Countries of the World

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Afghanistan	Asia 01	??	Afghanistan is an Islamic country. An estimated 80% of the population is Sunni, following the Hanafi school of jurisprudence; the remainder of the population--and primarily the Hazara ethnic group--is predominantly Shi'a. Despite attempts during the years of communist rule to secularize Afghan society, Islamic practices pervade all aspects of life. -->>>> Read More >>>
Akrotiri	Europe 01	??	Akrotiri was first constructed in the mid-1950s to relieve pressure on the main RAF station on the island, RAF Nicosia. In the aftermath of the Egyptian repudiation of the Anglo-Egyptian treaty, British forces had to be withdrawn from the Canal Zone in Egypt.
Albania	Europe 02	??	Over 90% of Albania's people are ethnic Albanian, and Albanian is the official language. Religions include Muslim (Sunni and Bektashi), Albanian Orthodox, and Roman Catholic. Scholars believe the Albanian people are descended from a non-Slavic, non-Turkic group of tribes known as Illyrians, who arrived in the Balkans around 2000 BC.
Algeria	Africa 01	??	Algeria is Africa's second largest country, covering an area of nearly 2.5 million square miles. Algeria's indigenous Berber people has been under foreign rule for much of the last 3000 years. The Phoenicians (1000 BC) and the Romans (200 BC) were the most important of these.
American Samoa	??	??	American Samoa, officially Territory of American Samoa, unincorporated territory of the United States consisting of the eastern part of the Samoan archipelago, located in the south-central Pacific Ocean. It lies about 1,600 miles (2,600 km) northeast of New Zealand and 2,200 miles (3,500 km) southwest of the U.S. state of Hawaii.
Andorra	Europe 03	??	Andorrans live in seven valleys that form Andorra's political districts. Andorrans are a minority in their own country; they make up only approximately 37% of the population or about 31,500 native Andorrans. Spanish, French, and Portuguese residents make up the other 63% of the population.
Angola	Africa 02	??	Angola has substantial mineral resources and hydroelectric power. Most large-scale industries are nationalized. Oil, chiefly from reserves offshore, is the most lucrative product, providing about 50% of the country's GDP and 90% of its exports.
Anguilla	??	??	Anguilla, island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, a British overseas territory. It is the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles and lies about 12 miles (19 km) north of the island of Saint Martin and 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Saint Kitts.
Antigua and Barbuda	??	??	Antigua, the larger of the two main islands, is 108 sq mi (280 sq km). The island dependencies of Redonda (an uninhabited rocky islet) and Barbuda (a coral island formerly known as Dulcina) are 0.5 sq mi (1.30 sq km) and 62 sq mi (161 sq km), respectively.
Argentina	South America	??	Argentina, country of South America, covering most of the southern portion of the continent. The world’s eighth largest country, Argentina occupies an area more extensive than Mexico and the U.S. state of Texas combined.
Armenia	Asia 02	??	Armenia, country of Transcaucasia, lying just south of the great mountain range of the Caucasus and fronting the northwestern extremity of Asia. To the north and east Armenia is bounded by Georgia and Azerbaijan, while its neighbours to the southeast and west are, respectively, Iran and Turkey. Naxçıvan, an exclave of Azerbaijan, borders Armenia to the southwest.
Aruba	??	??	Discovered and claimed for Spain in 1499, Aruba was acquired by the Dutch in 1636. The island's economy has been dominated by three main industries. A 19th century gold rush was followed by prosperity brought on by the opening in 1924 of an oil refinery.
Ashmore and Cartier Islands uses Australia's Flag	??	??	Ashmore and Cartier Islands, officially Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands, external territory of Australia, in the Indian Ocean. The islands lie 200 miles (320 km) northwest of Western Australia state and some 105 miles (170 km) southwest of the island of Roti, Indonesia.
Australia	??	??	Australia, the smallest continent and one of the largest countries on Earth, lying between the Pacific and Indian oceans in the Southern Hemisphere. Australia’s capital is Canberra, located in the southeast between the larger and more important economic and cultural centres of Sydney and Melbourne.
Austria	Europe 04	??	Austria has a well-developed social market economy with a high standard of living and close ties to other EU economies, especially Germany's.
Azerbaijan	Asia 03	??	Azerbaijan combines the heritage of two venerable civilizations--the Seljuk Turks of the 11th century and the ancient Persians. Its name is thought to be derived from the Persian phrase "Land of Fire," referring both to its petroleum deposits, known since ancient times, and to its status as a former center of the Zoroastrian faith.
Bahamas, The	??	??	Eighty-five percent of the Bahamian population is of African heritage. About two-thirds of the population resides on New Providence Island (the location of Nassau). Many ancestors arrived in The Bahamas when the islands served as a staging area for the slave trade in the early 1800s.
Bahrain	Asia 04	??	Bahrain, small Arab state situated in a bay on the southwestern coast of the Persian Gulf. It is an archipelago consisting of Bahrain Island and some 30 smaller islands. Its name is from the Arabic term al-bahrayn, meaning “two seas.”
Baker Island	??	??	??
Bangladesh	Asia 05	??	??
Barbados	??	??	??
Belarus	Europe 05	??	??
Belgium	Europe 06	??	??
Belize	??	??	Belize was the site of several Mayan city states until their decline at the end of the first millennium A.D. The British and Spanish disputed the region in the 17th and 18th centuries; it formally became the colony of British Honduras in 1854. Territorial disputes between the UK and Guatemala delayed the independence of Belize until 1981.
Benin	Africa 03	??	??
Bermuda	??	??	Bermuda is an archipelago of about 360 small islands, 580 mi (934 km) east of North Carolina. The largest is (Great) Bermuda, or Main Island. Explored by Juan de Bermúdez, a Spaniard, the islands were settled in 1612 by an offshoot of the Virginia Company. Bermuda became a Crown colony in 1684.
Bhutan	Asia 06	??	??
Bolivia	South America	??	??
Bosnia Herzegovina	Europe 07	??	??
Botswana	Africa 04	??	??
Brazil	South America	??	Following more than three centuries under Portuguese rule, Brazil gained its independence in 1822, maintaining a monarchical system of government until the abolition of slavery in 1888 and the subsequent proclamation of a republic by the military in 1889. Brazilian coffee exporters politically dominated the country until populist leader Getulio VARGAS rose to power in 1930.
Brunei	Asia 07	??	??
Bulgaria	Europe 08	??	??
Burkina Faso	Africa 05	??	??
Burma	Asia 08	??	??
Burundi	Africa 06	??	??
Cambodia	Asia 09	??	??
Cameroon	Africa 07	??	??
Canada	??	??	Canada's forests supply the country's building and paper products industries and contribute one fifth of all the nation's exports. In the 1990s the national forest inventory recorded a total of 1.3 million square miles (3.4 million square kilometers) of forest land, of which 83 percent had been surveyed and almost 60 percent was in production.
Cape Verde - Cabo Verde	Africa 08	??	??
Cayman Islands	??	??	??
Central African Republic	Africa 09	??	??
Chad	Africa 10	??	??
Chile	South America	??	??
China	Asia 10	??	??
Colombia	South America	??	??
Comoros	Africa 11	??	??
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	Africa 12	??	??
Congo, Republic of the	Africa 13	??	Republic of the Congo, country situated astride the Equator in west-central Africa. Officially known as the Republic of the Congo, the country is often called Congo (Brazzaville), with its capital added parenthetically, to distinguish it from neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is often referred to by its acronym, the DRC, or called Congo (Kinshasa).
Costa Rica	??	??	??
Cote D'Ivoire Ivory Coast	Africa 14	??	??
Croatia	Europe 09	??	The Croats are believed to be a Slavic people who migrated from Ukraine and settled in present-day Croatia during the 6th century. After a period of self-rule, Croatians agreed to the Pacta Conventa in 1091, submitting themselves to Hungarian authority.
Cuba	??	??	??
Cyprus	Europe 10	??	??
Czech Republic	Europe 11	??	??
Denmark	Europe 12	??	??
Djibouti	Africa 15	??	??
Dominica	??	??	??
Dominican Republic	??	??	??
Ecuador	South America	??	??
Egypt	Africa 16	??	Egypt, country located in the northeastern corner of Africa. Egypt’s heartland, the Nile River valley and delta, was the home of one of the principal civilizations of the ancient Middle East and, like Mesopotamia farther east, was the site of one of the world’s earliest urban and literate societies.
Egypt - Sinai	Asia 11	??	Mount Sinai, also called Mountain of Moses or Mount Hareh, Hebrew Har Sinai, Arabic Jabal Mūsā, granitic peak of the south-central Sinai Peninsula, Janūb Sīnāʾ (South Sinai) muḥāfaẓah (governorate), Egypt. Mount Sinai is renowned as the principal site of divine revelation in Jewish history, where God is purported to have appeared to Moses and given him the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20; Deuteronomy 5).
El Salvador	??	??	??
Equatorial Guinea	Africa 17	??	??
Eritrea	Africa 18	??	??
Estonia	Europe 13	??	??
Ethiopia	Africa 19	??	??
Falkland Islands	??	??	??
Faroe Islands	Europe 14	??	??
Fiji	??	??	??
Finland	Europe 15	??	??
France	Europe 16	??	??
French Polynesia	??	??	??
Gabon	Africa 20	??	??
Gambia, The	Africa 21	??	The Gambia gained its independence from the UK in 1965. Geographically surrounded by Senegal, it formed a short-lived federation of Senegambia between 1982 and 1989. In 1991 the two nations signed a friendship and cooperation treaty, but tensions have flared up intermittently since then.
Gaza Strip	??	??	??
Georgia	Asia 12	??	??
Germany	Europe 17	??	??
Ghana	Africa 22	??	??
Gibraltar	Europe 18	??	??
Greece	Europe 19	??	??
Greenland	??	??	??
Grenada	??	??	??
Guam	??	??	??
Guatemala	??	??	??
Guernsey	Europe 20	??	??
Guinea	Africa 23	??	Guinea is bordered by Guinea-Bissau to the northwest, Senegal to the north, Mali to the northeast, Côte d’Ivoire to the southeast, and Liberia and Sierra Leone to the south. The Atlantic Ocean lies to the west.
Guinea-Bissau	Africa 24	??	??
Guyana	South America	??	??
Haiti	??	??	??
Honduras	??	??	??
Hong Kong	Asia 13	??	??
Hungary	Europe 21	??	??
Iceland	Europe 22	??	??
India	Asia 14	??	??
Indonesia	Asia 15	??	??
Iran	Asia 16	??	??
Iraq	Asia 17	??	??
Ireland	Europe 23	??	Celtic tribes arrived on the island between 600 and 150 B.C. Invasions by Norsemen that began in the late 8th century were finally ended when King Brian BORU defeated the Danes in 1014. Norman invasions began in the 12th century and set off more than seven centuries of Anglo-Irish struggle marked by fierce rebellions and harsh repressions.
Isle of Man	??	??	??
Israel	Asia 18	??	??
Italy	Europe 24	??	??
Jamaica	??	??	??
Japan	Asia 19	??	??
Jersey	Europe 25	??	??
Jordan	Asia 20	??	??
Kazakhstan	Asia 21	??	??
Kenya	Africa 25	??	??
Korea, North	Asia 22	??	??
Korea, South	Asia 23	??	??
Kosovo	Europe 26	??	??
Kuwait	Asia 24	??	A small emirate nestled between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Kuwait is situated in a section of one of the driest, least-hospitable deserts on earth. Its shore, however, includes Kuwait Bay, a deep harbour on the Persian Gulf.
Kyrgyzstan	Asia 25	??	??
Laos	Asia 26	??	??
Latvia	Europe 27	??	??
Lebanon	Asia 27	??	??
Lesotho	Africa 26	??	??
Liberia	Africa 27	??	??
Libya	Africa 28	??	??
Liechtenstein	Europe 28	??	??
Lithuania	Europe 29	??	??
Luxembourg	Europe 30	??	??
Macau	Asia 28	??	??
Macedonia	Europe 31	??	??
Madagascar	Africa 29	??	??
Malawi	Africa 30	??	??
Malaysia	Asia 29	??	??
Maldives	Asia 30	??	??
Mali	Africa 31	??	??
Malta	Europe 32	??	??
Marshall Islands	??	??	??
Mauritania	Africa 32	??	??
Mauritius	Africa 33	??	??
Mayotte	Africa 34	??	??
Mexico	North America	??	??
Moldova	Europe 33	??	??
Monaco	Europe 34	??	??
Mongolia	Asia 31	??	??
Montenegro	Europe 35	??	??
Montserrat	??	??	??
Morocco	Africa 35	??	??
Mozambique	Africa 36	??	Mozambique is about the size of the combined areas of the U.S. states of Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah; most of its territory stretches along the Indian Ocean coast from Cape (Cabo) Delgado in the north past the capital city of Maputo in the south. It is bordered to the north by Tanzania, to the east by the Mozambique Channel, which separates it from the island of Madagascar, to the south and southwest by South Africa and Swaziland, to the west by Zimbabwe, and to the northwest by Zambia, Malawi, and Lake Nyasa.
Namibia	Africa 37	??	??
Nauru	??	??	??
Nepal	Asia 32	??	??
Netherlands	Europe 36	??	??
Netherlands Antilles	??	??	??
New Caledonia	??	??	??
New Zealand	??	??	The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. That same year, the British began the first organized colonial settlement.
Nicaragua	South America	??	??
Niger	Africa 38	??	??
Nigeria	Africa 39	??	??
Niue	??	??	??
Norfolk Island	??	??	??
Northern Mariana Islands	??	??	??
Norway	Europe 37	??	??
Oman	Asia 33	??	??
Pakistan	Asia 34	??	??
Palau	??	??	??
Panama	??	??	??
Papua New Guinea	Asia 35	??	??
Paraguay	South America	??	??
Peru	South America	??	Peru, country in western South America. Except for the Lake Titicaca basin in the southeast, its borders lie in sparsely populated zones. The boundaries with Colombia to the northeast and Brazil to the east traverse lower ranges or tropical forests, whereas the borders with Bolivia to the southeast, Chile to the south, and Ecuador to the northwest run across the high Andes.
Philippines	Asia 36	??	??
Poland	Europe 38	??	??
Portugal	Europe 39	??	??
Puerto Rico	??	??	??
Qatar	Asia 37	??	??
Romania	Europe 40	??	??
Russia	Asia 38	??	??
Rwanda	Africa 40	??	??
Saint Barthelemy	??	??	??
Saint Helena	Africa 41	??	??
Saint Kitts	??	??	??
Saint Lucia	??	??	??
Saint Martin	??	??	??
Saint Pierre Miquelon	??	??	??
Saint Vincent and Grenadines	??	??	??
Samoa	??	??	Samoa, country in the central South Pacific Ocean, among the westernmost of the island nations of Polynesia. According to legend, Samoa is known as the “Cradle of Polynesia” because Savai’i island is said to be Hawaiki, the Polynesian homeland.
Samoa, American	??	??	American Samoa, officially Territory of American Samoa, unincorporated territory of the United States consisting of the eastern part of the Samoan archipelago, located in the south-central Pacific Ocean. It lies about 1,600 miles (2,600 km) northeast of New Zealand and 2,200 miles (3,500 km) southwest of the U.S. state of Hawaii.
San Marino	Europe 41	??	??
Sau Tome and Princepe	Africa 42	??	??
Saudi Arabia	Asia 39	??	??
Senegal	Africa 43	??	??
Serbia	Europe 42	??	??
Seychelles	Africa 44	??	??
Sierra Leone	Africa 45	??	??
Singapore	Asia 40	??	??
Slovakia	Europe 43	??	??
Slovenia	Europe 44	??	??
Solomon Islands	??	??	??
Somalia	Africa 46	??	Britain withdrew from British Somaliland in 1960 to allow its protectorate to join with Italian Somaliland and form the new nation of Somalia. In 1969, a coup headed by Mohamed SIAD Barre ushered in an authoritarian socialist rule characterized by the persecution, jailing, and torture of political opponents and dissidents.
South Africa	Africa 47	??	South Africa, the southernmost country on the African continent, renowned for its varied topography, great natural beauty, and cultural diversity, all of which have made the country a favoured destination for travelers since the legal ending of apartheid (Afrikaans: “apartness,” or racial separation) in 1994.
South Georgia	??	??	??
Spain	Europe 45	??	??
Sri Lanka	Asia 41	??	??
Sudan	Africa 48	??	??
Suriname	South America	??	??
Swaziland	Africa 49	??	??
Sweden	Europe 46	??	??
Switzerland	Europe 47	??	??
Syria	Asia 42	??	??
Taiwan	Asia 43	??	Taiwan, Chinese (Wade-Giles romanization) T’ai-wan or (Pinyin) Taiwan, Portuguese Formosa, island, located about 100 miles (161 km) off the southeast coast of the China mainland. It is approximately 245 miles (394 km) long (north-south) and 90 miles across at its widest point. The largest city, Taipei, is the seat of the government of the Republic of China (ROC; Nationalist China).
Tajikistan	Asia 44	??	??
Tanzania	Africa 50	??	??
Thailand	Asia 45	??	??
Timor-Leste	Asia 46	??	??
Togo	Africa 51	??	??
Tokelau	??	??	??
Tonga	??	??	??
Trinidad and Tobago	??	??	??
Tunisia	Africa 52	??	??
Turkey	Asia 47	??	??
Turkmenistan	Asia 48	??	??
Turks and Caicos Islands	??	??	??
Tuvalu	??	??	??
Uganda	Africa 53	??	??
Ukraine	Europe 48	??	??
United Arab Emirates	Asia 49	??	??
United Kingdom	Europe 49	??	??
United States of America	??	??	??
Uruguay	South America	??	??
Uzbekistan	Asia 50	??	??
Vanuatu	??	??	Vanuatu, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, consisting of a chain of 13 principal and many smaller islands located about 500 miles (800 km) west of Fiji and 1,100 miles (1,770 km) east of Australia.
Vatican City State-Holy See	Europe 50	??	??
Venezuela	??	??	Venezuela was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others being Ecuador and New Granada, which became Colombia). For most of the first half of the 20th century, Venezuela was ruled by generally benevolent military strongmen, who promoted the oil industry and allowed for some social reforms.
Vietnam	Asia 51	??	??
Virgin Islands	??	??	??
Wallis and Futuna	??	??	??
West Bank	Asia 52	??	From the early 16th century through 1917, the area now known as the West Bank fell under Ottoman rule. Following World War I, the Allied powers (France, UK, Russia) allocated the area to the British Mandate of Palestine. After World War II, the UN passed a resolution to establish two states within the Mandate, and designated a territory including what is now known as the West Bank as part of the proposed Arab state. Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War the area was captured by Transjordan (later renamed Jordan). >>>Read More...
Western Sahara	Africa 54	??	Western Sahara is a disputed territory on the northwest coast of Africa bordered by Morocco, Mauritania, and Algeria. After Spain withdrew from its former colony of Spanish Sahara in 1976, Morocco annexed the northern two-thirds of Western Sahara and claimed the rest of the territory in 1979, >>>Read More...
Yemen	Asia 53	??	Yemen was one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East. Between the 12th century BC and the 6th century AD, it was part of the Minaean, Sabaean, and Himyarite kingdoms, which controlled the lucrative spice trade, and later came under Ethiopian and Persian rule. >>> Read More....
Zambia	Africa 55	??	About two-thirds of Zambians live in poverty. Per capita annual incomes are well below their levels at independence and, at $1,500, place the country among the world's poorest nations.
Zimbabwe	Africa 56	??	Zimbabwe's wide range of natural resources makes agriculture and mining the main pillars of the economy. In 2009 agriculture and industry accounted for about 19% and 24% of gross domestic product (GDP), respectively. Zimbabwe has an important percentage of the world's known reserves of metallurgical-grade chromite.

How many Countries in the world?

The US State Department recognizes 194 independent countries around the world, but that list of countries reflects the political agenda of the United States of America. As an example, it includes Kosovo, but does not include Taiwan, as China claims that Taiwan (the ROC) is simply a province of China.

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• This is not the official site of this country. Most of the information in this site were taken from the U.S. Department of State, The Central Intelligence Agency, The United Nations, [1],[2], [3], [4], [5],[6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14],[15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24],[25], [26], [27], [28], [29], [30],[31], [32], [33], [34], and the [35].

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