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Most sovereign states have alternative names. Some countries have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. Some have special names particular to poetic diction or other contexts. This article attempts to give all known alternative names and initialisms for all nations, countries, and sovereign states, in English and any ...
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
The following chart lists countries and dependencies along with their capital cities, in English and non-English official language(s). In bold: internationally recognized sovereign states. The 193 member states of the United Nations (UN) Vatican City (administered by the Holy See, a UN observer state), which is generally recognized as a ...
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 ...
List of countries by name, by capital, by government. by area; by continent; by country code. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) two-letter; International Olympic Committee (IOC) three-letter; Internet TLDs; ISO 3166-1 two and three-letter; ITU country calling numbers; by name; by national capital; by official language; by ...
BUR - IOC code for Burkina Faso [f] (since 1984) [g], and historical ISO and FIFA code for Burma [h] (until 1989) [i] In the following cases, a code for a historical country or territory matches a modern code of the country it merged into: VNM - historical IOC and ISO code for South Vietnam [j], became the ISO code for unified Vietnam [k]
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.
Guinea [n 5] Republic of Guinea GIN French: Guinée—République de Guinée: Conakry French: Conakry: 13,531,906 245,857 km 2 (94,926 sq mi) Guinean franc: Guinea-Bissau Republic of Guinea-Bissau GNB Portuguese: Guiné-Bissau—República da Guiné-Bissau: Bissau Portuguese: Bissau: 2,060,721 36,125 km 2 (13,948 sq mi) CFA franc: Ivory Coast