total no. of countries in the world.?
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By Most Accounts, 192 is the Correct Answer\n\nA very frequent geographical question is "How many countries are in the world?." Different numbers pop up when one inquires or reads about the number of countries in the world. Each source you use often yields a different answer.\n\nUnited Nations\n\nThere are 191 members of the United Nations. Unfortunately, the number 191 is too often used to represent the number of countries in the world. Although this number represents almost all of the countries in the world, there is still one country (the Vatican City) that is independent and has chosen not to become a member of the U.N. so 191 is not the number of countries in the world.\n\nU.S. Department of State\n\nThe United States' State Department recognizes 192 independent countries around the world.\nSponsored Links\n\nCountries And CurrenciesCountries And Currencies Info From Several Different Companies.BusinessChambers.com\n\nLessonPlanet.co.ukA lesson for every unit in the QCA schemes of work.www.LessonPlanet.co.uk\n\nDiplomatic passportsEasy application & processing only from UN member countrieswww.royal-diplomatic-services.org\nTheir list of 192 countries reflects the political agenda of the United States of America and its allies. Missing from the State Department's list is one entity that may or may not be considered a country, depending on who you talk to.\n\nThe One Outsider\n\nTaiwan meets most, but not all of the requirements of independent country or state status. However, due to political reasons, it fails to be recognized by the United States and much of the rest of the world. If it were recognized, it would be considered a country.\n\nTaiwan was actually a member of the United Nations (and even the Security Council) until 1971, when mainland China replaced Taiwan in the organization. Taiwan continues to press for full recognition by other countries, to become "part of the club" and fully recognized worldwide but China claims that Taiwan is simply a province of China.\n\nThus...\n\nYour Guide considers there to be 192 countries in the world, which is probably the best current answer to the question, "How many countries are in the world?" unless Taiwan becomes officially recognized by the international community, in which case the answer would be 193.\n\nHowever...\n\nRecognize that there are dozens of territories and colonies that are sometimes erroneously called "countries" but don't count at all - they're governed by other countries. Places commonly confused as being countries include Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Greenland, Palestine, Western Sahara, and even the components of the United Kingdom (such as Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England - sorry folks, they're not countries, states, or nation-states).
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Seven.  \n\nEngland, France, Italy, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, and Uraguay.
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FOUR!\n\nnamely: Iran, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and  Japan
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6.25 billion people!!!\n\n5.05 billion lives in undeveloped countries.
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G S B Total\n1    Germany       9 9 5 23\n2    Austria       8 6 5 19\n3    Russian Fed.  8 3 6 17\n4    United States 7 7 4 18\n5    Canada        5 8 5 18\n6    Switzerland   4 3 4 11\n7    Korea         4 3 1 8\n8    Sweden        4 2 4 10\n9    Italy         4 0 6 10\n10   France        3 2 4 9
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By Most Accounts, 192 is the Correct Answer\nA very frequent geographical question is "How many countries are in the world?." Different numbers pop up when one inquires or reads about the number of countries in the world. Each source you use often yields a different answer.\nUnited Nations\n\nThere are 191 members of the United Nations. Unfortunately, the number 191 is too often used to represent the number of countries in the world. Although this number represents almost all of the countries in the world, there is still one country (the Vatican City) that is independent and has chosen not to become a member of the U.N. so 191 is not the number of countries in the world.\n\nU.S. Department of State\n\nThe United States' State Department recognizes 192 independent countries around the world.
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193.  Although some consider Taiwan a country - that would make 194.\n\nSome of those listed at Wikipedia are commenwealths and territories and are not actual countries.  See source.
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there are 243 :\n\nFirst : 202 sovereign states: \n\n192 member states of the United Nations (UN). \n\n1 state with general international recognition but not UN membership, governed by the Holy See (a UN permanent observer), the Vatican City. \n\n9 states lacking general international recognition, none of which are UN members, that customary international law nonetheless defines as states under the Montevideo Convention: \n\n1 state, no longer a UN member since late 1971, recognized by 23 UN member states and the Holy See (Vatican City), and currently with de facto international relations with many others, the Republic of China (commonly referred to as Taiwan). \n\n1 state, recognized by 45 UN member states but never admitted to the UN itself, with most of its claimed territory under military occupation, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in Western Sahara. \n\n1 state, recognized by 100 UN member states (including the 2 permanent UNSC members Russia and the People's Republic of China) and the Holy See but never admitted to the UN itself, with only partial de facto control over any of its claimed territory exercised through the Palestinian National Authority (a UN permanent observer), the State of Palestine in the Palestinian territories. \n\n6 de facto independent states lacking any significant measure of diplomatic recognition from other states: \n\n1 de facto independent state, diplomatically recognized by no UN member states except Turkey, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.\n\n5 de facto independent states, namely Abkhazia,[3] Nagorno-Karabakh,[4] Pridnestrovie,[5] Somaliland,[6] and South Ossetia none recognized by any UN member states. \n\n*****\n\nSecond : 36 inhabited dependent territories: \n\n3 external territories of Australia (Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Island). \n\n2 overseas countries in the Kingdom of Denmark (Greenland and Faroe Islands). \n\n5 overseas territories of France:\n \n1 sui generis (unique) community (New Caledonia).\n \n4 overseas communities: \n\n1 territorial community (Saint Pierre and Miquelon) \n1 territory (Wallis and Futuna) \n1 overseas country (French Polynesia) \n1 departmental community (Mayotte) \n2 overseas countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Aruba and Netherlands Antilles). \n\n3 dependent territories of New Zealand: \n\n2 states in free association with New Zealand (Cook Islands and Niue). \n1 overseas territory (Tokelau). \n16 dependent territories of the United Kingdom: \n3 Crown dependencies (Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man). \n13 overseas territories (Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena (and its dependencies Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha), Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia). \n\n5 unincorporated territories of the United States: \n\n2 commonwealths (Northern Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico). \n2 organized insular territories (Guam and U.S. Virgin Islands). \n1 de facto organized insular territory lacking an Organic Act (American Samoa).\n\n****\n\nThird : 5 areas of special sovereignty: \n\n4 special entities recognized by international treaty or agreement (Åland in Finland, Svalbard in Norway, as well as the 2 special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China - Hong Kong and Macau). \n\n1 UN-administered territory inside the de jure territory of a sovereign state and under de jure sovereignty of that sovereign state (Kosovo in Serbia under UN interim civilian administration).
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.World population\n\nMap of countries by population —showing the population of the People's Republic of China and India, the only two countries to have a population greater than a billion. (See List of countries by population.)\nThe world population is the total number of humans alive on the planet Earth at a given time. As of late 2006, the world population reached 6.5 billion.[1] In line with population projections, this figure continues to grow at rates that were unprecedented prior to the 20th century.
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193 countries-it depends\n\nIf you said INDEPEDENT countries...
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Their are no counry but there might be some countries!!!!
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There is no right answer. \n\n Many sources offer different answers, and depending on the source, there are 189, 191, 192, 193 or 194 independent countries in the world today. \n\n The United Nations has 191 members (including East Timor, the newest nation) but that number does not include the Vatican, an independent nation. \n\n The US State Department recognizes 192 independent countries around the world. but that list of countries reflects the political agenda of the United States of America. As an example, it does not include Taiwan as China claims that Taiwan (the ROC) is simply a province of China. \n\n Many World Almanacs use 192 countries, which is probably the best answer, but what about East Timor? Palestine? Greenland? Western Sahara? The political world is constantly changing.
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there are 193 countries
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Wow, look it up somewhere, there's like 278 countries and I couldn't even start to name them all, much less their capitals...
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There are about 192 countries in the world (but obviously some countries are disputed, and parts of a country are breaking off etc.)\n\nThe largest country by area is Russia and the largest country by population is China.\n\nThe smallest country by area and population is the Vatican City (Holy See) a small country which is more like a city in the middle of Rome.  But none the less, it is an independent state.
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all countries except:\n\nafghanistan\niran\niraq\ncuba\nnorth korea\nsyria &\nbolivia