About Countries

Countries is a free reference to the 250 countries and territories of the world that have a country code: 193 member states of the United Nations, 2 observer states, and other territories and areas. Each has its own page with the capital, population, area, neighbours, currency, languages, time zone, codes and largest cities.

Where the data comes from

• Population, GDP, GDP per person, life expectancy and share of people in towns: World Bank Open Data, licensed CC BY 4.0. Each figure is shown with its year. The World Bank last updated the data on 2026-10-08.
• Area, postal code patterns, languages, time zones, city populations, and population where the World Bank has no figure: GeoNames, licensed CC BY 4.0.
• Names, official names, local names, capitals, regions, land borders, currencies, calling codes, internet domains: the open data set mledoze/countries, licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0.
• Flag pictures: flag-icons by Panayiotis Lipiridis, MIT licence.

We collected the data on 11 November 2026. Ranks, densities, comparisons and shares are worked out by us from those figures. The explanations are written by us.

About names, borders and status

The list follows the ISO 3166 country codes, plus Kosovo. Being listed here, the name used, and the borders counted come from the data sources above. They do not express any opinion of ShareYourGroup about the legal status of any country, territory or border. "United Nations: member state" is shown for the 193 member states.

How current is it?

Population and economic figures change every year, and sources publish with a delay. Treat the numbers as good estimates for the year shown. For official use, go to the national statistics office or the World Bank.

Who makes it

This site is part of ShareYourGroup, a family of free sites about the things people share, send and do together. It is free to use and needs no login. Advertisements pay for the hosting and the work.

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