What is a Country?

What classifies as "country"?

You can add a total of 251 countries/regions to your list in BokenMap.

There are various definitions of what constitutes a country, and each nation-state recognizes a different total number of countries in the world. The United Nations has 193 membership states.

FYI, these are some famous/major states that are not UN members.

• Taiwan (Republic of China)
• Vatican City
• State of Palestine
• Kosovo
• Cook Islands
• Western Sahara (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic)
• Niue

By the way, below are some of the regions that you can add to your list, but aren't countries.

• Hong Kong   (Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China)
• Macao   (Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China)
• French Guiana   (Overseas department of France)
• Gibraltar   (British Overseas Territory)
• Puerto Rico   (Unincorporated and organized U.S. territory)
• Greenland   (Autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark)
• Antarctica   (Antarctic Treaty System)

The 251 countries/regions in BokenMap

Below is a list of the 251 countries/regions in BokenMap.