How many countries count our planet? What is the list of all countries? Question to 6 continents and 8 billion inhabitants!
Planet Earth is the only officially owned by individuals with superior intelligence. Over the years, these individuals have organized themselves into cities, domains, kingdoms and empires, but our era is characterized by the mutation of these ancestral forms of grouping of populations in modern forms, states, nations or countries.
What is the number of countries in the world? We help you revise your geography.
List of countries: on the 6 continents, there are 197 countries
The planet has 6 continents: Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, South America and Oceania. But what is the number of countries in the world?
These continents, from the outbreak of the Pangean, shelter 197 countries in total recognized by the United Nations, including 193 Member States, two non-members but observer states (In this case the Vatican and Palestine) and two States and permanent observers, but full members of several United Nations specialized agencies: the Cook Islands and Niue. But if we count all micro-states and dependent territories, we count in total 220 !
However, countries are not equitably distributed on continents. Indeed, if Africa has 54 countries, Asia counts only 48, Europe 44, South America 15, North America (which includes Central America and the Caribbean for example) 45 and Oceania 14.
How many countries have Europe?
Probably the continent to the oldest civilization, hence its nickname of the Old Continent. With a population estimated at 741 million inhabitants Europe is the third most populous continent in the world. The number of countries in Europe is 44 and here are the countries listed in order of population size:
- Russia
- Germany
- United Kingdom
- France
- Italy
- Spain
- Ukraine
- Poland
- Romania
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Greece
- Czech Republic
- Portugal
- Sweden
- Hungary
- Belarus
- Austria
- Serbia
- Switzerland
- Bulgaria
- Denmark
- Finland
- Slovakia
- Norway
- Ireland
- Croatia
- Moldova
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Albania
- Lithuania
- Macedonia (ARYM)
- Slovenia
- Latvia
- Estonia
- Montenegro
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Iceland
- Andorra
- Monaco
- Liechtenstein
- Saint Marin
- The Vatican
How many countries have Africa?
Africa is the continent with the most countries. 54 in total and divided into small groups in the West, East, Central and South. It is also the second most populous continent in the world, after Asia, with 1, 2 billion inhabitants.
The most populous at least populated are the 53 countries of the African continent:
- Nigeria
- Ethiopia
- Egypt
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Tanzania
- South Africa
- Kenya
- Uganda
- Algeria
- Sudan
- Morocco
- Angola
- Mozambique
- Ghana
- Madagascar
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Cameroon
- Niger
- Burkina Faso
- Malawi
- Mali
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Senegal
- Chad
- Somalia
- Guinea Conakry
- South Sudan
- Rwanda
- Benin
- Tunisia
- Burundi
- Togo
- Sierra Leone
- Libya
- Congo
- Eritrea
- Liberia
- Central African Republic
- Mauritania
- Namibia
- Botswana
- Lesotho
- Gambia
- Gabon
- Guinea-Bissau
- Swaziland
- Equatorial Guinea
- Mauritius
- Djibouti
- Comoros
- Cape Verde
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Seychelles
How many countries have Asia?
Asia is the world’s most populous continent with a population of more than 4.4 billion, more than half of the world’s population. There are 48 countries that are most or less populated:
- China
- India
- Indonesia
- Pakistan
- Bangladesh
- Japan
- Philippines
- Vietnam
- Turkey
- Iran
- Thailand
- Myanmar (Burma)
- South Korea
- Iraq
- Afghanistan
- Saudi Arabia
- Uzbekistan
- Malaysia
- Nepal
- Yemen
- North Korea
- Sri Lanka
- Kazakhstan
- Syria
- Cambodia
- Jordan
- Azerbaijan
- United Arab Emirates
- Tajikistan
- Israel
- Laos
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lebanon
- Turkmenistan
- Singapore
- State of Palestine
- Sultanate of Oman
- Kuwait
- Georgia
- Mongolia
- Armenia
- Qatar
- Bahrain
- Timor-Lesteal
- Cyprus
- Bhutan
- Maldives
- Brunei Darussalam
How many countries have South America?
Assimilated to Latin America, South America is made up of a total of 15 countries. Some of them are more known than others. Notably Argentina, which is the country of birth of one of the best football players of all time, Lionel Messi.
The fifth most populous continent in the world with 422.5 million inhabitants in South America has 15 countries listed below:
- Brazil
- Colombia
- Argentina
- Peru
- Venezuela
- Chile
- Ecuador
- Bolivia
- Paraguay
- Uruguay
- Guyana
- Suriname
- Guyane (France)
- Malouines
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
How many countries have North America?
North America is the world’s fourth most populous continent with an estimated population of 580 million. It also includes nations such as the United States, Mexico (often attached to Central America) and Canada.
While Uncle Sam’s country has 328 million inhabitants and Canada 37, the remaining 215 million inhabitants populate the territories such as the micro states of that continent or the Caribbean and Central American countries.
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Aruba
- Banc de Bajo Nuevo
- Banc de Serranilla
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Canada
- Saint Martin
- Saint-Barthélemy
- Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
- Dominica
- Puerto Rico
- Bahamas
- Curaçao
- United States
- Mexico
- Saint-Christophe-et-Niévès
- Grenada
- Greenland
- Guadeloupe
- Island of Clipperton
- Navasse Island
- Cayman Islands
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- British Virgin Islands
- United States Virgin Islands
- Jamaica
- Martinique
- Montserrat
- Caribbean Netherlands
- Haiti
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Guatemala
- Panama
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Dominican Republic
- Honduras
- Salvador
- Nicaragua
- Saint-Martin (Dutch part)
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Saint Lucia
How many countries have Oceania?
While Oceania could have been expected to be the continent with the least number of countries in the world (the two most well-known being Australia and New Zealand) there is nothing, since it has 14 countries which are distributed according to the size of their populations:
- Australia
- Papua New Guinea
- New Zealand
- Fiji
- Solomon Islands
- Vanuatu
- Samoa
- Kiribati
- Tonga
- Micronesia
- Marshall Islands
- Palau
- Tuvalu
- Nauru
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