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A country is a geographical territory, both in the sense of nation and state .When the term country is used as a synonym for an independent sovereign state, see:...

This is a list of sovereign states, giving an overview of state

State

A state is a political Social contract with effective sovereignty over a geographic area and representing a population. These may be nation states, State or multinational states....
s around the world with information on the extent of their sovereignty

Sovereignty

File:Leviathan gr.jpgSovereignty is the exclusive right to control a government, a State, a people, or oneself. A sovereign is a supreme lawmaking authority....
. It is arranged alphabetically. It includes both states widely recognized to be de jure
De jure

De jure is an expression that means "concerning law", as contrasted with de facto, which means "concerning fact".The terms de jure and de facto are used instead of "in principle" and "in practice", respectively, when one is describing politics or legal situations....
sovereign and states that claim de jure sovereignty and exercise de facto
De facto

De facto is a Latin expression that means "concerning the fact" or in practice but not necessarily ordained by law. It is commonly used in contrast to de jure when referring to matters of law, governance, or technique that are found in the common experience as created or developed without or contrary to a regulation....
control over some territory, but which are not generally recognised.

Sovereign states: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z
Other states
Criteria for inclusion
See also
References
Footnotes |} See the section "criteria for inclusion

List of sovereign states

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" for the criteria used to determine the contents of this list.

The listing or placement of any entity in this article is not meant to imply an official position in any dispute.

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colspan=2||- |valign=top colspan=2 style="font-size: 90%;"|Abkhazia Other states |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Albania Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – People's Democratic Republic of Algeria Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Principality of Andorra Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Angola Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
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List of nations redirects here. For other national lists see Lists of nations
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A nation is a people or group of peoples; a political state.Lists of nation as a state*List of sovereign states*United Nations member statesTransnational lists with nation or national in the name:...
List of countries redirects here. For other country lists see Lists of countries
Lists of countries

A country is a geographical territory, both in the sense of nation and state .When the term country is used as a synonym for an independent sovereign state, see:...

This is a list of sovereign states, giving an overview of state
State

A state is a political Social contract with effective sovereignty over a geographic area and representing a population. These may be nation states, State or multinational states....
s around the world with information on the extent of their sovereignty
Sovereignty

File:Leviathan gr.jpgSovereignty is the exclusive right to control a government, a State, a people, or oneself. A sovereign is a supreme lawmaking authority....
. It is arranged alphabetically. It includes both states widely recognized to be de jure
De jure

De jure is an expression that means "concerning law", as contrasted with de facto, which means "concerning fact".The terms de jure and de facto are used instead of "in principle" and "in practice", respectively, when one is describing politics or legal situations....
sovereign and states that claim de jure sovereignty and exercise de facto
De facto

De facto is a Latin expression that means "concerning the fact" or in practice but not necessarily ordained by law. It is commonly used in contrast to de jure when referring to matters of law, governance, or technique that are found in the common experience as created or developed without or contrary to a regulation....
control over some territory, but which are not generally recognised.

! : | Sovereign states: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z
Other states
Criteria for inclusion
See also
References
Footnotes |} See the section "criteria for inclusion
List of sovereign states

:| #Internationally recognized sovereign states: #A #B #C #D #E #F #G #H #I #J #K #L #M #N #O #P #Q #R #S #T #U #V #W #Y #Z#Other states#Criteria for inclusion#See also#References#Footnotes |}...
" for the criteria used to determine the contents of this list.

The listing or placement of any entity in this article is not meant to imply an official position in any dispute.

Internationally recognized sovereign states

|- !width=60%|Name in English and the official languages of the state !width=40%|Information on the extent of the sovereignty |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

A
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top colspan=2 style="font-size: 90%;"|Abkhazia Other states |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Pashto: ? ????????? ?????? ???????
Persian: ????????? – ?????? ?????? ?????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Albania
Albanian: Shqipëria – Republika e Shqipërise
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
Arabic: ??????? – ????????? ????????? ??????????? ???????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Principality of Andorra
Catalan: Andorra – Principat d’Andorra
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Angola
Portuguese: Angola – República de Angola
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. A separatist government in exile claims independence for Cabinda
Republic of Cabinda

The Republic of Cabinda is the name adopted by the currently unrecognized secessionist government of Cabinda , presently an exclave of Angola....

|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Antigua and Barbuda
English – Antigua and Barbuda
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Antigua and Barbuda is a Commonwealth realm
Commonwealth Realm

A Commonwealth realm is any one of 16 Sovereignty states within the Commonwealth of Nations that each have Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their monarch....
and has a division (dependency), Barbuda
Barbuda

Barbuda is an island in the Eastern Caribbean, and forms part of the state of Antigua and Barbuda. It has a population of about 1,500, most of whom live in the town of Codrington, Barbuda....
, with an autonomous status. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Argentine Republic
Spanish: Argentina – República Argentina
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Argentina is a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
divided in provinces and one federal district
Provinces of Argentina

Argentina is subdivided into twenty-three provinces and one federal district . The federal district and the provinces have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system....
. Argentina also claims sovereignty over the British overseas territories of the Falkland Islands
Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located from the coast of Argentina, west of the Shag Rocks , and north of the British Antarctic Territory ....
and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is a British overseas territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote and inhospitable collection of islands, consisting of South Georgia ? which measures approximately by and is by far the largest island in the territory ? and a chain of smaller islands known as the South Sand...
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Armenia
Armenian: ???????? – ????????? ???????????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Commonwealth of Australia
English: Australia – Commonwealth of Australia
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Australia is a Commonwealth realm
Commonwealth Realm

A Commonwealth realm is any one of 16 Sovereignty states within the Commonwealth of Nations that each have Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their monarch....
and a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
of states and territories
States and territories of Australia

The Australia is made up of six states and two major mainland territories. There are also lesser territories that are under the administration of the federal government....
. Australia has sovereignty over:
*
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
Ashmore and Cartier Islands

The Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands are two groups of small low-lying uninhabited tropical islands in the Indian Ocean situated on the edge of the continental shelf north-west of Australia and south of the Indonesian island of Rote Island at ....
Coral Sea Islands
Coral Sea Islands

The Coral Sea Islands Territory includes a group of small and mostly uninhabited tropical islands and reefs in the Coral Sea, northeast of Queensland, Australia....
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Heard Island and McDonald Islands

Heard Island and McDonald Islands are a volcanic group of Barren_vegetation islands located in the Southern Ocean, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica, approximately 4099 km west of Perth, Western Australia....

Australia claims sovereignty over parts of Antarctica
Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctica of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean....
as:
Australian Antarctic Territory
Australian Antarctic Territory

The Australian Antarctic Territory is the part of Antarctica claimed by Australia and is the largest territory of Antarctica claimed by any nation....

|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Austria
German: Österreich – Republik Österreich
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. Austria is a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
divided in states (Bundesländer)
States of Austria

Austria is a federation made up of nine State , known in German language as L?nder . Since Land is also the German word for "country", the term Bundesl?nder is often used instead to avoid ambiguity....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Azerbaijan
Azeri: Az?rbaycan – Az?rbaycan Respublikasi
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Azerbaijan has one autonomous republic, Nakhchivan, and the autonomous region of Nagorno-Karabakh
Nagorno-Karabakh

Nagorno-Karabakh is a landlocked region in the Southern Caucasus, lying between Karabakh and Syunik Province and covering the southeastern range of the Lesser Caucasus mountains....
(Dagliq Qarabag,). In Nagorno Karabakh a de facto country in the de jure territory of Azerbaijan has been established. |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

B
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Commonwealth of The Bahamas
English: The Bahamas – Commonwealth of The Bahamas
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. The Bahamas is a Commonwealth realm
Commonwealth Realm

A Commonwealth realm is any one of 16 Sovereignty states within the Commonwealth of Nations that each have Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their monarch....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Kingdom of Bahrain
Arabic: ??????? – ????? ???????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – People's Republic of Bangladesh
Bengali: ???????? – ?????????????? ????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top|
English: Barbados
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Barbados is a Commonwealth realm
Commonwealth Realm

A Commonwealth realm is any one of 16 Sovereignty states within the Commonwealth of Nations that each have Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their monarch....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Belarus
Belarusian: ???????? – ?????????? ????????
Russian: ???????? – ?????????? ????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Kingdom of Belgium
Dutch: België – Koninkrijk België
French: Belgique – Royaume de Belgique
German: Belgien – Königreich Belgien
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. Belgium is a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
divided in linguistic communities and regions. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top|
English: Belize
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Belize is a Commonwealth realm
Commonwealth Realm

A Commonwealth realm is any one of 16 Sovereignty states within the Commonwealth of Nations that each have Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their monarch....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Benin
French: Bénin – République du Bénin
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Kingdom of Bhutan
Dzongkha: Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
.
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Bolivia
Spanish: Bolivia – República de Bolivia
Quechua: Bulibiya – Bulibiya Mama Llaqta
Aymara: Wuliwya – Wuliwya Suyu
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnian and Croatian: Bosna i Hercegovina
Serbian: ????? ? ??????????? / Bosna i Hercegovina
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. As a result of the Dayton Agreement
Dayton Agreement

The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Agreement, Dayton Accords, Paris Protocol or Dayton-Paris Agreement, is the peace agreement reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio in November 1995, and formally signed in Paris on December 14, 1995....
between Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkans peninsula of South Eastern Europe with an area of 51,129 square kilometres . Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the south, Bosnia and Herzegovina is Landlocked#Nearly landlocked, except for 26 kilometres of the Adriatic Sea coas...
, Croatia
Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
and the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia or FRY was a federal state consisting of the republics of Republic of Serbia and Republic of Montenegro from the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , created after the other four republics broke away from Yugoslavia amid rising ethnic tensions....
, Bosnia and Herzegovina is divided into two constituent entities, the and the . |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Botswana
Tswana: Botswana – Lefatshe la Botswana
English: Botswana – Republic of Botswana
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Federative Republic of Brazil
Portuguese: Brasil – República Federativa do Brasil
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Brasil is a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
divided in states and one federal district
States of Brazil

The Federative Republic of Brazil is a union of twenty-six estados and formed by the states and one district, the Brazilian Federal District which contains the capital city, Bras?lia....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Negara Brunei Darussalam
Malay: Brunei – Negara Brunei Darussalam
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Brunei claims sovereignty over part of the Spratly Islands. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Bulgaria
Bulgarian: ???????? – ????????? ????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Burkina Faso
French: Burkina Faso
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Union of Myanmar (Burma)
Burmese: ?????? —

Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Burundi
Kirundi: Uburundi – Republika y'Uburundi
French: Burundi – République du Burundi
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

C
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Kingdom of Cambodia
Cambodian:
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Cameroon
French: Cameroun – République du Cameroun
English: Cameroon – Republic of Cameroon
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top|
English and French: Canada
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Canada is a Commonwealth realm
Commonwealth Realm

A Commonwealth realm is any one of 16 Sovereignty states within the Commonwealth of Nations that each have Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their monarch....
and a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
divided into provinces and territories
Provinces and territories of Canada

The provinces and territories of Canada combine to make up the List of countries and outlying territories by total area. The major difference between a Canada province and a territory is that a province receives its power and authority directly from the Monarchy in Canada, via the Constitution Act, 1867, whereas territories derive their manda...
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Cape Verde
Portuguese: Cabo Verde – República de Cabo Verde
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top|
French: République Centrafricaine
Sangho: Ködörösêse tî Bêafrîka
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Chad
French: Tchad – République du Tchad
Arabic: ???? – ???????? ????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Chile
Spanish: Chile – República de Chile
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Easter Island
Easter Island

Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeastern most point of the Polynesian triangle. The island is a special territory of Chile....
is an integral part of Chile. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – People's Republic of China
Chinese: ?? – ???????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Commonly known as China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has five autonomous regions: Guangxi
Guangxi

This article is about a region of China. For the sociological concept, see Guanxi.Guangxi is a Zhuang people autonomous region of China of the People's Republic of China....
, Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia is the Mongols autonomous region of China of the People's Republic of China, located in the country's north.Inner Mongolia borders, from east to west, the provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia, and Gansu, while to the north it borders Mongolia and Russia....
, Ningxia
Ningxia

Ningxia , full name Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region , is a Hui Chinese autonomous region of China of the People's Republic of China, located on the Northwestern China Loess Plateau, the Yellow River flows through a vast area of its land....
, Xinjiang
Xinjiang

Xinjiang is an autonomous region of China of the People's Republic of China. It is a large, sparsely populated area, spanning over 1.6 million sq....
and Tibet
Tibet

Tibet is a Tibetan Plateau in Asia, north of the Himalayas, and the home to the indigenous Tibetan people and its related ethnic groups. With an average elevation of 4,900 metres , it is the highest region on Earth and has in recent decades increasingly been referred to as the "Roof of the World"....
. Additionally, it has sovereignty over the Special Administrative Regions of
(special administrative region of Hong Kong)
(special administrative region of Macao)
It also claims:
Taiwan and associated islands, which are governed by the Republic of China
Republic of China

The Republic of China , also known as Nationalist China is a country in East Asia that has evolved from a single-party state with full global recognition into a multi-party democratic state with Political status of Taiwan....
(which claims sovereignty over the whole of China),
The Paracel Islands
Paracel Islands

The Paracel Islands are a group of small islands and reefs in the South China Sea administered by the People's Republic of China but also claimed by Vietnam....
(disputed by the ROC and Vietnam
Vietnam

Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east....
),
The Spratly Islands
Spratly Islands

The Spratly Islands are a group of more than 650 reefs, islets, atolls, cays and islands in the South China Sea between the Philippines and Vietnam....
(disputed by the ROC, Vietnam, the Philippines
Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
, Malaysia
Malaysia

Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....
, and Brunei
Brunei

Brunei Darussalam, officially the State of Brunei, Abode of Peace , is a country located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia....
),
Part of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh

'Arunachal Pradesh' is the easternmost States and territories of India of India. Arunachal Pradesh borders with the state of Assam to the south and Nagaland to the southeast....
.
Aksai Chin
Aksai Chin

Aksai Chin is an area located in north eastern Kashmir in the Ladakh area, adjacent to East Turkistan and Tibet , both restive and seditious countries held by China....
, controlled by the PRC, is claimed by India as a part of Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir is the northernmost States and territories of India of India. It is situated mostly in the Himalayas mountains. Jammu and Kashmir shares a border with the People's Republic of China to the northeast, the states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab to the south and Pakistani-administered territories of Kashmir, namely Azad Kashm...
. Tibet
Central Tibetan Administration

The Central Tibetan Administration , officially the Central Tibetan Administration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, is a government in exile headed by Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, the 14th Dalai Lama, which claims to be the rightful and legitimate government of Tibet....
and East Turkestan (Xinjiang)
East Turkestan independence movement

East Turkestan Independence Movement is a broad term that refers to advocates of an independent, self-governing Xinjiang, also referred to as East Turkestan....
have separatist governments in exile. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top colspan=2 style="font-size: 90%;"|China, Republic of Taiwan, listed Other states |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Colombia
Spanish: Colombia – República de Colombia
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Union of the Comoros
Komori: Komori – Udzima wa Komori
French: Comores – Union des Comores
Arabic: ????? – ????? ?????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. The Comoros is a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
with autonomous islands. The Comoros dispute the French sovereignty over Mayotte and the Glorioso Islands
Glorioso Islands

The Glorieuses or Glorioso Islands are a group of France islands and rocks totalling 5 km? , at , in the northern Mozambique channel, about 160 km northwest of Madagascar....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa)
French: Congo – République Démocratique du Congo
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)
French: Congo – République du Congo
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Costa Rica
Spanish: Costa Rica – República de Costa Rica
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
French: Côte d'Ivoire – République de Côte d'Ivoire
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Croatia
Croatian: Hrvatska – Republika Hrvatska
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Cuba
Spanish: Cuba – República de Cuba
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. The Cuban area of Guantánamo Bay is as the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

Guantanamo Bay Naval Base is located on the shore of Guant?namo Bay at the southeastern end of Cuba and has been used by the United States Navy for more than a century....
under the permanent control (with no claim of sovereignty) of the United States which pays rent under terms of treaties with Cuba. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Cyprus
Greek: ??p??? – ??p??a?? ??µ???at?a
Turkish: Kibris – Kibris Cumhuriyeti
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. See Northern Cyprus for the de facto state in the de jure territory of Cyprus. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top|
Czech: Cesko – Ceská republika
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

D
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Kingdom of Denmark
Danish: Danmark – Kongeriget Danmark
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. The Kingdom of Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
includes also two autonomous areas. For more information, see Rigsfællesskabet
Rigsfællesskabet

Rigsf?llesskabet is a Danish language term for the relations between continental Denmark and its two self-governing island regions, the Faroe Islands and Greenland....
.
(Føroyar/Færøerne)
(Kalaallit Nunaat/Grønland)
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Djibouti
French: Djibouti – République de Djibouti
Arabic: ?????? – ??????? ??????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Commonwealth of Dominica
English: Dominica – Commonwealth of Dominica
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top|
Spanish: República Dominicana
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

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|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
Tetum: Timor Lorosa'e – Repúblika Demokrátika Timor Lorosa'e
Portuguese: Timor-Leste – República Democrática de Timor-Leste
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Ecuador
Spanish: Ecuador – República del Ecuador
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Arab Republic of Egypt
Arabic: ??? – ???????? ???????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of El Salvador
Spanish: El Salvador – República de El Salvador
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Equatorial Guinea
Spanish: Guinea Ecuatorial – República de Guinea Ecuatorial
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – State of Eritrea
Tigrinya: ???? – ??? ????
Arabic: ?????? – ???? ??????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Estonia
Estonian: Eesti – Eesti Vabariik
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Amharic: ????? – ?????? ????? ??????? ?????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Ethiopia is a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
divided in regions and chartered cities
Regions of Ethiopia

Ethiopia is divided into 9 ethnically-based administrative regions and three chartered cities . The word "kilil" more specifically means "reservation" or "protected area" and the ethnicity basis of the regions and choice of the word "kilil" has drawn fierce criticism from Politics of Ethiopia, who have drawn comparisons to the bantustans of...
. |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

F
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of the Fiji Islands
Fijian: Viti – Matanitu Tu-Vaka-i-koya ko Viti
English: Fiji – Republic of the Fiji Islands
Hindustani: ????? / ???? – ????? ??????? / ???? ?????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Fiji has an autonomous region (dependency), Rotuma
Rotuma

Rotuma is a Fijian Local government of Fiji, consisting of the island of Rotuma and nearby islets. The island group is home to a small but unique indigenous ethnic group which constitutes a recognizable minority within the population of Fiji, known as "Rotuman People"....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Finland
Finnish: Suomi – Suomen Tasavalta
Swedish: Finland – Republiken Finland
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. is a neutral and demilitarised autonomous region of Finland. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – French Republic
French: France – République française
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. The French overseas regions/departments (French Guiana
French Guiana

French Guiana is an overseas department of France, located on the northern coast of South America. Like the other Overseas departments, French Guiana is also an overseas region of France, one of the 26 regions of France, and is an integral part of the French Republic....
, Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe is an island group or archipelago located in the eastern Caribbean Sea at , with a land area of 1,628 square kilometres . It is an overseas department of France....
, Martinique
Martinique

Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, having a land area of 1,128 km?. It is an overseas department of France. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia....
and Réunion
Reunion

Reunion may refer to:...
) are legally part of France and France possesses the uninhabited Clipperton Island
Clipperton Island

Clipperton Island is a nine-square-kilometre coral atoll in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, southwest of Mexico and west of Costa Rica, at . It has no permanent inhabitants....
. The French sovereignty includes also the overseas territories of
(Polynésie française)
(disputed by Comoros
Comoros

The Comoros , officially the Union of the Comoros is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, located off the eastern coast of Africa on the northern end of the Mozambique Channel between northern Madagascar and northeastern Mozambique....
)
(Nouvelle-Calédonie)* (Saint-Martin)
(Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon)
(Wallis-et-Futuna)
(Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises, uninhabited). It includes the Antarctic claim of Adélie Land
Adélie Land

Ad?lie Land is the portion of the Antarctic coast between Pourquoi Pas Point at and Point Alden at , with a shore length of 350 km and with its hinterland extending as a Circular sector about 2,600 km toward the South Pole....
.
The French sovereignty over Bassas da India
Bassas da India

Bassas da India is an uninhabited, roughly circular atoll about 10 km in diameter, which corresponds to a total size of 80 km?. It is located in the southern Mozambique Channel, about half-way between Madagascar and Mozambique, and 110 km northwest of Europa Island....
, Europa Island
Europa Island

Europa Island is a 28 km? low-lying tropical island in the Mozambique Channel, about a third of the way from southern Madagascar to southern Mozambique, at ....
and Juan de Nova is disputed by Madagascar
Madagascar

Madagascar, or Republic of Madagascar , is an island nation in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa. The main island, also called Madagascar, is the List of islands by area, and is home to 5% of the world's plant and animal species, of which more than 80% are Endemism to Madagascar....
, over Glorioso Islands
Glorioso Islands

The Glorieuses or Glorioso Islands are a group of France islands and rocks totalling 5 km? , at , in the northern Mozambique channel, about 160 km northwest of Madagascar....
by Madagascar
Madagascar

Madagascar, or Republic of Madagascar , is an island nation in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa. The main island, also called Madagascar, is the List of islands by area, and is home to 5% of the world's plant and animal species, of which more than 80% are Endemism to Madagascar....
, the Seychelles
Seychelles

Seychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles , is an archipelago Country of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar....
and the Comoros
Comoros

The Comoros , officially the Union of the Comoros is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, located off the eastern coast of Africa on the northern end of the Mozambique Channel between northern Madagascar and northeastern Mozambique....
, and over Tromelin by Mauritius
Mauritius

Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius, , is an island nation off the coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about 900 kilometres east of Madagascar....
and the Seychelles
Seychelles

Seychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles , is an archipelago Country of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar....
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|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Gabonese Republic
French: Gabon – République Gabonaise
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of The Gambia
English: The Gambia – Republic of The Gambia
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top|
Georgian: ??????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Georgia has three divisions with an autonomous status, , and . Both in Abkhazia and South Ossetia de facto states inside the de jure territory of Georgia have been formed. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Federal Republic of Germany German: Deutschland – Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. Germany is a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
divided in states (Länder)
States of Germany

Germany is a federation consisting of sixteen states, known in German language as L?nder . Since Land is the literal German word for "country", the term Bundesl?nder is commonly used colloquially, as it is more specific, though technically incorrect within the corpus of German law....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Ghana English: Ghana – Republic of Ghana
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Hellenic Republic Greek: ????da – ???????? ??µ???at?a
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. Greece has sovereignty over Mount Athos
Mount Athos

Mount Athos is a mountain on the peninsula of the same name in Macedonia , of northern Greece, called in Greek language Agion Oros , or in English, "Holy Mountain"....
, an autonomous monastic state that is jointly governed by the multi-national "Holy Community" on the mountain and the Civil Governor appointed by the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and spiritually comes under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| English: Grenada
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Grenada is a Commonwealth realm
Commonwealth Realm

A Commonwealth realm is any one of 16 Sovereignty states within the Commonwealth of Nations that each have Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their monarch....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Guatemala Spanish: Guatemala – República de Guatemala
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Guinea French: Guinée – République de Guinée
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Guinea-Bissau Portuguese: Guiné-Bissau – República da Guiné-Bissau
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Co-operative Republic of Guyana English: Guyana – Co-operative Republic of Guyana
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

H
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Haiti French: Haïti – République d'Haïti
Haitian Creole: Ayiti – Repiblik dAyiti
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Haiti claims the uninhabited United States possession of Navassa. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Honduras Spanish: Honduras – República de Honduras
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Hungary Hungarian: Magyarország – Magyar Köztársaság
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

I
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Iceland Icelandic: Ísland – Lýðveldið Ísland
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of India Hindi: ???? – ???? ???????
English: India – Republic of India
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. India is a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
divided in states and union territories
States and territories of India

India is a Federal_republic union of states comprising twenty-eight State s and seven Union Territory. The states and territories are further Subdivisions of India into districts and so on....
. The Indian sovereignty over Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh

'Arunachal Pradesh' is the easternmost States and territories of India of India. Arunachal Pradesh borders with the state of Assam to the south and Nagaland to the southeast....
is disputed by the People's Republic of China. India claims sovereignty over and administers part of Kashmir
Kashmir

Kashmir is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" referred only to the valley lying between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal range; since then, it has been used for a larger area that today includes the Indian administerd state of Jammu and Kashmir consisting of the Kashmir...
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Indonesia Indonesian: Indonesia – Republik Indonesia
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Indonesia has four provinces with special status, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, Yogyakarta Special Region, Papua
Papua (Indonesian province)

Papua is the largest Provinces of Indonesia of Indonesia, comprising a majority part of the western half of the island of New Guinea and nearby islands ....
, and Jakarta Special Capital Region. Separatist governments in exile claim independence for the Republic of the South Moluccas, the Republic of West Papua
Republic of West Papua

The Republic of West Papua is a separatist-proposed state that would give sovereignty to the people of Western New Guinea . The Republic of West Papua was declared firstly after the withdrawal of the Dutch East Indies in 1963, but annexation by Indonesia halted the formulation of a government....
, and the Sultanate of Nangroe Aceh
Aceh

Aceh is a Provinces of Indonesia of Indonesia, located on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra. Its full name is Nanggr?e Aceh Darussalam....
Darusalam |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Islamic Republic of Iran Persian: ????? – ?????? ?????? ?????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Divided into provinces and counties |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Iraq Arabic: ?????? – ??????? ??????
Kurdish: ????? – ?????? ?????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Iraq's constitution labels the country as a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
divided in regions, governorates and the capital district. At present the only region is Iraqi Kurdistan
Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdistan Region is an autonomous, federally recognized political, ethnic and economic region of Iraq. It borders Iran to the east, Turkey to the north, and Syria to the west and the rest of Iraq to the South....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| Irish: Éire
English: Ireland
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – State of Israel Hebrew: ????? – ????? ?????
Arabic: ??????? – ???? ???????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
occupies the Golan Heights
Golan Heights

The Golan Heights is a contested, strategic plateau and mountainous region at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. The term Golan Heights actually has two separate meanings, one geography and one political:...
, West Bank
West Bank

The West Bank is the eastern Part of the Palestinian territories on the west bank of the River Jordan in the Middle East. To the west, north, and south the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel....
and East Jerusalem
East Jerusalem

East Jerusalem refers to the part of Jerusalem captured by Jordan in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and subsequently by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War....
. It has supervision over the partially occupied Palestinian territories
Palestinian territories

The Palestinian territories are composed of two discontiguous regions, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, whose final status has yet to be determined....
. These occupations are internationally not recognized. See for more information also Palestinian National Authority
Palestinian National Authority

The Palestinian National Authority is the administrative organization established to government parts of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Italian Republic Italian: Italia – Repubblica Italiana
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. Italy has autonomous regions, Aosta Valley
Aosta Valley

The Aosta Valley is a mountainous Autonomous regions with special statute Regions of Italy in north-western Italy. It is bordered by France to the west, Switzerland to the north and the region of Piedmont to the south and east....
, Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Friuli-Venezia Giulia is one of the twenty regions of Italy, and one of five autonomous regions with special statute. The capital is Trieste. It has an area of 7,856 km? and about 1.2 million inhabitants....
, Sardinia
Sardinia

Sardinia is the Mediterranean islands#By area island in the Mediterranean Sea . The area of Sardinia is . The island is surrounded by the France island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Tunisia and the Balearic Islands....
, Sicily
Sicily

Sicily is an Autonomous regions with special statute of Italy. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708 km? and currently has just over five million inhabitants....
and Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top colspan=2 style="font-size: 90%;"|Ivory Coast Côte d'Ivoire |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

J
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top|
patois: Jamaica
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Jamaica is a Commonwealth realm
Commonwealth Realm

A Commonwealth realm is any one of 16 Sovereignty states within the Commonwealth of Nations that each have Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their monarch....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – State of Japan
Japanese: ?? – ???
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Arabic: ?????? – ??????? ?????????? ?????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

K
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Kazakhstan
Kazakh: ????????? – ????????? ????????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Kenya
English: Kenya – Republic of Kenya
Swahili: Kenya – Jamhuri ya Kenya
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Kiribati
Gilbertese: Kiribati – Ribaberikin Kiribati
English: Kiribati – Republic of Kiribati
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)
Korean: ?? – ???????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Korea (South Korea)
Korean: ?? – ????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top colspan=2 style="font-size: 90%;"|Kosovo Other states |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – State of Kuwait Arabic: ?????? – ???? ??????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Kyrgyz Republic Kyrgyz: ?????????? – ?????? ????????????
Russian: ?????????? – ?????????? ??????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

L
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Lao People's Democratic Republic Laotian: ???? – ????????????????????? ??????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Latvia Latvian: Latvija – Latvijas Republika
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Lebanon Arabic: ????? – ?????????? ??????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Kingdom of Lesotho English: Lesotho – Kingdom of Lesotho
Sotho: Lesotho – Mmuso wa Lesotho
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Liberia English: Liberia – Republic of Liberia
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Socialist People's Libyan Arab Great Jamahiriya Arabic: ????? – ?????????? ??????? ??????? ??????? ?????????? ??????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Principality of Liechtenstein German: Liechtenstein – Fürstentum Liechtenstein
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Lithuania Lithuanian: Lietuva – Lietuvos Respublika
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Luxembourgian: Lëtzebuerg – Groussherzogdem Lëtzebuerg
French: Luxembourg – Grand-Duché du Luxembourg
German: Luxemburg – Großherzogtum Luxemburg
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

M
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – (Former Yugoslav) Republic of Macedonia Macedonian: ?????????? – ????????? ??????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
under the name Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Madagascar Malagasy: Madagasikara – Repoblikan'i Madagasikara
French: Madagascar – Republique de Madagascar
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Madagascar claims the French possessions of the Glorioso Islands
Glorioso Islands

The Glorieuses or Glorioso Islands are a group of France islands and rocks totalling 5 km? , at , in the northern Mozambique channel, about 160 km northwest of Madagascar....
and Juan de Nova. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Malawi English: Malawi – Republic of Malawi
Chewa: Malawi – Mfuko la Malawi
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| Malay: Malaysia
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Malaysia is a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
divided in states and federal territories
States of Malaysia

Malaysia is a federation which consists of thirteen State and three Federal Territory . Eleven states and two federal territories are located on the Malay Peninsula while the remaining two states and one federal territory are on the island of Borneo....
. Malaysia claims part of the Spratly Islands
Spratly Islands

The Spratly Islands are a group of more than 650 reefs, islets, atolls, cays and islands in the South China Sea between the Philippines and Vietnam....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Maldives Divehi: ???????? ???????????? – ?????? ???????? ???????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Mali French: Mali – République du Mali
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Malta Maltese: Malta – Repubblika ta' Malta
English: Malta – Republic of Malta
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of the Marshall Islands Marshallese: Aorokin M¸ajel – Aolepan Aorokin M¸ajel
English: Marshall Islands – Republic of the Marshall Islands
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
under Compact of Free Association
Compact of Free Association

The Compact of Free Association defines the relationship that three sovereign states?the Federated States of Micronesia , the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau?have entered into as associated states with the United States....
with the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The Marshall Islands claim the United States territory of Wake Island
Wake Island

Wake Island is a coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu to Guam ....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Islamic Republic of Mauritania Arabic: ????????? – ????????? ????????? ???????????
French: Mauritanie – République Islamique de la Mauritanie
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Mauritius English: Mauritius – Republic of Mauritius
French: Maurice – République de Maurice
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Mauritius has an autonomous island, Rodrigues
Rodrigues

Rodrigues is a common surname in the Portuguese language. It was originally a Patronymic, meaning Son of Rodrigo or Son of Rui. Its Spanish language equivalent is Rodr?guez ....
. Mauritius claims the British Indian Ocean Territory
British Indian Ocean Territory

The British Indian Ocean Territory or Chagos Islands is an British overseas territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean, halfway between Africa and Indonesia....
and the French island of Tromelin. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – United Mexican States Spanish: México – Estados Unidos Mexicanos
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Mexico is a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
divided into states and one federal district
States of Mexico

The Mexico are a federation made up of thirty-one "free and sovereign states". These states constitute one federated State or Union. The federal government has exclusive jurisdiction over the Mexico City, a territory which does not belong to any state but to all, as well as the islands, atolls and reefs that do not belong to any stat...
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Federated States of Micronesia English: Micronesia – Federated States of Micronesia
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
under Compact of Free Association
Compact of Free Association

The Compact of Free Association defines the relationship that three sovereign states?the Federated States of Micronesia , the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau?have entered into as associated states with the United States....
with the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. Micronesia is a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
divided into states. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Moldova Moldovan: Moldova – Republica Moldova
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Moldova has an autonomous region, Gagauzia
Gagauzia

Gagauzia , formally known as the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia , is an Autonomous area of Moldova. Its name derives from the word "Gagauz people", which in turn derived from the name Gok-oguz used to describe descendants of the Turkic peoples Oghuz Turks tribe....
. See Transnistria for the de facto state inside the de jure territory of Moldova. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Principality of Monaco French: Monaco – Principauté de Monaco
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| Mongolian: ?????? ???
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| Montenegrin: ???? ???? – ???? ????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Kingdom of Morocco Arabic: ?????? – ??????? ????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Morocco claims sovereignty over the Western Sahara
Western Sahara

Western Sahara is a territory of North Africa, bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria in the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean on the west....
and controls most of it, which is disputed by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. Morocco disputes the Spanish sovereignty over Ceuta
Ceuta

Ceuta is an autonomous community#autonomous cities of Spain located on the North African side of the Strait of Gibraltar, on the Mediterranean, which separates it from the Spanish mainland....
, Isla de Alborán
Isla de Alborán

The Isla de Albor?n is a small island in the Albor?n Sea, part of the western Mediterranean, about 50 kilometres north of the Moroccan coast and 90 kilometres south of the province of Almer?a, Spain....
, Isla Perejil
Isla Perejil

The Perejil Island is a small, uninhabited rocky islet located in the Strait of Gibraltar. Its sovereignty is disputed between Spain and Morocco....
, Islas Chafarinas
Islas Chafarinas

Islas Chafarinas are a group of three small islets located in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Morocco with an aggregate area of 0.525 km?, 45 km to the east of Melilla and 3.3 km off the Moroccan town of Ra'su l-Ma'....
, Melilla
Melilla

Melilla is an autonomous cities of Spain located on the Mediterranean, on the north coast in North Africa. It was regarded as a part of M?laga prior to March 14, 1995, when the city's Statute of Autonomy was passed....
and Peñón de Alhucemas
Peñón de Alhucemas

Pe??n de Alhucemas, or "Lavender Rock", is one of the Spain plazas de soberan?a just off the Morocco coast.Pe??n de Alhucemas and the islets of "Isla de Mar" and "Isla de Tierra" slightly to the west form the Alhucemas Islands....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Mozambique Portuguese: Moçambique – República de Moçambique
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top colspan=2 style="font-size: 90%;"|Myanmar Burma |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

N
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top colspan=2 style="font-size: 90%;"|Nagorno Karabakh Other states |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Namibia English: Namibia – Republic of Namibia
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Nauru Nauruan: Naoero – Republik Naoero
English: Nauru – Republic of Nauru
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal Nepali: ?????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top|The Netherlands
Kingdom of the Netherlands

From 1830 to 1954, the "Kingdom of the Netherlands" referred to the Netherlands Kingdom and its colonial possessions.Suriname was a constituent nation within the Kingdom from 1954 to 1975....
– Kingdom of the Netherlands Dutch: Nederland – Koninkrijk der Nederlanden
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. Legally the Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
refers to the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Kingdom of the Netherlands

From 1830 to 1954, the "Kingdom of the Netherlands" referred to the Netherlands Kingdom and its colonial possessions.Suriname was a constituent nation within the Kingdom from 1954 to 1975....
, with the latter consisting of one European country: and the two overseas (associated) countries:

(Nederlandse Antillen)
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| English: New Zealand
Maori: Aotearoa
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. New Zealand is a Commonwealth realm
Commonwealth Realm

A Commonwealth realm is any one of 16 Sovereignty states within the Commonwealth of Nations that each have Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their monarch....
and has responsibilities for the two free associated states
Associated state

An associated state is the minor partner in a formal, free relationship between a political territory with a degree of statehood and a nation, for which no other specific term, such as protectorate, is adopted....
of:
. The Cook Islands have received some diplomatic recognition
. Niue only has diplomatic relations with New Zealand.

The dependent territory of: New Zealand also claims sovereignty over parts of Antarctica as:
Ross Dependency
Ross Dependency

The Ross Dependency comprises an area of Antarctica claimed by New Zealand. It is defined by a Circular sector originating at the South Pole, passing along longitudes 160th meridian east to 150th meridian west, and terminating at latitude 60th parallel south....

|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Nicaragua Spanish: Nicaragua – República de Nicaragua
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Niger French: Niger – République du Niger
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Federal Republic of Nigeria English: Nigeria – Federal Republic of Nigeria
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Nigeria is a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
divided in states and one federal district
States of Nigeria

Nigeria is currently categorized into 36 states and Abuja, the federal capital territory. The states are further divided into 774 Local Government Areas of Nigeria...
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top colspan=2 style="font-size: 90%;"|Northern Cyprus Other states |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top colspan=2 style="font-size: 90%;"|North Korea Korea, Democratic People's Republic of |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Kingdom of Norway Norwegian: Norge – Kongeriket Norge / Noreg – Kongeriket Noreg
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Svalbard
Svalbard

Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean north of mainland Europe, about midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. It consists of a group of islands ranging from 74th parallel north to 81st parallel north, and 10th meridian east to 35th meridian east....
is an integral part of Norway, but has a special status due to the Svalbard Treaty
Svalbard Treaty

The Spitsbergen Treaty of February 9 1920 recognises the full and absolute sovereignty of Norway over the arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen . The exercise of sovereignty is, however, subject to certain stipulations, and not all Norwegian law applies....
. The overseas uninhabited possessions of Bouvet Island
Bouvet Island

Bouvet Island is an uninhabited sub-antarctic volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, south-southwest of the Cape of Good Hope . It is a Dependent territory of Norway and is not subject to the Antarctic Treaty....
and Jan Mayen are integral parts of Norway. The Norwegian claim of Peter I Island
Peter I Island

Peter I Island is a volcano island located near Antarctica. It was discovered by Fabian von Bellingshausen off West Antarctica on 21 January 1821....
and Queen Maud Land
Queen Maud Land

Queen Maud Land is an English translation of Dronning Maud Land, the official name in use by Norwegian authorities and British Antarctic Survey on the part of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent territory, on 14 January 1939....
(Antarctica) as part of Norway is suspended. |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

O
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Sultanate of Oman Arabic: ????? – ????? ?????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

P
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Islamic Republic of Pakistan Urdu: ??????? – ?????? ??????? ???????
English: Pakistan – Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Pakistan is a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
divided in provinces and territories. Pakistan claims sovereignty over and administers part of Kashmir
Kashmir

Kashmir is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" referred only to the valley lying between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal range; since then, it has been used for a larger area that today includes the Indian administerd state of Jammu and Kashmir consisting of the Kashmir...
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Palau Paluan: Belau – Beluu er a Belau
English: Palau – Republic of Palau
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
under Compact of Free Association
Compact of Free Association

The Compact of Free Association defines the relationship that three sovereign states?the Federated States of Micronesia , the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau?have entered into as associated states with the United States....
with the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top colspan=2 style="font-size: 90%;"|The Palestinian territories Other states |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Panama
Spanish: Panamá – República de Panamá
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Independent State of Papua New Guinea
English: Papua New Guinea – Independent State of Papua New Guinea
Tok Pisin: Papua Niugini – Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Papua New Guinea is a Commonwealth realm
Commonwealth Realm

A Commonwealth realm is any one of 16 Sovereignty states within the Commonwealth of Nations that each have Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their monarch....
and has an autonomous province, Bougainville Province
Bougainville Province

The Autonomous Region of Bougainville, also known as North Solomons, is an autonomous region in Papua New Guinea and is the largest of the Solomon Islands group....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Paraguay
Spanish: Paraguay – República del Paraguay
Guarani: Paraguái – Têta Paraguái
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Peru
Spanish: Perú – República del Perú
Quechua: Piruw – Piruw Mama Llaqta
Aymara: Piruw – Piruw Suyu
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of the Philippines
Filipino: Pilipinas – Republika ng Pilipinas
English: Philippines – Republic of the Philippines
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. The Philippines has an autonomous region, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao

The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao is the Regions of the Philippines of the Philippines that is composed of all the Philippines' predominantly Islam in the Philippines Provinces of the Philippines, namely: Basilan , Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, and the Philippines' only predominantly Muslim Cities of the Philippines,...
. The Philippines claim the Spratly Islands
Spratly Islands

The Spratly Islands are a group of more than 650 reefs, islets, atolls, cays and islands in the South China Sea between the Philippines and Vietnam....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Poland
Polish: Polska – Rzeczpospolita Polska
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Portuguese Republic
Portuguese: Portugal – República Portuguesa
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. Portugal has two autonomous regions, Azores
Azores

The Azores is a Portugal archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,500 km from Lisbon and about 3,900 km from the east coast of North America....
and Madeira
Madeira

Madeira is a Portugal archipelago in the north Atlantic Ocean that lies between and . It is one of the Autonomous regions of Portugal, with Madeira Island and Porto Santo Island being the only inhabited islands....
. Portugal does not recognize Spanish
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
sovereignty over Olivenza
Olivenza

Olivenza or Oliven?a is a town and seat of a municipality, on a disputed section of the border between Portugal and Spain, which is claimed de jure by both countries and administered de facto as part of the Spanish Autonomous communities of Spain of Extremadura....
and Táliga
Táliga

T?liga or Talega is a small town and municipality, on the disputed Olivenza border area between Portugal and Spain. Like Olivenza, T?liga is administered as a part of the province of Badajoz , in the Spanish Autonomous communities of Spain of Extremadura....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top colspan=2 style="font-size: 90%;"|Pridnestrovie Other states, Transnistria |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

Q
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – State of Qatar Arabic: ??? – ???? ???
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

R
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| Romanian: România
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Russian Federation Russian: ?????? – ?????????? ?????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Russia is a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
divided in Subjects of Russia
Federal subjects of Russia

Russia is a federation which consists of 83 subjects. These subjects are of equal federal rights in the sense that they have equal representation?two delegates each?in the Federation Council of Russia ....
(oblasts, republics, autonomous okrugs, krays, and federal cities).
Several of the federal subjects are republics:
*
*

|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Rwanda KinyaRwanda: Rwanda – Repubulika y'u Rwanda
French: Rwanda – République du Rwanda
English: Rwanda – Republic of Rwanda
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

S
|colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis English: Saint Kitts and Nevis – Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Saint Kitts and Nevis is a Commonwealth realm
Commonwealth Realm

A Commonwealth realm is any one of 16 Sovereignty states within the Commonwealth of Nations that each have Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their monarch....
and is a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
of the islands. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| English: Saint Lucia
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Saint Lucia is a Commonwealth realm
Commonwealth Realm

A Commonwealth realm is any one of 16 Sovereignty states within the Commonwealth of Nations that each have Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their monarch....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| English: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a Commonwealth realm
Commonwealth Realm

A Commonwealth realm is any one of 16 Sovereignty states within the Commonwealth of Nations that each have Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their monarch....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Independent State of Samoa Samoan: Samoa – Malo Tuto'atasi o Samoa
English: Samoa – Independent State of Samoa
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of San Marino Italian: San Marino – Repubblica di San Marino
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe Portuguese: São Tomé e Príncipe – República Democrática de São Tomé e Príncipe
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. São Tomé and Príncipe has an autonomous province, Príncipe
Príncipe

Pr?ncipe is the smaller of the two major islands of S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe lying off the west coast of Africa. It has an area of 136 km? and a population of around 5,000 people....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Arabic: ???????? – ??????? ???????? ??????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
.

|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Senegal French: Sénégal – République du Sénégal
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Serbia Serbian: ?????? – ????????? ??????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Serbia considers itself to have two autonomous provinces, Kosovo and Metohija
Kosovo

Kosovo is a disputed region in the Balkans. Its majority is governed by the partially-recognised Republic of Kosovo . Serbia does not recognise the secession of Kosovo and considers it a United Nations-governed entity within its sovereign territory, the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija that was re-created by Slobodan M...
and
Vojvodina
Vojvodina

The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an Subdivisions of Serbia in Serbia, containing about 27% of its total population according to the 2002 Census....
, though most of Kosovo is under the de facto control of the Republic of Kosovo, which does not have general recognition. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Seychelles English: Seychelles – Republic of Seychelles
French: Seychelles – République des Seychelles
Seselwa: Sesel – Repiblik Sesel
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. The Seychelles claim the British Indian Ocean Territory
British Indian Ocean Territory

The British Indian Ocean Territory or Chagos Islands is an British overseas territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean, halfway between Africa and Indonesia....
and the French Glorioso Islands
Glorioso Islands

The Glorieuses or Glorioso Islands are a group of France islands and rocks totalling 5 km? , at , in the northern Mozambique channel, about 160 km northwest of Madagascar....
and Tromelin. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Sierra Leone English: Sierra Leone – Republic of Sierra Leone
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Singapore English: Singapore – Republic of Singapore
Malay: Singapura – Republik Singapura
Chinese: ??? – ??????
Tamil: ??????????? – ??????????? ????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Slovak Republic Slovak: Slovensko – Slovenská republika
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Slovenia Slovenian: Slovenija – Republika Slovenija
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| English: Solomon Islands
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. The Solomon Islands is a Commonwealth realm
Commonwealth Realm

A Commonwealth realm is any one of 16 Sovereignty states within the Commonwealth of Nations that each have Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their monarch....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Federal Republic of Somalia Somali: Soomaaliya – Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya
Arabic: ??????? – ??????? ???????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Somalia
Somalia

Somalia , officially the Republic of Somalia and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, is a country located in the Horn of Africa....
is presently fragmented with its Transitional National Government
Transitional Federal Parliament

The Transitional Federal Parliament of the Republic of Somalia is an interim Parliament of Somalia formed in neighbouring Kenya in 2004.The Transitional Federal Parliament had 275 member of parliaments, with each of Somali clan getting 61 seats in the parliament, while an alliance of minority clans was awarded 31 seats....
. Somalia disputed the Yemenite sovereignty over Socotra
Socotra

Socotra or Soqotra is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the Indian Ocean off the coast of the Horn of Africa some south of the Arabian peninsula, belonging to the Yemen....
. See Somaliland for the de facto country inside the de jure territory of Somalia
Somalia

Somalia , officially the Republic of Somalia and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, is a country located in the Horn of Africa....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of South Africa English: South Africa – Republic of South Africa
Afrikaans: Suid-Afrika – Republiek van Suid-Afrika
Xhosa: Mzantsi Afrika – IRiphabliki yaseMzantsi Afrika
Zulu: Ningizimu Afrika – IRiphabliki yaseNingizimu Afrika
Ndbele: Sewula Afrika – IRiphabliki yeSewula Afrika
North Sotho: Afrika-Borwa – Rephaboliki ya Afrika-Borwa
Sotho: Afrika Borwa – Rephaboliki ya Afrika Borwa
Tswana: Aforika Borwa – Rephaboliki ya Aforika Borwa
Swazi: Ningizimu Afrika – IRiphabhulikhi yeNingizimu Afrika
Venda: Afurika Tshipembe – Riphabu?iki ya Afurika Tshipembe
Tsonga: Afrika Dzonga – Riphabliki ra Afrika Dzonga

Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top colspan=2 style="font-size: 90%;"|South Korea Korea, Republic of |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top colspan=2 style="font-size: 90%;"|South Ossetia Other states |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Kingdom of Spain Spanish: España – Reino de España
Catalan: Espanya – Renge d'Espanya
Basque: Espainia – Espainiako Erresuma
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. Spain is divided in autonomous communities and cities
Autonomous communities of Spain

The Autonomous Community is the first-level political division of the Kingdom of Spain, established in accordance with the Spanish Constitution of 1978....
. The sovereignty over Ceuta
Ceuta

Ceuta is an autonomous community#autonomous cities of Spain located on the North African side of the Strait of Gibraltar, on the Mediterranean, which separates it from the Spanish mainland....
, Isla de Alborán
Isla de Alborán

The Isla de Albor?n is a small island in the Albor?n Sea, part of the western Mediterranean, about 50 kilometres north of the Moroccan coast and 90 kilometres south of the province of Almer?a, Spain....
, Isla Perejil
Isla Perejil

The Perejil Island is a small, uninhabited rocky islet located in the Strait of Gibraltar. Its sovereignty is disputed between Spain and Morocco....
, Islas Chafarinas
Islas Chafarinas

Islas Chafarinas are a group of three small islets located in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Morocco with an aggregate area of 0.525 km?, 45 km to the east of Melilla and 3.3 km off the Moroccan town of Ra'su l-Ma'....
, Melilla
Melilla

Melilla is an autonomous cities of Spain located on the Mediterranean, on the north coast in North Africa. It was regarded as a part of M?laga prior to March 14, 1995, when the city's Statute of Autonomy was passed....
and Peñón de Alhucemas
Peñón de Alhucemas

Pe??n de Alhucemas, or "Lavender Rock", is one of the Spain plazas de soberan?a just off the Morocco coast.Pe??n de Alhucemas and the islets of "Isla de Mar" and "Isla de Tierra" slightly to the west form the Alhucemas Islands....
is disputed by Morocco. The sovereignty over Olivenza
Olivenza

Olivenza or Oliven?a is a town and seat of a municipality, on a disputed section of the border between Portugal and Spain, which is claimed de jure by both countries and administered de facto as part of the Spanish Autonomous communities of Spain of Extremadura....
and Táliga
Táliga

T?liga or Talega is a small town and municipality, on the disputed Olivenza border area between Portugal and Spain. Like Olivenza, T?liga is administered as a part of the province of Badajoz , in the Spanish Autonomous communities of Spain of Extremadura....
is disputed by Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
. Spain disputes the British sovereignty over Gibraltar
Gibraltar

Gibraltar is a British overseas territory located near the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar. The territory shares a border with Spain to the north....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Sinhala: ???? ????? –

Tamil: ?????? – ?????? ?????? ??????? ????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of the Sudan Arabic: ??????? – ??????? ???????
English: Sudan – Republic of the Sudan
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Sudan is a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
divided in states
States of Sudan

Below is a list of the 25 states of Sudan organized by their original provinces under British rule. Arabic language versions are, as appropriate, in parentheses....
and it has one autonomous region, Southern Sudan
Southern Sudan

Southern Sudan is located in Africa with Juba, Sudan as its capital city. Under the terms of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement with Sudan, the south has been given a large degree of autonomy and the chance to vote for full independence in 2011 after six years of home rule....
, formed out of the Southern Sudanese states. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Suriname Dutch: Suriname – Republiek Suriname
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Kingdom of Swaziland English: Swaziland – Kingdom of Swaziland
Swazi: eSwatini – Umbuso weSwatini
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Kingdom of Sweden Swedish: Sverige – Konungariket Sverige
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Swiss Confederation German: Schweiz – Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft
French: Suisse – Confédération Suisse
Italian: Svizzera – Confederazione Svizzera
Raeto-Romance: Svizra – Confederaziun Svizra
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Switzerland is a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
divided in cantons
Cantons of Switzerland

File:Karte 13 Alte Orte.pngThe 26 cantons of Switzerland are the State s of the federation of Switzerland. Each canton was a fully sovereignty state with its own borders, army and currency until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Syrian Arab Republic Arabic: ????? – ?????????? ???????? ?????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. The Golan
Golan

Golan or Gaulonitis is an ancient city in the Land of Israel. It was in the territory of Manasseh in the area of Bashan, and it was the most northerly of the three cities of refuge east of the Jordan River ....
is occupied by Israel. Syria disputed the Turkish sovereignty over Hatay Province
Hatay Province

Hatay is a Provinces of Turkey of southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast, with Syria to the south and east....
. |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

T
|colspan=2||- |valign=top colspan=2 style="font-size: 90%;"|China, Republic of (commonly known as "Taiwan") Other states |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Tajikistan
Tajik: ?????????? – ???????? ??????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Tajikistan has an autonomous province, Gorno-Badakhshan. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – United Republic of Tanzania
Swahili: Tanzania – Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Tanzania is a federacy
Federacy

A federacy is a form of government where one or several substate units enjoy considerably more independence than the majority of the substate units....
with an autonomous status for Zanzibar
Zanzibar

Zanzibar is part of the East African republic of Tanzania. It consists of the Zanzibar Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, 25?50 km off the coast of the mainland....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Kingdom of Thailand
Thai: ????????? – ??????????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top colspan=2 style="font-size: 90%;"|Timor-Leste East Timor |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Togolese Republic
French: Togo – République Togolaise
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Kingdom of Tonga
Tongan: Tonga – Pule'anga Fakatu'i 'o Tonga
English: Tonga – Kingdom of Tonga
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top colspan=2 style="font-size: 90%;"|Transnistria Other states |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Trinidad and Tobago English: Trinidad and Tobago – Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Trinidad and Tobago has an autonomous island, Tobago
Tobago

Tobago is the smaller of the two main islands that make up the Trinidad and Tobago. It is located in the southern Caribbean Sea, northeast of the island of Trinidad and southeast of Grenada....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Tunisian Republic Arabic: ???? – ????????? ????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Turkey Turkish: Türkiye – Türkiye Cumhuriyeti
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. The Turkish sovereignty over the Hatay Province
Hatay Province

Hatay is a Provinces of Turkey of southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast, with Syria to the south and east....
is disputed by Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| Turkmenian: Türkmenistan
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| Tuvaluan and English: Tuvalu
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Tuvalu is a Commonwealth realm
Commonwealth Realm

A Commonwealth realm is any one of 16 Sovereignty states within the Commonwealth of Nations that each have Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their monarch....
. |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

U
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Uganda English: Uganda – Republic of Uganda
Swahili: Uganda – Jamhuri ya Uganda
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| Ukrainian: ???????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Ukraine has an autonomous republic, . |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – United Arab Emirates Arabic: ???????? ???????? ????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. The United Arab Emirates is a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
divided into emirates
Emirates of the United Arab Emirates

|||}The United Arab Emirates is composed of 7 emirates :See also*ISO 3166-2:AE...
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland English: United Kingdom – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Welsh: Teyrnas Gyfunol Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
and the EU
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. The United Kingdom is a Commonwealth realm
Commonwealth Realm

A Commonwealth realm is any one of 16 Sovereignty states within the Commonwealth of Nations that each have Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their monarch....
divided into four parts
Subdivisions of the United Kingdom

The administrative geography of the United Kingdom is complex, multi-layered and non-uniform. The United Kingdom, a sovereign state to the northwest of continental Europe, consists of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales....
. The United Kingdom has the following overseas territories:
Akrotiri and Dhekelia
Akrotiri and Dhekelia

The Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia are two UK-administered areas on the island of Cyprus that comprise the Sovereign Base Areas British overseas territories of the United Kingdom....
(claimed by Mauritius
Mauritius

Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius, , is an island nation off the coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about 900 kilometres east of Madagascar....
and the Seychelles
Seychelles

Seychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles , is an archipelago Country of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar....
)*
(claimed by Argentina)
(claimed by Spain)
* (with its dependencies of Ascension Island
Ascension Island

Ascension Island is an isolated island of volcanic origin in the South Atlantic Ocean, around from the coast of Africa, and from the coast of South America....
and )
(claimed by Argentina)* (disputed)
The British Crown has sovereignty over
(with the dependencies of , and )*
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| English: United States of America
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. The United States is a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
divided in states, a federal district, and one territory
Political divisions of the United States

The political units and divisions of the United States include:*The 50 U.S. state , which are typically divided into county and sometimes township , and further divided into municipal corporation city, towns, villages, and other types of municipalities, and other autonomous or subordinate public works and institutions....
. The United States has sovereignty over the following (inhabited) territories and commonwealths
*Besides these, there are uninhabited territories in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea: Baker Island
Baker Island

Baker Island is an uninhabited atoll located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean about 3,100 kilometers southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii....
, Howland Island
Howland Island

Howland Island is an uninhabited coral island located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, about 3,100 km southwest of Honolulu....
, Jarvis Island
Jarvis Island

Jarvis Island is an uninhabited 4.5 square kilometer coral island located in the South Pacific Ocean at , about halfway between Hawaii and the Cook Islands....
, Johnston Atoll
Johnston Atoll

Johnston Atoll is a 130 km? atoll in the Pacific Ocean at , about 1400 kilometers west of Hawaii. There are four islands located on the coral reef platform, two natural islands, Johnston Island and Sand Island, which have been expanded by coral dredging, as well as North Island and East Island , an additional two artificial islands...
, Kingman Reef
Kingman Reef

Kingman Reef is a largely submerged uninhabited tropical atoll located in the North Pacific Ocean, roughly half way between the Hawaiian Islands and American Samoa at ....
, Midway Islands, Palmyra Atoll
Palmyra Atoll

Palmyra Atoll is an incorporated territory atoll administered by the Federal government of the United States. The atoll is 4.6 square miles , and it is located in the Northern Pacific Ocean at ....
, Wake Island
Wake Island

Wake Island is a coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu to Guam ....
(disputed by the Marshall Islands
Marshall Islands

The Marshall Islands , officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands , is a Micronesian island nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, just west of the International Date Line and just north of the Equator....
) as well as Navassa Island
Navassa Island

Navassa Island is a small, uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea, and is an Incorporated territory of the United States, which administers it through the United States Fish and Wildlife Service....
(disputed by Haiti
Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Haitian Creole language- and French language-speaking Caribbean country. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago....
). Of these only Palmyra Atoll is fully incorporated and considered a part of the US. The Cuban area of Guantánamo Bay is as the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

Guantanamo Bay Naval Base is located on the shore of Guant?namo Bay at the southeastern end of Cuba and has been used by the United States Navy for more than a century....
under the permanent control (with no claim of sovereignty) of the United States which pays rent under terms of treaties with Cuba.
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Eastern Republic of Uruguay Spanish: Uruguay – República Oriental del Uruguay
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Uzbekistan Uzbek: ?????????? – ?????????? ????????????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Uzbekistan has an autonomous republic, . |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

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|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Vanuatu Bislama: Vanuatu – Ripablik blong Vanuatu
English: Vanuatu – Republic of Vanuatu
French: Vanuatu – République du Vanuatu
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – State of the Vatican City Latin: Civitas Vaticana – Status Civitatis Vaticanæ
Italian: Città del Vaticano – Stato della Città del Vaticano
Widely recognized country. The , a sovereign entity recognized by 176 countries, administers the territory of Vatican City; the Holy See is a permanent observer of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Vatican City is governed by officials appointed by the Pope
Pope

The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church and head of state of Vatican City. The current pope is Pope Benedict XVI, who was elected April 19, 2005 in Papal conclave, 2005....
, with the latter being the Bishop of the Archdiocese of Rome
Bishop of Rome

The Bishop of Rome is the Bishop of the Holy See, more often referred to in the Catholic Church tradition as the Pope. The first Bishop of Rome to bear the title of "Pope" was Pope Boniface III in 607, the first to assume the title of "Universal Bishop" by decree of Phocas....
and therefore ex officio sovereign of Vatican City.
The Holy See also administers a number of extraterritorial properties in Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Spanish: Venezuela – República Bolivariana de Venezuela
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Venezuela is a federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
divided in states, one federal dependency and one federal district
States of Venezuela

Venezuela is divided into 23 states , 1 Venezuelan Capital District and the Venezuelan Federal Dependencies that consist of a large number of Venezuelan islands....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Socialist Republic of Vietnam Vietnamese: Vi?t Nam – C?ng hòa Xã h?i Ch? nghia Vi?t Nam
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. Vietnam claims sovereignty over the Paracel Islands
Paracel Islands

The Paracel Islands are a group of small islands and reefs in the South China Sea administered by the People's Republic of China but also claimed by Vietnam....
and the Spratly Islands
Spratly Islands

The Spratly Islands are a group of more than 650 reefs, islets, atolls, cays and islands in the South China Sea between the Philippines and Vietnam....
. |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

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|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top colspan=2 style="font-size: 90%;"|Western Sahara Other states |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

Y
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Yemen
Arabic: ????? – ?????????? ???????
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. The Yemen
Yemen

Yemen , officially the Republic of Yemen is an Arab country located on the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia. Yemen has an estimated population of more than 23 million people and is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the North, the Red Sea to the West, the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden to the South, and Oman to the east....
ite sovereignty over Socotra
Socotra

Socotra or Soqotra is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the Indian Ocean off the coast of the Horn of Africa some south of the Arabian peninsula, belonging to the Yemen....
is disputed by Somalia
Somalia

Somalia , officially the Republic of Somalia and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, is a country located in the Horn of Africa....
. |- |colspan=2||- |colspan=3|

Z
|- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Zambia
English: Zambia – Republic of Zambia
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Zimbabwe
English: Zimbabwe – Republic of Zimbabwe
Widely recognized member of the UN
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. |- |colspan=2||}
Other states
This annex lists states that claim sovereignty and have control over (part of) their claimed territories, but due to disputes over their legitimacy, do not have normal diplomatic relations with the majority of sovereign states. Entities considered to be micronation
Micronation

Micronations — sometimes also referred to as model countries and new country projects — are entities that resemble independent nations or states but which are unrecognized by world governments or major international organisations....
s are not included.

|- |colspan=2||- |width=60%|: Republic of Abkhazia
Abkhazian: ????? – ???????? ??????????
Russian: A?????? – ?????????? ???????
De facto independent state only recognised by Russia, Nicaragua, South Ossetia and Transnistria. Claimed in whole by Georgia
Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....
as the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Kosovo Albanian: Kosovës – Republika e Kosovës
Serbian: ?????? – ????????? ??????
De facto independent state that is recognised by UN member states and by the Republic of China. Party to the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA). Claimed in whole by the Republic of Serbia as part of its Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija. In turn, the Republic of Kosovo claims the part of Kosovo controlled by the Republic of Serbia and still administered by the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Armenian: ???????? ??????? – ???????? ???????? ???????????????
De facto independent state that has not been diplomatically recognized by any other state. Claimed in whole by the Republic of Azerbaijan. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Turkish: Kuzey Kibris – Kuzey Kibris Türk Cumhuriyeti
De facto independent state that is recognised only by Turkey. It was accepted as an observer state of the Organization of the Islamic Conference
Organization of the Islamic Conference

The Organisation of the Islamic Conference is an international organisation with a permanent delegation to the United Nations. It groups 57 member states, from the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, Caucasus, Balkans, Southeast Asia, South Asia and South America....
under the name of the Turkish Cypriot State since 1979. In addition, the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic
Nakhichevan

The Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic , often known simply as Nakhchivan or Nakhichevan, is a landlocked Enclave and exclave of Azerbaijan....
regards TRNC as sovereign but Azerbaijan (the sovereign state that Nakhichevan belongs to) has not followed suit. Northern Cyprus is claimed in whole by the Republic of Cyprus. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| Arabic: ??????
The Palestinian territories
Palestinian territories

The Palestinian territories are composed of two discontiguous regions, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, whose final status has yet to be determined....
are partially controlled by Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
and partially under control of the Palestinian Authority. Palestine has received a standing invitation to participate as observer at United Nations General Assembly and maintains a permanent observer mission at the UN Headquarters The declared State of Palestine is recognized by 103 countries. In diplomatic relations, the proposed State of Palestine is represented by the Palestinian Authority. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of Somaliland Somali: Soomaaliland – Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliland
Arabic: ??? ??????? – ??????? ??? ???????
De facto independent state not diplomatically recognized by any other state, claimed in whole by the Somali Republic. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of South Ossetia Ossetian: ?????? ??????? – ?????????æ ?????? ???????
Russian: ????? ?????? – ?????????? ????? ??????
De facto independent state only recognised by Russia, Nicaragua, Abkhazia and Transnistria. Claimed in whole by the Republic of Georgia as the Provisional Administrative Entity of South Ossetia
South Ossetia

South Ossetia is a disputed region in the South Caucasus. Since its declaration of independence from Georgia in 1991 during the Georgian-Ossetian conflict, it is governed by the International recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia Republic of South Ossetia, which claims the territory of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within t...
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Republic of China Chinese: ?? / ?? – ????
De facto independent state; de jure the Republic of China
Republic of China

The Republic of China , also known as Nationalist China is a country in East Asia that has evolved from a single-party state with full global recognition into a multi-party democratic state with Political status of Taiwan....
, a polity regarded by the People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
to be its defunct (and no longer legitimate) predecessor state. In addition to Taiwan, the Republic of China also governs part of the Spratly Islands
Spratly Islands

The Spratly Islands are a group of more than 650 reefs, islets, atolls, cays and islands in the South China Sea between the Philippines and Vietnam....
and has not renounced claims over the territory of the PRC and Mongolia
Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....
. . The territory of the Republic of China is claimed in whole by the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China participates in a number of non-UN international organizations such as the World Trade Organization
World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization is an international organization designed to supervise and Free trade international trade. The WTO came into being on 1 January 1995, and is the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade , which was created in 1947, and continued to operate for almost five decades as a de facto international org...
, International Olympic Committee
International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas on June 23, 1894....
and others under a variety of pseudonyms, most commonly Chinese Taipei
Chinese Taipei

Chinese Taipei is the designated name used by the Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan, to participate in some international organizations and almost all sporting events, such as the Olympic Games and Asian Games....
. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Transnistrian Moldovan Republic (Pridnestrovie, Trans-Dniester) Russian: ?????????????: ??????????????? ?????????? ??????????
Ukrainian: ???????????'?: ??????????????? ?????????? ??????????
Moldovan: ??????: ????????? ???????????? ????????
De facto independent state, recognized only by Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Claimed in whole by the Republic of Moldova as the Territorial Unit of Transnistria. |- |colspan=2||- |valign=top| – Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Arabic: ????????? ??????? ????????? ???????????
De facto independent state recognized by 46 other states
Foreign relations of Western Sahara

Western Sahara, formerly the Spanish Empire of Spanish Sahara, is a disputed territory claimed by the Morocco and the Polisario Front. Its legal status remains unresolved....
. It is a member of the African Union
African Union

The African Union is an intergovernmental organisation consisting of 53 African states. Established on 9 July 2002, the AU was formed as a successor to the Organisation of African Unity ....
and the Asian-African Strategic Partnership formed at the 2005 Asian-African Conference
Asian-African Conference

The first large-scale Asian-African or Afro-Asian Conference?also known as the Bandung Conference?was a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent, which took place between April 18 and April 24, 1955 in Bandung, Indonesia....
. The territories under its control, the so-called Free Zone
Free Zone (region)

The Free Zone is a term used by the Polisario Front to describe the part of Western Sahara that lies to the east of the Moroccan Border Wall and west and north of the borders with Algeria and Mauritania, respectively....
, are claimed in whole by Morocco as part of its Southern Provinces
Southern Provinces

The Southern Provinces or Moroccan Sahara are the Moroccan names for Western Sahara in reference to the provinces of R?o de Oro and Saguia el-Hamra....
. In turn, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic claims the part of the Western Sahara
Western Sahara

Western Sahara is a territory of North Africa, bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria in the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean on the west....
to the west of the Moroccan Wall
Moroccan Wall

The Berm of Western Sahara is an approximately 2,700 km-long defensive structure, mostly a sand wall , running through Western Sahara and the southeastern portion of Morocco....
controlled by Morocco. Its government resides in exile in Algeria. |- |colspan=2|

Criteria for inclusion
This list derives its definition of a sovereign state from Article 1 of the Montevideo Convention
Montevideo Convention

The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States was a treaty signed at Montevideo, Uruguay, on December 26, 1933, during the Seventh International Conference of American States....
of 1933. According to the Convention, a sovereign state should possess the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population, (b) a defined territory, (c) government, and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other states. In respect of the last qualification, the role of recognition by other states can often be crucial since it implies acceptance into the international community. The list includes all states that satisfy these criteria and claim independence; however, the aforementioned qualifications are not absolute and permit variations.

On the basis of the above criteria, this list includes the following 203 entities:
193 sovereign states with general international recognition:
192 member states
United Nations member states

This article lists the member states of the United Nations . There are currently 192 UN member states, and each of them is a member of the United Nations General Assembly....
of the United Nations
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
One state with general international recognition, governed by the Holy See
Holy See

The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome, commonly known as the Pope, and is the preeminent episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church....
(a UN permanent observer
United Nations General Assembly observers

In addition to the current United Nations member states, the United Nations welcomes many international agencies, entities, and one non-member state as observers....
): Vatican City
10 sovereign states lacking general international recognition, none of which are members of the United Nations:
One state with diplomatic relations with 93 states and informal relations with 25 others
Diplomatic missions of Palestine

On 15 November 1988, the Palestinian National Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization, sitting in Algiers, adopted the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, unilaterally proclaiming the State of Palestine within the former British Mandate of Palestine, while not explicitly declaring its boundaries or claimed territory....
, governed by the Palestinian National Authority
Palestinian National Authority

The Palestinian National Authority is the administrative organization established to government parts of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip....
(a UN permanent observer
United Nations General Assembly observers

In addition to the current United Nations member states, the United Nations welcomes many international agencies, entities, and one non-member state as observers....
): the Palestinian territories
Palestinian territories

The Palestinian territories are composed of two discontiguous regions, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, whose final status has yet to be determined....
One state, recognized by 54 UN member states and by Taiwan, informal relations with 6 others
List of diplomatic missions in Kosovo

File:Diplomatic missions in Kosovo1.svgSince the Kosovo declared independence, from Serbia on 17 February 2008 and is recognised by UN member states; several of them have opened embassies....
: Kosovo
Kosovo

Kosovo is a disputed region in the Balkans. Its majority is governed by the partially-recognised Republic of Kosovo . Serbia does not recognise the secession of Kosovo and considers it a United Nations-governed entity within its sovereign territory, the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija that was re-created by Slobodan M...
One state, recognized by 46 other states
Foreign relations of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is a government in exile, meaning it does not effectively control its claimed territory, the former Spain colony of Western Sahara....
, a member of the African Union
African Union

The African Union is an intergovernmental organisation consisting of 53 African states. Established on 9 July 2002, the AU was formed as a successor to the Organisation of African Unity ....
, in partial control of the Western Sahara
Western Sahara

Western Sahara is a territory of North Africa, bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria in the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean on the west....
(listed by the United Nations as a non self-governing territory
United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories

The United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories documents countries that, according to the United Nations, are non-Decolonization. The list was initially prepared in 1946 pursuant to Article XI of the United Nations Charter, and has been updated by the United Nations General Assembly on recommendation of the Special Committee on Dec...
): the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is a Legal status of Western Sahara which claims sovereignty over the entire territory of Western Sahara, a former Spain colony....
One state, unable to join the UN due to the One China Policy, recognized by 23 other states
Foreign relations of the Republic of China

The Republic of China, whose jurisdiction is now constituted by the islands of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, the Matsu Islands and some other minor islands, is currently recognized by states, including the Holy See of Vatican City as sole and legitimate representative of China....
, having informal relations with 59 more
Diplomatic missions of the Republic of China

Due to the fierce competition between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China for diplomatic recognition, the ROC only maintains a handful of full-fledged diplomatic missions abroad....
, until 25 October 1971 a member state of the United Nations
China and the United Nations

China's seat in the United Nations and membership of the United Nations Security Council has been occupied by the People's Republic of China since October 25, 1971....
and in control of the island of Taiwan
Taiwan

Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
: the Republic of China
Republic of China

The Republic of China , also known as Nationalist China is a country in East Asia that has evolved from a single-party state with full global recognition into a multi-party democratic state with Political status of Taiwan....
Two states, recognized by two UN member states
International recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia

Abkhazia and South Ossetia are List of unrecognized countries, which georgia considers as parts of Georgia's sovereign territory.Abkhazia declared its independence after the war with Georgia in 1992?1993....
, by Transnistria and by the other of the two: Abkhazia
Abkhazia

Abkhazia is a disputed region on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. Since its declaration of independence from Georgia in 1991 during the Georgian?Abkhaz conflict, it is governed by the International recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia Republic of Abkhazia....
and South Ossetia
South Ossetia

South Ossetia is a disputed region in the South Caucasus. Since its declaration of independence from Georgia in 1991 during the Georgian-Ossetian conflict, it is governed by the International recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia Republic of South Ossetia, which claims the territory of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within t...
One state, recognized by one UN member state and having informal relations with 19 more
Foreign relations of Northern Cyprus

The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, due to its non-recognized nations, is dependent upon Turkey to facilitate its contacts with the international community....
: the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus , commonly called Northern Cyprus , is a de facto independent republic located in the north of Cyprus....
One state, recognized by Abkhazia and South Ossetia: Transnistria
Transnistria

Transnistria, also known as Trans-Dniester, Transdniestria, and Pridnestrovie is a disputed region in southeast Europe. Since its declaration of independence in 1990, followed by the War of Transnistria in 1992, it is governed by the Unrecognized states Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic , which claims the left bank...
Two states not recognized by any other state: Nagorno-Karabakh
Nagorno-Karabakh

Nagorno-Karabakh is a landlocked region in the Southern Caucasus, lying between Karabakh and Syunik Province and covering the southeastern range of the Lesser Caucasus mountains....
and Somaliland
Somaliland

Somaliland is an autonomous region, which is part of the Somalia located in the Horn of Africa. The Republic of Somaliland considers itself to be the successor state of the former British Somaliland protectorate....

Entities considered to be micronation
Micronation

Micronations — sometimes also referred to as model countries and new country projects — are entities that resemble independent nations or states but which are unrecognized by world governments or major international organisations....
s that are not internationally recognized are not included.

Unlisted above are the following noteworthy entities that do not possess all the qualifications in the Montevideo Convention
Montevideo Convention

The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States was a treaty signed at Montevideo, Uruguay, on December 26, 1933, during the Seventh International Conference of American States....
:
Antarctica
Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctica of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean....
as a whole has no government and no permanent population. Seven countries claim parts of Antarctica and five of these have reciprocally recognized one another's claims. These claims, which are regulated by the Antarctic Treaty, are not recognised by any other country.
The European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
, a sui generis
Sui generis

Sui generis is a Neo-Latin expression, literally meaning of its own kind/genus or unique in its characteristics. The expression was effectively created by Scholasticism philosophy to indicate an idea, an entity or a reality that cannot be included in a wider concept....
supranational organization which currently has 27 member states. The member states have transferred a measure of their legislative, executive, and judicial powers to the institutions of the EU, and as such the EU has some characteristics of a sovereign state, without generally being considered a sovereign state. The European Union does not claim to be a sovereign state and has only limited capacity for relations with other states.
The Sovereign Military Order of Malta is a UN observer member
United Nations General Assembly observers

In addition to the current United Nations member states, the United Nations welcomes many international agencies, entities, and one non-member state as observers....
and is recognized by 102 states, but has no territory other than extraterritorial areas within Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
. It claims to be a traditional example of a sovereign entity other than a state
State

A state is a political Social contract with effective sovereignty over a geographic area and representing a population. These may be nation states, State or multinational states....
.

See also
Declarative theory of statehood
Declarative theory of statehood

The declarative theory of statehood defines a state as a person of international law that meets certain structural criteria, regardless of whether or not that state has received the recognition of other states....
Constitutive theory of statehood
Constitutive theory of statehood

The constitutive theory of statehood defines a state as a person of international law if, and only if, it is recognized as sovereign by other states....
Gallery of sovereign state flags

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