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Note: This only includes United Nations member states. For a complete listing, see List of United Nations member states#Current members.. Brackets were dropped for compatibility with {{Country data}}.
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 ...
Statistical subregions as defined by the United Nations Statistics Division [1]. This is a list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects.
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 ...
The country is named after Tanganyika, its mainland part, and the Zanzibar islands off its east coast. TGO Togo a: Togolese Republic (official, English), République togolaise (official, French) TON Tonga a: Kingdom of Tonga (official, English), Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga (official, Tongan) THA Thailand a
This is a series of lists by country. The lists generally cover topics related to sovereign countries ; however, states with limited recognition are also included. Topical country articles
In governance, sortition is the selection of public officials or jurors at random, i.e. by lottery, in order to obtain a representative sample. [1] [2] [3] [4]In ancient Athenian democracy, sortition was the traditional and primary method for appointing political officials, and its use was regarded as a principal characteristic of democracy.
List of countries by access to clean water; List of countries by access to improved sanitation facilities; List of countries by antidepressant consumption