Countries of the World

A full, sortable list of all countries with languages, locales, population and ISO code. Includes external territories and disputed territories.

Code Country Capital City Official Language(s) Locale(s) Population (Mn) Notes
-- none -- Abkhazia Sukhumi Abkhaz -- none -- 0.24 Partially recognised state, split from Georgia in 1992
AF Afghanistan Kabul Persian (Dari) / Pashto Dari 44
AL Albania Tirana Albanian Albanian 2
DZ Algeria Algiers Arabic Arabic / French / Kabyle / Tamazight 47
AS American Samoa (US) Pago Pago Samoan / English English 0.05
AD Andorra Andorra la Vella Catalan Catalan 0.09
AO Angola Luanda Portuguese Lingala / Portuguese 36
AI Anguilla (United Kingdom) The Valley English English 0.02
AG Antigua and Barbuda Saint Johns English has de facto status English 0.1
AR Argentina Beunos Aires Spanish has de facto status Spanish 47
AM Armenia Yerevan Armenian Armenian 3
AW Aruba (Netherlands) Oranjestad Papiamento/ Dutch Dutch (Aruba) 0.11
AU Australia Canberra English has de facto status English 27
AT Austria Vienna German German / English 9
AZ Azerbaijan Baku Azerbaijani Azerbaijani (Cyrillic/Latin) 10
BS Bahamas Nassau English English 0.4
BH Bahrain Manama Arabic Arabic 2
BD Bangladesh Dhaka Bengali Bangla 170
BB Barbados Bridgetown English English 0.27
BY Belarus Minsk Belarusian Russian / Belarusian 9
BE Belgium Brussels Dutch Dutch / English / French / German 12
BZ Belize Belmopan English English / Spanish 0.42
BJ Benin Porto Novo French French / Yoruba 13
BM Bermuda (United Kingdom) Hamilton English English 0.06
BT Bhutan Thimphu Dzongkha Dzongkha 1
BO Bolivia Sucre
also La Paz (de facto)
Castilian (Spanish) Quechua / Spanish 11
BQ Bonaire (Netherlands) Kralendijk Papiamentu / Dutch Dutch 0.03
BA Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian (all have de facto status) Bosnian/Serbian (Cyrillic/Latin) 3
BW Botswana Gaborone English English / Setswana 2
BR Brazil Brasillia Portuguese Portuguese / Spanish 213
BN Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Malay Malay 0.46
BG Bulgaria Sofia Bulgarian Bulgarian 6
BF Burkina Faso Ouagadougou Mooré French 24
BI Burundi Gitega
also Bujumbura (de facto)
French English / French / Rundi 12
CV Cabo Verde/Cape Verde Praia Portuguese Kabuverdianu / Portuguese 0.49
KH Cambodia Phnom Penh Khmer Khmer 18
CM Cameroon Yaounde English English / Kwasio/ Meta' / Mundang / Ngiemboon / Ngomba / Yangben 29
CA Canada Ottawa English (Federal) English / French / Inuktitut 42
KY Cayman Islands (United Kingdom) George Town English English 0.08
CF Central African Republic Bangui French French / Lingala/ Sango 6
TD Chad N'Djamena Arabic Arabic / French 19
CL Chile Santiago Spanish Mapudungun/ Spanish 20
CN China Beijing Mandarin (Standard Chinese) Chinese (Simplified/Traditional) 1,408
CX Christmas Island (Australia) Flying Fish Cove English English 0.002 External territory of Australia
CC Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia) West Island English English 0.001 External territory of Australia
CO Colombia Bogota Spanish Spanish 53
KM Comoros Moroni Arabic Arabic / French 1
CG Congo-Brazzaville/Republic of the Congo Brazzaville French French /Lingala 6
CD Congo, DRC Kinshasa French French / Kiswahili / Lingala / Luba-Katanga / Swahili 113
CK Cook Islands (New Zealand) Avarua English English 0.02
CR Costa Rica San Jose Spanish Spanish 5
CI Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Yamoussoukro
also Abidjan (de facto)
French French 29
HR Croatia Zagreb Croatian Croatian 4
CU Cuba Havana Spanish Spanish 10
CW Curaçao (Netherlands) Willemstad Papiamentu / Dutch / English Dutch 0.16
CY Cyprus Nicosia Greek English / Greek / Turkish 1
CZ Czechia (Czech Republic) Prague Czech Czech 11
DK Denmark Copenhagen Danish Danish /English /Faroese 6
DJ Djibouti Djibouti Arabic Arabic / Afar / French / Somali 1
DM Dominica Roseau English English 0.07
DO Dominican Republic Santo Domingo Spanish Spanish 11
EC Ecuador Quilto Spanish Spanish / Quechua 17
EG Egypt Cairo Arabic Arabic 107
SV El Salvador San Salvador Spanish Spanish 6
GB England (United Kingdom) London English, BSL Cornish / English 57 Although not fully independent, it is widely referred to as a country.
GQ Equatorial Guinea Malabo French French / Spanish / Portuguese 2
ER Eritrea Asmara Tigrinya Afar / Arabic / Blin / English / Saho / Tigre / Tigrinya 4
EE Estonia Tallinn Estonian Estonian 1
SZ Eswatini Mbabane (executive) Lobamba (legislative) English Swati 1 formerly Swaziland
ET Ethiopia Addis Ababa Afar Afar / Amharic / Oromo / Somali / Tigrinya/ Wolaytta 112
FK Falkland Islands (United Kingdom) Stanley English English 0.004
FO Faroe Islands (Denmark) Tórshavn Faroese / Danish Faroese 0.06
FJ Fiji Suva English English 1
FI Finland Helsinki Finnish English / Finnish / Sami(Inari/Northern/Skolt) / Swedish 6
FR France Paris French Alsatian / Breton / Catalan / Corsican / French / Interlingua / Occitan 69
GF French Guiana Cayenne French French 0.29
PF French Polynesia (France) Papeete French / Tahitian French 0.28
GA Gabon Libreville French French 2
GE Georgia Tbilisi Georgian Georgian / Ossetian 4
DE Germany Berlin German German / Low German / Lower Sorbian/ Ripuarian / Upper Sorbian / English 84
GH Ghana Accra English Akan / English / Ewe / Hausa  34
GI Gibraltar (United Kingdom) Westside, Gibraltar (de facto) English English 0.04
GR Greece Athens Greek Greek 10
GL Greenland (Denmark) Nuuk Greenlandic Greenlandic  / Danish 0.06
GD Grenada Saint Georges English English 0.11
GU Guam (US) Hagåtña English English / Chamorro 0.15
GT Guatemala Guatemala city Spanish Spanish / K'iche'  18
GG Guernsey (United Kingdom) Saint Peter Port English English 0.06
GN Guinea Conkary French French / Fulah / N'ko 14
GW Guinea-Bissau Bissau Portuguese Portuguese/  2
GY Guyana Georgetown English English 1
HT Haiti Port au Prince French French 12
HN Honduras Tegucigalpa Spanish Spanish 10
HK Hong Kong (China) -- none -- Cantonese Chinese (Simplified/Traditional)/ English 8 Special administrative region of China 
HU Hungary Budapest Hungarian Hungarian 10
IS Iceland Reyjavik Icelandic Icelandic 0.39
IN India New Dehli Hindi Assamese / Bangla / Bodo / English / Gujarati/ Hindi / Kannada / Kashmiri / Konkani / Malayalam / Manipuri / Marathi / Nepali / Odia / Punjabi / Sanskrit / Sindhi / Tamil / Telugu / Tibetan / Urdu 1,417
ID Indonesia Jakarta Indonesian English / Indonesian / Javanese 284
IR Iran Tehran Persian Kurdish / Mazanderani / Northern Luri / Persian 86
IQ Iraq Baghdad Arabic Arabic / Northern Luri / Central Kurdish 46
IE Ireland Dublin Irish English / Irish 5
IM Isle of Man (United Kingdom) Douglas English / Manx English / Manx 0.08
IL Israel Tel Aviv
Jerusalem (disputed by UN).
Hebrew Arabic / English / Hebrew 10 Limited recognition (85% of UN)
IT Italy Rome Italian Catalan / Friulian / German / Italian 59
JM Jamaica Kingston English English 3
JP Japan Tokyo Japanese has de facto status Japanese 123
JE Jersey (United Kingdom) St Helier English English / Jèrriais / Jersey Legal French 0.1
JO Jordan Amman Arabic Arabic 12
KZ Kazakhstan Astana Kazakh Kazakh / Russian 20
KE Kenya Nairobi English Embu / English / Gusii / Kalenjin / Kamba / Kikuyu / Kiswahili / Swahili / Luo/ Luyia/ Masai / Meru / Oromo / Samburu / Somali / Taita / Teso 53
KI Kiribati Tarawa Atoll English English 0.12
XK Kosovo Pristina Albanian Albanian / Serbian(Cyrillic/Latin) 2
KW Kuwait Kuwait city Arabic Arabic 5
KG Kyrgyzstan Bishkek Kyrgyz Kyrgyz / Russian 7
LA Laos Vientiane Lao Lao 8
LV Latvia Riga Latvian Latvian 2
LB Lebanon Beirut Arabic Arabic 5
LS Lesotho Maseru Sesotho Sesotho / English 2
LR Liberia Monrovia English English / Vai 5
LY Libya Tripoli Arabic Arabic 7
LI Liechtenstein Vaduz German German / Alsatian 0.04
LT Lithuania Vilnius Lithuanian Lithuanian 3
LU Luxembourg Luxembourg French Luxembourgish / Portuguese / French / German 1
MO Macau (China) -- none -- Cantonese -- none -- 1 Special administrative region of China 
MG Madagascar Antananarivo French English / French / Malagasy 32
MW Malawi Lilongwe English English 21
MY Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Malay English / Malay / Tamil 34
MV Maldives Male Dhivehi Dhivehi 1
ML Mali Bamako Bambara Bambara / French / Koyra Chiini / Koyraboro Senni 22
MT Malta Valetta Maltese English/ Maltese 1
MH Marshall Islands Majuro English English 0.04
MR Mauritania Nouakchott Arabic Arabic / French / Fulah 5
MU Mauritius Port Louis English has de jure status and French has de facto status English/ French/ Morisyen 1
YT Mayotte Mamoudzou  French French 0.32
MX Mexico Mexico City Spanish has de facto status Spanish 130
FM Micronesia, Federated States of Palikir English English 0.11
MD Moldova Chisinau Romanian Romanian / Russian 2
MC Monaco Monaco French French 0.04
MN Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Mongolian Mongolian 4
ME Montenegro Podgorica Montenegrin Serbian (Cyrillic/Latin) 1
MS Montserrat (United Kingdom) Plymouth (de jure) / Brades (de facto) / Little Bay (under construction) English English 0.004
MA Morocco Rabat Arabic Arabic / Central Atlas Tamazight / French / Standard Moroccan Tamazight / Tachelhit 37
MZ Mozambique Maputo Portuguese Portuguese / Makhuwa-Meetto / Portuguese 34
MM Myanmar Nay Pyi Taw / Naypyidaw Burmese Burmese 51 Formerly Burma
NA Namibia Windhoek English Afrikaans/ English / Nama 3
NR Nauru -- none -- English English 0.01
NP Nepal Kathmandu Nepali Nepali 30
NL Netherlands Amsterdam Dutch Dutch / English / Frisian / Low German 18
NC New Caledonia (France) Nouméa French French 0.26
NZ New Zealand Wellington English (de facto) / Māori language / NZ Sign English / Maori 5
NI Nicaragua Managua Spanish Spanish 7
NE Niger, Republic of the Niamey Hausa French / Fulah / Hausa / Tasawaq / Zarma 26
NG Nigeria Abuja English Edo / English / Fulah / Hausa / Ibibio / Igbo / Kanuri / Yoruba 224
NU Niue (New Zealand) Alofi English English 0.002
NF Norfolk Island (Australia) Kingston English English 0.002 External territory of Australia
KP North Korea Pyongyang Korean Korean 26
MK North Macedonia, Republic of Skopje Macedonian Macedonian 2  
-- none -- Northern Cyprus North Nicosia Turkish English / Greek / Turkish 0.48 Recognised only by Turkey
MP Northern Mariana Islands (US) Saipan English / Chamorro / Carolinian English 0.05
NO Norway Oslo Norwegian Norwegian, Bokmål / Norwegian, Nynorsk / Sami (Lule/Northern/Southern) 6
OM Oman Muscat Arabic Arabic 5
PK Pakistan Islamabad Urdu English / Punjabi / Sindhi / Urdu 241
PW Palau Melekeok English English 0.02
PS Palestine Jerusalem Arabic Arabic / Palestinian Territories 5 Limited recognition (80% of UN)
PA Panama Panama City Spanish Spanish 4
PG Papua New Guinea Port Moresby English English 12
PY Paraguay Asuncion Spanish Guarani / Spanish 6
PE Peru Lima Spanish Quechua / Spanish 34
PH Philippines Manila Filipino English / Filipino / Spanish 114
PN Pitcairn Islands (United Kingdom) Adamstown Pitkern / English English 0.00004
PL Poland Warsaw Polish Polish 37
PT Portugal Lisbon Portuguese Portuguese 11
PR Puerto Rico (US) San Juan Spanish / English English / Spanish 3
QA Qatar Doha Arabic Arabic 3
RE Reunion Saint-Denis French French 0.89 Overseas department and region of France.
RO Romania Bucharest Romanian Romanian 19
RU Russia Moscow Russian Bashkir / Chechen / Church Slavic / Ossetian / Russian / Sakha / Tatar 146
RW Rwanda Kigali English English / French / Kinyarwanda 14
BQ Saba (Netherlands) The Bottom English / Dutch Dutch 0.002
EH Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Laayoune Arabic / Moroccan Arabic (de facto) / Spanish Arabic / Spanish 0.56 Includes the Western Sahara
BL Saint Barthélemy (France) Gustavia French French 0.01 Also known as St. Barts or St. Barth.
SH Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (UK) Jamestown English English 0.01
KN Saint Kitts and Nevis Basseterre English English 0.05
LC Saint Lucia Castries English English 0.18
MF Saint Martin, Collectivity of (France) Marigot French French 0.03
PM Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France) Saint-Pierre French French 0.01
VC Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown English English 0.11
WS Samoa Apia English English 0.21
SM San Marino San Marino Italian Italian 0.03
ST São Tomé and Príncipe Sao Tome Portuguese Portuguese 0.21
SA Saudi Arabia Riyadh Arabic Arabic 35
GB Scotland (United Kingdom) Edinburgh English / Scots / Gaelic / BSL English / Scottish Gaelic 5 Although not fully independent, it is widely referred to as a country.
SN Senegal Dakar French French / Fulah / Jola-Fonyi / Wolof 18
RS Serbia Belgrade Serbian Serbian (Cyrillic/Latin) 7
SC Seychelles Victoria English English / French 0.12
SL Sierra Leone Freetown English English 9
SG Singapore Singapore English English / Chinese / Malay / Tamil  6
BQ Sint Eustatius Oranjestad English / Dutch Dutch 0.003
SX Sint Maarten (Netherlands) Philipsburg Dutch / English Dutch / English 0.04
SK Slovakia Bratislava Slovak Slovak 5
SI Slovenia Ljubljana Slovene/Slovenian Slovenian /  English 2
SB Solomon Islands Honiara English English 1
SO Somalia Mogadishu Somali, Arabic Arabic / Somali 20
RSL (unofficial) Somaliland Hargeisa Arabic Arabic 6 Not recognised by the UN
ZA South Africa Pretoria, Cape Town, Bloemfontein (executive/legislative/judicial) Afrikaans Afrikaans / English / Northern Sotho / Setswana / South Ndebele / Southern Sotho / siSwati / Tsonga / Venda / isiXhosa / isiZulu / South African Sign Language 63
KR South Korea Seoul Korean Korean 51
XO (unofficial) GE South Ossetia Tskhinvali Ossetian Ossetian 0.06 Not widely recognised
SS South Sudan Juba English Arabic / English / Nuer 16
-- none -- Sovereign Military Order of Malta -- none -- Italian -- none -- 0.013
ES Spain Madrid Spanish Asturian / Spanish / Valencian 49
LK Sri Lanka Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte (legislative),
Colombo (commercial/judicial)
Sinhala Sinhala / Tamil 22
SD Sudan Khartoum Arabic Arabic / English 52 Sometimes referred to as North Sudan to distinguish it from South Sudan
SR Suriname Paramaribo Dutch Dutch 1
SE Sweden Stockholm Swedish English / Swedish / Sami, Lule / Sami, Northern / Sami, Southern 11
CH Switzerland Bern German / French / Italian / Romansh Alsatian / English / French / German/ Italian / Portuguese / Romansh / Walser 9
SY Syria / Syrian Arab Republic Damascus Arabic Arabic / French / Syriac 26
TW Taiwan Taipei Mandarin Chinese has de facto status) Chinese 23
TJ Tajikistan Dushanbe Tajik Tajik 10
TZ Tanzania Dodoma
(Dar es Salaam is a regional capital)
Swahili Asu / Bena / English / Kiswahili/ Langi / Machame / Makonde / Masai / Rombo / Rwa / Sangu / Shambala / Swahili / Vunjo 68
TH Thailand Bangkok Thai Thai 66
GM Gambia / The Gambia Banjul English English 2
TL Timor-Leste (East Timor) Dili Portuguese Portuguese 1
TG Togo Lome French Ewe / French 8
TK Tokelau (New Zealand) -- none -- English English 0.002
TO Tonga Nuku'alofa English English / Tongan 0.1
-- none -- Transnistria Tiraspol Moldovan -- none -- 0.36
TT Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain English English 1
TN Tunisia Tunis Arabic Arabic / French 12
TR Turkey, Republic of Türkiye Ankara Turkish Turkish 86
TM Turkmenistan Ashgabat Turkmen Turkmen 7
TC Turks and Caicos Islands (United Kingdom) English English 0.05
TV Tuvalu Funafuti
(Vaiaku is a de facto capital)
Tuvaluan English 0.01
UG Uganda Kampala English Chiga / English / Ganda / Kiswahili / Swahili / Nyankole / Soga / Teso 46
UA Ukraine Kyiv Ukrainian Russian / Ukrainian 33
AE United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Arabic Arabic 11
GB United Kingdom and Crown dependencies etc. London English has de facto status Cornish / English / Scottish Gaelic / Welsh 68
UM United States Minor Outlying Islands -- none -- English English 0.00034
US United States Washington D.C. English has de facto status English / Hawaiian / Lakota / Spanish 340
UY Uruguay Montevideo Spanish (de facto status) / Uruguayan Sign Language Spanish 3
UZ Uzbekistan Tashkent Uzbek Uzbek (Cyrillic/Latin) 38
VU Vanuatu Port Vila English English / French 0.32
VA Vatican City Vatican City Italian Italian 0.001
VE Venezuela Caracas Spanish Spanish 29
VN Vietnam Hanoi Vietnamese Vietnamese 101
VI Virgin Islands (US) English English 0.09
VG Virgin Islands, British  (United Kingdom) Road Town English English 0.04
GB Wales (United Kingdom) Cardiff Welsh, BSL Welsh 3.2 Although not fully independent, it is widely referred to as a country.
WF Wallis and Futuna (France) French French 0.01
YE Yemen Sanaa
Aden is a temporary capital
Arabic Arabic 33
ZM Zambia Lusaka English Bemba / English 20
ZW Zimbabwe Harare Chewa / Chibarwe / English / Kalanga / Koisan / Nambya / Ndau / Ndebele / Shangani / Shona / Sotho / Tonga / Tswana / Venda / Xhosa / Zimbabwean sign language English / North Ndebele / Shona 17

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