This is an alphabetical leet o kintras o the warld, wi baith internationally recogneesed an for ordinar unrecogneesed unthirlt states, dwalt in dependent territories, as weel as auries o byordinar sovereignty. It covers aa auries unner the jurisdeection o the listit kintras, namely territory, territorial waters (wi internal watters an contiguous zones), Exclusive Economic Zone, continental shelf an airspace. For juist a leet o unthirlt states, see the leet o sovereign states.
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Types o politeecal entities includit
On this leet are 245 entities o the follaein kynd:
- 194 kintras wi general internaitional kennin:
- 193 member kintras o the Unitit Naitions (UN).
- 1 kintra wi general internaitional kennin but nae UN membership, guided bi the Holy See (a UN permanent observer): Vatican Ceety.
- 9 kintra athoot general internaitional kennin, nae o that are UN members, that micht be cryed as kintras in the body o customary internaitional law an drawing on the precedent o the Montevideo Convention:
- 1 kintra, nae a UN member syne 1971, cryed bi 23 UN member kintras an the Holy See (Vatican Ceety), an the nou wi de facto internaitional relations wi mony others, the Republic o Cheenae (for common cried as Taiwan).
- 1 kintra, member o the Africae Union an the Asie-Africae Strategic Partnership shaped at the 2005 Asie-Africae Conference, cryed bi 46 UN member kintras but nae admeetit tae the UN itsel, wi maist o its claimed territory unner Moroccan de facto owerins, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in Western Sahara.
- 1 proposed kintra, member o the Arab League an the Organization of the Islamic Conference, cryed bi mair as 100 UN member kintras but nae itsel a UN member, wi nae sovereignty ower its claimed territories, the State o Palestine.
- 1 de facto unthirlt kintra, diplomatically cryed bi nae UN member kintras but Turkey, the Turkish Republic o Northren Cyprus.[1]
- 5 de facto unthirlt kintras, Abkhazie (Georgie),[2] Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan),[3] Transnistrie (Moldovae),[4] Somaliland (Somalie),[5] an Sooth Ossetie (Georgie),[6] nane cryed bi ony UN member kintras.
- 38 inhabited dependent territories:
- 3 external territories o Australie (Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands an Norfolk Island).
- 2 owerseas kintras in the Kinrick o Denmark (Faroe Islands an Greenland).
- 7 owerseas territories o Fraunce:[7]
- 1 sui generis (unique) community (New Caledon).
- 6 owerseas collectivities:
- 3 owerseas kintras in the Kinrick o the Netherlands (Aruba, Curaçao an Sint Maarten).
- 3 dependent territories o New Zealand:
- 2 kintras in free association wi New Zealand (Cook Islands an Niue).
- 1 owerseas territory (Tokelau).
- 16 Breetish dependencies:
- 13 owerseas territories o the Unitit Kinrick (Anguilla, Bermuda, Breetish Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saunt Helena (an its dependencies Ascension Island an Tristan da Cunha), Turks an Caicos Islands, an the Sovereign Base Areas o Akrotiri an Dhekelia).
- 3 Crown dependencies (Gansey, Jersey an the Isle o Man).
- 5 unincorporated territories o the Unitit States:
- 4 special entities cryed bi internaitional treaty or greeance]] (Åland in Finland, Svalbard in Norrowey, an aw the 2 special administrative regions of the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae - Hong Kong an Macau).