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Country Capital Country Capital Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script) The Bahamas: Nassau: The Bahamas: Nassau: English: Bahrain: Manama: Al-Baḥrayn البحرين: Al-Manāmah المنامة: Arabic (Arabic script) Bangladesh: Dhaka: Bānglādesh বাংলাদেশ: Dhākā ঢাকা: Bengali (Bengali script) Barbados
Transcontinental country in Asia and Oceania, classified as a Southeastern Asian country by the United Nations Statistics Division: Indonesia (Maluku Islands and Western New Guinea). Entirely in Southeast Asia, but commonly associated with Oceania, and lying east of the biogeographical Wallace Line : East Timor .
Some countries have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. Countries are listed alphabetically by their most common name in English. Each English name is followed by its most common equivalents in other languages, listed in English alphabetical order (ignoring accents) by name and by language.
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
State of Palestine (official, English), מדינת פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (Medinat Pālēśtīnā) (Hebrew name), دَوْلَة فلسطين (Dawlat Filasṭīn) (official Arabic name), the Holy Land (ארץ הקודש, الأرض المقدسة) / Eretz Yisrael (ארץ ישראל) (Bible), فلسطين (Filasṭīn) (common name ...
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 the 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.
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water.