Learn about the world's countries
Short articles about flags, countries and the United Nations. Every fact links to its source.
Flags that look alike
Chad and Romania, Indonesia and Monaco, Ireland and Côte d'Ivoire, Australia and New Zealand, Senegal and Mali: what each country's own law says about its flag, and the detail that tells them apart.
Read the article- 02Flags
Learn the flags by pattern
82 flags in 7 families: vertical and horizontal stripes, two stripes, Nordic crosses, the Union Jack, crescents and suns. With the detail that tells each one apart, and a quiz that only mixes look-alikes.
- 03Names
Countries that changed their names
Swaziland became Eswatini, Turkey became Türkiye, Macedonia became North Macedonia, and the Czech Republic added Czechia. When each change happened and what exactly changed.
- 04Capitals
Countries with more than one capital
South Africa has three capitals, Bolivia, the Netherlands and Malaysia split the job between two cities. What their own laws say, and which city counts as the capital on this site.
- 05United Nations
The newest countries in the UN
The United Nations has 193 members. Which country joined last, when the big waves came, and why joining the UN is not the same as becoming a country.
- 06Reference
Glossary
GDP, median age, fertility rate, observer state, region, country code: what every figure and term on All 195 means, with the official definition each one follows.
- 07How we count
Why 195 countries?
How All 195 decides which countries count: the 193 UN member states plus the two UN observer states.
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