As of 2023, There are 195 recognized Countries in the world today, each with its own unique culture, customs, and history. This article will explore the number of countries that exist on Earth and discuss the criteria for a nation to be considered a sovereign state. From large superpowers to tiny island nations, this article will look at each country individually and provide an overview of the total number of countries in the world.
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List of countries in the world and their capitals, Populations and Land Areas
| SI No. | Country | Population (2020) | Capital | Land Area (Km²) |
| 1 | China | 1439323776 | Beijing | 9388211 |
| 2 | India | 1380004385 | New Delhi | 2973190 |
| 3 | United States | 331002651 | Washington DC | 9147420 |
| 4 | Indonesia | 273523615 | Jakarta | 1811570 |
| 5 | Pakistan | 220892340 | Islamabad | 770880 |
| 6 | Brazil | 212559417 | Brasilia | 8358140 |
| 7 | Nigeria | 206139589 | Abuja | 910770 |
| 8 | Bangladesh | 164689383 | Dhaka | 130170 |
| 9 | Russia | 145934462 | Moscow | 16376870 |
| 10 | Mexico | 128932753 | Mexico City | 1943950 |
| 11 | Japan | 126476461 | Tokyo | 364555 |
| 12 | Ethiopia | 114963588 | Addis Ababa | 1000000 |
| 13 | Philippines | 109581078 | Manila | 298170 |
| 14 | Egypt | 102334404 | Cairo | 995450 |
| 15 | Vietnam | 97338579 | Hanoi | 310070 |
| 16 | DR Congo | 89561403 | Kinshasa | 2267050 |
| 17 | Turkey | 84339067 | Ankara | 769630 |
| 18 | Iran | 83992949 | Tehran | 1628550 |
| 19 | Germany | 83783942 | Berlin | 348560 |
| 20 | Thailand | 69799978 | Bangkok | 510890 |
| 21 | United Kingdom | 67886011 | London | 241930 |
| 22 | France | 65273511 | Paris | 547557 |
| 23 | Italy | 60461826 | Rome | 294140 |
| 24 | Tanzania | 59734218 | Dodoma | 885800 |
| 25 | South Africa | 59308690 | Pretoria | 1213090 |
| 26 | Myanmar | 54409800 | Naypyidaw | 653290 |
| 27 | Kenya | 53771296 | Nairobi | 569140 |
| 28 | South Korea | 51269185 | Seoul | 97230 |
| 29 | Colombia | 50882891 | Bogota | 1109500 |
| 30 | Spain | 46754778 | Madrid | 498800 |
| 31 | Uganda | 45741007 | Kampala | 199810 |
| 32 | Argentina | 45195774 | Buenos Aires | 2736690 |
| 33 | Algeria | 43851044 | Algiers | 2381740 |
| 34 | Sudan | 43849260 | Khartoum | 1765048 |
| 35 | Ukraine | 43733762 | Kiev | 579320 |
| 36 | Iraq | 40222493 | Baghdad | 434320 |
| 37 | Afghanistan | 38928346 | Kabul | 652860 |
| 38 | Poland | 37846611 | Warsaw | 306230 |
| 39 | Canada | 37742154 | Ottawa | 9093510 |
| 40 | Morocco | 36910560 | Rabat | 446300 |
| 41 | Saudi Arabia | 34813871 | Riyadh | 2149690 |
| 42 | Uzbekistan | 33469203 | Tashkent | 425400 |
| 43 | Peru | 32971854 | Lima | 1280000 |
| 44 | Angola | 32866272 | Luanda | 1246700 |
| 45 | Malaysia | 32365999 | Kuala Lumpur | 328550 |
| 46 | Mozambique | 31255435 | Maputo | 786380 |
| 47 | Ghana | 31072940 | Accra | 227540 |
| 48 | Yemen | 29825964 | Sana’a | 527970 |
| 49 | Nepal | 29136808 | Kathmandu | 143350 |
| 50 | Venezuela | 28435940 | Caracas | 882050 |
| 51 | Madagascar | 27691018 | Antananarivo | 581795 |
| 52 | Cameroon | 26545863 | Yaounde | 472710 |
| 53 | Côte d’Ivoire | 26378274 | Yamoussoukro | 318000 |
| 54 | North Korea | 25778816 | Pyongyang | 120410 |
| 55 | Australia | 25499884 | Canberra | 7682300 |
| 56 | Niger | 24206644 | Niamey | 1266700 |
| 57 | Sri Lanka | 21413249 | Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte | 62710 |
| 58 | Burkina Faso | 20903273 | Ouagadougou | 273600 |
| 59 | Mali | 20250833 | Bamako | 1220190 |
| 60 | Romania | 19237691 | Bucharest | 230170 |
| 61 | Malawi | 19129952 | Lilongwe | 94280 |
| 62 | Chile | 19116201 | Santiago | 743532 |
| 63 | Kazakhstan | 18776707 | Astana | 2699700 |
| 64 | Zambia | 18383955 | Lusaka | 743390 |
| 65 | Guatemala | 17915568 | Guatemala City | 107160 |
| 66 | Ecuador | 17643054 | Quito | 248360 |
| 67 | Syria | 17500658 | Damascus | 183630 |
| 68 | Netherlands | 17134872 | Amsterdam | 33720 |
| 69 | Senegal | 16743927 | Dakar | 192530 |
| 70 | Cambodia | 16718965 | Phnom Penh | 176520 |
| 71 | Chad | 16425864 | N’Djamena | 1259200 |
| 72 | Somalia | 15893222 | Mogadishu | 627340 |
| 73 | Zimbabwe | 14862924 | Harare | 386850 |
| 74 | Guinea | 13132795 | Conakry | 245720 |
| 75 | Rwanda | 12952218 | Kigali | 24670 |
| 76 | Benin | 12123200 | Porto Novo | 112760 |
| 77 | Burundi | 11890784 | Bujumbura | 25680 |
| 78 | Tunisia | 11818619 | Tunis | 155360 |
| 79 | Bolivia | 11673021 | Sucre | 1083300 |
| 80 | Belgium | 11589623 | Brussels | 30280 |
| 81 | Haiti | 11402528 | Port-au-Prince | 27560 |
| 82 | Cuba | 11326616 | Zagreb | 106440 |
| 83 | South Sudan | 11193725 | Juba | 610952 |
| 84 | Dominican Republic | 10847910 | Santo Domingo | 48320 |
| 85 | Czech Republic (Czechia) | 10708981 | Prague | 77240 |
| 86 | Greece | 10423054 | Athens | 128900 |
| 87 | Jordan | 10203134 | Amman | 88780 |
| 88 | Portugal | 10196709 | Lisbon | 91590 |
| 89 | Azerbaijan | 10139177 | Baku | 82658 |
| 90 | Sweden | 10099265 | Stockholm | 410340 |
| 91 | Honduras | 9904607 | Tegucigalpa | 111890 |
| 92 | United Arab Emirates | 9890402 | Abu Dhabi | 83600 |
| 93 | Hungary | 9660351 | Budapest | 90530 |
| 94 | Tajikistan | 9537645 | Dushanbe | 139960 |
| 95 | Belarus | 9449323 | Minsk | 202910 |
| 96 | Austria | 9006398 | Vienna | 82409 |
| 97 | Papua New Guinea | 8947024 | Port Moresby | 452860 |
| 98 | Serbia | 8737371 | Belgrade | 87460 |
| 99 | Israel | 8655535 | Jerusalem | 21640 |
| 100 | Switzerland | 8654622 | Bern | 39516 |
| 101 | Togo | 8278724 | Lome | 54390 |
| 102 | Sierra Leone | 7976983 | Freetown | 72180 |
| 103 | Laos | 7275560 | Vientiane | 230800 |
| 104 | Paraguay | 7132538 | Asuncion | 397300 |
| 105 | Bulgaria | 6948445 | Sofia | 108560 |
| 106 | Libya | 6871292 | Tripoli | 1759540 |
| 107 | Lebanon | 6825445 | Beirut | 10230 |
| 108 | Nicaragua | 6624554 | Managua | 120340 |
| 109 | Kyrgyzstan | 6524195 | Bishkek | 191800 |
| 110 | El Salvador | 6486205 | San Salvador | 20720 |
| 111 | Turkmenistan | 6031200 | Ashgabat | 469930 |
| 112 | Singapore | 5850342 | Singapore | 700 |
| 113 | Denmark | 5792202 | Copenhagen | 42430 |
| 114 | Finland | 5540720 | Helsinki | 303890 |
| 115 | Congo | 5518087 | Kinshasa | 341500 |
| 116 | Slovakia | 5459642 | Bratislava | 48088 |
| 117 | Norway | 5421241 | Oslo | 365268 |
| 118 | Oman | 5106626 | Muscat | 309500 |
| 119 | State of Palestine | 5101414 | East Jerusalem | 6020 |
| 120 | Costa Rica | 5094118 | San Jose | 51060 |
| 121 | Liberia | 5057681 | Monrovia | 96320 |
| 122 | Ireland | 4937786 | Dublin | 68890 |
| 123 | Central African Republic | 4829767 | Bangui | 622980 |
| 124 | New Zealand | 4822233 | Wellington | 263310 |
| 125 | Mauritania | 4649658 | Nouakchott | 1030700 |
| 126 | Panama | 4314767 | Panama City | 74340 |
| 127 | Kuwait | 4270571 | Kuwait City | 17820 |
| 128 | Croatia | 4105267 | Zagreb | 55960 |
| 129 | Moldova | 4033963 | Chisinau | 32850 |
| 130 | Georgia | 3989167 | Tbilisi | 69490 |
| 131 | Eritrea | 3546421 | Asmara | 101000 |
| 132 | Uruguay | 3473730 | Montevideo | 175020 |
| 133 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3280819 | Sarajevo | 51000 |
| 134 | Mongolia | 3278290 | Ulaanbaatar | 1553560 |
| 135 | Armenia | 2963243 | Yerevan | 28470 |
| 136 | Jamaica | 2961167 | Kingston | 10830 |
| 137 | Qatar | 2881053 | Doha | 11610 |
| 138 | Albania | 2877797 | Tirana | 27400 |
| 139 | Lithuania | 2722289 | Vilnius | 62674 |
| 140 | Namibia | 2540905 | Windhoek | 823290 |
| 141 | Gambia | 2416668 | Banjul | 10120 |
| 142 | Botswana | 2351627 | Gaborone | 566730 |
| 143 | Gabon | 2225734 | Libreville | 257670 |
| 144 | Lesotho | 2142249 | Maseru | 30360 |
| 145 | North Macedonia | 2083374 | Skopje | 25220 |
| 146 | Slovenia | 2078938 | Ljubljana | 20140 |
| 147 | Guinea-Bissau | 1968001 | Bissau | 28120 |
| 148 | Latvia | 1886198 | Riga | 62200 |
| 149 | Bahrain | 1701575 | Manama | 760 |
| 150 | Equatorial Guinea | 1402985 | Malabo | 28050 |
| 151 | Trinidad and Tobago | 1399488 | Port of Spain | 5130 |
| 152 | Estonia | 1326535 | Tallinn | 42390 |
| 153 | Timor-Leste | 1318445 | Dili | 14870 |
| 154 | Mauritius | 1271768 | Port Louis | 2030 |
| 155 | Cyprus | 1207359 | Nicosia | 9240 |
| 156 | Eswatini | 1160164 | Mbabane | 17200 |
| 157 | Djibouti | 988000 | Djibouti | 23180 |
| 158 | Fiji | 896445 | Suva | 18270 |
| 159 | Comoros | 869601 | Moroni | 1861 |
| 160 | Guyana | 786552 | Georgetown | 196850 |
| 161 | Bhutan | 771608 | Thimphu | 38117 |
| 162 | Solomon Islands | 686884 | Honiara | 27990 |
| 163 | Montenegro | 628066 | Podgorica | 13450 |
| 164 | Luxembourg | 625978 | Luxembourg | 2590 |
| 165 | Suriname | 586632 | Paramaribo | 156000 |
| 166 | Cabo Verde | 555987 | Praia | 4030 |
| 167 | Micronesia | 548914 | Palikir | 700 |
| 168 | Maldives | 540544 | Male | 300 |
| 169 | Malta | 441543 | Valletta | 320 |
| 170 | Brunei | 437479 | Bandar Seri Begawan | 5270 |
| 171 | Belize | 397628 | Belmopan | 22810 |
| 172 | Bahamas | 393244 | Nassau | 10010 |
| 173 | Iceland | 341243 | Reykjavik | 100250 |
| 174 | Vanuatu | 307145 | Port Vila | 12190 |
| 175 | Barbados | 287375 | Bridgetown | 430 |
| 176 | Sao Tome & Principe | 219159 | Sao Tome | 960 |
| 177 | Samoa | 198414 | Apia | 2830 |
| 178 | Saint Lucia | 183627 | Castries | 610 |
| 179 | Kiribati | 119449 | Tarawa | 810 |
| 180 | Grenada | 112523 | St. George’s | 340 |
| 181 | St. Vincent & Grenadines | 110940 | Kingstown | 390 |
| 182 | Tonga | 105695 | Nukualofa | 720 |
| 183 | Seychelles | 98347 | Victoria | 460 |
| 184 | Antigua and Barbuda | 97929 | St. John’s | 440 |
| 185 | Andorra | 77265 | Andorra la Vella | 470 |
| 186 | Dominica | 71986 | Roseau | 750 |
| 187 | Marshall Islands | 59190 | Majuro | 180 |
| 188 | Saint Kitts & Nevis | 53199 | Basseterre | 260 |
| 189 | Monaco | 39242 | Monaco | 1 |
| 190 | Liechtenstein | 38128 | Vaduz | 160 |
| 191 | San Marino | 33931 | San Marino | 60 |
| 192 | Palau | 18094 | Melekeok | 460 |
| 193 | Tuvalu | 11792 | Funafuti | 30 |
| 194 | Nauru | 10824 | Yaren | 20 |
| 195 | Holy See | 801 | Vatican City | 0 |
