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As of July 9, 2011, when South Sudan gained independence, the number of sovereign nations worldwide has risen to 195. This figure excludes Taiwan, which, although not universally recognized, operates as a de facto independent state. In addition to these 195 countries, there are approximately 60 dependent territories and several disputed regions, such as Kosovo.

Of the 195 sovereign states, 193 are member nations of the United Nations, with equal representation in the UN General Assembly. Furthermore, two non-member entities - the Holy See and the State of Palestine-hold permanent observer status.

The following is an alphabetical list of countries and territories, featuring their official names, alternative designations, and local names. This compilation includes both the English and French names of each country, along with the indigenous names used locally.

Each country profile offers comprehensive details on its geography, maps, national flag, history, culture, and tourism highlights. In addition, you'll find information about the country's population, languages, capital city, largest urban areas, education system, economy, major newspapers, and much more.

	Country	Capital	Area	Population	Continent
A
	Afghanistan	Kabul	652,230 km2 251,827 ml2	40,218,234	South-Central Asia
	Albania	Tirana	28,748 km2 11,100 ml2	2,877,797	Balkan Peninsula
	Algeria	Algiers	2,381,740 km2 919,595 ml2	43,851,044	Northern Africa
	American Samoa	Pago Pago	199 km2 77 ml2	55,191	Polynesia, Oceania
	Andorra	Andorra la Vella	468 km2 181 ml2	77,265	Southern Europe
	Angola	Luanda	1,246,700 km2 481,353 ml2	32,866,268	Central Africa
	Anguilla	The Valley	91 km2 35 ml2	15,000	Leeward Islands, Caribbean
	Antigua and Barbuda	Saint John's	443 km2 171 ml2	98,300	Leeward Islands, Caribbean
	Argentina	Buenos Aires	2,780,510 km2 1,073,560 ml2	45,195,777	Southern South America
	Armenia	Yerevan	29,743 km2 11,484 ml2	2,963,243	Western Asia
	Aruba	Oranjestad	193 km2 75 ml2	106,766	Leeward Islands, Caribbean
	Australia	Canberra	7,692,020 km2 2,969,904 ml2	25,687,041	Australia/Oceania
	Austria	Vienna	83,879 km2 32,386 ml2	8,917,285	Western Europe
	Azerbaijan	Baku	86,600 km2 33,436 ml2	10,139,177	Caucasus, Western Asia
B
	Bahamas	Nassau	13,878 km2 5,358 ml2	402,506	Caribbean
	Bahrain	Manama	765 km2 295 ml2	1,701,575	Arabian Peninsula, Middle East
	Bangladesh	Dhaka	147,570 km2 56,977 ml2	166,303,498	South-Central Asia
	Barbados	Bridgetown	430 km2 166 ml2	287,375	Lesser Antilles, Caribbean
	Belarus	Minsk	207,600 km2 80,155 ml2	9,449,323	Eastern Europe
	Belgium	Brussels	30,528 km2 11,787 ml2	11,589,623	Western Europe
	Belize	Belmopan	22,966 km2 8,867 ml2	419,199	Central America
	Benin	Cotonou	11,295 km2 4,361 ml2	12,123,200	West Africa
	Bermuda	Hamilton	54 km2 21 ml2	62,325	North America
	Bhutan	Thimphu	38,394 km2 14,824 ml2	771,612	South-Central Asia
	Bolivia	Sucre	1,098,580 km2 424,164 ml2	11,673,021	Central South America
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	51,197 km2 19,767 ml2	3,280,819	Southern Europe
	Botswana	Gaborone	581,730 km2 224,607 ml2	2,338,851	Southern Africa
	Brazil	Brasília	8,515,770 km2 3,287,956 ml2	213,993,437	Central Eastern South America
	Brunei Darussalam	Bandar Seri Begawan	5,765 km2 2,226 ml2	453,000	Southeast Asia
	Bulgaria	Sofia	110,994 km2 42,855 ml2	6,951,482	Balkan, Eastern Europe
	Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	272,967 km2 105,393 ml2	21,312,078	West Africa
	Burundi	Gitega	27,834 km2 10,747 ml2	12,114,505	Eastern Africa, African Great Lakes
C
	Cambodia	Phnom Penh	181,035 km2 69,898 ml2	16,718,840	South-East Asia
	Cameroon	Yaoundé	475,442 km2 183,569 ml2	27,700,000	Central Africa
	Canada	Edmonton	9,984,670 km2 3,855,101 ml2	38,005,238	North North America
	Cape Verde	Praia	4,033 km2 1,557 ml2	543,766	West Africa
	Central African Republic	Bangui	622,984 km2 240,535 ml2	5,496,064	Central Africa
	Chad	N'Djamena	1,284,000 km2 495,755 ml2	14,497,000	Central Africa
	Chile	Santiago	756,102 km2 291,932 ml2	19,116,201	Western South America
	China	Beijing	9,596,960 km2 3,705,405 ml2	1,402,112,000	Eastern Asia
	Colombia	Bogotá	1,141,750 km2 440,832 ml2	50,882,891	North West South America
	Comoros	Moroni	2,235 km2 863 ml2	806,153	Eastern Africa
	Congo, Republic of	Brazzaville	342,000 km2 132,047 ml2	5,500,000	Central Africa
	Costa Rica	San José	51,100 km2 19,730 ml2	5,148,500	Central America
	Côte d'Ivoire	Abidjan	322,463 km2 124,504 ml2	25,823,071	West Africa
	Croatia	Zagreb	56,594 km2 21,851 ml2	4,105,267	Balkan Peninsula, Southern Europe
	Cuba	Havana	109,884 km2 42,426 ml2	11,313,411	Greater Antilles, Caribbean
	Cyprus	Nicosia	9,251 km2 3,572 ml2	1,207,359	Mediterranean, Western Asia
	Czech Republic	Prague	78,865 km2 30,450 ml2	10,708,981	Eastern Europe
D
	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Kinshasa	2,344,860 km2 905,355 ml2	102,262,000	Central Africa
	Denmark	Copenhagen	43,094 km2 16,639 ml2	5,818,553	Northern Europe
	Djibouti	Djibouti	23,200 km2 8,958 ml2	883,560	Eastern Africa
	Dominica	Roseau	751 km2 290 ml2	71,991	Lesser Antilles, Caribbean
	Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	48,671 km2 18,792 ml2	10,847,904	Greater Antilles, Caribbean
E
	Ecuador	Quito	283,561 km2 109,483 ml2	17,643,054	North West South America
	Egypt	Cairo	1,002,450 km2 387,048 ml2	104,000,000	Africa, Middle East
	El Salvador	San Salvador	21,041 km2 8,124 ml2	6,486,201	Central America
	Equatorial Guinea	Malabo	28,051 km2 10,831 ml2	1,402,985	Central Africa
	Eritrea	Asmara	117,600 km2 45,406 ml2	3,546,000	Eastern Africa
	Estonia	Tallinn	45,227 km2 17,462 ml2	1,326,535	Northern Europe
	Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	1,104,300 km2 426,372 ml2	11,411,410	Eastern Africa
F
	Faroe Islands	Tórshavn	1,399 km2 540 ml2	53,240	Northern Europe
	Fiji	Suva	18,274 km2 7,056 ml2	896,444	Melanesia, Oceania
	Finland	Helsinki	338,424 km2 130,666 ml2	5,540,720	Northern Europe
	France	Paris	551,695 km2 213,011 ml2	65,273,511	Western Europe
	French Guiana	Cayenne	83,534 km2 32,253 ml2	298,682	Northern South America
	French Polynesia	Papeete	4,035 km2 1,558 ml2	280,000	Polynesia, Oceania
G
	Gabon	Libreville	267,668 km2 103,347 ml2	2,270,400	Central Africa
	Georgia	Tbilisi	69,700 km2 26,911 ml2	3,989,167	Caucasus
	Germany	Berlin	357,022 km2 137,847 ml2	83,783,942	Western Europe
	Ghana	Accra	238,533 km2 92,098 ml2	31,072,940	West Africa
	Greece	Athens	131,957 km2 50,949 ml2	10,423,054	Southern Europe
	Greenland	Nuuk	2,166,090 km2 836,332 ml2	56,770	North America
	Grenada	St. George's	344 km2 133 ml2	11,252	Lesser Antilles, Caribbean
	Guadeloupe	Pointe-à-Pitre	1,780 km2 687 ml2	400,000	Lesser Antilles, Caribbean
	Guam	Hagåtña	544 km2 210 ml2	168,775	Micronesia, Oceania
	Guatemala	Guatemala City	108,889 km2 42,042 ml2	18,320,000	Central America
	Guinea	Conakry	245,857 km2 94,926 ml2	13,234,580	West Africa
	Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	36,125 km2 13,948 ml2	1,990,000	West Africa
	Guyana	Georgetown	214,969 km2 83,000 ml2	786,559	North Eastern South America
H
	Haiti	Port-au-Prince	27,750 km2 10,714 ml2	11,400,000	Greater Antilles, Caribbean
	Honduras	Tegucigalpa	112,492 km2 43,433 ml2	10,058,112	Central America
	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	1,106 km2 427 ml2	7,497,000	Eastern Asia
	Hungary	Budapest	93,030 km2 35,919 ml2	9,660,351	Eastern Europe
I
	Iceland	Reykjavik	103,000 km2 39,769 ml2	376,248	Northern Europe
	India	Delhi	3,287,260 km2 1,269,218 ml2	1,393,409,038	South-Central Asia
	Indonesia	Jakarta	1,904,570 km2 735,358 ml2	273,523,615	Maritime South-East Asia
	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	Tehran	1,648,200 km2 636,373 ml2	85,320,000	South-Central Asia
	Iraq	Baghdad	438,317 km2 169,235 ml2	41,000,000	Middle East, Western Asia
	Ireland	Dublin	70,273 km2 27,133 ml2	4,937,786	Northern Europe
	Israel	Jerusalem	20,770 km2 8,019 ml2	9,220,000	Middle East, Western Asia
	Italy	Rome	301,340 km2 116,348 ml2	60,244,639	Southern Europe
J
	Jamaica	Kingston	10,991 km2 4,244 ml2	2,961,161	Greater Antilles, Caribbean
	Japan	Tokyo	377,975 km2 145,937 ml2	126,476,461	Eastern Asia
	Jordan	Amman	89,342 km2 34,495 ml2	1,021,000	Middle East, Western Asia
K
	Kazakhstan	Astana	2,724,900 km2 1,052,089 ml2	19,034,000	Central Asia
	Kenya	Nairobi	580,367 km2 224,081 ml2	53,771,300	Eastern Africa
	Kiribati	South Tarawa	811 km2 313 ml2	11,984	Micronesia, Oceania
	Korea, Democratic People's Rep. (North Korea)	Pyongyang	120,540 km2 46,541 ml2	25,600,000	Eastern Asia
	Korea, Republic of (South Korea)	Seoul	100,210 km2 38,691 ml2	51,780,579	Eastern Asia
	Kosovo	Pristina	10,887 km2 4,203 ml2	1,831,000	Southern Europe
	Kuwait	Kuwait City	17,818 km2 6,880 ml2	4,394,000	Middle East, Western Asia
	Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	199,951 km2 77,201 ml2	6,630,000	Central Asia
L
	Lao, People's Democratic Republic	Vientiane	236,800 km2 91,429 ml2	7,300,000	South-East Asia
	Latvia	Riga	64,559 km2 24,926 ml2	1,886,198	Northern Europe
	Lebanon	Beirut	10,452 km2 4,036 ml2	6,000,000	Middle East, Western Asia
	Lesotho	Maseru	30,355 km2 11,720 ml2	2,142,000	Southern Africa
	Liberia	Monrovia	111,369 km2 43,000 ml2	5,057,681	West Africa
	Libya	Tripoli	1,759,540 km2 679,362 ml2	6,871,292	Northern Africa
	Liechtenstein	Vaduz	160 km2 62 ml2	38,128	Western Europe
	Lithuania	Vilnius	65,300 km2 25,212 ml2	2,722,255	Northern Europe
	Luxembourg	Luxembourg City	2,586 km2 998 ml2	634,814	Western Europe
M
	Macau	Macau	33 km2 13 ml2	682,800	Eastern Asia
	Madagascar	Antananarivo	587,041 km2 226,658 ml2	29,200,000	Eastern Africa
	Malawi	Lilongwe	118,484 km2 45,747 ml2	20,529,662	Eastern Africa
	Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	330,803 km2 127,724 ml2	32,700,000	Southeast Asia
	Maldives	Malé	298 km2 115 ml2	540,000	South-Central Asia
	Mali	Bamako	1,240,190 km2 478,840 ml2	20,250,833	West Africa
	Malta	Valletta	316 km2 122 ml2	514,992	Southern Europe
	Marshall Islands	Majuro	181 km2 70 ml2	59,000	Micronesia, Oceania
	Martinique	Fort-de-France	1,128 km2 436 ml2	375,000	Lesser Antilles, Caribbean
	Mauritania	Nouakchott	1,030,700 km2 397,955 ml2	4,300,000	West Africa
	Mauritius	Port Louis	2,040 km2 788 ml2	1,265,000	Eastern Africa
	Mexico	Mexico City	1,964,380 km2 758,451 ml2	126,190,788	North America
	Micronesia, Federal States of	Palikir	702 km2 271 ml2	104,000	Micronesia, Oceania
	Moldova, Republic of	Chișinău	33,846 km2 13,068 ml2	2,657,637	Eastern Europe
	Monaco	Monaco	2 km2 1 ml2	39,242	Southern Europe
	Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar	1,564,120 km2 603,910 ml2	3,285,000	Eastern Asia
	Montenegro	Podgorica	14,026 km2 5,415 ml2	622,359	Southern Europe
	Montserrat	Plymouth	102 km2 39 ml2	4,996	Lesser Antilles, Caribbean
	Morocco	Rabat	446,550 km2 172,414 ml2	36,910,560	Northern Africa
	Mozambique	Maputo	801,590 km2 309,496 ml2	31,255,435	Eastern Africa
	Myanmar	Yangon	676,578 km2 261,228 ml2	54,863,229	Southeast Asia
N
	Namibia	Windhoek	825,615 km2 318,772 ml2	2,540,905	Southern Africa
	Nauru	Yaren	21 km2 8 ml2	10,834	Micronesia, Oceania
	Nepal	Kathmandu	147,516 km2 56,956 ml2	29,609,623	South-Central Asia
	Netherlands	Amsterdam	41,543 km2 16,040 ml2	17,134,872	Western Europe
	Netherlands Antilles	Willemstad	800 km2 309 ml2	25,000	Caribbean
	New Caledonia	Nouméa	18,575 km2 7,172 ml2	283,126	Melanesia, Oceania
	New Zealand	Wellington	268,021 km2 103,483 ml2	5,084,300	Oceania; Australia
	Nicaragua	Managua	130,375 km2 50,338 ml2	6,624,554	Central America
	Niger	Niamey	1,267,000 km2 489,191 ml2	24,000,000	West Africa
	Nigeria	Abuja	923,768 km2 356,669 ml2	206,139,589	West Africa
	North Macedonia	Skopje	25,713 km2 9,928 ml2	2,083,459	Balkan Peninsula, Southern Europe
	Northern Mariana Islands	Saipan	477 km2 184 ml2	57,594	Micronesia, Oceania
	Norway	Oslo	323,802 km2 125,021 ml2	5,421,241	Northern Europe
O
	Oman	Muscat	309,500 km2 119,499 ml2	5,106,622	Middle East
P
	Pakistan	Islamabad	881,913 km2 340,508 ml2	225,199,937	South-Central Asia
	Palau	Ngerulmud	459 km2 177 ml2	18,000	Micronesia, Oceania
	Palestinian territories	Gaza City	6,220 km2 2,402 ml2	5,148,000	Middle East, Western Asia
	Panama	Panama City	75,417 km2 29,119 ml2	4,314,767	Central America
	Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	462,840 km2 178,703 ml2	8,928,000	Maritime Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Oceania
	Paraguay	Asunción	406,752 km2 157,048 ml2	7,132,539	Central South America
	Peru	Lima	1,285,220 km2 496,226 ml2	33,460,305	Western South America
	Philippines	Manila	300,000 km2 115,831 ml2	113,000,000	Southeast Asia
	Pitcairn Island	Adamstown	47 km2 18 ml2	50	Polynesia, Oceania
	Poland	Warsaw	312,696 km2 120,733 ml2	38,386,000	Eastern Europe
	Portugal	Lisbon	92,090 km2 35,556 ml2	10,196,709	Southern Europe
	Puerto Rico	San Juan	8,874 km2 3,426 ml2	3,285,874	Greater Antilles, Caribbean
Q
	Qatar	Doha	11,571 km2 4,468 ml2	2,881,060	Arabian Peninsula, Middle East
R
	Reunion Island	Saint-Denis	2,511 km2 970 ml2	859,959	Eastern Africa
	Romania	Bucharest	238,397 km2 92,046 ml2	19,237,691	Eastern Europe
	Russian Federation	Moscow	17,098,200 km2 6,601,649 ml2	146,599,183	Eastern Europe - Northern Asia
	Rwanda	Kigali	26,338 km2 10,169 ml2	12,952,218	Eastern Africa, African Great Lakes
S
	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre	261 km2 101 ml2	53,192	Lesser Antilles, Caribbean
	Saint Lucia	Castries	616 km2 238 ml2	183,627	Lesser Antilles, Caribbean
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Kingstown	389 km2 150 ml2	110,150	Lesser Antilles, Caribbean
	Samoa	Apia	2,842 km2 1,097 ml2	198,410	Polynesia, Oceania
	San Marino	San Marino	61 km2 24 ml2	33,931	Southern Europe within Italy
	Sao Tome and Principe	São Tomé	964 km2 372 ml2	219,159	Central Africa
	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	2,149,690 km2 830,000 ml2	34,813,867	Arabian Peninsula, Middle East
	Senegal	Dakar	196,722 km2 75,955 ml2	16,425,864	West Africa
	Serbia	Belgrade	77,712 km2 30,005 ml2	8,772,235	Southern Europe
	Seychelles	Victoria	459 km2 177 ml2	98,140	Eastern Africa
	Sierra Leone	Freetown	71,740 km2 27,699 ml2	8,000,000	West Africa
	Singapore	Singapore	729 km2 281 ml2	5,685,807	Southeast Asia
	Slovakia (Slovak Republic)	Bratislava	49,035 km2 18,933 ml2	5,456,362	Eastern Europe
	Slovenia	Ljubljana	20,273 km2 7,827 ml2	2,078,654	Southern Europe
	Solomon Islands	Honiara	28,896 km2 11,157 ml2	686,884	Melanesia, Oceania
	Somalia	Mogadishu	637,657 km2 246,201 ml2	15,893,222	Eastern Africa
	South Africa	Cape Town	1,219,090 km2 470,693 ml2	59,308,690	Southern Africa
	South Sudan	Juba	619,745 km2 239,285 ml2	12,703,714	East-Central Africa
	Spain	Madrid	505,992 km2 195,365 ml2	47,351,567	Southern Europe
	Sri Lanka	Colombo	65,610 km2 25,332 ml2	21,803,000	South-Central Asia
	Sudan	Khartoum	1,861,480 km2 718,721 ml2	43,849,260	Northern Africa
	Suriname	Paramaribo	163,820 km2 63,251 ml2	591,919	North-Eastern South America
	Swaziland (Eswatini)	Mbabane	17,364 km2 6,704 ml2	1,160,164	Southern Africa
	Sweden	Stockholm	450,295 km2 173,860 ml2	10,379,295	Northern Europe
	Switzerland	Zurich	41,285 km2 15,940 ml2	8,847,000	Western Europe
	Syria	Damascus	185,180 km2 71,498 ml2	17,500,658	Middle East, Western Asia
T
	Taiwan	Taipei	36,193 km2 13,974 ml2	23,600,000	Eastern Asia
	Tajikistan	Dushanbe	143,100 km2 55,251 ml2	9,770,000	Central Asia
	Thailand	Bangkok	513,120 km2 198,117 ml2	70,000,000	South-East Asia
	The Gambia	Banjul	11,300 km2 4,363 ml2	2,400,000	West Africa
	Tibet	Lhasa	1,200,000 km2 463,322 ml2	3,000,000	South-Central Asia
	Timor-Leste	Dili	14,874 km2 5,743 ml2	1,320,000	Maritime South-East Asia
	Togo	Lomé	56,785 km2 21,925 ml2	8,278,724	West Africa
	Tonga	Nukualofa	748 km2 289 ml2	106,760	Polynesia, Oceania
	Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	5,128 km2 1,980 ml2	1,399,491	Northern South America, Caribbean
	Tunisia	Tunis	163,610 km2 63,170 ml2	11,818,619	Northern Africa
	Turkey	Ankara	783,356 km2 302,455 ml2	84,339,067	Southeastern Europe, Western Asia
	Turkmenistan	Ashgabat	491,211 km2 189,658 ml2	5,942,085	Central Asia
	Tuvalu	Funafuti	26 km2 10 ml2	11,646	Polynesia, Oceania
U
	Uganda	Kampala	241,038 km2 93,065 ml2	45,741,007	Eastern Africa
	Ukraine	Kyiv	603,500 km2 233,013 ml2	41,000,000	Eastern Europe
	United Arab Emirates	Dubai	83,600 km2 32,278 ml2	9,776,000	Arabian Peninsula, Middle East
	United Kingdom	London	243,610 km2 94,058 ml2	67,886,011	Northern Europe
	United States	Washington, D.C.	9,372,610 km2 3,618,783 ml2	331,893,745	North America
	Uruguay	Montevideo	176,215 km2 68,037 ml2	3,484,000	Central East South America
	Uzbekistan	Tashkent	447,400 km2 172,742 ml2	33,800,000	Central Asia
V
	Vanuatu	Port Vila	12,247 km2 4,729 ml2	307,145	Melanesia, Oceania
	Vatican City State (Holy See)	Vatican City	0 km2 0 ml2	801	Southern Europe within Italy
	Venezuela	Caracas	916,445 km2 353,841 ml2	28,435,943	Northern South America
	Vietnam	Hanoi	331,212 km2 127,882 ml2	98,168,829	South-East Asia
	Virgin Islands (British)	Road Town	153 km2 59 ml2	30,231	Lesser Antilles, Caribbean
	Virgin Islands (U.S.)	Charlotte Amalie	9,372,610 km2 3,618,783 ml2	331,893,745	Lesser Antilles, Caribbean
Y
	Yemen	Sana'a	527,968 km2 203,850 ml2	30,250,000	Arabian Peninsula, Middle East
Z
	Zambia	Lusaka	752,612 km2 290,585 ml2	19,075,700	Eastern Africa
	Zimbabwe	Harare	390,757 km2 150,872 ml2	14,961,028	Eastern Africa

The table above lists all the countries in the world in alphabetical order. In addition, it provides key details such as the capital cities, land area, population size, and the continent each country belongs to.

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