how many nations are in africa?
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52 or 53 if I'm not mistaken.
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There are 243 entities considered to be countries. \nThis corresponds to:\n\n    * 201 sovereign and/or independent states:\n          o 191 member states of the United Nations (UN).\n          o 1 UN recognized non-member state governed by the Holy See (a UN permanent observer): the Vatican City.\n          o 1 state not recognized by the UN since late 1971, recognized by 25 other states and currently with de facto international relations with most states, the Republic of China (popularly referred to as Taiwan).\n          o 8 states not recognized by the UN and not recognized by a significant portion of its individual member-states:\n                + 1 de facto independent state, diplomatically recognized by only Turkey; Northern Cyprus[1]\n                + 5 de facto independent states; namely Abkhazia[2], Nagorno-Karabakh[3] Somaliland[4], South Ossetia[5], and Transnistria[6]; all recognized by no states.\n                + 2 entities recognized by many countries as sovereign, but not de facto independent; namely Palestine and Western Sahara.\n    * 37 inhabited dependent territories:\n          o 3 overseas territories of Australia (Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Island)\n          o 2 overseas countries in the Kingdom of Denmark (Greenland and Faroe Islands)\n          o 5 dependent territories of France:\n                + 1 sui generis (unique) dependency of France (New Caledonia)\n                + 4 overseas collectivities of France (Mayotte, French Polynesia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Wallis and Futuna)\n          o 2 overseas countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Aruba and Netherlands Antilles)\n          o 3 dependent territories of New Zealand:\n          o 2 states in free association with New Zealand (Cook Islands and Niue)\n          o 1 New Zealand overseas territory (Tokelau)\n          o 17 dependent territories of the United Kingdom:\n                + 3 British Crown dependencies (Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man)\n                + 12 overseas territories of the United Kingdom (Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena [and its dependencies Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha] and the Turks and Caicos Islands)\n                + 2 Sovereign Base Areas on the island of Cyprus (Akrotiri and Dhekelia)\n          o 5 unincorporated territories of the United States (US) (American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands)\n    * 4 special entities recognized by international treaty or agreement (Åland in Finland, Svalbard in Norway, as well as the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau in the People's Republic of China)\n    * 1 UN protectorate inside the de jure territory of a sovereign state (Kosovo in Serbia and Montenegro under UN interim civilian administration).\n\n    * Abkhazia Abkhazia - Republic of Abkhazia (de facto independent state inside Georgia)\n    * Afghanistan Afghanistan - Islamic Republic of Afghanistan\n    * United Kingdom Akrotiri - Akrotiri Sovereign Base Area (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)\n    * Åland Åland - Åland Islands (autonomous province of Finland recognized by international treaty)\n    * Albania Albania - Republic of Albania\n    * Algeria Algeria - People's Democratic Republic of Algeria\n    * American Samoa American Samoa - Territory of American Samoa (unincorporated unorganized territory of the United States)\n    * Andorra Andorra - Principality of Andorra (co-principality with the President of the French Republic and the Bishop of Urgell, Spain as ex officio heads of state)\n    * Angola Angola - Republic of Angola\n    * Anguilla Anguilla (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)\n    * Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda (Commonwealth Realm)\n    * Argentina Argentina - Argentine Republic (federal state, also named Argentine Nation for purposes of legislation)
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same amount of nations in the world and 7 continents
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There are seven continents in the world.\nAsia\nAfrica\nEurope\nAntarctica\nSouth America\nNorth America\nAustralasia/Oceana
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there are 193 countries
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There more than 100 Languages in Africa .
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http://www.africa.com/\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa
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There 192 countries... here is a full list.  191 of these countries are part of the united nations, and the 1 country that is seperate is vatican city.\n\nA | Afghanistan | Albania | Algeria | Andorra | Angola | Antigua and Barbuda | Argentina | Armenia | Australia | Austria | Azerbaijan | \nB | Bahamas | Bahrain | Bangladesh | Barbados | Belarus | Belize | Belgium | Benin | Bhutan | Bolivia | Botswana | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Brazil | Brunei | Bulgaria | Burkina Faso | Burundi | \nC | Cambodia | Cameroon | Canada | Cape Verde | Central African Republic | Chad | Chile | China | China: Hong Kong | China: Macau | China: Taiwan | Colombia | Comoros | Congo | Costa Rica | Côte d'Ivoire | Croatia | Cuba | Cyprus | Czech Republic | \nD | Denmark | Djibouti | Dominica | Dominican Republic | \nE | East Timor | Ecuador | Egypt | El Salvador | Equatorial Guinea | Eritrea | Estonia | Ethiopia | \nF | Fijii | Finland | France | French Guiana | \nG | Gabon | The Gambia | Gaza Strip | Germany | Georgia | Ghana | Greece | Grenada | Guatemala | Guinea | Guinea-Bissau | Guyana | \nH | Haiti | Holy See (Vatican City) | Honduras | Hong Kong | Hungary | \nI | Iceland | India | Indonesia | Iran | Iraq | Ireland (Eire) | Ireland (Northern) | Israel | Italy | \nJ | Jamaica | Japan | Jordan | \nK | Kazakhstan | Kenya | Korea, North | Korea, South | Kuwait | Kyrgyzstan | \nL | Laos - | Latvia - | Lebanon - | Lesotho - | Liberia - | Libya - | Lithuania | Luxembourg - | \nM | Macao | Macedonia | Malawi | Malaysia | Maldives | Mali | Malta | Marshall Islands | Mauritania | Mauritius | Micronesia | Moldova | Monaco | Mongolia | Morocco | Mexico | Mozambique | Myanmar (Burma) | \nN | Namibia (1) | Nauru | Nepal (1) | Netherlands (11+5) | New Zealand (10) | Nicaragua | Niger (1) | Nigeria (1) | Norway (4) | \nO | Oman (1) | \nP | Panama | Peru | Pakistan | Papua New Guinea | Palau | Poland | Portugal | \nQ | Qatar (1) | \nR | Romania | Russia | Rwanda | \nS | St. Kitts and Nevis - | Saint Lucia - | St. Vincent and the Grenadines - | Samoa (1) | San Marino - | São Tomé and Príncipe - | Saudi Arabia (1) | Senegal (2) | Serbia and Montenegro (2) | Seychelles - | Sierra Leone - | Singapore (4) | Slovakia (2) | Slovenia (2) | Solomon Islands - | Somalia - | South Africa (23) | Spain (3) | Sri Lanka (3) | Sudan (2) | Suriname - | Swaziland (1) | Sweden (10) | Switzerland (10) | Syria - | \nT | Taiwan | Tajikistan | Tanzania | Togo | Thailand | Trinidad and Tobago | Tunisia | Turkey | Turkmenistan | Tuvalu | \nU | Uganda (2) | Ukraine (8) | United Arab Emirates (1) | United Kingdom (72) | United States of America (317) | Uruguay (2) | Uzbekistan (1) | \nV | Venezuela | Vietnam | Vatican City\nW | West Bank (3) | Western Sahara | \nX | \nY | Yemen | Yugoslavia now Serbia & Montenegro | \nZ | Zaire now Congo, Democratic Republic of | Zambia (1) | Zimbabwe (1) |
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actully, it's spelled countries. 189, 191, 192, 193 or 194 independent countries are in the world today. \n(A) \nAfghanistan (Kabul) (AS) \nAlbania (Tirane) (EU)\nAlgeria (Algers) (AF)\nAndorra (Andorra la Vella) (EU)\nAngola (Luanda) (AF)\nAntigua and Barbuda (St. John's) (NA)\nArgentina (Buenos Aires) (SA)\nArmenia (Yerevan) (EU)\nAustralia (Canberra) (AU)\nAustria (Vienna) (EU)\nAzerbaijan (Baku) (AS)\n\n(B) \nBahamas (Nassau) (NA)\nBahrain (Manama) (AS)\nBangladesh (Dhaka) (AS)\nBarbados (Bridgetown) (NA)\nBelarus (Minsk) (EU)\nBelgium (Brussels) (EU)\nBelize (Belmopan) (NA)\nBenin (Port-Novo) (AF)\nBhutan (Thimphu) (AS)\nBolivia (Sucre) (SA)\nBosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo) (EU)\nBotswana (Gaborone) (AF)\nBrazil (Brasilia) (SA)\nBrunei (Bander Seri Begawan) (AS)\nBulgaria (Sofia) (EU)\nBurkina Faso (Ouagadougou) (AF)\nBurma/Myanmar (Yangon) (AS)\nBurundi (Bujumbura) (AF)\n\n(C) \nCambodia (Phnom Penh) (AS)\nCameroon (Yaounde) (AF)\nCanada (Ottawa) (NA)\nCape Verde (Praia) (EU - Portugal)\nCentral African Republic (Bangui) (AF)\nChad (N'Djamena) (AF)\nChile (Santiago) (SA)\nChina (Beijing) (AS)\nColombia (Bogota) (SA)\nComoros (Moroni) (AF)\nCongo (Brazzaville) (AF)\nCongo, Democratic Republic of (Kinshasa) (AF)\nCosta Rica (San Jose) (NA)\nCote d'Ivoire/Ivory Coast (Yamoussoukro) (AF)\nCroatia (Zagreb) (EU)\nCuba (Havana) (NA)\nCyprus (Nicosia) (AS) and/or (EU)\nCzech Republic (Prague) (EU)\n\n(D) \nDenmark (Copenhagen) (EU)\nDjibouti (Djibouti) (AF)\nDominica (Roseau) (NA)\nDominican Republic (Santo Domingo) (NA)\n\n(E) \nEast Timor (Dili) (AS)\nEcuador (Quito) (SA)\nEgypt (Cairo) (AF)\nEl Salvador (San Salvador) (NA)\nEquatorial Guinea (Malabo) (AF)\nEritrea (Asmara) (AF)\nEstonia (Tallinn) (EU)\nEthiopia (Addis Ababa) (AF)\n\n(F) \nFiji (Suva) (AU - Oceania)\nFinland (Helsinki) (EU)\nFrance (Paris) (EU)\n\n(G) \nGabon (Liberville) (AF)\nGambia (Banjul) (AF)\nGeorgia (Tbilisi) (EU)\nGermany (Berlin) (EU)\nGhana (Accra) (AF)\nGreece (Athens) (EU)\nGrenada (St. George's) (NA)\nGuatemala (Guatemala City) (NA)\nGuinea (Conakry) (AF)\nGuinea-Bissau (Bissau) (AF)\nGuyana (Georgetown) (SA)\n\n(H) \nHaiti (Port-au-Prince) (NA)\nHonduras (Tegucigalpa) (NA)\nHungary (Budapest) (EU)\n\n(I) \nIceland (Reykjavik) (EU)\nIndia (New Delhi) (AS)\nIndonesia (Jakarta) (AS)\nIran (Tehran) (AS)\nIraq (Baghdad) (AS)\nIreland (Dublin) (EU)\nIsrael (Jerusalem) (AS)\nItaly (Rome) (EU)\n\n(J) \nJamaica (Kingston) (NA)\nJapan (Tokyo) (AS)\nJordan (Amman) (AS)\n\n(K) \nKazakstan (Astana) (AS)\nKenya (Nairobi) (AF)\nKiribati (Bairiki) (AU - Oceania)\nKorea, North (Pyongyang) (AS)\nKorea, South (Seoul) (AS)\nKuwait (Kuwait City) (AS)\nKyrgyzstan (Bishkek) (AS)\n\n(L) \nLaos (Vientiane) (AS)\nLatvia (Riga) (EU)\nLebanon (Beirut) (AS)\nLesotho (Maseru) (AF)\nLiberia (Monrovia) (AF)\nLibya (Tripoli) (AF)\nLiechtenstein (Vaduz) (EU)\nLithuania (Vilnius) (EU)\nLuxembourg (Luxembourg) (EU)\n\n    (M) \nMacedonia (Skopje) (EU)\nMadagascar (Antananarivo) (AF)\nMalawi (Lilongwe) (AF)\nMalaysia (Kuala Lumpur) (AS)\nMaldives (Male) (AS)\nMali (Bamako) (AF)\nMalta (Valletta) (EU)\nMarshall Islands (Majuro) (AU - Oceania)\nMauritania (Nouakchott) (AF)\nMauritius (Port Louis) (AF)\nMexico (Mexico City) (NA)\nMicronesia (Palikir) (AU - Oceania)\nMoldova (Chisinau) (EU)\nMonaco (Monaco) (EU)\nMongolia (Ulan Bator) (AS)\nMorocco (Rabat) (AF) (including Western Sahara)\nMozambique (Maputo) (AF)\n\n(N) \nNamibia (Windhoek) (AF)\nNauru (no official capital) (AU - Oceania)\nNepal (Kathmandu) (AS)\nNetherlands (Amsterdam, The Hague) (EU)\nNew Zealand (Wellington) (AU)\nNicaragua (Managua) (NA)\nNiger (Niamey) (AF)\nNigeria (Abuja) (AF)\nNorway (Oslo) (EU)\n\n(O) \nOman (Muscat) (AS) \n\n(P) \nPakistan (Islamabad) (AS)\nPalau (Koror) (AU - Oceania)\nPanama (Panama City) (NA)\nPapua New Guinea (Port Moresby) (AU)\nParaguay (Asuncion) (SA)\nPeru (Lima) (SA)\nPhilippines (Manila) (AS)\nPoland (Warsaw) (EU)\nPortugal (Lisbon) (EU)\n\n(Q) \nQatar (Doha) (
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201. There are 191 countries in the UN, Taiwan and the Vatican aren't in the UN, 6 de-facto independent countries: Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Northern Cyprus, Somaliland, South Ossetia, and Transnistria, and 2 countries recognized by many countries de-facto but not independent, Palestine and Western Sahara.
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There are 115 nations buddy.....not 15.  Unless that was a typo.\n\nAfghanistan \nAlgeria \nAngola \nAntigua and Barbuda \nBahamas \nBahrain \nBangladesh \nBarbados \nBelarus \nBelize \nBenin \nBhutan \nBolivia \nBotswana \nBrunei \nBurkina Faso \nBurundi \nCambodia \nCameroon \nCape Verde \nCentral African Republic \nChad \nChile \nColombia \nComoros \nCongo \nCôte d'Ivoire \nCuba \nDemocratic Republic of Congo \nDominican Republic \nDjibouti \nDominica \nEcuador \nEgypt \nEquatorial Guinea \nEritrea \nEthiopia \nGabon \nGambia \n Ghana \nGrenada \nGuatemala \nGuinea \nGuinea-Bissau \nGuyana \nHonduras \nIndia \nIndonesia \nIran \nIraq \nJamaica \nJordan \nKenya \nKuwait \nLaos \nLebanon \nLesotho \nLiberia \nLibya \nMadagascar \nMalawi \nMalaysia \nMaldives \nMali \nMauritania \nMauritius \nMongolia \nMorocco \nMozambique \nMyanmar \nNamibia \nNepal \nNicaragua \nNiger \nNigeria \nNorth Korea \nOman \nPakistan \n State of Palestine \nPanama \nPapua New Guinea \nPeru \nPhilippines \nQatar \nRwanda \nSaint Lucia \nSaint Vincent and the Grenadines \nSão Tomé and Príncipe \nSaudi Arabia \nSenegal \nSeychelles \nSierra Leone \nSingapore \nSomalia \nSouth Africa \nSri Lanka \nSudan \nSuriname \nSwaziland \nSyria \nTanzania \nThailand \nTimor Leste \nTogo \nTrinidad and Tobago \nTunisia \nTurkmenistan \nUganda \nUnited Arab Emirates \nUzbekistan \nVanuatu \nVenezuela \nVietnam \nYemen \nZambia \nZimbabwe
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This is difficult to answer as a country is not the same as a nation state, eg The UK is a Nation state made up by 4 different countries (Scotland, N.ireland, Wales, England), There are also countries that are not recoginsed within other nation states e.g The Basques, Catalans etc in Spain. \n\nMost commenators exept that there are 243 countries and 193 Nation states, but this is alos wrong as none of the above countries are listed \n\nThere are currently 193 Nation States recognised by the United Nations — its 192 members and the Vatican City, \n\nThis exludes the countries that are not Nation States and one that are but not in the UN  like Taiwain, The Palastine Authority
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I think of Africa as a place - the continent that contains a diversity of terrains, countries, peoples, and cultures. It is home to those things you mentioned - the African racial group, the Sahara and Namibian deserts, African elephants, but it is also home of Egypt, with its ancient history, and Nigeria, with its rapid growth partially fueled by oil reserves, and Rwanda, a site of tribal genocide. It is the home of dwindling numbers of gorillas and chimpanzees, and Charlize Theron and Desmond Tutu, of the Darfur region of Sudan. Many countries are impoverished, especially the landlocked ones or ones that have suffered from the lack of economic development or borders carved out by European colonial interests that may make little sense today. While there is poverty and AIDS in many places, there is also some progress toward sustainable development and gender equality.
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192 countries exist in the world as of now
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africa has everything
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Here's the answers to the both parts of the question.          Nigeria is the most populous, which is estimated at 135,570,000, as of 1/1/04.\nSudan is the largest country on the African continent at 967,500 Square Miles (area).
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50\nAlgeria (ALG) Angola (ANG) \nBenin (BEN) Botswana (BOT) \nBurkina Faso (BFA) Burundi (BDI) \nCameroon (CMR) Cape Verde Islands (CPV) \nCentral African Republic (CTA) Chad (CHA) \nCongo (CGO) Congo DR (COD) \nCôte d'Ivoire (CIV) Djibouti (DJI) \nEgypt (EGY) Equatorial Guinea (EQG) \nEritrea (ERI) Ethiopia (ETH) \nGabon (GAB) Gambia (GAM) \nGhana (GHA) Guinea (GUI) \nGuinea-Bissau (GNB) Kenya (KEN) \nLesotho (LES) Liberia (LBR) \nLibya (LBY) Madagascar (MAD) \nMalawi (MWI) Mali (MLI) \nMauritania (MTN) Mauritius (MRI) \nMorocco (MAR) Mozambique (MOZ) \nNamibia (NAM) Niger (NIG) \nNigeria (NGA) Rwanda (RWA) \nSenegal (SEN) Seychelles (SEY) \nSierra Leone (SLE) Somalia (SOM) \nSouth Africa (RSA) Sudan (SUD) \nSwaziland (SWZ) São Tomé e Príncipe (STP) \nTanzania (TAN) Togo (TOG) \nTunisia (TUN) Uganda (UGA)