How Many Countries Are There In The World?

Ever wondered how many countries are there in the world? Well, so did we, so we went out and researched just how many countries there are, because as travelers it’s important to know this kind of information and be aware of what’s going on in the world and the changes happening. For example, what about territories? What about members of the United Nations, and so on. Where can Tourists go easily? Where is it not recommended for tourist to travel?

There’s so much information out there that we wanted to create an easy to read spot for anyone equally as curious as us.

This post is all about how many Countries are there in the world!

Disclaimer: All this info was gathered by the sources mentioned; we are not professionals or claim anything with this data nor do we claim the credit for the data. We just gathered it for informational purposes for curious minds like ourselves.

If there are any mistakes, sorry; we are just two tourists, not professors.

Member States of the United Nations

There are 193 member states of the UN which are all countries except the Holy See and the State of Palestine.

Non-member observer states

There are two non member states which are…

• The State of Palestine
• The Holy See

Alphabetical list of all the countries in the world (A-Z)

This list contains information on all 195 countries in the world that are all also classified as Independent countries in the world including United Nation state status (whether countries are members or non members of the UN).

• All states in this list are considered an independent country
• Population is approximate as of the year: 2023.
• Currency listed is typically the most used forms of currency within a country.
• Languages are listed as the most spoken languages within a country.
• United Nations list: member country status is as of 2023.

• Information used- credible sources:
  • Census.gov used for population statistics and country names
  • UNECE.org used for currency codes
  • UN.org used to determine United Nations Member Status
  • CIA.gov and State.gov used for finding Country Capitals
  • CIA.gov used for determining major languages spoken
  • NATO.int is used for determining NATO members

• The only two countries in this list that are non-member observer states are:
  • The Holy See otherwise more well known as Vatican City and Palestine.

List of countries in the world

Country	Population	Currency	Language(s)	Capital	Member of UN	NATO member status
Afghanistan	39.2 million	Afghania (AFN)	Pashto, Dari	Kabul	Yes	No
Albania	3.1 million	Lek (L)	Albanian	Tirana	Yes	Yes
Algeria	44.7 million	Algerian Dinar (DZD)	Arabic, Tamazight	Algiers	Yes	No
Andorra	85,000	Euro (EUR)	Catalan, Spanish, French	Andorra la Vella	Yes	No
Angola	35.9 million	Angolan Kwanza (AOA)	Portuguese	Luanda	Yes	No
Antigua and Barbuda	101,000	East Caribbean Dollar (XCD)	English	St. John’s	Yes	No
Argentina	46.6 million	Argentine Peso (ARS)	Spanish, Italian	Buenos Aires	Yes	No
Armenia	2.9 million	Armenian Dramas (AMD)	Armenian	Yerevan	Yes	No
Australia	26.4 million	Australian Dollar (AUD)	English	Canberra	Yes	No
Austria	8.9 million	Euro (EUR)	German	Vienna	Yes	No
Azerbaijan	10.4 million	Azerbaijani Manat (AZN)	Azerbaijani	Baku	Yes	No
The Bahamas	358,000	Bahamian Dollar (BHD)	English, Bahamian Creole, Haitian Creole,	Nassau	Yes	No
Bahrain	1.5 million	Bahraini Dinar (BHD)	Arabic, English	Manama	Yes	No
Bangladesh	167.1 million	Bangladeshi Taka (BDT)	Bengali	Dhaka	Yes	No
Barbados	303,000	Barbados Dollar (BBD)	English	Bridgetown	Yes	No
Belarus	9.3 million	Belarusian Ruble (BYN)	Belarusian, Russian	Minsk	Yes	No
Belgium	11.9 million	Euro (EUR)	Dutch, French, German	Brussels	Yes	Yes
Belize	419,000	Belize dollar (BZD)	English	Belmopan	Yes	No
Benin	14.2 million	CFA Franc BCEAO (XOF)	French	Porto-Novo	Yes	No
Bhutan	876,000	Bhutanese Ngultrum (BTN)	Dzongkha	Thimphu	Yes	No
Bolivia	12.1 million	Boliviano	Many	La Paz, Sucre	Yes	No
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3.8 million	Bosnia and Herzegovina Convertible Mark	Bosnian, Coratian, Serbian	Sarajevo	Yes	No
Botswana	2.4 million	Botswana pula (BWP)	English	Gaborone	Yes	No
Brazil	218.6 million	Brazilian real (BRL)	Portuguese	Brasilia	Yes	No
Brunei	484,000	Brunei dollar (BND)	Malay, English	Bandar Seri Begawan	Yes	No
Bulgaria	6.8 million	Bulgarian Lev (BGN)	Bulgarian	Sofia	Yes	Yes
Burkina Faso	22.4 million	CFA Franc BCEAO (XOF)	French	Ouagadougou	Yes	No
Burundi	13.1 million	Burundi franc (BIF)	French, Kirundi, English	Gitega	Yes	No
Cambodia	16.8 million	Cambodian riel (KHR)	Khmer	Phnom Penh	Yes	No
Cameroon	30.1 million	CFA franc BEAC (XAF)	English, French	Yaounde	Yes	No
Canada	38.5 million	Canadian dollar (CAD)	English, French	Ottawa	Yes	Yes
Cape Verde	597,000	Cape Cerdean Escudo (CVE)	Portuguese	Praia	Yes	No
Central African Republic	5.5 million	CFA franc BEAC (XAF)	French, Sango	Bangui	Yes	No
Chad	18.5 million	CFA franc BEAC (XAF)	Arabic, French	N’ Djamena	Yes	No
Chile	18.5 million	Chilean Peso (CLP)	Chilean, Spanish	Santiago, Valparaiso	Yes	No
China	1.4 billion	Renminbi (CNY)	Chinese	Beijing	Yes	No
Colombia	49.3 million	Colombian peso (COP)	Spanish	Bogotá	Yes	No
Comoros	888,000	Comoro franc (KMF)	Arabic, Comorian, French	Mornoi	Yes	No
Democratic Republic of the Congo	111.8 million	Congolese franc (CDF)	French	Kinshasa	Yes	No
Republic of the Congo	5.6 million	CFA franc BEAC (XAF)	French	Brazzaville	Yes	No
Costa Rica	5.2 million	Costa Rican colon (CRC)	Spanish	San José	Yes	No
Croatia	4.1 million	Euro (EUR)	Croatian	Zagreb	Yes	Yes
Cuba	10.9 million	Cuban peso (CUP)	Spanish	Havana	Yes	No
Cyprus	1.3 million	Euro (EUR)	Greek, Turkish	Nicosia	Yes	No
Czech Republic	10.7 million	Czech koruna (CZK)	Czech, Slovak	Prague, Brno	Yes	Yes
Denmark	5.9 million	Danish krone (DKK)	Danish	Copenhagen	Yes	Yes
Dijbouti	976,000	Djibouti france (DJF)	Arabic, French	Djibouti	Yes	No
Dominica	74,000	East Caribbean dollar (XCD)	English	Roseau	Yes	No
Dominican Republic	10.7 million	Dominican peso (DOP)	Spanish	Santo Domingo	Yes	No
East Timor	1.4 million	United States dollar (USD)	Portuguese, Tetum	Dili	Yes	No
Ecuador	17.4 million	United States dollar (USD)	Spanish, Quechua	Quito	Yes	No
Egypt	109.5 million	Egyptian pound (EGP)	Arabic	Cairo	Yes	No
El Salvador	6.6 million	United States dollar (USD)	Spanish	San Salvador	Yes	No
Equatorial Guinea	1.7 million	CFA franc BEAC (XAF)	French, Portuguese, Spanish	Malabo	Yes	No
Eritrea	6.2 million	Eritrean nafka (ERN)	Tigrinya	Asmara	Yes	No
Estonia	1.2 million	Euro (EUR)	Estonian	Tallinn	Yes	Yes
Eswatini	1.1 million	South African rand (ZAR)	English, Swazi	Lobamba, Mbabane	Yes	No
Ethiopia	116.4 million	Ethiopian birr (ETB)	Afar, Somali, Tigrinya, Oromo, Amharic	Addis Ababa	Yes	No
Fiji	947,000	Fiji dollar (FJD)	English, Fijian, Fiji Hindi	Suva	Yes	No
Finland	5.6 million	Euro (EUR)	Finnish, Swedish	Helsinki	Yes	Yes
France	68.5 million	Euro (EUR)	French	Paris	Yes	Yes
Gabon	2.3 million	CFA franc BEAC (XAF)	French	Libreville	Yes	No
Gambia	2.4 million	Gambian dalasi (GMD)	English	Banjul	Yes	No
Georgia	4.9 million	Georgian lari (GEL)	Georgian	Tbilisi	Yes	No
Germany	84.2 million	Euro (EUR)	German	Berlin	Yes	Yes
Ghana	33.8 million	Ghanaian cedi (GHS)	English	Accra	Yes	No
Greece	10.4 million	Euro (EUR)	Greek	Athens	Yes	Yes
Grenada	114,000	East Caribbean dollar (XCD)	English	St. George’s	Yes	No
Guatemala	17.9 million	Guatemalan quetzal (GTQ)	Spanish	Guatemala City	Yes	No
Guinea	13.6 million	Guinean franc (GNF)	French	Conakry	Yes	No
Guinea- Bissau	2 million	CFA franc BCEAO (XOF)	Portuguese	Bissau	Yes	No
Guyana	791,000	Guyanese dollar (GYD)	English	Georgetown	Yes	No
Haiti	11.4 million	Haitian gourde (HTG)	French, Haitian Creole	Port-au-Prince	Yes	No
Honduras	9.5 million	Honduran lempira (HNL)	Spanish	Tegucigalpa, Comayagüela	Yes	No
Hungary	9.6 million	Hungarian forint (HUF)	Hungarian	Budapest	Yes	Yes
Iceland	360,000	Icelandic krona (ISK)	Icelandic	Reykjavík	Yes	Yes
India	1.3 billion	Indian rupee (INR)	Hindi, English	New Delhi	Yes	No
Indonesia	279.4 million	Indonesian rupiah (IDR)	Indonesian	Jakart	Yes	No
Iran	87.5 million	Iranian rial (IRR)	Persian	Tehran	Yes	No
Iraq	41.2 million	Iraqi dinar (IQD)	Arabic, Kurdish	Baghdad	Yes	No
Ireland	5.3 million	Euro (EUR)	Irish, English	Dublin	Yes	No
Israel	9 million	Israeli new shekel (ILS)	Hebrew	Jerusalem	Yes	No
Italy	61 million	Euro (EUR)	Italian	Rome	Yes	Yes
Ivory Coast	29.3 million	West African CFA franc (XOF)	French	Yamoussoukro	Yes	No
Jamaica	2.8 million	Jamaican dollar (JMD)	English	Kingston	Yes	No
Japan	123.7 million	Japanese yen (JPY)	Japanese	Tokyo	Yes	No
Jordan	11 million	Jordanian dinar (JOD)	Arabic	Amman	Yes	No
Kazakhastan	19.5 million	Kazakhastani tenge (KZT)	Kazakh, Russian	Astana	Yes	No
Kenya	57 million	Kenyan shilling (KES)	English, Swahili	Nairobi	Yes	No
Kiribati	115,000	KBD), Australian dollar (AUD)	English	South Tarawa	Yes	No
North Korea	26 million	North Korean won (KPW)	Korean	Pyongyang	Yes	No
South Korea	51.9 million	South Korean won (KRW)	Korean	Seoul	Yes	No
Kuwait	3.1 million	Kuwaiti dinar (KWD)	Arabic	Kuwait City	Yes	No
Kyrgyzstan	6.1 million	Kyrgyzstani som (KGS)	Kyrgyz, Russian	Bishkek	Yes	No
Laos	7.8 million	Lao kip (LAK)	Lao	Vientiane	Yes	No
Latvia	1.8 million	Euro (EUR)	Latvian	Riga	Yes	Yes
Lebanon	5.3 million	Lebanese pound (LBP)	Arabic	Beirut	Yes	No
Lesotho	2.2 million	Lesotho loti (LSL)	Sotho, English	Maseru	Yes	No
Liberia	5.5 million	Liberian dollar (LRD)	English	Monrovia	Yes	No
Libya	7.2 million	Libyan dinar (LYD)	Arabic	Tripoli	Yes	No
Liechtenstein	39,000	Swiss franc (CHF)	German	Vaduz	Yes	No
Lithuania	2.6 million	Euro (EUR)	Lithuanian	Vilnius	Yes	Yes
Luxembourg	660,000	Euro (EUR)	French, German, Luxembourgish	Luxembourg	Yes	Yes
Madagascar	28.8 million	Malagasy ariary (MGA)	French, Malagasy	Antananarivo	Yes	No
Malawi	21.2 million	Malawian kwacha (MWK)	English, Chichewa	Lilongwe	Yes	No
Malaysia	34.2 million	Malaysian ringgit (MYR)	Malay	Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya	Yes	No
Maldives	389,000	Maldivian rufiyaa (MVR)	Dhivehi	Malé	Yes	No
Mali	21.3 million	CFA franc (BCEAO (XOF)	French	Bamako	Yes	No
Malta	467,000	Euro (EUR)	Maltese, English	Valletta	Yes	No
Marshall Islands	80,000	United States dollar (USD)	English	Majuro	Yes	No
Mauritania	4.2 million	Mauritanian ouguiya (MRU)	Arabic	Nouakchott	Yes	No
Mauritius	1.3 million	Mauritian rupee (MUR)	English, Mauritian Creole	Port Louis	Yes	No
Mexico	129.8 million	Mexican peso (MXN)	Spanish	Mexico City	Yes	No
Federated States of Micronesia	100,000	United States dollar (USD)	English	Palikir	Yes	No
Moldova	(3.2 million	Moldovan leu (MDL)	Romanian	Chisinau	Yes	No
Monaco	31,000	Euro (EUR)	French	Monaco	Yes	No
Mongolia	3.2 million	Mongolian togrog (MNT)	Mongolian	Ulaanbaatar	Yes	No
Montenegro	602,000	Euro (EUR)	Montenegrin	Cetinje, Podgorica	Yes	Yes
Morocco	37 million	Moroccan dirham (MAD)	Amazigh, Arabic	Rabat	Yes	No
Mozambique	32.5 million	Mozambican metical (MZN)	Portuguese	Maputo	Yes	No
Myanmar	55.4 million	Myanmar kyat (MMK)	Burmese	Naypyidaw	Yes	No
Namibia	2.7 million	Namibian dollar (NAD)	English	Windhoek	Yes	No
Nauru	9,000	Australian dollar (AUD)	English, Nauruan	Yaren	Yes	No
Nepal	30.8 million	Nepalese rupee (NPR)	Nepali	Kathmandu	Yes	No
Netherlands	17.4 million	Euro (EUR)	Dutch	Amsterdam	Yes	Yes
New Zealand	5.1 million	New Zealand dollar (NZD)	English, Maori	Wellington	Yes	No
Nicaragua	6.3 million	Nicaraguan cordoba (NIO)	Spanish	Managua	Yes	No
Niger	25.3 million	CFA franc BCEAO (XOF)	French	Niamey	Yes	No
Nigeria	230.8 million	Nigerian naira (NGN)	English	Abuja	Yes	No
North Macedonia	2.1 million	Macedonian denar (MKD)	Macedonian, Albanian	Skopje	Yes	Yes
Norway	5.5 million	Norwegian krone (NOK)	Norwegian, Sami	Oslo	Yes	Yes
Oman	3.8 million	Omani rial (OMR)	Arabic	Muscat	Yes	No
Pakistan	247.6 million	Pakistani rupee (PKR)	Urdu, English	Islamabad	Yes	No
Palau	21,000	United States dollar (USD)	English, Palauan	Ngerulmud	Yes	No
Palestine	5.4 million	Israeli new shekels (ILS), United States dollar (USD), Jordanian dinars (JOD)	Arabic	Jerusalem, Ramallah	No	No
Panama	4.4 million	United States dollar (USD)	Spanish	Panama City	Yes	No
Papua New Guinea	9.8 million	Papua New Guineana kina (PGK)	English, Hiri, Motu, Tok, Pisin	Port Moresby	Yes	No
Paraguay	7.4 million	Paraguayan guarani (PYG)	Spanish, Guarani	Asunción	Yes	No
Peru	32.4 million	Peruvian sol (PEN)	Peruvian Spanish, Quechua, Aymara, Ashaninka	Lima	Yes	No
Philippines	116.4 million	Philippine peso (PHP)	Filipino, English	Manila	Yes	No
Poland	37.9 million	Polish Zloty (PLN)	Polish	Warsaw	Yes	Yes
Portugal	10.2 million	Euro (EUR)	Portuguese	Lisbon	Yes	Yes
Quatar	2.5 million	Quatari riyal (QAR)	Arabic	Doha	Yes	No
Romania	18.3 million	Romanian leu (RON)	Romanian	Bucharest	Yes	Yes
Russia	141.6 million	Russian ruble (RUB)	Russian	Moscow	Yes	No
Rwanda	13.4 million	Rwandan franc (RWF)	English, French, Kinyarwanda, Swahili	Kigali	Yes	No
Saint Kitts and Nevis	54,000	East Caribbean dollar (XCD)	English	Basseterre	Yes	No
Saint Lucia	167,000	East Caribbean dollar (XCD)	English	Castries	Yes	No
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	100,000	East Caribbean dollar (XCD)	English	Kingstown	Yes	No
Samoa	207,000	Samoan tala (WST)	English	Apia	Yes	No
San Marino	34,000	Euro (EUR)	Italian	San Marino	Yes	No
Sao Tome and Principe	220,000	Sao Tome and Principe dobra (STN)	Portuguese	Sao Tome	Yes	No
Saudi Arabia	35.9 million	Saudi riyal (SAR)	Arabic	Riyadh	Yes	No
Senegal	18.3 million	CFA franc BCEAO (XOF)	French	Dakar	Yes	No
Serbia	6.6 million	Serbian dinar (RSD)	Serbian	Belgrade	Yes	No
Seychelles	97,000	Seychelles rupee (SCR)	English, French, Seychellois Creole	Victoria	Yes	No
Sierra Leone	8.9 million	Sierra Leonean leone (SLL)	English	Freetown	Yes	No
Singapore	5.9 million	Singapore dollar (SGD)	English, Malay, Mandarin, Tamil	Singapore	Yes	No
Solvakia	5.4 million	Euro (EUR)	Solvak	Bratislava	Yes	Yes
Slovenia	2 million	Euro (EUR)	Slovene	Ljubljana	Yes	Yes
Solomon Islands	714,000	Solomon Islands dollar (SBD)	English	Honiara	Yes	No
Somalia	12.6 million	Somali shilling (SOS)	Somali, Arabic	Mogadishu	Yes	No
South Africa	58 million	South African rand (ZAR)	many lanuages	Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Pretoria	Yes	No
South Sudan	12.1 million	South Sudanese pound (SSP)	English	Juba	Yes	No
Spain	47.2 million	Euro (EUR)	Spanish	Madrid	Yes	Yes
Sri Lanka	23.3 million	Sri Lankan rupee (LKR)	Sinhala, Tamil	Colombo, Sri Jayawardenepura	Yes	No
Sudan	49.1 million	Sudanese pound (SDG)	Arabic, English	Khartoum	Yes	No
Suriname	639,000	Surinamese dollar (SRD)	Dutch	Paramaribo	Yes	No
Sweden	10.5 million	Swedish krona (SEK)	Swedish	Stockholm	Yes	No
Switzerland	8.5 million	Swiss franc (CHF)	French, German	Bern	Yes	No
Syria	22.9 million	Syrian pound (SYP)	Arabic	Damascus	Yes	No
Tajikistan	9.2 million	Tajikistani somoni (TJS)	Tajik	Dushanbe	Yes	No
Tanzania	65.6 million	Tanzanian shilling (TZS)	Swahili, English	Dar es Salaam, Dodoma	Yes	No
Thailand	69.7 million	Thai baht (THB)	Thai	Bangkok	Yes	No
Togo	8.7 million	CFA franc BCEAO (XOF)	French	Lomé	Yes	No
Tonga	105,000	Tongan pa’anga (TOP)	English, Tongan	Nuku’alofa	Yes	No
Trinidad and Tobago	1.4 million	Trinidad and Tobago dollar (TTD)	English	Port of Spain	Yes	No
Tunisia	11.9 million	Tunisian dinar (TND)	Arabic	Tunis	Yes	No
Turkey	83.5 million	Turkish lira (TRY)	Turkish	Ankara	Yes	Yes
Turkmenistan	5.6 million	Turkmenistan manat (TMT)	Turkmen	Ashgabat	Yes	No
Tuvalu	11,000	Australian dollar (AUD)	Tuvaluan, English	Funafuti	Yes	No
Uganda	47.7 million	Ugandan shilling (UGX)	English, Swahili	Kampala	Yes	No
Ukraine	43.3 million	Ukrainian hryvnia (UAH)	Ukrainian	Kyiv	Yes	No
United Arab Emirates	9.9 million	United Arab Emirates dirham (AED)	Arabic	Abu Dhabi	Yes	No
United Kingdom	68.1 million	Pound Sterling (GBP)	English	London	Yes	Yes
United States	339.6 million	United States dollar (USD)	English	Washington, D.C.	Yes	Yes
Uruguay	3.4 million	Uruguayan peso (UYU)	Spanish	Montevideo	Yes	No
Uzbekistan	31.3 million	Uzbekistan sum (UZS)	Uzbek	Tashkent	Yes	No
Vanuatu	313,000	Vanuatu vatu (VUV)	English, French, Bislama	Port Vila	Yes	No
Vatican City	>1000	Euro (EUR)	Italian	Vatican City	No	No
Venezuela	30.5 million	Venezuelan bolivar (VED)	Spanish	Caracas	Yes	No
Vietnam	104.7 million	Vietnamese dong (VND)	Vietnamese	Hanoi	Yes	No
Yemen	31.5 million	Yemeni rial (YER)	Arabic	Sana’a	Yes	No
Zambia	20.2 million	Zambian kwacha (ZMW)	English	Lusaka	Yes	No
Zimbabwe	15.4 million	Zimbabwean dollar (ZWL)	many languages	Harare	Yes	No

This is a list of all the countries in the world that provides approximate population as of 2023, form of currency, languages spoken within the country, the capital of the country and whether or not said country is a member of the United Nations. This is a list of countries, a list of United Nations members and so much more all in one.

List of Inhabited Dependent Territories (A-Z)

• Population is approximate as of the year: 2023.
• Information used- credible sources:
  • Census.gov used for population statistics
  • State.gov used for Inhabited Dependent Territory names and Sovereign State names
  • CIA.gov used for continent/location information
• Sovereign states are essentially has the power, authority and responsibility to regulate its own government and political affairs without foreign interference.
• Dependent States are states that do not or can not exercise full authority, independence or power over its own government and political affairs and thus needs a stronger well versed country to depend on.

Country	Population	Continent	Sovereign State
Akrotiri and Dhekelia	>20,000	Asia, Middle East	United Kingdom
Aland	31,000	Europe	Finland
American Samoa	44,000	Oceania	United States
Anguilla	19,000	Central America/Caribbean	United Kingdom
Aruba	123,000	Central America/Caribbean	Netherlands
Bermuda	72,000	North America	United Kingdom
British Virgin Islands	31,000	Central America/Caribbean	United Kingdom
Cayman Islands	65,000	Central America/Caribbean	United Kingdom
Christmas Islands	>2000	Southeast Asia	Australia
Cocos	>600	Southeast Asia	Australia
Cook Islands	7,000	Oceania	New Zealand
Curacao	152,000	Central America/Caribbean	Netherlands
Falkland Islands	>4000	South America	United Kingdom
Faroe Isands	52,000	Europe	Denmark
French Polynesia	301,000	Oceania	France
Gibraltar	29,000	Europe	United Kingdom
Greenland	57,000	Arctic	Denmark
Guam	169,000	Oceania	United States
Guernsey	67,000	Europe	United Kingdom
Hong Kong	7.2 million	Asia	China
Isle of Man	91,000	Europe	United Kingdom
Jersey	102,000	Europe	United Kingdom
Macao	630,000	Asia	China
Montserrat	5,000	Central America/Caribbean	United Kingdom
New Caledonia	300,000	Oceania	France
Niue	>2000	Oceania	New Zealands
Norfolk Islands	>2000	Oceania	Australia
Northern Mariana Islands	51,000	Oceania	United States
Pitcairn Islands	>100	Oceania	United Kingdom
Puerto Rico	3 million	Central America/Caribbean	United States
Saint Barthelemy	7,000	Central America/Caribbean	France
Saint Helena	7,000	Africa	United Kingdom
Saint Martin	32,000	Central America/Caribbean	France
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	5,000	North America	Frahce
Sint Maarten	45,000	Central America/Caribbean	Netherlands
Svalbard	>3000	Arctic	Norway
Tokelau	>2000	Oceania	New Zealand
Turks and Caicos	59,000	Central America/Caribbean	United Kingdom
U.S. Virgin Islands	103,000	Central America/Caribbean	United States
Wallis and Futuna	15,000	Oceania	France

This is a list of the dependent countries in the world along with approximate population statistics as of 2023 and the continent or region the dependent country is located at.

Disputed Territories

Antarctica

Antarctica is technically not a country nor does it have its own government though there are territorial claims that have been made by several countries.

Information about Antarctic territorial claims can be found on State.gov and CIA.gov.

• Argentina
• Australia
• Chile
• France
• New Zealand
• Norway
• United Kingdom

Countries with no claim to Antarctic land are…

• Russia
• United States

Other major categories involving disputed territories are related to trade routes by land, sea and air. Other times it can be related to border barriers and which country has claims to what areas.

• China-India- Pakistan Himalayan border dispute

Internal and external conflicts within and between countries

The council on foreign relations (cfr.org) has a tool that tracks global conflicts. Using this tool you can really visualize that there are so many ongoing conflicts around the world. But these are just a few listed below that you may have heard or read about in the news or on social media that have left large impacts on the world.

Some other major credible websites to visit to read more about global conflict and disputes are CIA.gov and pewresearch.org. Otherwise, subscribe to major news outlets for ongoing news on current world conflicts.

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