how many countries are members of the united nations?
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There are presently 191 member States of the United Nations
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More people around the world love soccer that any other sport in the world. Check this out: FIFA claims that there are more countries that are members of FIFA than there are countries which are members of the United Nations!
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243 entities considered to be countries.\n\nYou could get more information from the link below...
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United Nations basically is made up of 5 countries only, right? The rest are just bystandsers, who are always ignored by the most powerful 5....
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Now that is a question that's somewhat difficult to answer, as there is no one right answer. \n\n Many sources offer different answers, and depending on the source, there are 189, 191, 192, 193 or 194 independent countries in the world today. \n\n The United Nations has 192 members (including Montenegro and Serbia - the two newest nations) but that number does not include the Vatican, an independent nation. \n\n The US State Department recognises 193 independent countries around the world. but that list of countries reflects the political agenda of the United States of America. As an example, it does not include Taiwan as China claims that Taiwan (the ROC) is simply a province of China. \n\n The latest World Almanacs use 193 countries, which is probably the best answer, but what about Palestine? Greenland? Western Sahara? Chechnya? Tibet ? Cabinda?\n\nThe political world is constantly changing and the definition of a country is difficult . If so what about Somalia? \n\nAs for the richest country it is the same scenario, depending on which criteria you are using the positions seem to change also . But I will say the USA is because even those countries with oil they still want the USA to come and buy it otherwise they will starve . If donations are wanted in this world everyone looks at the USA first . Same as military, Same as tourism etc
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There are 243 entities considered to be countries. \nThis corresponds to:\n\n    * 201 sovereign and/or independent states:\n          o 191 member states of the United Nations (UN).\n          o 1 UN recognized non-member state governed by the Holy See (a UN permanent observer): the Vatican City.\n          o 1 state not recognized by the UN since late 1971, recognized by 25 other states and currently with de facto international relations with most states, the Republic of China (popularly referred to as Taiwan).\n          o 8 states not recognized by the UN and not recognized by a significant portion of its individual member-states:\n                + 1 de facto independent state, diplomatically recognized by only Turkey; Northern Cyprus[1]\n                + 5 de facto independent states; namely Abkhazia[2], Nagorno-Karabakh[3] Somaliland[4], South Ossetia[5], and Transnistria[6]; all recognized by no states.\n                + 2 entities recognized by many countries as sovereign, but not de facto independent; namely Palestine and Western Sahara.\n    * 37 inhabited dependent territories:\n          o 3 overseas territories of Australia (Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Island)\n          o 2 overseas countries in the Kingdom of Denmark (Greenland and Faroe Islands)\n          o 5 dependent territories of France:\n                + 1 sui generis (unique) dependency of France (New Caledonia)\n                + 4 overseas collectivities of France (Mayotte, French Polynesia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Wallis and Futuna)\n          o 2 overseas countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Aruba and Netherlands Antilles)\n          o 3 dependent territories of New Zealand:\n          o 2 states in free association with New Zealand (Cook Islands and Niue)\n          o 1 New Zealand overseas territory (Tokelau)\n          o 17 dependent territories of the United Kingdom:\n                + 3 British Crown dependencies (Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man)\n                + 12 overseas territories of the United Kingdom (Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena [and its dependencies Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha] and the Turks and Caicos Islands)\n                + 2 Sovereign Base Areas on the island of Cyprus (Akrotiri and Dhekelia)\n          o 5 unincorporated territories of the United States (US) (American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands)\n    * 4 special entities recognized by international treaty or agreement (Åland in Finland, Svalbard in Norway, as well as the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau in the People's Republic of China)\n    * 1 UN protectorate inside the de jure territory of a sovereign state (Kosovo in Serbia and Montenegro under UN interim civilian administration).\n\n    * Abkhazia Abkhazia - Republic of Abkhazia (de facto independent state inside Georgia)\n    * Afghanistan Afghanistan - Islamic Republic of Afghanistan\n    * United Kingdom Akrotiri - Akrotiri Sovereign Base Area (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)\n    * Åland Åland - Åland Islands (autonomous province of Finland recognized by international treaty)\n    * Albania Albania - Republic of Albania\n    * Algeria Algeria - People's Democratic Republic of Algeria\n    * American Samoa American Samoa - Territory of American Samoa (unincorporated unorganized territory of the United States)\n    * Andorra Andorra - Principality of Andorra (co-principality with the President of the French Republic and the Bishop of Urgell, Spain as ex officio heads of state)\n    * Angola Angola - Republic of Angola\n    * Anguilla Anguilla (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)\n    * Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda (Commonwealth Realm)\n    * Argentina Argentina - Argentine Republic (federal state, also named Argentine Nation for purposes of legislation)
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Total no. of countries/nations in the World: 271\n\nApart from this, there are regions that aren't really countries but just sort of "areas" under the protection of / dependent on actual countries who are near them e.g. some islands where people live and are clearly "one type of ppl" but they don't fly a flag or have a president or anything that we consider normal.
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205 countries according to FIFA ( Federation International 0f Football Association)\nhttp://www.fifa.com/en/mens/statistics/index/0,2548,All-May-2006,00.html\n191 country Members  of the United Nations \nhttp://www.un.org/Overview/unmember.html\n193 countries acording to Infoplease\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0932875.html\nWell football is more powerfull than the United Nations!
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So exactly how many countries are there in the world…you think this would be easy to find out. Try it yourself. Open that atlas that your Gran bought you for your last birthday and start counting…whatever answer you get will probably be wrong. \nYou see the number of countries in the world is constantly changing. For example with the demise of the Soviet Union a whole load of new countries sprang up overnight.\n\nAdding to this confusion is the fact that some countries aren’t recognised by other countries. Again in the former Soviet Union there are three self proclaimed independent states called South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Transdniester – why haven’t you heard of them...well no-one in the international community will actually recognize that they exist…they obviously don’t know the right people. \n\nAnd even though most encyclopaedias seem to suggest that there are officially 193 countries in the world ask George Bush he’ll tell you there are only 192. Why…because he doesn’t include Taiwan. You see China claims that Taiwan is actually a province of China…and George doesn’t want to get on the wrong side of the Chinese!! \n\nAs King, and as a gesture of goodwill I have decided that I will recognise that there are 193 countries in the world…there you go Taiwan your in! I therefore declare that my country is the 194th country in the world!! Glad that’s settled.
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42 other countries from all around the world.
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there are 243 :\n\nFirst : 202 sovereign states: \n\n192 member states of the United Nations (UN). \n\n1 state with general international recognition but not UN membership, governed by the Holy See (a UN permanent observer), the Vatican City. \n\n9 states lacking general international recognition, none of which are UN members, that customary international law nonetheless defines as states under the Montevideo Convention: \n\n1 state, no longer a UN member since late 1971, recognized by 23 UN member states and the Holy See (Vatican City), and currently with de facto international relations with many others, the Republic of China (commonly referred to as Taiwan). \n\n1 state, recognized by 45 UN member states but never admitted to the UN itself, with most of its claimed territory under military occupation, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in Western Sahara. \n\n1 state, recognized by 100 UN member states (including the 2 permanent UNSC members Russia and the People's Republic of China) and the Holy See but never admitted to the UN itself, with only partial de facto control over any of its claimed territory exercised through the Palestinian National Authority (a UN permanent observer), the State of Palestine in the Palestinian territories. \n\n6 de facto independent states lacking any significant measure of diplomatic recognition from other states: \n\n1 de facto independent state, diplomatically recognized by no UN member states except Turkey, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.\n\n5 de facto independent states, namely Abkhazia,[3] Nagorno-Karabakh,[4] Pridnestrovie,[5] Somaliland,[6] and South Ossetia none recognized by any UN member states. \n\n*****\n\nSecond : 36 inhabited dependent territories: \n\n3 external territories of Australia (Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Island). \n\n2 overseas countries in the Kingdom of Denmark (Greenland and Faroe Islands). \n\n5 overseas territories of France:\n \n1 sui generis (unique) community (New Caledonia).\n \n4 overseas communities: \n\n1 territorial community (Saint Pierre and Miquelon) \n1 territory (Wallis and Futuna) \n1 overseas country (French Polynesia) \n1 departmental community (Mayotte) \n2 overseas countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Aruba and Netherlands Antilles). \n\n3 dependent territories of New Zealand: \n\n2 states in free association with New Zealand (Cook Islands and Niue). \n1 overseas territory (Tokelau). \n16 dependent territories of the United Kingdom: \n3 Crown dependencies (Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man). \n13 overseas territories (Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena (and its dependencies Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha), Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia). \n\n5 unincorporated territories of the United States: \n\n2 commonwealths (Northern Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico). \n2 organized insular territories (Guam and U.S. Virgin Islands). \n1 de facto organized insular territory lacking an Organic Act (American Samoa).\n\n****\n\nThird : 5 areas of special sovereignty: \n\n4 special entities recognized by international treaty or agreement (Åland in Finland, Svalbard in Norway, as well as the 2 special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China - Hong Kong and Macau). \n\n1 UN-administered territory inside the de jure territory of a sovereign state and under de jure sovereignty of that sovereign state (Kosovo in Serbia under UN interim civilian administration).
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Many sources offer different answers, and depending on the source, there are 189, 191, 192, 193 or 194 independent countries in the world today.
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The Number of Countries in the World\nFrom Matt Rosenberg,\nYour Guide to Geography.\nFREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now!\nFeb 8 2006\n\nBy Most Accounts, 192 is the Correct Answer\nA very frequent geographical question is "How many countries are in the world?." Different numbers pop up when one inquires or reads about the number of countries in the world. Each source you use often yields a different answer.\nUnited Nations\n\nThere are 191 members of the United Nations. Unfortunately, the number 191 is too often used to represent the number of countries in the world. Although this number represents almost all of the countries in the world, there is still one country (the Vatican City) that is independent and has chosen not to become a member of the U.N. so 191 is not the number of countries in the world.\n\nThe country not recognised yet is Taiwan.\n\nNeat question.
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On this list are 243 entities considered to be countries. This corresponds to:\n\n\n\n\n202 sovereign states: \n\n\n191 member states of the United Nations (UN).\n\n1 state with general international recognition but not UN membership, governed by the Holy See (a UN permanent observer), the Vatican City.\n\n1 newly independent state, recognized by a growing number of UN member states including all permanent members of the Security Council, widely expected to gain UN membership in the near future: Montenegro.\n\n\n9 states lacking general international recognition, none UN members, that customary international law nonetheless defines as states under the Montevideo Convention: \n\n\n1 state, not a UN member since late 1971, recognized by 25 UN member states and currently with de facto international relations with most others, the Republic of China (popularly referred to as Taiwan). \n\n1 state, recognized by 46 UN member states but never admitted to the UN itself, with most of its claimed territory under military occupation, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in Western Sahara. \n\n1 state, recognized by 92 UN member states and the Holy See but never admitted to the UN itself, with only partial de facto control over any of its claimed territory exercised through the Palestinian National Authority (a UN permanent observer), the State of Palestine in the Palestinian territories. \n\n\n6 de facto independent states lacking any significant measure of diplomatic recognition from other states: \n\n\n1 de facto independent state, diplomatically recognized by no UN member states except Turkey, Northern Cyprus. \n\n5 de facto independent states, namely Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Pridnestrovie, Somaliland, and South Ossetia, all recognized by no UN member states. \n\n\n36 inhabited dependent territories: \n\n\n3 external territories of Australia (Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Island). \n\n2 overseas countries in the Kingdom of Denmark (Greenland and Faroe Islands). \n\n\n5 (overseas) communities of France:\n\n \n1 sui generis (unique) community (New Caledonia). \n\n4 overseas communities (Mayotte, French Polynesia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Wallis and Futuna). \n\n2 overseas countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Aruba and Netherlands Antilles). \n\n\n3 dependent territories of New Zealand: \n\n\n2 states in free association with New Zealand (Cook Islands and Niue). \n\n1 overseas territory (Tokelau). \n\n\n16 dependent territories of the United Kingdom: \n\n\n3 Crown dependencies (Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man). \n\n13 overseas territories (Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena (and its dependencies Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha), Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia). \n\n\n5 unincorporated territories of the United States: \n\n\n2 commonwealths (Northern Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico). \n\n2 organized insular territories (Guam and U.S. Virgin Islands). \n\n1 de facto organized insular territory lacking an Organic Act (American Samoa). \n\n\n5 areas of special sovereignty: \n\n\n4 special entities recognized by international treaty or agreement (Åland in Finland, Svalbard in Norway, as well as the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau in the People's Republic of China). \n\n1 UN protectorate inside the de jure territory of a sovereign state (Kosovo in Serbia under UN interim civilian administration).
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English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese and Arabic are the official languages of the United Nations
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United Nations Organisation
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191 countries are currently UN members.Montenegro will probably apply for membership too