{"id":481,"date":"2019-04-23T14:05:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T14:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/215\/?page_id=481"},"modified":"2019-04-23T14:35:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T14:35:27","slug":"countries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/215\/countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"[mk_page_section padding_top=&#8221;50&#8243; padding_bottom=&#8221;50&#8243; sidebar=&#8221;sidebar-1&#8243;][vc_column][mk_fancy_title color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; size=&#8221;60&#8243; force_font_size=&#8221;true&#8221; size_phone=&#8221;40&#8243; font_weight=&#8221;500&#8243; txt_transform=&#8221;capitalize&#8221; margin_bottom=&#8221;10&#8243; font_family=&#8221;none&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221;]Countries[\/mk_fancy_title][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1556028981512{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]Here is the full list of countries. Wikipedia says there are <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population\" target=\"_blank\">197 countries<\/a>. But I go by what <a href=\"https:\/\/onestep4ward.com\/how-many-countries-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Johnny Ward<\/a>, a global traveller who has visited all countries, has documented. I find his life quite comprehensive. It includes territories like Hong Kong. While it technically belongs to China, it has its own government. The list also includes places like Kurdistan where the culture, language, food is quite different from that of Iraq yet is considered to be part of it. Here is the full list of 215 countries.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/mk_page_section][mk_page_section][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][mk_custom_list icon_color=&#8221;#837db8&#8243;]\n<ul>\n<li>Republic of Ireland<\/li>\n<li>UK<\/li>\n<li>France<\/li>\n<li>The Netherlands<\/li>\n<li>Belgium<\/li>\n<li>USA<\/li>\n<li>Canada<\/li>\n<li>Thailand<\/li>\n<li>Laos<\/li>\n<li>Cambodia<\/li>\n<li>China<\/li>\n<li>Bangladesh<\/li>\n<li>India<\/li>\n<li>Nepal<\/li>\n<li>South Korea<\/li>\n<li>Vietnam<\/li>\n<li>Malaysia<\/li>\n<li>Singapore<\/li>\n<li>Japan<\/li>\n<li>The Philippines<\/li>\n<li>Brunei<\/li>\n<li>Indonesia<\/li>\n<li>East Timor<\/li>\n<li>Australia<\/li>\n<li>Sri Lanka<\/li>\n<li>Zimbabwe<\/li>\n<li>Zambia<\/li>\n<li>Botswana<\/li>\n<li>South Africa<\/li>\n<li>Swaziland<\/li>\n<li>Mozambique<\/li>\n<li>Malawi<\/li>\n<li>Tanzania<\/li>\n<li>Kenya<\/li>\n<li>Uganda<\/li>\n<li>Rwanda<\/li>\n<li>Ethiopia<\/li>\n<li>Somalia<\/li>\n<li>Djibouti<\/li>\n<li>Sudan<\/li>\n<li>Egypt<\/li>\n<li>Jordan<\/li>\n<li>Syria<\/li>\n<li>Lebanon<\/li>\n<li>Burma<\/li>\n<li>Taiwan<\/li>\n<li>North Korea<\/li>\n<li>Mongolia<\/li>\n<li>Russia<\/li>\n<li>Kazakhstan<\/li>\n<li>Finland<\/li>\n<li>Estonia<\/li>\n<li>Latvia<\/li>\n<li>Lithuania<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/mk_custom_list][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][mk_custom_list icon_color=&#8221;#837db8&#8243;]\n<ul>\n<li>Belarus<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine<\/li>\n<li>Moldova<\/li>\n<li>Romania<\/li>\n<li>Bulgaria<\/li>\n<li>Macedonia<\/li>\n<li>Kosovo<\/li>\n<li>Greece<\/li>\n<li>Albania<\/li>\n<li>Montenegro<\/li>\n<li>Croatia<\/li>\n<li>Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina<\/li>\n<li>Serbia<\/li>\n<li>Hungary<\/li>\n<li>Israel<\/li>\n<li>Palestine<\/li>\n<li>Italy<\/li>\n<li>Vatican City<\/li>\n<li>San Marino<\/li>\n<li>Switzerland<\/li>\n<li>Liechtenstein<\/li>\n<li>Slovenia<\/li>\n<li>Austria<\/li>\n<li>Slovakia<\/li>\n<li>Czech Republic<\/li>\n<li>Poland<\/li>\n<li>Germany<\/li>\n<li>Denmark<\/li>\n<li>Sweden<\/li>\n<li>Luxembourg<\/li>\n<li>Qatar<\/li>\n<li>Bhutan<\/li>\n<li>UAE<\/li>\n<li>Portugal<\/li>\n<li>Spain<\/li>\n<li>Andorra<\/li>\n<li>Monaco<\/li>\n<li>Iceland<\/li>\n<li>Papua New Guinea<\/li>\n<li>New Zealand<\/li>\n<li>Solomon Islands<\/li>\n<li>Vanuatu<\/li>\n<li>Fiji<\/li>\n<li>Tonga<\/li>\n<li>Samoa<\/li>\n<li>Kyrgyzstan<\/li>\n<li>Tajikistan<\/li>\n<li>Uzbekistan<\/li>\n<li>Iraq<\/li>\n<li>Maldives<\/li>\n<li>Iran<\/li>\n<li>Azerbaijan<\/li>\n<li>Georgia<\/li>\n<li>Armenia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/mk_custom_list][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][mk_custom_list icon_color=&#8221;#837db8&#8243;]\n<ul>\n<li>Turkey<\/li>\n<li>Malta<\/li>\n<li>Cyprus<\/li>\n<li>Mexico<\/li>\n<li>Belize<\/li>\n<li>Guatemala<\/li>\n<li>El Salvador<\/li>\n<li>Honduras<\/li>\n<li>Nicaragua<\/li>\n<li>Costa Rica<\/li>\n<li>Panama<\/li>\n<li>Brazil<\/li>\n<li>Uruguay<\/li>\n<li>Paraguay<\/li>\n<li>Venezuela<\/li>\n<li>Colombia<\/li>\n<li>Ecuador<\/li>\n<li>Peru<\/li>\n<li>Bolivia<\/li>\n<li>Argentina<\/li>\n<li>Chile<\/li>\n<li>Suriname<\/li>\n<li>Guyana<\/li>\n<li>Trinidad and Tobago<\/li>\n<li>Grenada<\/li>\n<li>Saint Vincent and the Grenadines<\/li>\n<li>Saint Lucia<\/li>\n<li>Barbados<\/li>\n<li>Dominica<\/li>\n<li>Antigua and Barbuda<\/li>\n<li>St Kitts and Nevis<\/li>\n<li>Dominican Republic<\/li>\n<li>Haiti<\/li>\n<li>Cuba<\/li>\n<li>Bahamas<\/li>\n<li>Jamaica<\/li>\n<li>Bahrain<\/li>\n<li>Kuwait<\/li>\n<li>Algeria<\/li>\n<li>Tunisia<\/li>\n<li>South Sudan<\/li>\n<li>Democratic Republic of Congo<\/li>\n<li>Burundi<\/li>\n<li>Comoros<\/li>\n<li>Madagascar<\/li>\n<li>Seychelles<\/li>\n<li>Mauritius<\/li>\n<li>Lesotho<\/li>\n<li>Namibia<\/li>\n<li>Angola<\/li>\n<li>Republic of Congo<\/li>\n<li>Gabon<\/li>\n<li>Sao Tome and Principe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/mk_custom_list][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][mk_custom_list icon_color=&#8221;#837db8&#8243;]\n<ul>\n<li>Equatorial Guinea<\/li>\n<li>Cameroon<\/li>\n<li>Central African Republic<\/li>\n<li>Chad<\/li>\n<li>Nigeria<\/li>\n<li>Benin<\/li>\n<li>Togo<\/li>\n<li>Ghana<\/li>\n<li>Ivory Coast<\/li>\n<li>Mali<\/li>\n<li>Burkina Faso<\/li>\n<li>Niger<\/li>\n<li>Liberia<\/li>\n<li>Sierra Leone<\/li>\n<li>Guinea<\/li>\n<li>Guinea-Bissau<\/li>\n<li>Senegal<\/li>\n<li>The Gambia<\/li>\n<li>Mauritania<\/li>\n<li>Morocco<\/li>\n<li>Cape Verde<\/li>\n<li>Libya<\/li>\n<li>Eritrea<\/li>\n<li>Afghanistan<\/li>\n<li>Turkmenistan<\/li>\n<li>Kiribati<\/li>\n<li>Tuvalu<\/li>\n<li>Marshall Islands<\/li>\n<li>Nauru<\/li>\n<li>Palau<\/li>\n<li>Micronesia<\/li>\n<li>Pakistan<\/li>\n<li>Oman<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n<li>Yemen<\/li>\n<li>Norway<\/li>\n<li>Somaliland<\/li>\n<li>Nagorno-Karabakh<\/li>\n<li>Northern Cyprus<\/li>\n<li>Western Sahara<\/li>\n<li>Transnistria<\/li>\n<li>South Ossetia<\/li>\n<li>Abkhazia<\/li>\n<li>Iraqi Kurdistan<\/li>\n<li>Tibet<\/li>\n<li>Hong Kong<\/li>\n<li>Macau<\/li>\n<li>Faroe Islands<\/li>\n<li>Greenland<\/li>\n<li>Northern Ireland<\/li>\n<li>Scotland<\/li>\n<li>England<\/li>\n<li>Wales<\/li>\n<li>Cook Islands<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/mk_custom_list][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/mk_page_section][mk_page_section bg_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; 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