Countries of the World
A
- Afghanistan - Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Albania - Republic of Albania
- Algeria - People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
- 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)
- Angola - Republic of Angola
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina - Argentine Republic
- Armenia - Republic of Armenia
- Australia - Commonwealth of Australia
a. Christmas Island - Territory of Christmas Island (overseas territory of Australia)
b. Cocos (Keeling) Islands - Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands (overseas territory of Australia)
c. Norfolk Island - Territory of Norfolk Island (overseas territory of Australia) - Austria - Republic of Austria
- Azerbaijan - Republic of Azerbaijan
a. Nagorno-Karabakh - Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (de facto independent state inside Azerbaijan) B
- Bahamas, The - Commonwealth of The Bahamas
- Bahrain - Kingdom of Bahrain
- Bangladesh - People's Republic of Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus - Republic of Belarus
- Belgium - Kingdom of Belgium
- Belize
- Benin - Republic of Benin
- Bhutan - Kingdom of Bhutan
- Bolivia - Republic of Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana - Republic of Botswana
- Brazil - Federative Republic of Brazil
- Brunei - Negara Brunei Darussalam
- Bulgaria - Republic of Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi - Republic of Burundi
C
- Cambodia - Kingdom of Cambodia
- Cameroon - Republic of Cameroon
- Canada
- Cape Verde - Republic of Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad - Republic of Chad
- Chile - Republic of Chile
- China (PRC) - People's Republic of China
a. Hong Kong - Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
b. Macau - Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China - Colombia - Republic of Colombia
- Comoros - Union of the Comoros
- Congo - Republic of the Congo
- Costa Rica - Republic of Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire - Republic of Côte d'Ivoire (formerly and popularly known as Ivory Coast)
- Croatia - Republic of Croatia
- Cuba - Republic of Cuba
- Cyprus - Republic of Cyprus
a. Northern Cyprus - Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (de facto independent state inside Cyprus, recognized only by Turkey) - Czechia - Czech Republic
D
- Democratic Republic of the Congo - (formerly and popularly known as Zaire)
- Denmark - Kingdom of Denmark
a. Faroe Islands (self-governing overseas administrative division of Denmark)
b. Greenland (self-governing overseas administrative division of Denmark) - Djibouti - Republic of Djibouti
- Dominica - Commonwealth of Dominica
- Dominican Republic (sometimes called The Dominican)
E
- East Timor - formally known as Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (popularly known as East Timor)
- Ecuador - Republic of Ecuador
- Egypt - Arab Republic of Egypt
- El Salvador - Republic of El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea - Republic of Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea - State of Eritrea
- Estonia - Republic of Estonia
- Ethiopia - Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
F
- Federated States of Micronesia - Federated States of Micronesia
- Fiji - Republic of the Fiji Islands
- Finland - Republic of Finland
a. Åland - Åland Islands (autonomous province of Finland recognized by international treaty) - France - French Republic
a. New Caledonia (sui generis collectivity of France)
b. French Polynesia (overseas country of France)
c. Mayotte (overseas collectivity of France)
d. Saint Pierre and Miquelon (overseas collectivity of France)
e. Wallis and Futuna (overseas collectivity of France)G
- Gabon - Gabonese Republic
- Gambia, The - Republic of The Gambia
- Georgia
a. Abkhazia - Republic of Abkhazia (de facto independent state inside Georgia)
b. South Ossetia - Republic of South Ossetia (de facto independent state inside Georgia) - Germany - Federal Republic of Germany
- Ghana - Republic of Ghana
- Greece - Hellenic Republic
- Grenada
- Guatemala - Republic of Guatemala
- Guinea - Republic of Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau - Republic of Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana - Co-operative Republic of Guyana
H
- Haiti - Republic of Haiti
- Honduras - Republic of Honduras
- Hungary - Republic of Hungary
I
- Iceland - Republic of Iceland
- India - Republic of India
- Indonesia - Republic of Indonesia
- Iran - Islamic Republic of Iran
- Iraq - Republic of Iraq
- Ireland (also commonly referred to as the Republic of Ireland as the official "description" of the state in order to distinguish it from the island of Ireland as a whole)
- Israel - State of Israel
- Italy - Italian Republic
J
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jordan - Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
K
- Kazakhstan - Republic of Kazakhstan
- Kenya - Republic of Kenya
- Kiribati - Republic of Kiribati
- Korea (North) - Democratic People's Republic of Korea (popularly known as North Korea)
- Korea (South) - Republic of Korea (popularly known as South Korea)
- Kosovo - Republic of Kosovo
- Kuwait - State of Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan - Kyrgyz Republic (sometimes called Kirghizia)
L
- Laos - Lao People's Democratic Republic
- Latvia - Republic of Latvia
- Lebanon - Republic of Lebanon
- Lesotho - Kingdom of Lesotho
- Liberia - Republic of Liberia
- Libya - Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
- Liechtenstein - Principality of Liechtenstein
- Lithuania - Republic of Lithuania
- Luxembourg - Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
M
- Macedonia - Republic of Macedonia (referred to by the United Nations and a number of countries and international organizations as The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)
- Madagascar - Republic of Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Republic)
- Malawi - Republic of Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives - Republic of Maldives
- Mali - Republic of Mali
- Malta - Republic of Malta
- Marshall Islands - Republic of the Marshall Islands
- Mauritania - Islamic Republic of Mauritania
- Mauritius - Republic of Mauritius
- Mexico - United Mexican States
- Moldova - Republic of Moldova
a. Transnistria - Transnistrian or Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic (the Transnistrian government uses as translation Pridnestrovie, de facto independent state inside Moldova) - Monaco - Principality of Monaco
- Mongolia (sometimes referred to as Outer Mongolia in order to distinguish it from Inner Mongolia in China)
- Morocco - Kingdom of Morocco
- Mozambique - Republic of Mozambique
- Myanmar - Union of Myanmar (formerly and popularly known as Burma)
N
- Namibia - Republic of Namibia
- Nauru - Republic of Nauru
- Nepal - Kingdom of Nepal
- Netherlands, the - Kingdom of the Netherlands (legally the Netherlands refers to the mainland European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, with the latter consisting of the Netherlands and two overseas countries, namely Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles)
a. Aruba (overseas country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
b. Netherlands Antilles (overseas country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands) - New Zealand
a. Cook Islands (self-governing state in free association with New Zealand)
b. Niue (self-governing state in free association with New Zealand)
c. Tokelau (overseas territory of New Zealand) - Nicaragua - Republic of Nicaragua
- Niger - Republic of Niger
- Nigeria - Federal Republic of Nigeria
- Norway - Kingdom of Norway
a. Svalbard (overseas territory of Norway recognized by international treaty)O
- Oman - Sultanate of Oman
P
- Pakistan - Islamic Republic of Pakistan
- Palau - Republic of Palau
- Palestine - State of Palestine (currently recognized by over 90 countries)
- Panama - Republic of Panama
- Papua New Guinea - Independent State of Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay - Republic of Paraguay
- Peru - Republic of Peru
- Philippines, the - Republic of the Philippines
- Poland - Republic of Poland
- Portugal - Portuguese Republic
Q
- Qatar - State of Qatar
R
- Romania
- Russia - Russian Federation
- Rwanda - Republic of Rwanda
S
- Saint Kitts and Nevis - Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa - Independent State of Samoa
- San Marino - Most Serene Republic of San Marino
- São Tomé and Príncipe - Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe
- Saudi Arabia - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Senegal - Republic of Senegal
- Serbia and Montenegro - State Union of Serbia and Montenegro
a. Kosovo - Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohia (autonomous province of Serbia and Montenegro under UN interim civilian administration) - Seychelles - Republic of Seychelles
- Sierra Leone - Republic of Sierra Leone
- Singapore - Republic of Singapore
- Slovakia - Slovak Republic
- Slovenia - Republic of Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia (the whole country is presently fragmented with its Transitional National Government in exile, see also Somaliland)
a. Somaliland - Republic of Somaliland (de facto independent state inside Somalia) - South Africa - Republic of South Africa
- South Sudan - Republic of South Sudan
- Spain - Kingdom of Spain
- Sri Lanka - Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
- Sudan - Republic of the Sudan
- Suriname - Republic of Suriname
- Swaziland - Kingdom of Swaziland
- Sweden - Kingdom of Sweden
- Switzerland - Swiss Confederation
- Syria - Syrian Arab Republic
T
- Taiwan (ROC) - Republic of China (diplomatically sometimes known as Chinese Taipei (or other names), regarded by UN as "Taiwan, Province of China", the political status of the ROC and the legal status of the Taiwan Island (and its outlying islands) are in dispute)
- Tajikistan - Republic of Tajikistan
- Tanzania - United Republic of Tanzania
- Thailand - Kingdom of Thailand
- Togo - Togolese Republic
- Tonga - Kingdom of Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago - Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia - Tunisian Republic
- Turkey - Republic of Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu
U
- Uganda - Republic of Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
a. Akrotiri - Akrotiri Sovereign Base Area (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)
b. Anguilla (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)
c. Ascension Island (dependency of Saint Helena, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom)
d. Bermuda (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)
e. Cayman Islands (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)
f. Dhekelia - Dhekelia Sovereign Base Area (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)
g. Falkland Islands (overseas territory of the United Kingdom, also claimed by, and a former possession of Argentina named Islas Malvinas)
h. Gibraltar (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)
i. Guernsey - Bailiwick of Guernsey (British Crown dependency, including its self-governing dependencies Alderney, Herm and Sark)
j. Jersey - Bailiwick of Jersey (British Crown dependency)
k. Man, Isle of - Isle of Man (British Crown dependency, also known as Mann)
l. Montserrat (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)
m. Pitcairn Islands - Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno Islands (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)
n. Saint Helena (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)
o. Tristan da Cunha (dependency of Saint Helena, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom)
p. Turks and Caicos Islands (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)
q. Virgin Islands (British) - British Virgin Islands (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) - United States - United States of America
a. American Samoa - Territory of American Samoa (unincorporated unorganized territory of the United States)
b. Guam - Territory of Guam (unincorporated organized territory of the United States)
c. Northern Mariana Islands - Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (unincorporated organized territory (commonwealth) in political union with the United States)
d. Puerto Rico - Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (unincorporated organized territory (commonwealth) associated with the United States)
e. Virgin Islands (U.S.) - United States Virgin Islands (unincorporated organized territory of the United States, popularly known in its abbreviated terms as U.S. Virgin Islands) - Uruguay - Oriental Republic of Uruguay
- Uzbekistan - Republic of Uzbekistan
V
- Vanuatu - Republic of Vanuatu
- Vatican City - State of the Vatican City (administered by a Pontifical Commission appointed by the Pope who is concurrently the head of the Holy See and that of the Vatican City)
- Venezuela - Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (federal state)
- Vietnam - Socialist Republic of Vietnam
W
- Western Sahara - Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (currently recognized by over 40 countries, the SADR only exercises effective control over the territory east of Moroccan Wall, whereas large portion of the territory is occupied by and integrated in Morocco)
Y
- Yemen - Republic of Yemen
Z
- Zambia - Republic of Zambia
- Zimbabwe - Republic of Zimbabwe