List of Real World sovereign states

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There are 195 sovereign states that exist in real life. They are:

Common and formal names	Population	Capital(s)	Prevailing language(s)	Notes
File:Flag of Afghanistan (2013–2021).svg Afghanistan	34,262,840	Kabul	Dari, Pashto	The Islamic Republic's government is in exile.
File:Flag of Albania.svg Albania – Republic of Albania	2,761,785	Tirana	Albanian
File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria – People's Democratic Republic of Algeria	45,400,000	Algiers	Arabic, Tamazight
File:Flag of Andorra.svg Andorra – Principality of Andorra	83,523	Andorra la Vella	Catalan
File:Flag of Angola.svg Angola – Republic of Angola	33,086,278	Luanda	Portuguese
File:Flag of Antigua and Barbuda.svg Antigua and Barbuda	100,772	St. John's	English, Antiguan and Barbudan Creole
Argentina – Argentine Republic	46,654,581	Buenos Aires	Spanish	¡¡ARGENTINA CAMPEÓN DEL MUNDO!!
File:Flag of Armenia.svg Armenia – Republic of Armenia	2,981,200	Yerevan	Armenian
File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia – Commonwealth of Australia	26,461,912	Canberra	English
Austria – Republic of Austria	9,129,652	Vienna	German
Azerbaijan – Republic of Azerbaijan	10,151,517	Baku	Azerbaijani
File:Flag of the Bahamas.svg The Bahamas – Commonwealth of The Bahamas	397,360	Nassau	English
File:Flag of Bahrain.svg Bahrain – Kingdom of Bahrain	1,577,059	Manama	Arabic
File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh – People's Republic of Bangladesh	169,828,911	Dhaka	Bangla
File:Flag of Barbados.svg Barbados	267,800	Bridgetown	English
Belarusian International Quarantine Zone – Republic of Belarus + Bowser Jr.'s Journey	7	Minsk	English, Belarusian	All that remains of the former Republic of Belarus, which was destroyed by Sir Feet in 2020.
Belgium – Kingdom of Belgium	11,772,639	Brussels	Dutch, French, German
File:Flag of Belize.svg Belize	441,471	Belmopan	English, Belizean Crole
File:Flag of Benin.svg Benin – Republic of Benin	12,606,998	Porto-Novo	French
Bhutan – Kingdom of Bhutan	64,055	Thimphu	Dzongkha
Bolivia – Plurinational State of Bolivia	12,006,031	La Paz and Sucre	Spanish, 35 Indigenous languages
File:Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,277,082	Sarajevo	Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian
File:Flag of Botswana.svg Botswana – Republic of Botswana	2,410,338	Gaborone	English, Setswana
Brazil – Federative Republic of Brazil	203,062,512	Brasília	Portuguese
File:Flag of Brunei.svg Brunei – Brunei Darussalam	445,400	Bandar Seri Begawan	Malay
File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria – Republic of Bulgaria	6,447,710	Sofia	Bulgarian
File:Flag of Burkina Faso.svg Burkina Faso	22,185,654	Ouagadougou	French
File:Flag of Burundi.svg Burundi – Republic of Burundi	12,837,740	Gitega and Bujumbura	French, Kirundi, English
File:Flag of Cape Verde.svg Cabo Verde – Republic of Cabo Verde	491,233	Praia	Portuguese	aka. Cape Verde.
File:Flag of Cambodia.svg Cambodia – Kingdom of Cambodia	17,091,464	Phnom Penh	Khmer
File:Flag of Cameroon.svg Cameroon – Republic of Cameroon	28,088,845	Yaoundé	English, French
Canada	40,097,761	Ottawa	English, French
File:Flag of the Central African Republic.svg Central African Republic	5,633,412	Bangui	French, Sango
File:Flag of Chad.svg Chad – Republic of Chad	17,414,717	N'Djamena	Arabic, French
File:Flag of Chile.svg Chile – Republic of Chile	19,960,889	Santiago	Spanish
File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China – People's Republic of China	1,411,750,000	Beijing	Mandarin
Colombia – Republic of Colombia	52,215,503	Bogotá	Spanish
File:Flag of the Comoros.svg Comoros – Union of the Comoros	758,316	Moroni	Arabic, Comorian, French
File:Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg Democratic Republic of the Congo	95,370,000	Kinshasa	French
File:Flag of the Republic of the Congo.svg Republic of the Congo	6,106,869	Brazzaville	French
File:Flag of Costa Rica.svg Costa Rica – Republic of Costa Rica	5,262,225	San José	Spanish
File:Flag of Côte d'Ivoire.svg Côte d'Ivoire – Republic of Côte d'Ivoire	29,389,150	Yamoussoukro and Abidjan	French	aka. Ivory Coast.
File:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia – Republic of Croatia	3,855,641	Zagreb	Croatian
File:Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba – Republic of Cuba	11,089,511	Havana	Spanish
File:Flag of Cyprus.svg Cyprus – Republic of Cyprus	918,100	Nicosia	Greek, Turkish
File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czechia – Czech Republic	10,873,553	Prague	Czech
Denmark – Kingdom of Denmark	5,959,464	Copenhagen	Danish
File:Flag of Djibouti.svg Djibouti – Republic of Djibouti	1,001,454	Djibouti	Arabic, French
File:Flag of Dominica.svg Dominica – Commonwealth of Dominica	67,408	Roseau	English
File:Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Dominican Republic	10,760,028	Santo Domingo	Spanish
Ecuador – Republic of Ecuador	16,938,986	Quito	Spanish
Egypt – Arab Republic of Egypt	105,595,000	Cairo	Arabis
File:Flag of El Salvador.svg El Salvador – Republic of El Salvador	6,884,888	San Salvador	Spanish
File:Flag of Equatorial Guinea.svg Equatorial Guinea – Republic of Equatorial Guinea	1,558,160	Malabo	French, Portuguese, Spanish
File:Flag of Eritrea.svg Eritrea – State of Eritrea	3,748,902	Asmara	Tigrinya
File:Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia – Republic of Estonia	1,365,884	Tallinn	Estonian
File:Flag of Eswatini.svg Eswatini – Kingdom of Eswatini	1,223,362	Mbabane and Lobamba	English, Swazi	Formerly known as Swaziland.
File:Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia – Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia	107,334,000	Addis Ababa	Afar, Amharic, Oromo, Somali, Tigrinya
File:Flag of Fiji.svg Fiji – Republic of Fiji	893,468	Suva	English, Fijian, Fiji Hindi
Finland – Republic of Finland	5,563,852	Helsinki	Finnish, Swedish
France – French Republic	68,184,000	Paris	French
File:Flag of Gabon.svg Gabon – Gabonese Republic	2,233,272	Libreville	French
File:Flag of the Gambia.svg The Gambia – Republic of The Gambia	2,417,471	Banjul	English
File:Flag of Georgia.svg Georgia (Sakartvelo)	3,736,400	Tbilisi	Georgian
Germany – Federal Republic of Germany	84,482,267	Berlin	German
File:Flag of Ghana.svg Ghana – Republic of Ghana	30,832,019	Accra	English
Greece – Hellenic Republic	10,482,487	Athens	Greek
File:Flag of Grenada.svg Grenada	112,579	St. George's	English
File:Flag of Guatemala.svg Guatemala – Republic of Guatemala	17,602,431	Guatemala City	Spanish
File:Flag of Guinea.svg Guinea – Republic of Guinea	13,261,638	Conakry	French
File:Flag of Guinea-Bissau.svg Guinea-Bissau – Republic of Guinea-Bissau	1,781,308	Bissau	Portuguese
File:Flag of Guyana.svg Guyana – Co-operative Republic of Guyana	743,699	Georgetown	English
File:Flag of Haiti.svg Haiti – Republic of Haiti	11,743,017	Port-au-Prince	French, Haitian Creole
File:Flag of Honduras.svg Honduras – Republic of Honduras	9,745,149	Tegucigalpa	Spanish
Hungary	9,597,085	Budapest	Hungarian
Iceland – Republic of Iceland	396,960	Reykjavík	Icelandic Sign Language
File:Flag of India.svg India – Republic of India	1,392,329,000	New Delhi	Hindi, English
File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia – Republic of Indonesia	279,118,866	Nusantara	Indonesian
File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran – Islamic Republic of Iran	84,038,000	Tehran	Farsi
File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq – Republic of Iraq	43,324,000	Baghdad	Arabic, Kurdish
Republic of Ireland	5,281,600	Dublin	Irish, English
Italy – Italian Republic	58,780,965	Rome	Italian
File:Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica	2,825,544	Kingston	English, Jamaican Patois
Japan	124,340,000	Tokyo	Japanese
File:Flag of Jordan.svg Jordan – Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan	11,302,000	Amman	Arabic
File:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan – Republic of Kazakhstan	20,000,000	Astana	Kazakh, Russian
File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya – Republic of Kenya	51,526,000	Nairobi	English, Swahili
File:Flag of Kiribati.svg Kiribati – Republic of Kiribati	120,740	South Tarawa	English, Gilbertese
File:Flag of North Korea.svg North Korea – Democratic People's Republic of Korea	25,660,000	Pyongyang	Korean
South Korea – Republic of Korea	51,439,038	Seoul	Korean
File:Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait – State of Kuwait	4,670,713	Kuwait City	Arabic
File:Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg Kyrgyzstan – Kyrgyz Republic	7,100,000	Bishkek	Kyrgyz
Laos – Lao People's Democratic Republic	7,443,000	Vientiane	Lao
Latvia – Republic of Latvia	1,882,000	Riga	Latvian
File:Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon – Lebanese Republic	5,296,814	Beirut	Arabic
File:Flag of Lesotho.svg Lesotho – Kingdom of Lesotho	2,306,000	Maseru	Sesotho, English
File:Flag of Liberia.svg Liberia – Republic of Liberia	5,248,621	Monrovia	English
File:Flag of Libya.svg Libya – State of Libya	6,931,061	Tripoli	Arabic
File:Flag of Liechtenstein.svg Liechtenstein – Principality of Liechtenstein	39,680	Vaduz	German
File:Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuania – Republic of Lithuania	2,866,965	Vilnius	Lithuanian
File:Flag of Luxembourg.svg Luxembourg – Grand Duchy of Luxembourg	660,809	Luxembourg	French, German, Luxembourgish	The subject of an unwanted page (official)
File:Flag of Madagascar.svg Madagascar – Republic of Madagascar	26,923,353	Antananarivo	French, Malagasy
File:Flag of Malawi.svg Malawi – Republic of Malawi	21,507,723	Lilongwe	English, Chichewa
File:Flag of Malaysia.svg Malaysia	33,379,500	Putrajaya and Kuala Lumpur	Malay
File:Flag of Maldives.svg Maldives – Republic of Maldives	382,751	Malé	Dhivehi
File:Flag of Mali.svg Mali – Republic of Mali	22,395,489	Bamako	13 official languages, including Bambara, Fula, and Dogon
File:Flag of Malta.svg Malta – Republic of Malta	519,562	Valetta	Maltese, English
File:Flag of Marshall Islands.svg Marshall Islands – Republic of the Marshall Islands	42,418	Delap-Uliga-Djarrit on Majuro	English, Marshallese
File:Flag of Mauritania.svg Mauritania – Islamic Republic of Mauritania	4,475,683	Nouakchott	Arabic
File:Flag of Mauritius.svg Mauritius – Republic of Mauritius	1,261,041	Port Louis	English, Morisyen
Mexico – United Mexican States	129,202,482	Mexico City	Spanish
File:Flag of Micronesia.svg Federated States of Micronesia	105,754	Palikir	English
File:Flag of Moldova.svg Moldova – Republic of Moldova	2,512,758	Chișinău	Romanian
File:Flag of Monaco.svg Monaco – Principality of Monaco	39,050	Monaco (city-state)	French, Monégasque
File:Flag of Mongolia.svg Mongolia	3,457,548	Ulaanbaatar	Mongolian
File:Flag of Montenegro.svg Montenegro	616,695	Podgorica	Montenegrin
File:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco – Kingdom of Morocco	37,022,000	Rabat	Arabic, Tamazight
File:Flag of Mozambique.svg Mozambique – Republic of Mozambique	32,419,747	Maputo	Portuguese
File:Flag of Myanmar.svg Myanmar – Republic of the Union of Myanmar	55,770,232	Nay Pyi Taw	Burmese	Formerly officially known as Burma.
File:Flag of Namibia.svg Namibia – Republic of Namibia	2,641,857	Windhoek	English
File:Flag of Nauru.svg Nauru – Republic of Nauru	11,680	Yaren (de facto)	English, Nauruan
File:Flag of Nepal.svg Nepal – Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal	29,164,578	Kathmandu	Nepali
File:Flag of Netherlands.svg Netherlands – Kingdom of the Netherlands	17,590,000	Amsterdam	Dutch
New Zealand	5,223,100	Wellington	English, te reo Māori
File:Flag of Nicaragua.svg Nicaragua – Republic of Nicaragua	6,733,763	Managua	Spanish
File:Flag of Niger.svg Niger – Republic of the Niger	25,369,415	Niamey	French
File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria – Federal Republic of Nigeria	216,783,400	Abuja	English
File:Flag of North Macedonia.svg North Macedonia – Republic of North Macedonia	1,832,696	Skopje	Macedonian, Albanian	Formerly known as simply Macedonia.
File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway – Kingdom of Norway	5,533,582	Oslo	Norwegian, Sámi languages
File:Flag of Oman.svg Oman – Sultanate of Oman	5,113,071	Muscat	Arabic
File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan – Islamic Republic of Pakistan	241,499,431	Islamabad	Urdu, English
File:Flag of Palau.svg Palau – Republic of Palau	16,733	Ngerulmud	English, Palauan
Palestine – State of Palestine	15,285,850	Jerusalem	Arabic
File:Flag of Panama.svg Panama – Republic of Panama	4,337,406	Panama City	Spanish
Papua New Guinea – Independent State of Papua New Guinea	11,781,559	Port Moresby	English, Hiri Motu, Tok Pisin
Paraguay – Republic of Paraguay	6,109,644	Asunción	Spanish, Guaraní
File:Flag of Peru.svg Peru – Republic of Peru	33,396,698	Lima	Spanish, Quechua, Aymara, Asháninka
File:Flag of Philippines.svg Philippines – Republic of the Philippines	112,892,781	Manila	Tagalog, English
Poland – Republic of Poland	37,691,000	Warsaw	Polish
File:Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal – Portuguese Republic	10,467,366	Lisbon	Portuguese
Qatar – State of Qatar	2,656,032	Doha	Arabic
Romania	19,051,562	Bucharest	Romanian
Russia – Russian Federation	146,424,729	Moscow	Russian
Rwanda – Republic of Rwanda	13,246,394	Kigali	English, French, Kinyarwanda, Swahili
File:Flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis.svg Saint Kitts and Nevis – Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis	47,195	Basseterre	English
File:Flag of Saint Lucia.svg Saint Lucia	178,696	Castries	English
File:Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.svg Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	110,872	Kingstown	English
File:Flag of Samoa.svg Samoa – Independent State of Samoa	205,557	Apia	English, Samoan
File:Flag of San Marino.svg San Marino – Republic of San Marino	33,881	City of San Marino	Italian
File:Flag of São Tomé and Príncipe.svg São Tomé and Príncipe – Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe	214,610	São Tomé	Portuguese
File:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	32,175,224	Riyadh	Arabic
Senegal – Republic of Senegal	18,275,743	Dakar	French
File:Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia – Republic of Serbia	6,641,197	Belgrade	Serbian
Seychelles – Republic of Seychelles	100,447	Victoria	English, French, Seychellois Creole
File:Flag of Sierra Leone.svg Sierra Leone – Republic of Sierra Leone	8,494,260	Freetown	English
File:Flag of Singapore.svg Singapore – Republic of Singapore	5,917,600	Singapore (city-state)	English, Malay, Mandarin, Tamil
File:Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia – Slovak Republic	5,426,352	Bratislava	Slovak
File:Flag of Slovenia.svg Slovenia – Republic of Slovenia	2,117,674	Ljubljana	Slovene
File:Flag of Solomon Islands.svg Solomon Islands	734,887	Honiara	English
File:Flag of Somalia.svg Somalia – Federal Republic of Somalia	18,143,379	Mogadishu	Somali, Arabic
File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa – Republic of South Africa	62,027,503	Pretoria, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein	Includes Xhosa, Zulu, Sesotho, Afrikaans, and English.
File:Flag of South Sudan.svg South Sudan – Republic of South Sudan	13,249,924	Juba	English
Spain – Kingdom of Spain	22,037,000	Madrid	Spanish
File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka – Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka	22,037,000	Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte and Colombo	Sinhala, Tamil	Formerly known as Ceylon.
File:Flag of Sudan.svg Sudan – Republic of the Sudan	41,984,500	Khartoum	Arabic, English
File:Flag of Suriname.svg Suriname – Republic of Suriname	616,500	Paramaribo	Dutch
Sweden – Kingdom of Sweden	10,557,822	Stockholm	Swedish
Switzerland – Swiss Confederation	8,902,308	Bern (de facto)	French, German, Italian, Romansh
File:Flag of Syria.svg Syria – Syrian Arab Republic	22,923,000	Damascus	Arabic
File:Flag of Tajikistan.svg Tajikistan – Republic of Tajikistan	10,077,600	Dushanbe	Tajik
File:Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania – United Republic of Tanzania	61,741,120	Dodoma	Swahili, English
File:Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand – Kingdom of Thailand	68,263,022	Bangkok	Thai	Formerly known as Siam.
File:Flag of East Timor.svg Timor-Leste – Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste	1,354,662	Dili	Portuguese, Tetum	aka. East Timor.
File:Flag of Togo.svg Togo – Togolese Republic	8,095,498	Lomé	French
File:Flag of Tonga.svg Tonga – Kingdom of Tonga	100,179	Nukuʻalofa	English, Tongan
File:Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg Trinidad and Tobago – Republic of Trinidad and Tobago	1,365,805	Port of Spain	English
File:Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia – Republic of Tunisia	11,850,232	Tunis	Arabic
File:Flag of Turkey.svg Türkiye – Republic of Türkiye	85,279,553	Ankara	Turkish	aka. Turkey.
File:Flag of Turkmenistan.svg Turkmenistan	7,057,841	Ashgabat	Turkmen
File:Flag of Tuvalu.svg Tuvalu	10,679	Funafuti	Tuvaluan, English
File:Flag of Uganda.svg Uganda – Republic of Uganda	42,885,900	Kampala	English, Swahili
Ukraine	41,130,432	Kyiv	Ukrainian
File:Flag of United Arab Emirates.svg United Arab Emirates	9,282,410	Abu Dhabi	Arabic
File:Flag of the United Kingdom (1-2).svg United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	67,026,292	London	English, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Irish, Guernésiais, Jèrriais, Manx	One of the seven Kingdoms (official).
United States of America	334,233,854	Washington, D.C.	English
Uruguay – Oriental Republic of Uruguay	3,566,550	Montevideo	Spanish
File:Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Uzbekistan – Republic of Uzbekistan	36,599,764	Tashkent	Uzbek
File:Flag of Vanuatu.svg Vanuatu – Republic of Vanuatu	301,295	Port Vila	English, French, Bislama
File:Flag of the Vatican City (2023–present).svg Vatican City – Vatican City State	764	Vatican City (city-state)	Italian
Venezuela – Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela	28,302,000	Caracas	Spanish
File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam – Socialist Republic of Vietnam	100,000,000	Hanoi	Vietnamese
File:Flag of Yemen.svg Yemen – Republic of Yemen	31,888,698	Sanaa	Arabic
File:Flag of Zambia.svg Zambia – Republic of Zambia	19,610,769	Lusaka	English
File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe – Republic of Zimbabwe	15,178,979	Harare	Includes English and Shona

Trivia

• India is the most populous country, while the least populous is the Belarusian International Quarantine Zone.
• Vatican City is the smallest country by area, being an enclave of the Italian capital of Rome, while Russia is the largest, spanning eleven time zones.
• The Belarusian International Quarantine Zone is the youngest country, established in 2020 (3 years ago). South Sudan is second, declaring independence on 8 July 2011 (12 years ago).