UN Member States — Complete List

The United Nations (UN) currently has 193 member states, covering nearly every recognized sovereign nation in the world. The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II with 51 original member states. Countries join the UN by applying to the General Assembly, which votes on admission. Notable non-members include Vatican City (which has permanent observer status) and Palestine (which has non-member observer state status).

Complete list

#	Country	Capital	Population	Area	Region
1	Denmark	Copenhagen	6.01M	43,094 km²	Europe
2	Sri Lanka	Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte	21.76M	65,610 km²	Asia
3	South Africa	Pretoria	63.10M	1,221,037 km²	Africa
4	Bahrain	Manama	1.59M	765 km²	Asia
5	North Macedonia	Skopje	1.82M	25,713 km²	Europe
6	Equatorial Guinea	Ciudad de la Paz	1.67M	28,051 km²	Africa
7	Cyprus	Nicosia	1.44M	9,251 km²	Europe
8	Mauritius	Port Louis	1.24M	2,040 km²	Africa
9	Nauru	Yaren	11.7K	21 km²	Oceania
10	Austria	Vienna	9.20M	83,871 km²	Europe
11	San Marino	City of San Marino	34.1K	61 km²	Europe
12	Montenegro	Podgorica	623.3K	13,812 km²	Europe
13	Haiti	Port-au-Prince	11.87M	27,750 km²	Americas
14	Sweden	Stockholm	10.61M	450,295 km²	Europe
15	Lesotho	Maseru	2.12M	30,355 km²	Africa
16	Sudan	Khartoum	51.66M	1,886,068 km²	Africa
17	Italy	Rome	58.93M	301,336 km²	Europe
18	North Korea	Pyongyang	25.95M	120,538 km²	Asia
19	Ivory Coast	Yamoussoukro	31.72M	322,463 km²	Africa
20	Guinea	Conakry	14.36M	245,857 km²	Africa
21	Saint Lucia	Castries	184.1K	616 km²	Americas
22	Botswana	Gaborone	2.36M	582,000 km²	Africa
23	Indonesia	Jakarta	284.44M	1,904,569 km²	Asia
24	Philippines	Manila	114.12M	342,353 km²	Asia
25	United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	11.29M	83,600 km²	Asia
26	Paraguay	Asunción	6.11M	406,752 km²	Americas
27	Mauritania	Nouakchott	4.93M	1,030,700 km²	Africa
28	Niger	Niamey	26.31M	1,267,000 km²	Africa
29	Switzerland	Bern	9.08M	41,284 km²	Europe
30	Argentina	Buenos Aires	46.74M	2,780,400 km²	Americas
31	Nepal	Kathmandu	29.91M	147,181 km²	Asia
32	Belize	Belmopan	417.6K	22,966 km²	Americas
33	Barbados	Bridgetown	267.8K	430 km²	Americas
34	Costa Rica	San José	5.31M	51,100 km²	Americas
35	Cuba	Havana	9.75M	109,884 km²	Americas
36	Nigeria	Abuja	223.80M	923,768 km²	Africa
37	Oman	Muscat	5.34M	309,500 km²	Asia
38	Brazil	Brasília	213.42M	8,515,767 km²	Americas
39	El Salvador	San Salvador	6.03M	21,041 km²	Americas
40	Suriname	Paramaribo	616.5K	163,820 km²	Americas
41	Slovenia	Ljubljana	2.13M	20,273 km²	Europe
42	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	3.42M	51,209 km²	Europe
43	Chad	N'Djamena	19.34M	1,284,000 km²	Africa
44	Peru	Lima	34.35M	1,285,216 km²	Americas
45	United States	Washington, D.C.	340.11M	9,525,067 km²	Americas
46	Canada	Ottawa	41.65M	9,984,670 km²	Americas
47	Jordan	Amman	11.73M	89,342 km²	Asia
48	Rwanda	Kigali	14.10M	26,338 km²	Africa
49	Latvia	Riga	1.83M	64,559 km²	Europe
50	Ghana	Accra	33.74M	238,533 km²	Africa
51	Kiribati	South Tarawa	120.7K	811 km²	Oceania
52	Comoros	Moroni	919.9K	1,862 km²	Africa
53	São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé	209.6K	964 km²	Africa
54	Moldova	Chișinău	2.75M	33,847 km²	Europe
55	Bulgaria	Sofia	6.44M	110,879 km²	Europe
56	Tajikistan	Dushanbe	10.50M	143,100 km²	Asia
57	Samoa	Apia	205.6K	2,842 km²	Oceania
58	Belgium	Brussels	11.83M	30,528 km²	Europe
59	Sierra Leone	Freetown	9.08M	71,740 km²	Africa
60	Iceland	Reykjavik	391.8K	103,000 km²	Europe
61	Vietnam	Hanoi	101.34M	331,212 km²	Asia
62	Lebanon	Beirut	5.49M	10,452 km²	Asia
63	Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	111.65M	1,104,300 km²	Africa
64	Yemen	Sana'a	32.68M	527,968 km²	Asia
65	Russia	Moscow	146.03M	17,098,246 km²	Europe
66	Central African Republic	Bangui	6.47M	622,984 km²	Africa
67	Djibouti	Djibouti	1.07M	23,200 km²	Africa
68	South Sudan	Juba	15.79M	619,745 km²	Africa
69	Ukraine	Kyiv	32.86M	603,550 km²	Europe
70	Bangladesh	Dhaka	169.83M	147,570 km²	Asia
71	DR Congo	Kinshasa	112.83M	2,344,858 km²	Africa
72	Uzbekistan	Tashkent	37.86M	447,400 km²	Asia
73	Estonia	Tallinn	1.37M	45,227 km²	Europe
74	Algeria	Algiers	47.40M	2,381,741 km²	Africa
75	Tonga	Nuku'alofa	100.2K	747 km²	Oceania
76	Japan	Tokyo	123.21M	377,930 km²	Asia
77	Timor-Leste	Dili	1.39M	14,874 km²	Asia
78	Czechia	Prague	10.88M	78,865 km²	Europe
79	Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	10.77M	48,671 km²	Americas
80	Mongolia	Ulan Bator	3.54M	1,564,110 km²	Asia
81	Pakistan	Islamabad	241.50M	796,095 km²	Asia
82	Malta	Valletta	574.3K	316 km²	Europe
83	Maldives	Malé	515.1K	300 km²	Asia
84	Ireland	Dublin	5.46M	70,273 km²	Europe
85	Tanzania	Dodoma	68.15M	947,303 km²	Africa
86	Morocco	Rabat	36.83M	446,550 km²	Africa
87	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Kingstown	110.9K	389 km²	Americas
88	Uruguay	Montevideo	3.50M	181,034 km²	Americas
89	Bolivia	Sucre	11.37M	1,098,581 km²	Americas
90	Chile	Santiago	20.21M	756,102 km²	Americas
91	Togo	Lomé	8.10M	56,785 km²	Africa
92	Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	34.23M	330,803 km²	Asia
93	Hungary	Budapest	9.54M	93,028 km²	Europe
94	Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	24.07M	272,967 km²	Africa
95	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	682.0K	2,586 km²	Europe
96	Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	1.37M	5,130 km²	Americas
97	Namibia	Windhoek	3.02M	825,615 km²	Africa
98	Finland	Helsinki	5.65M	338,455 km²	Europe
99	Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	11.78M	462,840 km²	Oceania
100	Eritrea	Asmara	3.61M	117,600 km²	Africa
101	Nicaragua	Managua	6.80M	130,373 km²	Americas
102	Bahamas	Nassau	398.2K	13,943 km²	Americas
103	Israel	Jerusalem	10.13M	21,937 km²	Asia
104	Germany	Berlin	83.49M	357,114 km²	Europe
105	Malawi	Lilongwe	20.73M	118,484 km²	Africa
106	Solomon Islands	Honiara	750.3K	28,896 km²	Oceania
107	Benin	Porto-Novo	13.22M	112,622 km²	Africa
108	Guyana	Georgetown	773.0K	214,969 km²	Americas
109	Slovakia	Bratislava	5.41M	49,037 km²	Europe
110	Micronesia	Palikir	105.6K	702 km²	Oceania
111	Norway	Oslo	5.61M	386,224 km²	Europe
112	Guatemala	Guatemala City	18.08M	108,889 km²	Americas
113	Zambia	Lusaka	19.69M	752,612 km²	Africa
114	Croatia	Zagreb	3.87M	56,594 km²	Europe
115	Colombia	Bogotá	53.06M	1,141,748 km²	Americas
116	Spain	Madrid	49.32M	505,992 km²	Europe
117	Syria	Damascus	25.62M	185,180 km²	Asia
118	Greece	Athens	10.40M	131,990 km²	Europe
119	Dominica	Roseau	67.4K	751 km²	Americas
120	Georgia	Tbilisi	4.00M	69,700 km²	Asia
121	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre	51.3K	261 km²	Americas
122	Turkmenistan	Ashgabat	7.06M	488,100 km²	Asia
123	Romania	Bucharest	19.04M	238,391 km²	Europe
124	Poland	Warsaw	37.39M	312,679 km²	Europe
125	Liberia	Monrovia	5.25M	111,369 km²	Africa
126	Gambia	Banjul	2.42M	10,689 km²	Africa
127	Republic of the Congo	Brazzaville	6.14M	342,000 km²	Africa
128	Iran	Tehran	85.96M	1,648,195 km²	Asia
129	Venezuela	Caracas	28.52M	916,445 km²	Americas
130	Lithuania	Vilnius	2.89M	65,300 km²	Europe
131	Mali	Bamako	22.40M	1,240,192 km²	Africa
132	Liechtenstein	Vaduz	40.9K	160 km²	Europe
133	Australia	Canberra	27.54M	7,692,024 km²	Oceania
134	Azerbaijan	Baku	10.24M	86,600 km²	Asia
135	Senegal	Dakar	18.59M	196,722 km²	Africa
136	Panama	Panama City	4.06M	75,417 km²	Americas
137	Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	7.28M	199,951 km²	Asia
138	Kazakhstan	Astana	20.43M	2,724,900 km²	Asia
139	Somalia	Mogadishu	19.66M	637,657 km²	Africa
140	Kuwait	Kuwait City	4.88M	17,818 km²	Asia
141	Mozambique	Maputo	34.09M	801,590 km²	Africa
142	Zimbabwe	Harare	17.07M	390,757 km²	Africa
143	Tunisia	Tunis	11.97M	163,610 km²	Africa
144	New Zealand	Wellington	5.32M	268,838 km²	Oceania
145	Burundi	Gitega	12.33M	27,834 km²	Africa
146	Palau	Ngerulmud	16.7K	459 km²	Oceania
147	Angola	Luanda	36.17M	1,246,700 km²	Africa
148	Libya	Tripoli	7.46M	1,759,540 km²	Africa
149	Netherlands	Amsterdam	18.10M	41,865 km²	Europe
150	Grenada	St. George's	109.0K	344 km²	Americas
151	Egypt	Cairo	107.27M	1,002,450 km²	Africa
152	United Kingdom	London	69.28M	244,376 km²	Europe
153	Eswatini	Mbabane	1.24M	17,364 km²	Africa
154	Andorra	Andorra la Vella	88.4K	468 km²	Europe
155	Marshall Islands	Majuro	42.4K	181 km²	Oceania
156	Fiji	Suva	900.9K	18,272 km²	Oceania
157	Ecuador	Quito	18.10M	276,841 km²	Americas
158	Seychelles	Victoria	122.7K	452 km²	Africa
159	Kenya	Nairobi	53.33M	580,367 km²	Africa
160	Myanmar	Naypyidaw	51.32M	676,578 km²	Asia
161	Vanuatu	Port Vila	321.4K	12,189 km²	Oceania
162	Qatar	Doha	3.17M	11,586 km²	Asia
163	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	35.30M	2,149,690 km²	Asia
164	Mexico	Mexico City	130.58M	1,964,375 km²	Americas
165	Afghanistan	Kabul	43.84M	652,230 km²	Asia
166	Serbia	Belgrade	6.57M	77,589 km²	Europe
167	Albania	Tirana	2.36M	28,748 km²	Europe
168	Iraq	Baghdad	46.12M	438,317 km²	Asia
169	Honduras	Tegucigalpa	9.89M	112,492 km²	Americas
170	Jamaica	Kingston	2.83M	10,991 km²	Americas
171	Portugal	Lisbon	10.75M	92,090 km²	Europe
172	Bhutan	Thimphu	784.0K	38,394 km²	Asia
173	Antigua and Barbuda	Saint John's	103.6K	442 km²	Americas
174	Madagascar	Antananarivo	31.73M	587,041 km²	Africa
175	Cambodia	Phnom Penh	17.58M	181,035 km²	Asia
176	Belarus	Minsk	9.11M	207,600 km²	Europe
177	Uganda	Kampala	45.91M	241,550 km²	Africa
178	Armenia	Yerevan	3.08M	29,743 km²	Asia
179	Cameroon	Yaoundé	29.44M	475,442 km²	Africa
180	France	Paris	66.35M	543,908 km²	Europe
181	Cape Verde	Praia	491.2K	4,033 km²	Africa
182	Gabon	Libreville	2.47M	267,668 km²	Africa
183	Laos	Vientiane	7.65M	236,800 km²	Asia
184	India	New Delhi	1.42B	3,287,263 km²	Asia
185	Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan	455.5K	5,765 km²	Asia
186	Turkey	Ankara	85.66M	783,562 km²	Asia
187	Singapore	Singapore	6.11M	710 km²	Asia
188	China	Beijing	1.41B	9,706,961 km²	Asia
189	Monaco	Monaco	38.4K	2.02 km²	Europe
190	Thailand	Bangkok	65.86M	513,120 km²	Asia
191	Tuvalu	Funafuti	10.6K	26 km²	Oceania
192	South Korea	Seoul	51.16M	100,210 km²	Asia