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Nearly all countries currently have their embassies in and around Tel Aviv. Defying the UN, [2] the United States recognized Jerusalem as the capital and moved its embassy there in May 2018. [3] Many countries officially adhere to the proposal that Jerusalem should have international status, as called for in the 1947 Partition Plan. [4] Palestine
This is a list of sovereign states in the 2020s, giving an overview of states around the world during the period between 1 January 2020 and the present day.It contains 210 entries, arranged alphabetically, with information on the status and recognition of their sovereignty.
The dominant customary international law standard of statehood is the declarative theory of statehood, which was codified by the Montevideo Convention of 1933. The Convention defines the state as a person of international law if it "possess[es] the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) a capacity to enter into relations with the ...
List of countries and dependencies by number of police officers; List of countries that regulate the immigration of felons; List of countries with annual rates and counts for killings by law enforcement officers; List of serial killers by country; Allegations of apartheid by country; Capital punishment by country; Number of terrorist incidents ...
These countries are considered major European powers and they are the Western European countries individually represented as full members of the G7, the G8, the G-10 and the G20. This also has an impact on the Eurovision Song Contest, when these countries added to Spain, are turned the BIG 5.
People's Republic of China (official, English), 中华人民共和国 (Zhōnghuá rénmín gònghéguó), PRC (initialism), China 中国 (Zhōngguó) (common, ambiguous), Communist China (colloquial, mainly used by Western countries), Red China (colloquial, mainly derogatory), 中共 (Zhōnggòng) (colloquial and mainly derogatory, mainly used ...
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 – two-letter country codes which are also used to create the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes and the Internet country code top-level domains. ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 – three-letter country codes which may allow a better visual association between the codes and the country names than the 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.
This is a list of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme, including 193 UN member states, two UN observer states (the Holy See [note 1] and the State of Palestine), two states in free association with New Zealand (the Cook Islands and Niue), and 49 non-sovereign dependencies or territories, as well as Western Sahara (a disputed territory whose sovereignty is contested) and ...