How many nations are there in the world?

Question

i was told 124, but that sounds too little a number

Answer 1

With the ending of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in June 2006 and the independence of Montenegro and Serbia, there are now 194 independent sovereign states in the world, plus about
60 dependent areas, and five disputed territories.

see link for list

Answer 2

The United Nations has 192 members, or maybe 193 with Montenegro being the latest?

The IOC Olympics have 203 members. The reason they have more is many colonies and dependencies are permitted to host their own Olympic teams and athletes even if such competitors hold the same citizenship as another member nation. Examples of this include territories such as Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Hong Kong, Eritrea and Timor all of which compete as separate nations despite being legally a part of another country. The Marshall Islands will compete in 2008 for the fist time.

The biggest membership for a 'world organisation' is FIFA with 205 members. Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland competing as seperate nations increasing their figure higher than the IOC where they compete together as Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Answer 3

It's impossible to say because there are some places where the world is undecided whether its even a country or not - like "Sealand", where a family lives on an abandoned military post off the British coast, and other very small places.

The UN has 192 members, and it's generally considered that there are 200 or so countries. Hope that helps!

Answer 4

Has changed a lot over the last few years because of the USSR and Yugoslavia breaking up plus other nations becoming independent, the UN has 192 members but there are 243 entities considered to be countries.

Answer 5

Olha, sinceramente não faço a nemor ideia, mais deve ter muitas.

Answer 6

all i know is its a small world, but you wouldn't want to paint it

Answer 7

a whole lot