Fact Sheet

BUREAU OF INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH

Washington, DC

July 16, 2020

See also:

Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty

Total count of independent states: 195

* Diplomatic relations with the United States

+ Member of United Nations

! New change, since previous list

STATE

Short-form name Long-form name GENC 2A Code (see Note 2) GENC 3A Code (see Note 2) Capital Afghanistan *+ Islamic Republic of Afghanistan AF AFG Kabul Albania *+ Republic of Albania AL ALB Tirana Algeria *+ People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria DZ DZA Algiers Andorra *+ Principality of Andorra AD AND Andorra la Vella Angola *+ Republic of Angola AO AGO Luanda Antigua and

Barbuda *+ Antigua and Barbuda AG ATG Saint John’s Argentina *+ Argentine Republic AR ARG Buenos Aires Armenia *+ Republic of Armenia AM ARM Yerevan Australia *+ Commonwealth of Australia AU AUS Canberra Austria *+ Republic of Austria AT AUT Vienna Azerbaijan *+ Republic of Azerbaijan AZ AZE Baku Bahamas, The *+ Commonwealth

of The Bahamas BS BHS Nassau Bahrain *+ Kingdom of Bahrain BH BHR Manama Bangladesh *+ People’s Republic

of Bangladesh BD BGD Dhaka Barbados *+ Barbados BB BRB Bridgetown Belarus *+ Republic of Belarus BY BLR Minsk Belgium *+ Kingdom of Belgium BE BEL Brussels Belize *+ Belize BZ BLZ Belmopan Benin *+ Republic of Benin BJ BEN Porto-Novo

Cotonou (seat of government) Bhutan + Kingdom of Bhutan BT BTN Thimphu Bolivia *+ Plurinational State of Bolivia BO BOL La Paz (administrative)

Sucre (legislative/judiciary) Bosnia and

Herzegovina *+ Bosnia and Herzegovina BA BIH Sarajevo Botswana *+ Republic of Botswana BW BWA Gaborone Brazil *+ Federative Republic of Brazil BR BRA Brasília Brunei *+ Brunei Darussalam BN BRN Bandar Seri Begawan Bulgaria *+ Republic of Bulgaria BG BGR Sofia Burkina Faso *+ Burkina Faso BF BFA Ouagadougou Burma *+ Union of Burma MM MMR Rangoon

Nay Pyi Taw (administrative) Burundi *+ Republic of Burundi BI BDI Bujumbura

! Gitega (political) Cabo Verde *+ Republic of Cabo Verde CV CPV Praia Cambodia *+ Kingdom of Cambodia KH KHM Phnom Penh Cameroon *+ Republic of Cameroon CM CMR Yaoundé Canada *+ Canada CA CAN Ottawa Central

African Republic *+ Central African Republic CF CAF Bangui Chad *+ Republic of Chad TD TCD N’Djamena Chile *+ Republic of Chile CL CHL Santiago China *+ (see note 3) People’s Republic of China CN CHN Beijing Colombia *+ Republic of Colombia CO COL Bogotá Comoros *+ Union of the Comoros KM COM Moroni Congo (Brazzaville) *+

(see note 4) Republic of the Congo CG COG Brazzaville Congo (Kinshasa) *+

(see note 4) Democratic Republic

of the Congo CD COD Kinshasa Costa Rica *+ Republic of Costa Rica CR CRI San José Côte d’Ivoire *+ Republic of Côte d’Ivoire CI CIV Yamoussoukro Croatia *+ Republic of Croatia HR HRV Zagreb Cuba *+ Republic of Cuba CU CUB Havana Cyprus *+ Republic of Cyprus CY CYP Nicosia Czechia *+ Czech Republic CZ CZE Prague Denmark *+ Kingdom of Denmark DK DNK Copenhagen Djibouti *+ Republic of Djibouti DJ DJI Djibouti Dominica *+ Commonwealth of Dominica DM DMA Roseau Dominican Republic *+ Dominican Republic DO DOM Santo Domingo Ecuador *+ Republic of Ecuador EC ECU Quito Egypt *+ Arab Republic of Egypt EG EGY Cairo El Salvador *+ Republic of El Salvador SV SLV San Salvador Equatorial Guinea *+ Republic of Equatorial Guinea GQ GNQ Malabo Eritrea *+ State of Eritrea ER ERI Asmara Estonia *+ Republic of Estonia EE EST Tallinn Eswatini *+ Kingdom of Eswatini SZ SWZ Mbabane (administrative)

Lobamba (legislative) Ethiopia *+ Federal Democratic

Republic of Ethiopia ET ETH Addis Ababa Fiji *+ Republic of Fiji FJ FJI Suva Finland *+ Republic of Finland FI FIN Helsinki France *+ French Republic FR FRA Paris Gabon *+ Gabonese Republic GA GAB Libreville Gambia, The *+ Republic of The Gambia GM GMB Banjul Georgia *+ Georgia GE GEO Tbilisi Germany *+ Federal Republic of Germany DE DEU Berlin Ghana *+ Republic of Ghana GH GHA Accra Greece *+ Hellenic Republic GR GRC Athens Grenada *+ Grenada GD GRD Saint George’s Guatemala *+ Republic of Guatemala GT GTM Guatemala City Guinea *+ Republic of Guinea GN GIN Conakry Guinea-Bissau *+ Republic of Guinea-Bissau GW GNB Bissau Guyana *+ Co-operative Republic of Guyana GY GUY Georgetown Haiti *+ Republic of Haiti HT HTI Port-au-Prince Holy See * Holy See VA VAT Vatican City Honduras *+ Republic of Honduras HN HND Tegucigalpa Hungary *+ Hungary HU HUN Budapest Iceland *+ Republic of Iceland IS ISL Reykjavík India *+ Republic of India IN IND New Delhi Indonesia *+ Republic of Indonesia ID IDN Jakarta Iran + Islamic Republic of Iran IR IRN Tehran Iraq *+ Republic of Iraq IQ IRQ Baghdad Ireland *+ Ireland IE IRL Dublin Israel *+ State of Israel IL ISR Jerusalem Italy *+ Italian Republic IT ITA Rome Jamaica *+ Jamaica JM JAM Kingston Japan *+ Japan JP JPN Tokyo Jordan *+ Hashemite

Kingdom of Jordan JO JOR Amman Kazakhstan *+ Republic of Kazakhstan KZ KAZ Nur-Sultan Kenya *+ Republic of Kenya KE KEN Nairobi Kiribati *+ Republic of Kiribati KI KIR Tarawa Korea, North + Democratic People’s Republic of Korea KP PRK Pyongyang Korea, South *+ Republic of Korea KR KOR Seoul Kosovo * Republic of Kosovo XK XKS Pristina Kuwait *+ State of Kuwait KW KWT Kuwait City Kyrgyzstan *+ Kyrgyz Republic KG KGZ Bishkek Laos *+ Lao People’s

Democratic Republic LA LAO Vientiane Latvia *+ Republic of Latvia LV LVA Riga Lebanon *+ Lebanese Republic LB LBN Beirut Lesotho *+ Kingdom of Lesotho LS LSO Maseru Liberia *+ Republic of Liberia LR LBR Monrovia Libya *+ State of Libya LY LBY Tripoli Liechtenstein *+ Principality of Liechtenstein LI LIE Vaduz Lithuania *+ Republic of Lithuania LT LTU Vilnius Luxembourg *+ Grand Duchy of Luxembourg LU LUX Luxembourg Madagascar *+ Republic of Madagascar MG MDG Antananarivo Malawi *+ Republic of Malawi MW MWI Lilongwe Malaysia *+ Malaysia MY MYS Kuala Lumpur Maldives *+ Republic of Maldives MV MDV Male Mali *+ Republic of Mali ML MLI Bamako Malta *+ Republic of Malta MT MLT Valletta Marshall Islands *+ Republic of the

Marshall Islands MH MHL Majuro Mauritania *+ Islamic Republic

of Mauritania MR MRT Nouakchott Mauritius *+ Republic of Mauritius MU MUS Port Louis Mexico *+ United Mexican States MX MEX Mexico City Micronesia,

Federated States of *+ Federated States

of Micronesia FM FSM Palikir Moldova *+ Republic of Moldova MD MDA Chisinau Monaco *+ Principality of Monaco MC MCO Monaco Mongolia *+ Mongolia MN MNG Ulaanbaatar Montenegro *+ Montenegro ME MNE Podgorica Morocco *+ Kingdom of Morocco MA MAR Rabat Mozambique *+ Republic of Mozambique MZ MOZ Maputo Namibia *+ Republic of Namibia NA NAM Windhoek Nauru *+ Republic of Nauru NR NRU Yaren District

(no capital city) Nepal *+ Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal NP NPL Kathmandu Netherlands *+ Kingdom of the Netherlands NL NLD Amsterdam

The Hague (seat of government) New Zealand *+ New Zealand NZ NZL Wellington Nicaragua *+ Republic of Nicaragua NI NIC Managua Niger *+ Republic of Niger NE NER Niamey Nigeria *+ Federal Republic of Nigeria NG NGA Abuja North Macedonia *+ Republic of North Macedonia MK MKD Skopje Norway *+ Kingdom of Norway NO NOR Oslo Oman *+ Sultanate of Oman OM OMN Muscat Pakistan *+ Islamic Republic of Pakistan PK PAK Islamabad Palau *+ Republic of Palau PW PLW Ngerulmud Panama *+ Republic of Panama PA PAN Panama City Papua New Guinea *+ Independent State

of Papua New Guinea PG PNG Port Moresby Paraguay *+ Republic of Paraguay PY PRY Asunción Peru *+ Republic of Peru PE PER Lima Philippines *+ Republic of the Philippines PH PHL Manila Poland *+ Republic of Poland PL POL Warsaw Portugal *+ Portuguese Republic PT PRT Lisbon Qatar *+ State of Qatar QA QAT Doha Romania *+ Romania RO ROU Bucharest Russia *+ Russian Federation RU RUS Moscow Rwanda *+ Republic of Rwanda RW RWA Kigali Saint Kitts and Nevis *+ Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis KN KNA Basseterre Saint Lucia *+ Saint Lucia LC LCA Castries Saint Vincent and the Grenadines *+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC VCT Kingstown Samoa *+ Independent State of Samoa WS WSM Apia San Marino *+ Republic of San Marino SM SMR San Marino Sao Tome and Principe *+ Democratic Republic of

Sao Tome and Principe ST STP São Tomé Saudi Arabia *+ Kingdom of Saudi Arabia SA SAU Riyadh Senegal *+ Republic of Senegal SN SEN Dakar Serbia *+ Republic of Serbia RS SRB Belgrade Seychelles *+ Republic of Seychelles SC SYC Victoria Sierra Leone *+ Republic of Sierra Leone SL SLE Freetown Singapore *+ Republic of Singapore SG SGP Singapore Slovakia *+ Slovak Republic SK SVK Bratislava Slovenia *+ Republic of Slovenia SI SVN Ljubljana Solomon Islands *+ Solomon Islands SB SLB Honiara Somalia *+ Federal Republic of Somalia SO SOM Mogadishu South Africa *+ Republic of South Africa ZA ZAF Pretoria (administrative)

Cape Town (legislative)

Bloemfontein (judiciary) South Sudan *+ Republic of South Sudan SS SSD Juba Spain *+ Kingdom of Spain ES ESP Madrid Sri Lanka *+ Democratic Socialist

Republic of Sri Lanka LK LKA Colombo

Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (legislative) Sudan *+ Republic of the Sudan SD SDN Khartoum Suriname *+ Republic of Suriname SR SUR Paramaribo Sweden *+ Kingdom of Sweden SE SWE Stockholm Switzerland *+ Swiss Confederation CH CHE Bern Syria *+ Syrian Arab Republic SY SYR Damascus Tajikistan *+ Republic of Tajikistan TJ TJK Dushanbe Tanzania *+ United Republic of Tanzania TZ TZA Dar es Salaam

Dodoma (legislative) Thailand *+ Kingdom of Thailand TH THA Bangkok Timor-Leste *+ Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste TL TLS Dili Togo *+ Togolese Republic TG TGO Lomé Tonga *+ Kingdom of Tonga TO TON Nuku’alofa Trinidad and Tobago *+ Republic of

Trinidad and Tobago TT TTO Port of Spain Tunisia *+ Republic of Tunisia TN TUN Tunis Turkey *+ Republic of Turkey TR TUR Ankara Turkmenistan *+ Turkmenistan TM TKM Ashgabat Tuvalu *+ Tuvalu TV TUV Funafuti Uganda *+ Republic of Uganda UG UGA Kampala Ukraine *+ Ukraine UA UKR Kyiv United Arab Emirates *+ United Arab Emirates AE ARE Abu Dhabi United Kingdom *+ United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland GB GBR London United States + United States of America US USA Washington, DC Uruguay *+ Oriental Republic of Uruguay UY URY Montevideo Uzbekistan *+ Republic of Uzbekistan UZ UZB Tashkent Vanuatu *+ Republic of Vanuatu VU VUT Port-Vila Venezuela *+ Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela VE VEN Caracas Vietnam *+ Socialist Republic of Vietnam VN VNM Hanoi Yemen *+ Republic of Yemen YE YEM Sanaa Zambia *+ Republic of Zambia ZM ZMB Lusaka Zimbabwe *+ Republic of Zimbabwe ZW ZWE Harare

OTHER

Short-form name Long-form name GENC 2A Code (see Note 2) GENC 3A Code (see Note 2) Capital Taiwan (see note 5) (no long-form name) TW TWN Taipei

Source: Office of The Geographer and Global Issues, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C

NOTES

Note 1: In this listing, the term “independent state” refers to a people politically organized into a sovereign state with a definite territory recognized as independent by the US.

Note 2: Geopolitical Entities, Names, and Codes (GENC) Standard two-letter and three-letter codes. GENC is the replacement standard for FIPS 10-4 and is the U.S. Government profile of the ISO 3166 international country code standard. For more information on GENC please see https://nsgreg.nga.mil/genc/discovery.

Note 3: With the establishment of diplomatic relations with China on January 1, 1979, the US Government recognized the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal government of China and acknowledged the Chinese position that there is only one China and that Taiwan is part of China.

Note 4: “Congo” is the official short-form name for both the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. To distinguish one from the other, the U.S. Department of State adds the capital in parentheses. This practice is unofficial and provisional.

Note 5: Claimed by both the Government of the People’s Republic of China and the authorities on Taiwan. Administered by the authorities on Taiwan. (see note 3)