How many countries exist in the world?

Answer 1

193. I'll be hell-bent before I recognize Norway!

Answer 2

There are 193 countrys in the world reconized by the United Nations

Answer 3

Officially, there are 194 Countries in the World

Though this varies frequently.

Answer 4

Depends what definition you use as a country....generally accepted there are 194

There are also places like Taiwan..

Answer 5

Types of political entities included

On this list are 244 entities of the following types:

* 193 states with general international recognition:
o 192 member states of the United Nations (UN).
o 1 state with general international recognition but not UN membership, governed by the Holy See (a UN permanent observer): Vatican City.
* 9 states lacking general international recognition, none of which are UN members, that may be defined as states in the body of customary international law and drawing on the precedent of the Montevideo Convention:
o 1 state, no longer a UN member since late 1971, recognized by 23 UN member states and the Holy See (Vatican City), and currently with de facto international relations with many others, the Republic of China (commonly referred to as Taiwan).
o 1 state, member of the African Union and the Asian-African Strategic Partnership formed at the 2005 Asian-African Conference, recognized by 46 UN member states but never admitted to the UN itself, with most of its claimed territory under Moroccan de facto administration, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in Western Sahara.
o 1 proposed state, member of the Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic Conference, recognized by more than 100 UN member states though never itself a UN member, with no sovereignty over its claimed territories, the State of Palestine.[1]
o 1 de facto independent state, diplomatically recognized by no UN member states except Turkey, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.[2]
o 5 de facto independent states, namely Abkhazia (Georgia),[3] Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan),[4] Transnistria (Moldova),[5] Somaliland (Somalia),[6] and South Ossetia (Georgia),[7] none recognized by any UN member states.
* 38 inhabited dependent territories:
o 3 external territories of Australia (Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Island).
o 2 overseas countries in the Kingdom of Denmark (Faroe Islands and Greenland).
o 7 overseas territories of France:[8]
+ 1 sui generis (unique) community (New Caledonia).
+ 6 overseas collectivities:
# 1 overseas country (French Polynesia)
# 1 departmental collectivity (Mayotte)
# 1 territorial collectivity (Saint Pierre and Miquelon)
# 2 collectivities (Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin)
# 1 territory (Wallis and Futuna)
o 2 overseas countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Aruba and Netherlands Antilles).
o 3 dependent territories of New Zealand:
+ 2 states in free association with New Zealand (Cook Islands and Niue).
+ 1 overseas territory (Tokelau).
o 16 British dependencies:
+ 13 overseas territories of the United Kingdom (Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena (and its dependencies Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha), Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia).
+ 3 Crown dependencies (Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man).
o 5 unincorporated territories of the United States:
+ 2 commonwealths (Northern Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico).
+ 2 organized territories (Guam and U.S. Virgin Islands).
+ 1 de facto organized territory lacking an Organic Act (American Samoa).
* 4 special entities recognized by international treaty or agreement (Åland in Finland, Svalbard in Norway, as well as the 2 special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China - Hong Kong and Macau).

In the Annex to the list of countries, an outline is given on the entities not included in this list. This includes distinct political and legal entities which are countries but are considered integral parts of a sovereign state, notably the constituent countries of the United Kingdom and the Länder of Germany.

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