Explore the Countries of the World
Discover nations through their people, histories, landscapes, traditions, languages, and cultural heritage.
Browse Countries by Continent
Choose a continent to explore its countries, cultures, histories, languages, landscapes, and distinctive regional identities.
Africa
Explore 54 countries across five regions, each shaped by distinctive peoples, histories, languages, landscapes, and cultural traditions.
Europe
Explore 44 countries shaped by ancient civilisations, distinctive regions, influential histories, diverse languages, and rich cultural heritage.
Asia
Explore 48 countries across the world’s largest continent, home to ancient traditions, diverse peoples, languages, landscapes, and civilisations.
North America
Discover 23 countries across Northern America, Central America and the Caribbean, each with distinctive histories, landscapes and cultural identities.
South America
Explore 12 countries renowned for Indigenous heritage, vibrant traditions, diverse landscapes, historic cities, music, languages, and communities.
Australia & Oceania
Discover 14 countries across Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, shaped by island cultures, Indigenous heritage and ocean traditions.
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The World — 195 countries, countless cultures, one shared human story.
For this page, the total of 195 countries comprises 193 United Nations Member States and two UN non-member observer states: the Holy See and the State of Palestine. Country totals and regional groupings may vary between classification systems, particularly for transcontinental and partially recognised states.