Countries of the world

All 197 countries of this atlas plus 15 territories, sorted by continent, with their capital and map. Tap a country to see its political map with states or provinces, or tap its flag to see what the colors mean.

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Asia
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Countries of North America (30)

Country	Capital	Population	Area
Antigua and Barbuda	St. John's	101,489	440 km² (170 sq mi)
Aruba (territory)	Oranjestad	106,739	179 km² (69 sq mi)
Bahamas	Nassau	399,440	13,878 km² (5,358 sq mi)
Barbados	Bridgetown	303,431	439 km² (169 sq mi)
Belize	Belmopan	411,106	22,966 km² (8,867 sq mi)
Bermuda (territory)	Hamilton	65,024	53 km² (20 sq mi)
Canada	Ottawa	36,991,981	9,984,670 km² (3,855,103 sq mi)
Cayman Islands (territory)	George Town	88,833	264 km² (102 sq mi)
Costa Rica	San José	5,265,575	51,180 km² (19,761 sq mi)
Cuba	Havana	10,985,974	109,884 km² (42,426 sq mi)
Curaçao (territory)	Willemstad	152,849	444 km² (171 sq mi)
Dominica	Roseau	74,656	751 km² (290 sq mi)
Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	10,760,028	48,671 km² (18,792 sq mi)
El Salvador	San Salvador	6,029,976	21,041 km² (8,124 sq mi)
Greenland (territory)	Nuuk	56,609	2,166,086 km² (836,330 sq mi)
Grenada	St. George's	114,299	349 km² (135 sq mi)
Guatemala	Guatemala City	17,263,239	108,889 km² (42,042 sq mi)
Haiti	Port-au-Prince	10,981,229	27,750 km² (10,714 sq mi)
Honduras	Tegucigalpa	8,303,771	112,492 km² (43,433 sq mi)
Jamaica	Kingston	2,697,983	10,992 km² (4,244 sq mi)
Mexico	Mexico City	132,274,416	1,972,550 km² (761,606 sq mi)
Nicaragua	Managua	5,142,098	120,340 km² (46,464 sq mi)
Panama	Panama City	4,570,133	74,177 km² (28,640 sq mi)
Puerto Rico (territory)	San Juan	3,285,874	9,104 km² (3,515 sq mi)
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre	46,922	269 km² (104 sq mi)
Saint Lucia	Castries	167,591	617 km² (238 sq mi)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Kingstown	109,897	389 km² (150 sq mi)
Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	1,369,125	5,128 km² (1,980 sq mi)
U.S. Virgin Islands (territory)	Charlotte Amalie	87,146	346 km² (134 sq mi)
United States	Washington, D.C.	340,110,988	9,826,675 km² (3,794,100 sq mi)

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Countries of South America (13)

Country	Capital	Population	Area
Argentina	Buenos Aires	47,327,407	2,780,400 km² (1,073,518 sq mi)
Bolivia	Sucre / La Paz	12,244,159	1,098,581 km² (424,164 sq mi)
Brazil	Brasília	214,211,951	8,515,767 km² (3,287,956 sq mi)
Chile	Santiago	19,458,000	756,102 km² (291,933 sq mi)
Colombia	Bogotá	52,321,152	1,141,748 km² (440,831 sq mi)
Ecuador	Quito	16,938,986	257,204 km² (99,307 sq mi)
Falkland Islands (territory)	Stanley	4,550	12,200 km² (4,710 sq mi)
Guyana	Georgetown	878,674	214,970 km² (83,000 sq mi)
Paraguay	Asunción	6,811,297	406,756 km² (157,049 sq mi)
Peru	Lima	34,157,732	1,285,216 km² (496,225 sq mi)
Suriname	Paramaribo	563,402	163,270 km² (63,039 sq mi)
Uruguay	Montevideo	3,444,263	176,215 km² (68,037 sq mi)
Venezuela	Caracas	31,250,306	912,050 km² (352,144 sq mi)

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Countries of Europe (47)

Country	Capital	Population	Area
Albania	Tirana	2,811,655	28,748 km² (11,100 sq mi)
Andorra	Andorra la Vella	89,752	468 km² (181 sq mi)
Austria	Vienna	8,979,894	83,879 km² (32,386 sq mi)
Belarus	Minsk	9,056,080	207,597 km² (80,154 sq mi)
Belgium	Brussels	11,825,551	30,688 km² (11,849 sq mi)
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	3,816,459	51,197 km² (19,767 sq mi)
Bulgaria	Sofia	6,423,207	110,994 km² (42,855 sq mi)
Croatia	Zagreb	3,871,833	56,594 km² (21,851 sq mi)
Cyprus	Nicosia	1,344,976	9,242 km² (3,568 sq mi)
Czech Republic	Prague	10,909,500	78,871 km² (30,452 sq mi)
Denmark	Copenhagen	5,822,863	42,925 km² (16,573 sq mi)
Estonia	Tallinn	1,369,995	45,335 km² (17,504 sq mi)
Faroe Islands (territory)	Tórshavn	54,149	1,399 km² (540 sq mi)
Finland	Helsinki	5,652,881	338,478 km² (130,687 sq mi)
France	Paris	68,605,616	643,801 km² (248,573 sq mi)
Germany	Berlin	83,467,117	357,588 km² (138,065 sq mi)
Greece	Athens	10,482,487	131,957 km² (50,949 sq mi)
Hungary	Budapest	9,603,634	93,011 km² (35,912 sq mi)
Iceland	Reykjavík	364,260	103,004 km² (39,770 sq mi)
Ireland	Dublin	5,149,139	69,797 km² (26,949 sq mi)
Italy	Rome	58,850,717	302,068 km² (116,629 sq mi)
Kosovo	Pristina	1,586,659	10,909 km² (4,212 sq mi)
Latvia	Riga	1,845,096	64,594 km² (24,940 sq mi)
Liechtenstein	Vaduz	37,922	160 km² (62 sq mi)
Lithuania	Vilnius	2,860,002	65,300 km² (25,212 sq mi)
Luxembourg	Luxembourg	690,959	2,593 km² (1,001 sq mi)
Malta	Valletta	553,214	316 km² (122 sq mi)
Moldova	Chișinău	2,409,207	33,844 km² (13,067 sq mi)
Monaco	Monaco	38,857	2 km² (0.8 sq mi)
Montenegro	Podgorica	617,213	13,883 km² (5,360 sq mi)
Netherlands	Amsterdam	17,942,942	37,378 km² (14,432 sq mi)
North Macedonia	Skopje	1,836,713	25,713 km² (9,928 sq mi)
Norway	Oslo	5,627,400	385,207 km² (148,729 sq mi)
Poland	Warsaw	37,563,071	312,683 km² (120,728 sq mi)
Portugal	Lisbon	10,347,892	92,225 km² (35,608 sq mi)
Romania	Bucharest	19,053,815	238,397 km² (92,046 sq mi)
Russia	Moscow	146,119,928	17,075,400 km² (6,592,849 sq mi)
San Marino	San Marino	34,167	61 km² (24 sq mi)
Serbia	Belgrade	6,605,168	88,499 km² (34,170 sq mi)
Slovakia	Bratislava	5,409,407	49,034 km² (18,932 sq mi)
Slovenia	Ljubljana	2,066,880	20,271 km² (7,827 sq mi)
Spain	Madrid	48,592,909	505,990 km² (195,364 sq mi)
Sweden	Stockholm	10,609,460	447,425 km² (172,752 sq mi)
Switzerland	Bern	9,104,063	41,291 km² (15,943 sq mi)
Ukraine	Kyiv	41,167,335	603,550 km² (233,032 sq mi)
United Kingdom	London	67,326,569	242,495 km² (93,628 sq mi)
Vatican City	Vatican City	882	0.4 km² (0.2 sq mi)

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Countries of Asia (50)

Country	Capital	Population	Area
Afghanistan	Kabul	41,454,761	652,230 km² (251,827 sq mi)
Armenia	Yerevan	2,930,450	29,743 km² (11,484 sq mi)
Azerbaijan	Baku	10,180,770	86,600 km² (33,436 sq mi)
Bahrain	Manama	1,569,666	787 km² (304 sq mi)
Bangladesh	Dhaka	171,466,990	147,570 km² (56,977 sq mi)
Bhutan	Thimphu	787,424	38,394 km² (14,824 sq mi)
Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan	458,949	5,765 km² (2,226 sq mi)
Cambodia	Phnom Penh	17,423,880	181,035 km² (69,898 sq mi)
China	Beijing	1,404,890,000	9,596,961 km² (3,705,407 sq mi)
East Timor	Dili	1,400,638	14,919 km² (5,760 sq mi)
Georgia	Tbilisi	3,929,581	69,700 km² (26,911 sq mi)
Hong Kong (territory)	—	7,413,070	1,106 km² (427 sq mi)
India	New Delhi	1,326,093,247	3,287,263 km² (1,269,219 sq mi)
Indonesia	Jakarta	275,439,000	1,904,570 km² (735,359 sq mi)
Iran	Tehran	92,417,700	1,648,195 km² (636,372 sq mi)
Iraq	Baghdad	38,274,618	437,072 km² (168,754 sq mi)
Israel	Jerusalem	9,840,000	20,770 km² (8,019 sq mi)
Japan	Tokyo	123,802,000	377,972 km² (145,936 sq mi)
Jordan	Amman	10,428,241	89,341 km² (34,495 sq mi)
Kazakhstan	Astana	20,139,914	2,724,900 km² (1,052,090 sq mi)
Kuwait	Kuwait City	4,464,000	17,818 km² (6,880 sq mi)
Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	7,281,800	199,951 km² (77,202 sq mi)
Laos	Vientiane	6,858,160	236,800 km² (91,429 sq mi)
Lebanon	Beirut	6,100,075	10,452 km² (4,036 sq mi)
Macau (territory)	—	682,100	33 km² (13 sq mi)
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	34,231,700	330,803 km² (127,724 sq mi)
Maldives	Malé	436,330	298 km² (115 sq mi)
Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar	3,409,939	1,564,116 km² (603,909 sq mi)
Myanmar	Naypyidaw	53,370,609	676,577 km² (261,228 sq mi)
Nepal	Kathmandu	29,164,578	147,181 km² (56,827 sq mi)
North Korea	Pyongyang	26,418,204	120,540 km² (46,541 sq mi)
Oman	Muscat	4,829,480	309,500 km² (119,499 sq mi)
Pakistan	Islamabad / Rawalpindi	223,773,700	881,913 km² (340,509 sq mi)
Palestine	Ramallah	4,685,306	6,079 km² (2,347 sq mi)
Philippines	Manila	112,729,484	343,448 km² (132,606 sq mi)
Qatar	Doha	2,639,211	11,437 km² (4,416 sq mi)
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	33,000,000	2,250,000 km² (868,730 sq mi)
Singapore	Singapore	5,866,139	719 km² (278 sq mi)
South Korea	Seoul	51,466,201	100,295 km² (38,724 sq mi)
Sri Lanka	Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte / Colombo	21,444,000	65,610 km² (25,332 sq mi)
Syria	Damascus	23,865,423	185,180 km² (71,498 sq mi)
Taiwan	Taipei	23,262,544	36,193 km² (13,974 sq mi)
Tajikistan	Dushanbe	9,504,000	143,100 km² (55,251 sq mi)
Thailand	Bangkok	66,188,503	513,120 km² (198,117 sq mi)
Turkey	Ankara	85,372,377	783,562 km² (302,535 sq mi)
Turkmenistan	Ashgabat	6,117,933	491,210 km² (189,657 sq mi)
United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	9,890,400	83,600 km² (32,278 sq mi)
Uzbekistan	Tashkent	34,915,100	448,978 km² (173,351 sq mi)
Vietnam	Hanoi	96,208,984	331,690 km² (128,066 sq mi)
Yemen	Sanaa / Aden	28,250,420	455,503 km² (175,871 sq mi)

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Countries of Africa (55)

Country	Capital	Population	Area
Algeria	Algiers	46,164,219	2,381,741 km² (919,595 sq mi)
Angola	Luanda	36,749,906	1,246,700 km² (481,354 sq mi)
Benin	Porto-Novo	14,111,034	114,763 km² (44,310 sq mi)
Botswana	Gaborone	2,480,244	581,737 km² (224,610 sq mi)
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	23,025,776	274,200 km² (105,869 sq mi)
Burundi	Gitega	13,689,450	27,834 km² (10,747 sq mi)
Cameroon	Yaoundé	28,372,687	475,442 km² (183,569 sq mi)
Cape Verde	Praia	555,988	4,033 km² (1,557 sq mi)
Central African Republic	Bangui	5,152,421	622,984 km² (240,535 sq mi)
Chad	N'Djamena	19,319,064	1,284,000 km² (495,755 sq mi)
Comoros	Moroni	902,348	2,034 km² (785 sq mi)
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Kinshasa	105,789,731	2,344,858 km² (905,355 sq mi)
Djibouti	Djibouti	1,152,944	23,200 km² (8,958 sq mi)
Egypt	Cairo	114,535,772	1,010,408 km² (390,121 sq mi)
Equatorial Guinea	Ciudad de la Paz	1,847,549	28,051 km² (10,831 sq mi)
Eritrea	Asmara	3,497,000	117,600 km² (45,406 sq mi)
Eswatini	Lobamba / Mbabane	1,230,506	17,364 km² (6,704 sq mi)
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	128,691,692	1,104,300 km² (426,373 sq mi)
Gabon	Libreville	2,025,137	267,667 km² (103,347 sq mi)
Gambia	Banjul	2,639,916	11,300 km² (4,363 sq mi)
Ghana	Accra	32,833,031	238,535 km² (92,099 sq mi)
Guinea	Conakry	17,521,167	245,857 km² (94,926 sq mi)
Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	1,861,283	36,125 km² (13,948 sq mi)
Ivory Coast	Yamoussoukro	31,165,654	322,463 km² (124,504 sq mi)
Kenya	Nairobi	48,468,138	581,309 km² (224,445 sq mi)
Lesotho	Maseru	2,007,201	30,355 km² (11,720 sq mi)
Liberia	Monrovia	5,214,030	111,369 km² (43,000 sq mi)
Libya	Tripoli	7,381,023	1,759,541 km² (679,363 sq mi)
Madagascar	Antananarivo	31,964,956	587,295 km² (226,756 sq mi)
Malawi	Lilongwe	17,563,749	118,484 km² (45,747 sq mi)
Mali	Bamako	22,395,489	1,240,192 km² (478,841 sq mi)
Mauritania	Nouakchott	4,736,139	1,030,700 km² (397,955 sq mi)
Mauritius	Port Louis	1,264,613	2,040 km² (788 sq mi)
Morocco	Rabat	36,828,330	446,550 km² (172,414 sq mi)
Mozambique	Maputo	29,668,834	801,590 km² (309,496 sq mi)
Namibia	Windhoek	2,533,794	825,615 km² (318,772 sq mi)
Niger	Niamey	21,477,348	1,267,000 km² (489,191 sq mi)
Nigeria	Abuja	211,400,708	923,768 km² (356,669 sq mi)
Republic of the Congo	Brazzaville	6,142,180	342,000 km² (132,047 sq mi)
Rwanda	Kigali	14,569,341	26,338 km² (10,169 sq mi)
São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé	204,327	1,001 km² (386 sq mi)
Senegal	Dakar	16,876,720	196,722 km² (75,955 sq mi)
Seychelles	Victoria	119,773	459 km² (177 sq mi)
Sierra Leone	Freetown	7,557,212	71,740 km² (27,699 sq mi)
Somalia	Mogadishu	11,031,386	637,657 km² (246,201 sq mi)
South Africa	Pretoria / Bloemfontein / Cape Town	62,027,503	1,221,037 km² (471,445 sq mi)
South Sudan	Juba	12,575,714	644,329 km² (248,777 sq mi)
Sudan	Khartoum	40,533,330	1,886,068 km² (728,215 sq mi)
Tanzania	Dodoma	57,310,019	947,303 km² (365,756 sq mi)
Togo	Lomé	7,797,694	56,785 km² (21,925 sq mi)
Tunisia	Tunis	11,565,204	163,610 km² (63,170 sq mi)
Uganda	Kampala	47,123,531	241,038 km² (93,065 sq mi)
Western Sahara (territory)	Laayoune	612,000	266,000 km² (102,703 sq mi)
Zambia	Lusaka	19,610,769	752,618 km² (290,587 sq mi)
Zimbabwe	Harare	15,178,979	390,757 km² (150,872 sq mi)

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Countries of Oceania (17)

Country	Capital	Population	Area
Australia	Canberra	27,614,411	7,692,024 km² (2,969,907 sq mi)
Fiji	Suva	926,276	18,274 km² (7,056 sq mi)
French Polynesia (territory)	Papeete	278,786	4,167 km² (1,609 sq mi)
Guam (territory)	Hagåtña	153,836	544 km² (210 sq mi)
Kiribati	South Tarawa	134,518	811 km² (313 sq mi)
Marshall Islands	Majuro	53,127	181 km² (70 sq mi)
Micronesia	Palikir	75,817	702 km² (271 sq mi)
Nauru	Yaren District	13,650	21 km² (8.1 sq mi)
New Caledonia (territory)	Nouméa	278,500	18,576 km² (7,172 sq mi)
New Zealand	Wellington	5,307,800	268,021 km² (103,483 sq mi)
Palau	Ngerulmud	21,729	466 km² (180 sq mi)
Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	8,935,000	462,840 km² (178,704 sq mi)
Samoa	Apia	200,010	2,842 km² (1,097 sq mi)
Solomon Islands	Honiara	611,343	28,400 km² (10,965 sq mi)
Tonga	Nukuʻalofa	108,020	749 km² (289 sq mi)
Tuvalu	Funafuti	10,643	25 km² (9.7 sq mi)
Vanuatu	Port Vila	300,019	12,190 km² (4,707 sq mi)

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Frequently asked questions

How many countries are there in the world?

195 countries are widely recognized: the 193 member states of the United Nations plus two observer states, the Vatican City and Palestine. Some lists also count Kosovo and Taiwan, which are recognized by part of the world.

What is the largest country in the world?

Russia, with about 17.1 million km² (6.6 million sq mi), followed by Canada, the United States and China.

What is the smallest country in the world?

Vatican City, with about 0.44 km² (0.17 sq mi), surrounded by the city of Rome.