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Independent States in the World
(As released by the Office of the Geographer and Global Issues, January 21, 2000)
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Total count of Independent States: 190
* Diplomatic relations with the United States
+ Member of United Nations
! New change, since previous list
STATE
Short-form name Long-form name FIPS Code
(see note 2)Capital Afghanistan *+ Islamic State of Afghanistan AF Kabul Albania *+ Republic of Albania AL Tirana Algeria *+ Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria AG Algiers Andorra *+ Principality of Andorra AN Andorra la Vella Angola *+ Republic of Angola AO Luanda Antigua and
Barbuda *+(no long-form name) AC Saint John's Argentina *+ Argentine Republic AR Buenos Aires Armenia *+ Republic of Armenia AM Yerevan Australia *+ Commonwealth of Australia AS Canberra Austria *+ Republic of Austria AU Vienna Azerbaijan *+ Azerbaijani Republic AJ Baku Bahamas, The *+ Commonwealth
of The BahamasBF Nassau Bahrain *+ State of Bahrain BA Manama Bangladesh *+ People's Republic
of BangladeshBG Dhaka Barbados *+ (no long-form name) BB Bridgetown Belarus *+ Republic of Belarus BO Minsk Belgium *+ Kingdom of Belgium BE Brussels Belize *+ (no long-form name) BH Belmopan Benin *+ Republic of Benin BN Porto-Novo Bhutan + Kingdom of Bhutan BT Thimphu Bolivia *+ Republic of Bolivia BL La Paz (administrative)
Sucre (legislative/judiciary)Bosnia and
Herzegovina *+(no long-form name) BK Sarajevo Botswana *+ Republic of Botswana BC Gaborone Brazil *+ Federative Republic of Brazil BR Brasília Brunei *+ Negara Brunei Darussalam BX Bandar Seri Begawan Bulgaria *+ Republic of Bulgaria BU Sofia Burkina Faso *+ Burkina Faso UV Ouagadougou Burma *+ Union of Burma BM Rangoon Burundi *+ Republic of Burundi BY Bujumbura Cambodia *+ Kingdom of Cambodia CB Phnom Penh Cameroon *+ Republic of Cameroon CM Yaoundé Canada *+ (no long-form name) CA Ottawa Cape Verde *+ Republic of Cape Verde CV Praia Central
African Republic *+Central African Republic CT Bangui Chad *+ Republic of Chad CD N'Djamena Chile *+ Republic of Chile CI Santiago China *+ (see note 3) People's Republic of China CH Beijing Colombia *+ Republic of Colombia CO Bogotá Comoros *+ Federal Islamic Republic
of the ComorosCN Moroni Congo (Brazzaville) *+
(see note 4)Republic of the Congo CF Brazzaville Congo (Kinshasa) *+
(see note 4)Democratic Republic
of the CongoCG Kinshasa Costa Rica *+ Republic of Costa Rica CS San José Côte d'Ivoire *+ Republic of Côte d'Ivoire IV Yamoussoukro Croatia *+ Republic of Croatia HR Zagreb Cuba + Republic of Cuba CU Havana Cyprus *+ Republic of Cyprus CY Nicosia Czech Republic *+ Czech Republic EZ Prague Denmark *+ Kingdom of Denmark DA Copenhagen Djibouti *+ Republic of Djibouti DJ Djibouti Dominica *+ Commonwealth of Dominica DO Roseau Dominican Republic *+ Dominican Republic DR Santo Domingo Ecuador *+ Republic of Ecuador EC Quito Egypt *+ Arab Republic of Egypt EG Cairo El Salvador *+ Republic of El Salvador ES San Salvador Equatorial Guinea *+ Republic of Equatorial Guinea EK Malabo Eritrea *+ State of Eritrea ER Asmara Estonia *+ Republic of Estonia EN Tallinn Ethiopia *+ Federal Democratic
Republic of EthiopiaET Addis Ababa Fiji *+ Republic of the
Fiji IslandsFJ Suva Finland *+ Republic of Finland FI Helsinki France *+ French Republic FR Paris Gabon *+ Gabonese Republic GB Libreville Gambia, The *+ Republic of The Gambia GA Banjul Georgia *+ (no long-form name) GG T'bilisi Germany *+ Federal Republic of Germany GM Berlin Ghana *+ Republic of Ghana GH Accra Greece *+ Hellenic Republic GR Athens Grenada *+ (no long-form name) GJ Saint George's Guatemala *+ Republic of Guatemala GT Guatemala Guinea *+ Republic of Guinea GV Conakry Guinea-Bissau *+ Republic of Guinea-Bissau PU Bissau Guyana *+ Co-operative
Republic of GuyanaGY Georgetown Haiti *+ Republic of Haiti HA Port-au-Prince Holy See * Holy See VT Vatican City Honduras *+ Republic of Honduras HO Tegucigalpa Hungary *+ Republic of Hungary HU Budapest Iceland *+ Republic of Iceland IC Reykjavík India *+ Republic of India IN New Delhi Indonesia *+ Republic of Indonesia ID Jakarta Iran + Islamic Republic of Iran IR Tehran Iraq + Republic of Iraq IZ Baghdad Ireland *+ (no long-form name) EI Dublin Israel *+ State of Israel IS (see note 5) Italy *+ Italian Republic IT Rome Jamaica *+ (no long-form name) JM Kingston Japan *+ (no long-form name) JA Tokyo Jordan *+ Hashemite
Kingdom of JordanJO Amman Kazakhstan *+ Republic of Kazakhstan KZ Astana Kenya *+ Republic of Kenya KE Nairobi Kiribati *+ Republic of Kiribati KR Tarawa Korea, North + Democratic People's Republic of Korea KN P'yongyang Korea, South *+ Republic of Korea KS Seoul Kuwait *+ State of Kuwait KU Kuwait Kyrgyzstan *+ Kyrgyz Republic KG Bishkek Laos *+ Lao People's
Democratic RepublicLA Vientiane Latvia *+ Republic of Latvia LG Riga Lebanon *+ Lebanese Republic LE Beirut Lesotho *+ Kingdom of Lesotho LT Maseru Liberia *+ Republic of Liberia LI Monrovia Libya *+ Socialist People's
Libyan Arab JamahiriyaLY Tripoli Liechtenstein *+ Principality of Liechtenstein LS Vaduz Lithuania *+ Republic of Lithuania LH Vilnius Luxembourg *+ Grand Duchy of Luxembourg LU Luxembourg Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of *+ The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia MK Skopje Madagascar *+ Republic of Madagascar MA Antananarivo Malawi *+ Republic of Malawi MI Lilongwe Malaysia *+ (no long-form name) MY Kuala Lumpur Maldives *+ Republic of Maldives MV Male Mali *+ Republic of Mali ML Bamako Malta *+ (no long-form name) MT Valletta Marshall Islands *+ Republic of the
Marshall IslandsRM Majuro Mauritania *+ Islamic Republic
of MauritaniaMR Nouakchott Mauritius *+ Republic of Mauritius MP Port Louis Mexico *+ United Mexican States MX Mexico Micronesia,
Federated States of *+Federated States
of MicronesiaFM Palikir Moldova *+ Republic of Moldova MD Chisinau Monaco *+ Principality of Monaco MN Monaco Mongolia *+ (no long-form name) MG Ulaanbaatar Morocco *+ Kingdom of Morocco MO Rabat Mozambique *+ Republic of Mozambique MZ Maputo Namibia *+ Republic of Namibia WA Windhoek Nauru *+ Republic of Nauru NR Yaren District
(no capital city)Nepal *+ Kingdom of Nepal NP Kathmandu Netherlands *+ Kingdom of the Netherlands NL Amsterdam
The Hague (seat of gov't)New Zealand *+ (no long-form name) NZ Wellington Nicaragua *+ Republic of Nicaragua NU Managua Niger *+ Republic of Niger NG Niamey Nigeria *+ Federal Republic of Nigeria NI Abuja Norway *+ Kingdom of Norway NO Oslo Oman *+ Sultanate of Oman MU Muscat Pakistan *+ Islamic Republic of Pakistan PK Islamabad Palau *+ Republic of Palau PS Koror Panama *+ Republic of Panama PM Panama Papua New Guinea *+ Independent State
of Papua New GuineaPP Port Moresby Paraguay *+ Republic of Paraguay PA Asunción Peru *+ Republic of Peru PE Lima Philippines *+ Republic of the Philippines RP Manila Poland *+ Republic of Poland PL Warsaw Portugal *+ Portuguese Republic PO Lisbon Qatar *+ State of Qatar QA Doha Romania *+ (no long-form name) RO Bucharest Russia *+ Russian Federation RS Moscow Rwanda *+ Rwandese Republic RW Kigali Saint Kitts and Nevis *+ Federation of Saint
Kitts and NevisSC Basseterre Saint Lucia *+ (no long-form name) ST Castries Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines *+(no long-form name) VC Kingstown Samoa *+ Independent State of Samoa WS Apia San Marino *+ Republic of San Marino SM San Marino Sao Tome and Principe *+ Democratic Republic of
Sao Tome and PrincipeTP São Tomé Saudi Arabia *+ Kingdom of Saudi Arabia SA Riyadh Senegal *+ Republic of Senegal SG Dakar Seychelles *+ Republic of Seychelles SE Victoria Sierra Leone *+ Republic of Sierra Leone SL Freetown Singapore *+ Republic of Singapore SN Singapore Slovakia *+ Slovak Republic LO Bratislava Slovenia *+ Republic of Slovenia SI Ljubljana Solomon Islands *+ (no long-form name) BP Honiara Somalia *+ (no long-form name) SO Mogadishu South Africa *+ Republic of South Africa SF Pretoria (administrative)
Cape Town (legislative)
Bloemfontein (judiciary)Spain *+ Kingdom of Spain SP Madrid Sri Lanka *+ Democratic Socialist
Republic of Sri LankaCE Colombo Sudan *+ Republic of the Sudan SU Khartoum Suriname *+ Republic of Suriname NS Paramaribo Swaziland *+ Kingdom of Swaziland WZ Mbabane (administrative)
Lobamba (legislative)Sweden *+ Kingdom of Sweden SW Stockholm Switzerland * Swiss Confederation SZ Bern Syria *+ Syrian Arab Republic SY Damascus Tajikistan *+ Republic of Tajikistan TI Dushanbe Tanzania *+ United Republic of Tanzania TZ Dar es Salaam
Dodoma (legislative)Thailand *+ Kingdom of Thailand TH Bangkok Togo *+ Togolese Republic TO Lomé Tonga *+ Kingdom of Tonga TN Nuku'alofa Trinidad and Tobago *+ Republic of
Trinidad and TobagoTD Port-of-Spain Tunisia *+ Republic of Tunisia TS Tunis Turkey *+ Republic of Turkey TU Ankara Turkmenistan *+ (no long-form name) TX Ashgabat Tuvalu * (no long-form name) TV Funafuti Uganda *+ Republic of Uganda UG Kampala Ukraine *+ (no long-form name) UP Kiev United Arab Emirates *+ United Arab Emirates TC Abu Dhabi United Kingdom *+ United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland UK London United States + United States of America US Washington, DC Uruguay *+ Oriental Republic of Uruguay UY Montevideo Uzbekistan *+ Republic of Uzbekistan UZ Tashkent Vanuatu *+ Republic of Vanuatu NH Port-Vila Venezuela *+ !Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela VE Caracas Vietnam *+ Socialist Republic of Vietnam VM Hanoi Yemen *+ Republic of Yemen YM Sanaa Zambia *+ Republic of Zambia ZA Lusaka Zimbabwe *+ Republic of Zimbabwe ZI Harare OTHER
Short-form name Long-form name FIPS Code (see note 2) Capital Serbia and Montenegro
(see note 6 )(no long-form name) SR (Serbia)
MW (Montenegro)Belgrade
PodgoricaTaiwan (see note 7 ) (no long-form name) TW T'ai-pei
NOTES
Note 1: In this listing, the term "independent state" refers to a people politically organized
into a sovereign state with a definite territory recognized as independent by the US.
Note 2: Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 10-4 codes.
Note 3: With the establishment of diplomatic relations with China on January 1, 1979, the
US Government recognized the People's Republic of China as the sole legal government
of China and acknowledged the Chinese position that there is only one China and that
Taiwan is part of China.
Note 4: "Congo" is the official short-form name for both the Republic of the Congo and the
Democratic Republic of the Congo. To distinguish one from the other, the U.S. Department
of State adds the capital in parentheses. This practice is unofficial and provisional.Note 5: In 1950 the Israel Parliament proclaimed Jerusalem as the capital. The US, like
most other countries that have embassies in Israel, maintains its Embassy in Tel Aviv.
Note 6: The US view is that the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has dissolved
and no successor state represents its continuation. Serbia and Montenegro have asserted
the formation of a joint independent state, but this entity has not been formally recognized
as a state by the US.
Note 7: Claimed by both the Government of the People's Republic of China and the authorities
on Taiwan. Administered by the authorities on Taiwan. (see note 3)Source: Office of The Geographer and Global Issues, Bureau of Intelligence and Research,
U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
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