We also host the Sahel and West Africa Club SWAC , an international platform aimed at promoting regional policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people in the Sahel and West Africa. Home About Our global reach. Where: Global reach. Did you know? Since , eight new countries have joined the OECD. View list of countries. Australia Year of accession Austria Year of accession Belgium Year of accession Canada Year of accession Chile Year of accession Colombia Year of accession Costa Rica Year of accession Czech Republic Year of accession Denmark Year of accession Estonia Year of accession Finland Year of accession France Year of accession Germany Year of accession Greece Year of accession Hungary Year of accession Iceland Year of accession Ireland Year of accession Israel Year of accession Italy Year of accession Japan Year of accession Luxembourg is a member country of the Schengen Area since March 26, The Maltese comprise 0.
Its capital is Valletta and the official language is Maltese. Malta holds 6 seats in the European Parliament and will hold the revolving presidency of the Council of the EU for the first time in Malta is a member country of the Schengen Area since December 21, The Dutch comprise 3.
Its capital is Amsterdam and the official language is Dutch. The Netherlands holds 26 seats in the European Parliament and held the revolving presidency of the Council of the EU 12 times between and The Netherlands is a member country of the Schengen Area since March 26, The Polish comprise 7.
Its capital is Warsaw and the official language is Polish. Poland holds 51 seats in the European Parliament and held the revolving presidency of the Council of the EU once in Poland is a member country of the Schengen Area since December 21, Its capital is Lisbon and the official language is Portuguese.
Portugal holds 21 seats in the European Parliament and held the revolving presidency of the Council of the EU 3 times between and Portugal is a member country of the Schengen Area since March 26, The Romanians comprise 3. Its capital is Bucharest and the official language is Romanian. Romania holds 32 seats in the European Parliament and will hold the revolving presidency of the Council of the EU for the first time in Romania is not a member country of the Schengen Area.
Slovaks comprise 2. Its capital is Bratislava and the official language is Slovak. The political system in Slovakia is a parliamentary republic. Slovakia holds 13 seats in the European Parliament and is currently holding the revolving presidency of the Council of the EU for the first time.
Slovakia is also a member state of the Schengen Area since March 26, The Slovenians comprise 0. Its capital is Ljubljana and the official language is Slovenian.
Slovenia holds 8 seats in the European Parliament and held the revolving presidency of the Council of the EU once in Slovenia is a member country of the Schengen Area since December 21, Spain is a member country of the EU since January 1, The Spanish comprise 9. Its capital is Madrid. The official language in Spain is Spanish. Spain holds 54 seats in the European Parliament and held the revolving presidency of the Council of the EU 4 times between and Spain is a member country of the Schengen Area since March 26, The Swedes comprise 1.
Its capital is Stockholm and the official language is Swedish. Sweden holds 20 seats in the European Parliament and held the revolving presidency of the Council of the EU twice, in and Sweden is a member country of the Schengen Area since March 25, The continental territories of the member states of the European Union European Communities pre , animated in order of accession. In , the European Coal and Steel Community began the uniting of European countries economically and politically to gain lasting peace.
This brought a good period for the economy, as the EU countries stopped charging customs duties when trading with each other. In , Denmark, Ireland, and the United Kingdom formally decided to join the European Union, becoming nine member states altogether.
The political divisions, during the s, between the east and west Europe finally healed and 10 more new countries joined the EU in , followed by Bulgaria and Romania which joined in In , a financial crisis hits the global economy. Therefore, the Treaty of Lisbon entered into force in , providing the EU with modern institutions and more efficient working methods. In June , the United Kingdom held a referendum, letting the people decide whether they want to leave or remain in the European Union, after a few years of political debate on the topic.
The question of which places count as sovereign states can be controversial, but for starters we can count all the member and observer countries of the United Nations UN :. These countries mostly all accept each other as sovereign states, and they're the ones you'll see on most world maps and many lists of the world's countries.
If you want to know the names of all , Wikipedia has a complete list. The last addition to the list was in , when Palestine became a UN Observer State , and the last time the number of full UN members changed was when South Sudan joined in Note: Palestine's approval as a UN Observer State was controversial, so some lists may still only include countries.
Several more country candidates are left out of the UN itself, but are still officially acknowledged by at least one UN member this kind of official acceptance is called " diplomatic recognition ". These controversial countries are usually labeled on world maps as disputed territories or special cases, if they're on the map at all.
All of these are claimed as parts of other countries, but aren't actually controlled by them at least not completely. The number of UN members recognizing them varies, from just one for Northern Cyprus to over for Kosovo. A few lists also include the Cook Islands and Niue as partially-recognized states.
These two places sometimes act like independent countries, but they've never actually declared independence or tried to join the UN. They're usually considered overseas territories of New Zealand. But wait, there's more! Those six partially recognized countries aren't the only breakaway states with full self-governance.
There are at least three more self-declared countries that aren't recognized by any UN members at all, but still operate independently from the countries that claim them. These are often called "de facto" sovereign states, a fancy Latin way of saying they're independent countries in actual fact, even if not on paper.
The three places most often considered de facto independent countries are Nagorno-Karabakh , Transnistria , and Somaliland. And since there are three more contenders for the list: the so-called "Islamic State" , the Donetsk People's Republic , and the Lugansk People's Republic. But because those last three are located in active war zones and have only limited government structures, there's some debate over whether they count even as de facto countries. Tiny " micronations " declared by individual people usually aren't taken seriously enough to put on the list.
The closest contender would be Sealand , but it's debatable whether this tiny "nation" really counts as having a territory, population, or government, all key ingredients for a sovereign state.
There are also many rebel-held territories and fully self-governing areas like Puntland that aren't controlled by any country, but are left off the list because they don't claim to be independent. They agree in principle that they're part of another country, even though they might disagree about who should be in charge, or how the country should be governed. Lots of people learn about the world's list of countries by watching the Olympic Games every two years.
If you're one of them, you might be confused at why the Olympic Parade of Nations claims over members, even though your atlas only has This is because the Olympics didn't always require applicants to be independent countries.
Dependent territories with partial self-government have sometimes been approved by the International Olympic Committee IOC , and a couple of the partially-recognized states mentioned above have also managed it. Some nearly-independent "countries" like the Cook Islands associated with New Zealand and Aruba the Netherlands are included too.
As for the two partially-recognized countries in the games, Kosovo became an Olympic Nation in , and Taiwan has been a member for some time, but has to call itself "Chinese Taipei" after a deal struck with China in the s.
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