List of Countries - Britannica

Overview

• Purpose: Provides an alphabetically ordered list of countries including political dependencies and territories.
• Editors: Written and fact-checked by the editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
• Last Updated: April 24, 2025.

Content Structure

• Introduction
• Alphabetical List of Countries
  • Each letter from A to Z represents a section linking to countries starting with that letter.

Detailed Country List

A

• Afghanistan
• Albania
• Algeria
• American Samoa
• Andorra
• Angola
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Argentina
• Armenia
• Aruba
• Australia
• Austria
• Azerbaijan

B

• The Bahamas
• Bahrain
• Bangladesh
• Barbados
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Belize
• Benin
• Bermuda
• Bhutan
• Bolivia
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Botswana
• Brazil
• Brunei
• Bulgaria
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi

C

• Cabo Verde (Cape Verde)
• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Canada
• Cayman Islands
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Chile
• China
• Colombia
• Comoros
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Republic of the Congo
• Costa Rica
• Côte d'Ivoire
• Croatia
• Cuba
• Curaçao
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic

D

• Denmark
• Djibouti
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic

E

• East Timor (Timor-Leste)
• Ecuador
• Egypt
• El Salvador
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Estonia
• Eswatini (Swaziland)
• Ethiopia

F

• Faroe Islands
• Fiji
• Finland
• France
• French Guiana
• French Polynesia

G

• Gabon
• The Gambia
• Gaza Strip
• Georgia
• Germany
• Ghana
• Greece
• Greenland
• Grenada
• Guadeloupe
• Guam
• Guatemala
• Guernsey
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Guyana

H

• Haiti
• Honduras
• Hong Kong
• Hungary

I

• Iceland
• India
• Indonesia
• Iran
• Iraq
• Ireland
• Isle of Man
• Israel
• Italy

J

• Jamaica
• Japan
• Jersey
• Jordan

K

• Kazakhstan
• Kenya
• Kiribati
• North Korea
• South Korea
• Kosovo
• Kuwait
• Kyrgyzstan

L

• Laos
• Latvia
• Lebanon
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libya
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg

M

• Macau
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Mali
• Malta
• Marshall Islands
• Martinique
• Mauritania
• Mauritius
• Mayotte
• Mexico
• Micronesia
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Mongolia
• Montenegro
• Morocco
• Mozambique
• Myanmar (Burma)

N

• Namibia
• Nauru
• Nepal
• Netherlands
• New Caledonia
• New Zealand
• Nicaragua
• Niger
• Nigeria
• North Macedonia
• Northern Mariana Islands
• Norway

O

• Oman

P

• Pakistan
• Palau
• Panama
• Papua New Guinea
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Philippines
• Poland
• Portugal
• Puerto Rico

Q

• Qatar

R

• Réunion
• Romania
• Russia
• Rwanda

S

• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Samoa
• San Marino
• São Tomé and Príncipe
• Saudi Arabia
• Senegal
• Serbia
• Seychelles
• Sierra Leone
• Singapore
• Sint Maarten
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Solomon Islands
• Somalia
• South Africa
• Spain
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• South Sudan
• Suriname
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Syria

T

• Taiwan
• Tajikistan
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Togo
• Tonga
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Tunisia
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• Tuvalu

U

• Uganda
• Ukraine
• United Arab Emirates
• United Kingdom
• United States
• United States Virgin Islands
• Uruguay
• Uzbekistan

V

• Vanuatu
• Vatican City
• Venezuela
• Vietnam

W

• West Bank

Y

• Yemen

Z

• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

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