How Many Countries Are There In The World?

There are 194 countries in the world and they are:

Afghanistan
Albania
Andorra
Algeria
Angola
Antigua-Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan

Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi

Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Columbia
Comoros
Congo
Costa Rica
Cote D'ivore
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Democratic Republic of Congo
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France

Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana

Haiti
Honduras
Hungary

Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy

Jamaica
Japan
Jordan

Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
North Korea
South Korea
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan

Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg

Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar (Burma)

Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands (Holland)
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Norway

Oman

Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua new Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal

Qatar

Romania
Russia (Russian Federation)
Rwanda

St.Kitts&Nevis
St.Lucia
St.Vincent
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome & Principle
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia Montenegro
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria

Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad&Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu

Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Empire
United Kingdom
United States of America
Uruguay
Uzbekistan

Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Yugoslavia
Zambia
Zimbabwe

If you learn one letter of countries a day, you can learn them off by heart in less then a month. That's how I did it. These are all wonderful countries and I want to visit every single one of them.

A Country is a geographical territory. It is often also taken in the sense of culture and nation and also as a political entity of state.

There are in all 195 countries in the world. Out of all these 192 are members of the United Nations. You can find a complete list of these countries at the link below:

List of Countries

It's really hard to come up with a definitive answer at any one point in time.  The general consensus is that they number at any one time about 195, but some sources would take that over 250.

The problem is that sometimes one country lays claim to an entire country (Iraq tried to annex Kuwait, China successfully annexed Tibet).  Else a country may be fighting a civil war and is due to split into more than one new country (many predict that Iraq will split into at least 3 separate nations, fairly soon; part of Ethiopia split off to become Eritrea no so long ago).

Also, an area may declare itself independent of another nation, but not be recognised as a sovereign territory by everybody else (Taiwan says it is separate from mainland China, The People's Republic of China refuses to accept this claim).

Some places are sort of semi-autonomous dependencies.  Examples include Puerto Rico, the Channel Islands, the Canary Islands. You could argue these are effectively their own countries, too.

That is a complex question since different sources have different answers. Generally speaking, 195 if you count Taiwan, however, depending on whether or not the country is internationally recognized will vary that number. Some common confusion points include Scotland, Wales and England (which are part of the United Kingdom) Greenland, Palestine,and Puerto Rico since these are not fully independent countries.

There are 195 countries of the world.
Visit List of Countries with their Capitals and List of countries with their Profiles.
From these 195 countries, 192 are members of United Nations and unfortunately only these 192 are represented as total countries of world. Not included ones are the Vatican City and Kosovo, that are independent and are not members of the U.N. So 192 is not the number of countries in the world.
Taiwan was actually a member of the United Nations (and even the Security Council) until 1971, when mainland China replaced Taiwan in the organization. Taiwan continues to press for full recognition by other countries, but China claims that Taiwan is simply a province of China.

There are considered to be 193 countries in the world.