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NATO in 2025 . The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an international military alliance consisting of 32 member states from Europe and North America. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. Of the 32 member countries, 30 are in Europe and two are in North America.
After World War Two it became a satellite of the Soviet Union, but is now a member of the EU and Nato. Read more country profiles - Profiles by BBC Monitoring. REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA: FACTS. Capital ...
Both countries are full members of NATO. [156] Bulgaria is an EU member and North Macedonia is a candidate. Norway: 20 August 1906 [224] See Bulgaria–Norway relations. Since April 1918, Bulgaria has an embassy in Oslo. [225] Norway is accredited to Bulgaria from its embassy in Bucharest, Romania. Both countries are full members of NATO. [156 ...
Map of member countries. The Vilnius Group was an organization of NATO aspirant countries, created in May 2000, [1] aimed at practical cooperation, exchange of information and lobbying for their candidacy in the NATO capitals.
Nato asks every member country to spend at least 2% of national income - also known as GDP - on defence. It is thought that 23 countries met that target in 2024 , compared to only three in 2014. [BBC]
Sweden and Finland have been formally invited to join the alliance.
Read CNN’s NATO Fast Facts for a look at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
This is a list of heritage NATO country codes. Up to and including the seventh edition of STANAG 1059, these were two-letter codes (digrams). The eighth edition, promulgated 19 February 2004, and effective 1 April 2004, replaced all codes with new ones based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes. Additional codes cover gaps in the ISO coverage, deal ...