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It includes fully recognised states, states with limited or zero recognition, and dependent territories of both African and non-African states. It lists 56 sovereign states (54 of which are member states of the United Nations), two non-sovereign (dependent) territories of non-African sovereign states, and nine sub-national regions of non ...
In 1949, the London Declaration marked the birth of the modern Commonwealth and the adoption of its present name. [6] The members have a combined population of 2.6 billion, almost a third of the world's population , of whom 1.21 billion live in India , and 95% live in Africa and Asia combined.
List of sovereign states; List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area, comparing continents, countries, and first-level administrative country subdivisions. List of first-level administrative divisions by population; List of FIPS region codes in FIPS 10-4, withdrawn from the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) in 2008
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 ...
Bahrain: Arabian Peninsula: Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa: King of Bahrain: 6 March 1999 Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa: Prime Minister of Bahrain: 11 November 2020 Comoros: Indian Ocean [a] Azali Assoumani: President of the Comoros: 26 May 2016 Djibouti: Horn of Africa: Ismaïl Omar Guelleh: President of Djibouti: 8 May 1999 Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed ...
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories of the world by continent, displayed with their respective national flags, including the following entities: By association within the UN system: The 193 United Nations member states (UN).
List of African dependencies and other territories — including their respective capitals: External territories. France French Southern Territories [note 1] — ...