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World

Every UN member, 193 of them, and Vatican City as number 194. Number of countries: 194.

Quizzes for this region

Countries of the world on the map
A country is named; put your finger on it. A miss shows how far off you were.
Name the countries of the world
One country is shaded on the map. Which of the four names is it?
World capitals quiz
Match each country with its capital city, one way round or the other, four choices per question.
World flags quiz
Name the country of a flag, or pick the right flag of four.
The world on the scales
Put two countries on the scales: more people, or more land?
Name all 194 countries of the world
Type a region’s countries from memory and watch the map fill in.

The selection in numbers

Countries: 194
Largest by area: Russia · 17,125,190 km²
Smallest by area: Nauru · 21 km²
Most people: India · 1.46 billion
Fewest people: Tuvalu · 9,492
People in total: 8.17 billion
Area in total: 140,064,773 km²
Drawn as a dot: Cape Verde, Samoa, Mauritius, Comoros, São Tomé and Príncipe, Kiribati, Bahrain, Dominica, Tonga, Singapore, Micronesia, Saint Lucia, Andorra, Palau, Seychelles, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Malta, Maldives, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Marshall Islands, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, Tuvalu, Nauru, Vatican City

World Bank figures: population of 2025, area of 2023.

Countries in this selection

Sorted by area, largest first. Each name leads to the country’s own page.