Sovereign states
edit- Afghanistan - Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, UN member State
Capital: Kabul - Albania - Republic of Albania, UN member State
Capital: Tirana - Algeria – People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, UN member State
Capital: Algiers - Andorra – Principality of Andorra, UN member State
Capital: Andorra la Vella - Angola - Republic of Angola, UN member State
Capital: Luanda - Antigua and Barbuda - UN member State
Capital: St. John's - Argentina – Argentine Republic, UN member State[1]
Capital: Buenos Aires - Armenia - Republic of Armenia, UN member State[2]
Capital: Yerevan - Australia – Commonwealth of Australia, UN member State
Capital: Canberra - Austria – Republic of Austria, UN member State
Capital: Vienna - Azerbaijan - Republic of Azerbaijan, UN member State
Capital: Baku
B
edit- Bahamas, The – Commonwealth of the Bahamas, UN member State
Capital: Nassau - Bahrain - Kingdom of Bahrain, UN member State
Capital: Manama - Bangladesh – People's Republic of Bangladesh, UN member State
Capital: Dhaka - Barbados - UN member State
Capital: Bridgetown - Belarus - Republic of Belarus, UN member State
Capital: Minsk - Belgium – Kingdom of Belgium, UN member State
Capital: Brussels - Belize - UN member State
Capital: Belmopan - Benin - Republic of Benin, UN member State
Capital: Porto-Novo (official), Cotonou (seat of government) - Bhutan – Kingdom of Bhutan, UN member State
Capital: Thimphu - Bolivia - Plurinational State of Bolivia, UN member State
Capital: Sucre (official), La Paz (administrative) - Bosnia and Herzegovina - UN member State
Capital: Sarajevo - Botswana – Republic of Botswana, UN member State
Capital: Gaborone - Brazil – Federative Republic of Brazil, UN member State
Capital: Brasília - Brunei – State of Brunei, Abode of Peace, UN member State
Capital: Bandar Seri Begawan - Bulgaria - Republic of Bulgaria, UN member State
Capital: Sofia - Burkina Faso - UN member State
Capital: Ouagadougou - Burundi - Republic of Burundi, UN member State
Capital: Bujumbura
C
edit- Cambodia - Kingdom of Cambodia, UN member State
Capital: Phnom Penh - Cameroon – Republic of Cameroon, UN member State
Capital: Yaoundé - Canada – UN member State
Capital: Ottawa - Cape Verde - Republic of Cabo Verde, UN member State
Capital: Praia - Central African Republic - UN member State
Capital: Bangui - Chad – Republic of Chad, UN member State
Capital: N'Djamena - Chile – Republic of Chile, UN member State
Capital: Santiago - China, People's Republic of – UN member State
Capital: Beijing - Colombia – Republic of Colombia, UN member State
Capital: Bogotá - Comoros - Union of the Comoros, UN member State
Capital: Moroni - Congo, Democratic Republic of the - UN member State
Capital: Kinshasa - Congo, Republic of the - UN member State
Capital: Brazzaville - Costa Rica – Republic of Costa Rica, UN member State
Capital: San José - Croatia – Republic of Croatia, UN member State
Capital: Zagreb - Cuba – Republic of Cuba, UN member State
Capital: Havana - Cyprus – Republic of Cyprus, UN member State
Capital: Nicosia - Czech Republic - UN member State
Capital: Prague
D
edit- Denmark – Kingdom of Denmark, UN member State
Capital: Copenhagen - Djibouti – Republic of Djibouti, UN member State
Capital: Djibouti - Dominica – Commonwealth of Dominica, UN member State
Capital: Roseau - Dominican Republic - UN member State
Capital: Santo Domingo
E
edit- Ecuador – Republic of Ecuador, UN member State
Capital: Quito - Egypt – Arab Republic of Egypt, UN member State
Capital: Cairo - El Salvador – Republic of El Salvador, UN member State
Capital: San Salvador - Equatorial Guinea – Republic of Equatorial Guinea, UN member State
Capital: Malabo - Eritrea - State of Eritrea, UN member State
Capital: Asmara - Estonia – Republic of Estonia, UN member State
Capital: Tallinn - Ethiopia - Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, UN member State
Capital: Addis Ababa
F
edit- Fiji - Republic of Fiji, UN member State
Capital: Suva - Finland – Republic of Finland, UN member State
Capital: Helsinki - France – French Republic, UN member State
Capital: Paris
G
edit- Gabon – Gabonese Republic, UN member State
Capital: Libreville - Gambia, The - Republic of The Gambia, UN member State
Capital: Banjul - Georgia - UN member State
Capital: Tbilisi - Germany - Federal Republic of Germany, UN member State
Capital: Berlin - Ghana – Republic of Ghana, UN member State
Capital: Accra - Greece – Hellenic Republic, UN member State
Capital: Athens - Grenada - UN member State
Capital: St. George's - Guatemala – Republic of Guatemala, UN member State
Capital: Guatemala City - Guinea – Republic of Guinea, UN member State
Capital: Conakry - Guinea-Bissau – Republic of Guinea-Bissau, UN member State
Capital: Bissau - Guyana – Co-operative Republic of Guyana, UN member State
H
edit- Haiti – Republic of Haiti, UN member State
Capital: Port-au-Prince - Honduras – Republic of Honduras, UN member State
Capital: Tegucigalpa - Hungary - UN member State
Capital: Budapest
I
edit- Iceland – Republic of Iceland, UN member State
Capital: Reykjavík - India – Republic of India, UN member State
Capital: New Delhi - Indonesia – Republic of Indonesia, UN member State
Capital: Jakarta - Iran – Islamic Republic of Iran, UN member State
Capital: Tehran - Iraq - Republic of Iraq, UN member State
Capital: Baghdad - Ireland – Republic of Ireland, UN member State[3]
Capital: Dublin - Israel – State of Israel, UN member State[4]
Capital: Jerusalem - Italy – Italian Republic, UN member State
Capital: Rome - Ivory Coast – Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, UN member State
Capital: Yamoussoukro (official), Abidjan (seat of government)
J
edit- Jamaica - UN member State
Capital: Kingston - Japan - UN member State
Capital: Tokyo - Jordan – Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, UN member State
Capital: Amman
K
edit- Kazakhstan – Republic of Kazakhstan, UN member State
Capital: Astana - Kenya – Republic of Kenya, UN member State
Capital: Nairobi - Kiribati – Republic of Kiribati, UN member State
Capital: South Tarawa - Korea, North – Democratic People's Republic of Korea, UN member state
Capital: Pyongyang - Korea, South – Republic of Korea, UN member state
Capital: Seoul - Kosovo - Republic of Kosovo (Partially recognized de facto self-governing entity)
Capital: Pristina - Kuwait – State of Kuwait, UN member State
Capital: Kuwait City - Kyrgyzstan - Kyrgyz Republic, UN member State
Capital: Bishkek
L
edit- Laos – Lao People's Democratic Republic, UN member State
Capital: Vientiane - Latvia – Republic of Latvia, UN member State
Capital: Riga - Lebanon – Lebanese Republic, UN member State
Capital: Beirut - Lesotho – Kingdom of Lesotho, UN member State
Capital: Maseru - Liberia – Republic of Liberia, UN member State
Capital: Monrovia - Libya - UN member State
Capital: Tripoli - Liechtenstein – Principality of Liechtenstein, UN member State
Capital: Vaduz - Lithuania – Republic of Lithuania, UN member State
Capital: Vilnius - Luxembourg – Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, UN member State
Capital: Luxembourg
M
edit- Macedonia - Republic of Macedonia, UN member State[5]
Capital: Skopje - Madagascar - Republic of Madagascar, UN member State
Capital: Antananarivo - Malawi – Republic of Malawi, UN member state
Capital: Lilongwe - Malaysia - UN member State
Capital: Kuala Lumpur (official), Putrajaya (administrative) - Maldives – Republic of Maldives, UN member State
Capital: Malé - Mali – Republic of Mali, UN member State
Capital: Bamako - Malta – Republic of Malta, UN member State
Capital: Valletta - Marshall Islands – Republic of the Marshall Islands (A state under Compact of Free Association with the United States), UN member State
Capital: Majuro - → Mauritania – Islamic Republic of Mauritania, UN member State
Capital: Nouakchott - Mauritius - Republic of Mauritius, UN member State
Capital: Port Louis - Mexico – United Mexican States, UN member State
Capital: Mexico City - Micronesia - Federated States of Micronesia, (A state under Compact of Free Association with the United States), UN member State
Capital: Palikir - Moldova – Republic of Moldova, UN member state
Capital: Chişinău - Monaco – Principality of Monaco, UN member State
Capital: Monaco - Mongolia - UN member State
Capital: Ulaanbaatar - Montenegro - UN member State
Capital: Podgorica - Morocco – Kingdom of Morocco, UN member State
Capital: Rabat - Mozambique - Republic of Mozambique, UN member State
Capital: Maputo - Myanmar - Republic of the Union of Myanmar, UN member State[6]
Capital: Naypyidaw
N
edit- Nagorno-Karabakh - Republic of Artsakh (De facto independent state)
Capital: Stepanakert - Namibia – Republic of Namibia, UN member State
Capital: Windhoek - Nauru – Republic of Nauru, UN member State
Capital: Yaren (unofficial, seat of parliament) - Nepal - Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, UN member State
Capital: Kathmandu - Netherlands – Kingdom of the Netherlands, UN member State
Capital: Amsterdam (official), The Hague (seat of government) - New Zealand - UN member State
Capital: Wellington - Nicaragua – Republic of Nicaragua, UN member State
Capital: Managua - Niger – Republic of Niger, UN member State
Capital: Niamey - Nigeria – Federal Republic of Nigeria, UN member State
Capital: Abuja - Northern Cyprus – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (partially recognized de facto independent state)
Capital: Lefkoşa - Norway – Kingdom of Norway, UN member State
Capital: Oslo
O
edit- Oman – Sultanate of Oman, UN member State
Capital: Muscat, Oman
P
edit- Pakistan – Islamic Republic of Pakistan, UN member state
Capital: Islamabad - Palau - Republic of Palau (A state under Compact of Free Association with the United States), UN member State
Capital: Ngerulmud - Palestine - State of Palestine, Permanent observer at the UN
Capital: Ramallah (administrative), Gaza City (administrative), Jerusalem (claims) - Panama – Republic of Panama, UN member State
Capital: Panama City - Papua New Guinea – Independent State of Papua New Guinea, UN member State
Capital: Port Moresby - Paraguay – Republic of Paraguay, UN member State
Capital: Asunción - Peru – Republic of Peru, UN member State
Capital: Lima - Philippines – Republic of the Philippines, UN member State
Capital: Manila - Poland – Republic of Poland, UN member State
Capital: Warsaw - Portugal – Portuguese Republic, UN member state
Capital: Lisbon
Q
editR
edit- Romania - UN member State
Capital: Bucharest - Russia - Russian Federation, UN member State
Capital: Moscow - Rwanda - Republic of Rwanda, UN member State
Capital: Kigali
S
edit- Sahara, Western - Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Partially recognized de facto independent state)
Capital: Tifariti (temporary), El Aaiún (claimed) - Saint Kitts and Nevis – Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, UN member State
Capital: Basseterre - Saint Lucia - UN member State
Capital: Castries - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - UN member State
Capital: Kingstown - Samoa - Independent State of Samoa, UN member State
Capital: Apia - San Marino – Republic of San Marino, UN member State
Capital: San Marino - São Tomé and Príncipe – Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, UN member State
Capital: São Tomé - Saudi Arabia – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, UN member State
Capital: Riyadh - Senegal – Republic of Senegal, UN member State
Capital: Dakar - Serbia - Republic of Serbia, UN member State
Capital: Belgrade - Seychelles – Republic of Seychelles, UN member State
Capital: Victoria - Sierra Leone – Republic of Sierra Leone, UN member State
Capital: Freetown - Singapore – Republic of Singapore, UN member State
Capital: Singapore - Slovakia - Slovak Republic, UN member State
Capital: Bratislava - Slovenia – Republic of Slovenia, UN member State
Capital: Ljubljana - Solomon Islands - UN member State
Capital: Honiara - Somalia - Federal Republic of Somalia, UN member State
Capital: Mogadishu - Somaliland – Republic of Somaliland (De facto independent state)
Capital: Hargeisa - South Africa – Republic of South Africa, UN member State
Capital: Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial) - South Ossetia - Republic of South Ossetia
Capital: Tskhinvali - South Sudan - Republic of South Sudan, UN member State
Capital: Juba - Spain – Kingdom of Spain, UN member State
Capital: Madrid - Sri Lanka – Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, UN member State
Capital: Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte (administrative), Colombo (commercial) - Sudan – Republic of the Sudan, UN member State
Capital: Khartoum - Suriname – Republic of Suriname, UN member State
Capital: Paramaribo - Swaziland – Kingdom of Swaziland, UN member State
Capital: Mbabane (administrative), Lobamba (royal and legislative) - Sweden – Kingdom of Sweden, UN member State
Capital: Stockholm - Switzerland – Swiss Confederation, UN member State
Capital: Bern - Syria – Syrian Arab Republic, UN member State
Capital: Damascus
T
edit- Taiwan - Republic of China (partially recognized de facto independent state)
Capital: Taipei (seat of government) - Tajikistan – Republic of Tajikistan, UN member State
Capital: Dushanbe - Tanzania – United Republic of Tanzania, UN member State
Capital: Dodoma (official), Dar es Salaam (seat of government) - Thailand – Kingdom of Thailand, UN member State
Capital: Bangkok - Timor-Leste - Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, UN member Statee[7]
Capital: Dili - Togo – Togolese Republic, UN member State
Capital: Lomé - Tonga – Kingdom of Tonga, UN member State
Capital: Nukuʻalofa - Transnistria - Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic (De facto independent state)
Capital: Tiraspol - Trinidad and Tobago – Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, UN member State
Capital: Port of Spain - Tunisia – Tunisian Republic, UN member State
Capital: Tunis - Turkey – Republic of Turkey, UN member State
Capital: Ankara - Turkmenistan - UN member State
Capital: Ashgabat - Tuvalu - UN member State
Capital: Funafuti
U
edit- Uganda – Republic of Uganda, UN member State
Capital: Kampala - Ukraine - UN member State
Capital: Kiev - United Arab Emirates - UN member State
Capital: Abu Dhabi - United Kingdom – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, UN member State
Capital: London - United States – United States of America, UN member State
Capital: Washington, D.C. - Uruguay – Oriental Republic of Uruguay, UN member State
Capital: Montevideo - Uzbekistan – Republic of Uzbekistan, UN member State
Capital: Tashkent
V
edit- Vanuatu – Republic of Vanuatu, UN member State
Capital: Port Vila - Vatican City – Vatican City State, Permanent observer at UN
Capital: Vatican City - Venezuela - Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, UN member State
Capital: Caracas - Vietnam – Socialist Republic of Vietnam, UN member State
Capital: Hanoi
Y
editZ
editNon-sovereign and freely associated territories
editAustralia
edit- Ashmore and Cartier Islands - The Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands (Uninhabited external territory)
- Australian Antarctic Territory - Uninhabited external territory
Capital: Davis Station - Christmas Island - The Territory of Christmas Island (External territory)
Capital: Flying Fish Cove - Cocos (Keeling) Islands - The Territory of the Cocos Islands(External territory)
Capital: West Island - Coral Sea Islands - The Coral Sea Islands Territory (Uninhabited external territory)
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands – Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (Uninhabited external territory)
- Norfolk Island – Territory of Norfolk Island (External territory)
Capital: Kingston
China
edit- Hong Kong - Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
- Macau - Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
Denmark
edit- Faroe Islands - Constituent country
Capital: Tórshavn - Greenland - Constituent country
Capital: Nuuk
Finland
edit- Åland (Neutral and demilitarised region)
France
edit- Clipperton Island (Overseas territory)
- French Guiana (Overseas department)
- French Polynesia (Overseas collectivity)
- French Southern and Antarctic Lands - The Territory of French Southern and Antarctic Lands (Overseas territory)
- Guadeloupe (Overseas department)
- Martinique (Overseas department)
- Mayotte (Overseas department)
- New Caledonia
- Reunion (Overseas department)
- Saint-Barthélemy - Territorial collectivity of Saint-Barthélemy (Overseas territory)
- Collectivity of Saint Martin (Overseas territory)
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon (Overseas territory)
- Wallis and Futuna (Overseas Collectivity)
Netherlands
edit- Aruba (Autonomous country)
- Curaçao (Autonomous country)
- Sint Maarten (Autonomous country)
- Caribbean Netherlands (Territory of islands without autonomy)
New Zealand
edit- Cook Islands (A territory in free association with New Zealand)
- Niue (A territory in free association with New Zealand)
- Ross Dependency (Suspended under the Antarctic Treaty)
- Tokelau
Norway
edit- Svalbard
- Jan Mayen
- Bouvet Island
- Peter I Island (Suspended under the Antarctic Treaty)
- Queen Maud Land (Suspended under the Antarctic Treaty)
United Kingdom
edit- Akrotiri and Dhekelia - Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (Overseas territory)
- Anguilla (Overseas territory)
- Bermuda (Overseas territory)
- British Antarctic Territory (Overseas territory suspended under the Antarctic Treaty)
- British Indian Ocean Territory (Overseas territory disputed by Mauritius and the Seychelles)
- British Virgin Islands (Overseas territory)
- Cayman Islands (Overseas territory)
- Falkland Islands (Overseas territory disputed by Argentina)
- Gibraltar (Overseas territory)
- Montserrat (Overseas territory)
- Pitcairn Islands (Overseas territory)
- Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (Overseas territory)
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (Overseas territory disputed by Argentina)
- Turks and Caicos Islands (Overseas territory)
- Guernsey - The Bailiwick of Guernsey (Crown depedency), with three dependencies:
- Isle of Man (Crown depedency)
- Jersey - The Bailiwick of Jersey (Crown depedency)
United States
edit- American Samoa (Insular area including Swains Island, disputed by Tokelau)
- Guam (Insular area)
- Northern Mariana Islands - Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (Insular area)
- Puerto Rico - Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Insular area)
- United States Virgin Islands - Virgin Islands of the United States (Insular area)
- United States Minor Outlying Islands (Group of insular areas)
- Baker Island (Uninhabited unincorporated territory)
- Howland Island (Uninhabited unincorporated territory)
- Jarvis Island (Uninhabited unincorporated territory)
- Johnston Atoll (Uninhabited unincorporated territory)
- Kingman Reef (Uninhabited unincorporated territory)
- Midway Atoll (Uninhabited unincorporated territory)
- Navassa Island (Uninhabited unincorporated territory claimed by Haiti)
- Palmyra Atoll (Uninhabited incorporated unorganized territory once owned by Hawaii)
- Wake Island (Uninhabited unincorporated territory claimed by the Marshall Islands)
Other entities
edit- Antarctica as a whole had no government and no permanent population. Seven states claimed portions of Antarctica and five of these had reciprocally recognised one another's claims.[8] These claims, which were regulated by the Antarctic Treaty System, were neither recognised nor disputed by any other signatory state.[9]
- The European Union was a sui generis supranational organisation which had 12 (later 15) member states. The member states had transferred a measure of their legislative, executive, and judicial powers to the institutions of the EU, and as such the EU had some elements of sovereignty, without generally being considered a sovereign state. The European Union did not claim to be a sovereign state and had only limited capacity for relations with other states.
- The Sovereign Military Order of Malta was an entity claiming sovereignty and a United Nations observer. The order had bi-lateral diplomatic relations with a large number of states, but had no territory other than extraterritorial areas within Rome.[10] The order's Constitution stated: "The Order is a subject of international law and exercises sovereign functions." [11] Although the order frequently asserted its sovereignty, it did not claim to be a sovereign state. It lacked a defined territory. Since all its members were citizens of other states, almost all of them lived in their native countries, and those who resided in the order's extraterritorial properties in Rome did so only in connection with their official duties, the order lacked the characteristic of having a permanent population.
References
edit- ^ The name "Argentine Nation" is also used for the purposes of legislation.
- ^ Armenia is not recognized by Pakistan.
- ^ Ireland also had the legal description of "Republic of Ireland", although this is not its constitutional name.
- ^ Israel is not recognized by Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Chad, Cuba, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, or Yemen.
- ^ Provisionally referred to by the UN and a number of countries and international organizations as "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", see Macedonia naming dispute.
- ^ Commonly known in English as "Burma".
- ^ Commonly known in English as "East Timor".
- ^ Rogan-Finnemore, Michelle (2005), "What Bioprospecting Means for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean", in Von Tigerstrom, Barbara (ed.), International Law Issues in the South Pacific, Ashgate Publishing, p. 204, ISBN 0-7546-4419-7 "Australia, New Zealand, France, Norway and the United Kingdom reciprocally recognize the validity of each other's claims."
- ^ CIA – the World Factbook – Antarctica – accessed 19 January 2008
- ^ Bilateral relations with countries Archived 2015-12-03 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 2011-12-22
- ^ Chapter General of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta (1998-01-12). Constitutional Charter and Code of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta, promulgated 27 June 1961, revised by the Extraordinary Chapter General 28–30 April 1997, Article 3 "Sovereignty," Paragraph 1 (PDF). Rome: Tipografia Arte della Stampa. p. 11.
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