore	5,850,342	Asia
49	Denmark	5,792,202	Europe
50	Cabo Verde	555,987	Africa
51	Finland	5,540,720	Europe
52	Congo	5,518,087	Africa
53	Micronesia	548,914	Oceania
54	Slovakia	5,459,642	Europe
55	Myanmar	54,409,800	Asia
56	Norway	5,421,241	Europe
57	Maldives	540,544	Asia
58	Kenya	53,771,296	Africa
59	Saint Kitts & Nevis	53,199	Latin America
60	South Korea	51,269,185	Asia
61	Oman	5,106,626	Asia
62	State of Palestine	5,101,414	Asia
63	Costa Rica	5,094,118	Latin America
64	Colombia	50,882,891	Latin America
65	Liberia	5,057,681	Africa
66	Ireland	4,937,786	Europe
67	Central African Republic	4,829,767	Africa
68	New Zealand	4,822,233	Oceania
69	Spain	46,754,778	Europe
70	Mauritania	4,649,658	Africa
71	Uganda	45,741,007	Africa
72	Argentina	45,195,774	Latin America
73	Malta	441,543	Europe
74	Algeria	43,851,044	Africa
75	Sudan	43,849,260	Africa
76	Brunei	437,479	Asia
77	Ukraine	43,733,762	Europe
78	Panama	4,314,767	Latin America
79	Kuwait	4,270,571	Asia
80	Croatia	4,105,267	Europe
81	Moldova	4,033,963	Europe
82	Iraq	40,222,493	Asia
83	Georgia	3,989,167	Asia
84	Belize	397,628	Latin America
85	Bahamas	393,244	Latin America
86	Monaco	39,242	Europe
87	Afghanistan	38,928,346	Asia
88	Liechtenstein	38,128	Europe
89	Poland	37,846,611	Europe
90	Canada	37,742,154	North America
91	Morocco	36,910,560	Africa
92	Eritrea	3,546,421	Africa
93	Saudi Arabia	34,813,871	Asia
94	Uruguay	3,473,730	Latin America
95	Iceland	341,243	Europe
96	San Marino	33,931	Europe
97	Uzbekistan	33,469,203	Asia
98	United States	331,002,651	North America
99	Peru	32,971,854	Latin America
100	Angola	32,866,272	Africa
101	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,280,819	Europe
102	Mongolia	3,278,290	Asia
103	Malaysia	32,365,999	Asia
104	Mozambique	31,255,435	Africa
105	Ghana	31,072,940	Africa
106	Vanuatu	307,145	Oceania
107	Yemen	29,825,964	Asia
108	Armenia	2,963,243	Asia
109	Jamaica	2,961,167	Latin America
110	Nepal	29,136,808	Asia
111	Qatar	2,881,053	Asia
112	Albania	2,877,797	Europe
113	Barbados	287,375	Latin America
114	Venezuela	28,435,940	Latin America
115	Madagascar	27,691,018	Africa
116	Indonesia	273,523,615	Asia
117	Lithuania	2,722,289	Europe
118	Cameroon	26,545,863	Africa
119	Côte d’Ivoire	26,378,274	Africa
120	North Korea	25,778,816	Asia
121	Australia	25,499,884	Oceania
122	Namibia	2,540,905	Africa
123	Niger	24,206,644	Africa
124	Gambia	2,416,668	Africa
125	Botswana	2,351,627	Africa
126	Gabon	2,225,734	Africa
127	Pakistan	220,892,340	Asia
128	Sao Tome & Principe	219,159	Africa
129	Lesotho	2,142,249	Africa
130	Sri Lanka	21,413,249	Asia
131	Brazil	212,559,417	Latin America
132	Burkina Faso	20,903,273	Africa
133	North Macedonia	2,083,374	Europe
134	Slovenia	2,078,938	Europe
135	Nigeria	206,139,589	Africa
136	Mali	20,250,833	Africa
137	Samoa	198,414	Oceania
138	Guinea-Bissau	1,968,001	Africa
139	Romania	19,237,691	Europe
140	Malawi	19,129,952	Africa
141	Chile	19,116,201	Latin America
142	Latvia	1,886,198	Europe
143	Kazakhstan	18,776,707	Asia
144	Zambia	18,383,955	Africa
145	Saint Lucia	183,627	Latin America
146	Palau	18,094	Oceania
147	Guatemala	17,915,568	Latin America
148	Ecuador	17,643,054	Latin America
149	Syria	17,500,658	Asia
150	Netherlands	17,134,872	Europe
151	Bahrain	1,701,575	Asia
152	Senegal	16,743,927	Africa
153	Cambodia	16,718,965	Asia
154	Bangladesh	164,689,383	Asia
155	Chad	16,425,864	Africa
156	Somalia	15,893,222	Africa
157	Zimbabwe	14,862,924	Africa
158	Russia	145,934,462	Europe
159	China	1,439,323,776	Asia
160	Equatorial Guinea	1,402,985	Africa
161	Trinidad and Tobago	1,399,488	Latin America
162	Estonia	1,326,535	Europe
163	Timor-Leste	1,318,445	Asia
164	Guinea	13,132,795	Africa
165	Rwanda	12,952,218	Africa
166	Mexico	128,932,753	Latin America
167	Mauritius	1,271,768	Africa
168	Japan	126,476,461	Asia
169	Benin	12,123,200	Africa
170	Cyprus	1,207,359	Asia
171	Kiribati	119,449	Oceania
172	Burundi	11,890,784	Africa
173	Tunisia	11,818,619	Africa
174	Tuvalu	11,792	Oceania
175	Bolivia	11,673,021	Latin America
176	Eswatini	1,160,164	Africa
177	Belgium	11,589,623	Europe
178	Ethiopia	114,963,588	Africa
179	Haiti	11,402,528	Latin America
180	Cuba	11,326,616	Latin America
181	Grenada	112,523	Latin America
182	South Sudan	11,193,725	Africa
183	St. Vincent & Grenadines	110,940	Latin America
184	Philippines	109,581,078	Asia
185	Dominican Republic	10,847,910	Latin America
186	Nauru	10,824	Oceania
187	Czech Republic (Czechia)	10,708,981	Europe
188	Tonga	105,695	Oceania
189	Greece	10,423,054	Europe
190	Egypt	102,334,404	Africa
191	Jordan	10,203,134	Asia
192	Portugal	10,196,709	Europe
193	Azerbaijan	10,139,177	Asia
194	Sweden	10,099,265	Europe
195	India	0	Asia

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Dependencies or other territories

#	Territory	Population (2020)	Dependency of
1	Saint Barthelemy	9,877	France
2	Réunion	895,312	France
3	Isle of Man	85,033	U.K.
4	Hong Kong	7,496,981	China
5	Cayman Islands	65,722	U.K.
6	Macao	649,335	China
7	Bermuda	62,278	U.K.
8	Saint Helena	6,077	U.K.
9	Western Sahara	597,339	(disputed)
10	Saint Pierre & Miquelon	5,794	France
11	Northern Mariana Islands	57,559	U.S.A.
12	Greenland	56,770	Denmark
13	American Samoa	55,191	U.S.A.
14	Montserrat	4,992	U.K.
15	Faeroe Islands	48,863	Denmark
16	Sint Maarten	42,876	Netherlands
17	Guadeloupe	400,124	France
18	Turks and Caicos	38,717	U.K.
19	Martinique	375,265	France
20	Falkland Islands	3,480	U.K.
21	Gibraltar	33,691	U.K.
22	British Virgin Islands	30,231	U.K.
23	French Guiana	298,682	France
24	Puerto Rico	2,860,853	U.S.A.
25	New Caledonia	285,498	France
26	French Polynesia	280,908	France
27	Mayotte	272,815	France
28	Caribbean Netherlands	26,223	Netherlands
29	Taiwan	23,816,775	(China)
30	Cook Islands	17,564	(partly New Zealand)
31	Channel Islands	173,863	U.K.
32	Guam	168,775	U.S.A.
33	Curaçao	164,093	Netherlands
34	Niue	1,626	(partly New Zealand)
35	Anguilla	15,003	U.K.
36	Tokelau	1,357	New Zealand
37	Wallis & Futuna	11,239	France
38	Aruba	106,766	Netherlands
39	U.S. Virgin Islands	104,425	U.S.A.

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