මෙම ලිපිය පරිවර්තනය කළ යුතුය කරුණාකර මෙම ලිපිය සිංහල භාෂාවට දායකවන්න. |
මෙම ලිපිය හෝ අනුමාතෘකා කොටස යාවත්කාලීන නොවී තිබීමට ඉඩ ඇත. ඔබ නව තොරතුරු සොයන්නේ නම් වෙනස්වීමට ඉඩ ඇති තොරතුරු සහ දත්ත සඳහා, අදාල ඉංග්රීසි, ජ'මන් වැනි වැඩි ක්රියාකරී විකිපීඩියාවක ලිපිය හෝ මාතෘකාවට වඩාත් අදාලවන ප්රජාවේ බසින් ඇති ලිපිය කියවන්න. එය යාවත්කාලීන කර තිබීමට වැඩි සම්භාවිතාවක් ඇත. ඔබ මෙම විෂයය පිලිබඳ දැනුවත්නම් මෙය යාවත්කාලීන කිරීමට දායකවන්න. |
මෙම ලිපිය පහසු කියැවීමට හා සැරිසැරීමට බාධා වන තරම් යුක්ත වීමට ඉඩ ඇත.(අගෝස්තු 2011) |
ජාත්යන්තරව පිළිගැනුනු ස්වෛරී රාජ්යයන්
Name in English and the official languages of the state | Information on the extent of the sovereignty | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
| ||||
A | ||||
| ||||
Abkhazia → Other states | ||||
| ||||
ඇෆ්ගනිස්තානය - Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ඇල්බේනියාව - Republic of Albania
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ඇල්ජීරියාව - People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ඇන්ඩෝරා - Principality of Andorra
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ඇන්ගෝලාව - Republic of Angola
| Widely recognized member of the . A separatist government in exile claims independence for | |||
| ||||
- Antigua and Barbuda
| Widely recognized member of the . Antigua and Barbuda is a and has a division (dependency), , with an autonomous status. | |||
| ||||
ආර්ජන්ටිනාව - Argentine Republic
| Widely recognized member of the . Argentina is a divided in . Argentina also claims sovereignty over the British overseas territories of the and | |||
| ||||
ආර්මේනියාව - Republic of Armenia
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ඕස්ට්රේලියාව - Commonwealth of Australia
| Widely recognized member of the . Australia is a and a of states and territories. Australia has sovereignty over: Australia claims sovereignty over parts of Antarctica as: | |||
| ||||
ඔස්ට්රියාව - Republic of Austria
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. Austria is a divided in . | |||
| ||||
අසර්බයිජාන් - Republic of Azerbaijan
| Widely recognized member of the . Azerbaijan has one autonomous republic, , and the autonomous region of (Dağlıq Qarabağ,). In Nagorno Karabakh a de facto country in the de jure territory of Azerbaijan has been established. | |||
| ||||
B | ||||
| ||||
බහාමාස් - Commonwealth of The Bahamas
| Widely recognized member of the . The Bahamas is a . | |||
| ||||
බහරේන් - Kingdom of Bahrain
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
බංග්ලාදේශය - People's Republic of Bangladesh
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
| Widely recognized member of the . Barbados is a . | |||
| ||||
බෙලාරූස් - Republic of Belarus
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
බෙල්ජියම - Kingdom of Belgium
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. Belgium is a divided in . | |||
| ||||
බෙලීස්
| Widely recognized member of the . Belize is a . | |||
| ||||
බෙනින් - Republic of Benin
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
භූතානය - Kingdom of Bhutan
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
බොලිවියාව - Republic of Bolivia
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
බොස්නියා සහ හර්සෙගොවිනා - Bosnia and Herzegovina
| Widely recognized member of the . As a result of the between , and the former , Bosnia and Herzegovina is divided into two constituent entities, the and the . | |||
| ||||
බොට්ස්වානා - Republic of Botswana
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
බ්රසීලය - Federative Republic of Brazil
| Widely recognized member of the . Brasil is a divided in . | |||
| ||||
බෲනයි - Negara Brunei Darussalam
| Widely recognized member of the . Brunei claims sovereignty over part of the Spratly Islands. | |||
| ||||
බල්ගේරියාව - Republic of Bulgaria
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. | |||
| ||||
බර්කිනා ෆාසෝ - Burkina Faso
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
බුරුමය - Union of Myanmar (Burma)
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
බුරුන්ඩි - Republic of Burundi
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
C | ||||
| ||||
කාම්බෝජය - Kingdom of Cambodia
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
කැමරූන් - Republic of Cameroon
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
කැනඩාව
| Widely recognized member of the . Canada is a and a divided into . | |||
| ||||
- Republic of Cape Verde
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
මධ්යම අප්රිකානු ජනරජය
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
චැඩ් - Republic of Chad
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
චිලි - Republic of Chile
| Widely recognized member of the . is an integral part of Chile. | |||
| ||||
චීන මහජන සමූහාණ්ඩුව - People's Republic of China
| Widely recognized member of the . Commonly known as චීනය, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has five autonomous regions: , , , and Tibet. Additionally, it has sovereignty over the Special Administrative Regions of
It claims sovereignty over the territories of:
, controlled by the PRC, is claimed by India as a part of . and have separatist governments in exile. | |||
| ||||
China, Republic of → Taiwan, listed→ Other states | ||||
| ||||
- Republic of Colombia
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
කොමරොස් - Union of the Comoros
| Widely recognized member of the . The Comoros is a with autonomous islands. The Comoros dispute the French sovereignty over and the . | |||
| ||||
කොන්ගෝව - Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa)
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
කොන්ගෝව - Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
කොස්ටා රිකා - Republic of Costa Rica
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
කෝට් ඩවාර් - Republic of Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ක්රොඒෂියා - Republic of Croatia
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
කියුබාව - Republic of Cuba
| Widely recognized member of the . The Cuban area of is as the under the permanent control (with no claim of sovereignty) of the United States which pays rent under terms of treaties with Cuba. | |||
| ||||
සයිප්රස් - Republic of Cyprus
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. See Northern Cyprus for the de facto state in the de jure territory of Cyprus. | |||
| ||||
චෙක් ජනරජය
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. | |||
| ||||
D | ||||
| ||||
ඩෙන්මාර්කය - Kingdom of Denmark
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. The includes also two autonomous countries. For more information, see .
| |||
| ||||
ජිබුටි - Republic of Djibouti
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ඩොමිනිකා - Commonwealth of Dominica
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
| Widely recognized member of the and . | |||
| ||||
E | ||||
| ||||
නැගෙනහිර ටිමෝරය - Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ඉක්වදෝරය - Republic of Ecuador
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ඊජිප්තුව - Arab Republic of Egypt
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
එල් සැල්වදෝරය - Republic of El Salvador
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
- Republic of Equatorial Guinea
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
එරිට්රියා - State of Eritrea
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
එස්ටෝනියා - Republic of Estonia
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. | |||
| ||||
ඉතියෝපියාව - Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
| Widely recognized member of the . Ethiopia is a divided in . | |||
| ||||
F | ||||
| ||||
- Republic of the Fiji Islands
{{{2}}} | Widely recognized member of the . Fiji has an autonomous region (dependency), . | |||
| ||||
ෆින්ලන්තය - Republic of Finland
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. is a neutral and demilitarised autonomous region of Finland. | |||
| ||||
ප්රංශය - French Republic
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. The French overseas regions/departments (, , and ) are legally part of France and France possesses the uninhabited . The French sovereignty includes also the overseas territories of
The French sovereignty over , and is disputed by Madagascar, over by Madagascar, the Seychelles and the , and over by and the Seychelles. | |||
| ||||
G | ||||
| ||||
- Gabonese Republic
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ගැම්බියාව - Republic of The Gambia
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ජෝර්ජියාව
| Widely recognized member of the . Georgia has three divisions with an autonomous status, , and . Both in Abkhazia and South Ossetia de facto states inside the de jure territory of Georgia have been formed. | |||
| ||||
ජර්මනිය - Federal Republic of Germany
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. Germany is a divided in . | |||
| ||||
ඝානාව - Republic of Ghana
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ග්රීසිය - Hellenic Republic
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. | |||
| ||||
ග්රෙනේඩා
| Widely recognized member of the . Grenada is a . | |||
| ||||
ගෞතමාලාව - Republic of Guatemala
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
- Republic of Guinea
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
- Republic of Guinea-Bissau
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ගයනා - Co-operative Republic of Guyana
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
H | ||||
| ||||
හයිටි - Republic of Haiti
| Widely recognized member of the . Haiti claims the uninhabited United States possession of . | |||
| ||||
හොන්ඩියුරාස් - Republic of Honduras
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
හන්ගේරියාව - Republic of Hungary
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. | |||
| ||||
I | ||||
| ||||
අයිස්ලන්තය - Republic of Iceland
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ඉන්දියාව - Republic of India
| Widely recognized member of the . India is a divided in . The Indian sovereignty over is disputed by the People's Republic of China. India claims sovereignty over and administers part of . | |||
| ||||
ඉන්දුනීසියාව - Republic of Indonesia
| Widely recognized member of the . Indonesia has four provinces with special status, , , , and . Separatist governments in exile claim independence for the , the , and the Sultanate of Nangroe Darusalam | |||
| ||||
ඉරානය - Islamic Republic of Iran
| Widely recognized member of the . Divided into and | |||
| ||||
ඉරාකය - Republic of Iraq
| Widely recognized member of the . Iraq's constitution labels the country as a divided in regions, governorates and the capital district. At present the only region is . | |||
| ||||
අයර්ලන්තය - Ireland
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. | |||
| ||||
ඊශ්රායෙලය - State of Israel
| Widely recognized member of the .Israel occupies the Golan Heights and parts of the West Bank and . It has supervision over the partially occupied . These occupations are internationally not recognized. See for more information also Palestine. | |||
| ||||
ඉතාලිය - Italian Republic
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. Italy has autonomous regions, , , , and . | |||
| ||||
Ivory Coast → Côte d'Ivoire | ||||
| ||||
J | ||||
| ||||
ජැමෙයිකාව
| Widely recognized member of the . Jamaica is a . | |||
| ||||
ජපානය - State of Japan
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ජෝර්දානය - Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
K | ||||
| ||||
කසකස්තානය - Republic of Kazakhstan
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
කෙන්යාව - Republic of Kenya
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
කිරිබතී - Republic of Kiribati
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
කොරියාව, උතුරු - Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
කොරියාව, දකුණු - Republic of Korea (South Korea)
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
Kosovo → Other states | ||||
| ||||
කුවේටය - State of Kuwait
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
කියර්ගිස්තානය - Kyrgyz Republic
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
L | ||||
| ||||
ලාඕසය - Lao People's Democratic Republic
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ලැට්වියාව - Republic of Latvia
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. | |||
| ||||
ලෙබනනය - Republic of Lebanon
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ලෙසොතෝව - Kingdom of Lesotho
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ලයිබීරියාව - Republic of Liberia
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ලිබියාව - Socialist People's Libyan Arab Great Jamahiriya
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
- Principality of Liechtenstein
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ලිතුවේනියාව - Republic of Lithuania
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. | |||
| ||||
ලක්සම්බර්ග් - Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. | |||
| ||||
M | ||||
| ||||
මැසඩෝනියාව - (Former Yugoslav) Republic of Macedonia
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
මැඩගස්කර් - Republic of Madagascar
| Widely recognized member of the . Madagascar claims the French possessions of the and . | |||
| ||||
මලාවි - Republic of Malawi
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
මලයාසියාව
| Widely recognized member of the . Malaysia is a divided in . Malaysia claims part of the . | |||
| ||||
- Republic of Maldives
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
මාලි - Republic of Mali
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
මෝල්ටාව - Republic of Malta
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. | |||
| ||||
මාෂල් දිවයින් - Republic of the Marshall Islands
| Widely recognized member of the under with the United States. The Marshall Islands claim the United States territory of . | |||
| ||||
මොරිටානියා - Islamic Republic of Mauritania
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
මොරිෂස් - Republic of Mauritius
| Widely recognized member of the . Mauritius has an autonomous island, . Mauritius claims the and the French island of . | |||
| ||||
මෙක්සිකෝව - United Mexican States
| Widely recognized member of the . Mexico is a divided into . | |||
| ||||
මයික්රොනීසියා - Federated States of Micronesia
| Widely recognized member of the under with the United States. Micronesia is a divided into states. | |||
| ||||
මෝල්ඩෝවා - Republic of Moldova
| Widely recognized member of the . Moldova has an autonomous region, . See Transnistria for the de facto state inside the de jure territory of Moldova. | |||
| ||||
මොනාකෝ - Principality of Monaco
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
මොන්ගෝලියාව
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
මොන්ටිනිග්රෝ
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
- Kingdom of Morocco
| Widely recognized member of the . Morocco claims sovereignty over the and controls most of it, which is disputed by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. Morocco disputes the Spanish sovereignty over , , , , and . | |||
| ||||
මොසැම්බික් - Republic of Mozambique
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
Myanmar → Burma | ||||
| ||||
N | ||||
| ||||
නගෝර්නෝ-කරබාක් අනෙකුත් රාජ්යයන් | ||||
| ||||
නැමිබියාව - Republic of Namibia
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
- Republic of Nauru
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
නේපාලය - Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
නෙදර්ලන්තය - Kingdom of the Netherlands
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. Legally the refers to the European part of the , with the latter consisting of one European country: and the two overseas (associated) countries:
| |||
| ||||
නවසීලන්තය
| Widely recognized member of the . New Zealand is a and has responsibilities for the two free of:
The dependent territory of: New Zealand also claims sovereignty over parts of Antarctica as: | |||
| ||||
නිකරගුවා - Republic of Nicaragua
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
නයිජර් - Republic of Niger
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
නයිජීරියාව - Federal Republic of Nigeria
| Widely recognized member of the . Nigeria is a divided in . | |||
| ||||
Northern Cyprus → Other states | ||||
| ||||
North Korea → Korea, Democratic People's Republic of | ||||
| ||||
නෝර්වේ - Kingdom of Norway
| Widely recognized member of the . is an integral part of Norway, but has a special status due to the . The overseas uninhabited possessions of and are integral parts of Norway. The Norwegian claim of and (Antarctica) as part of Norway is suspended. | |||
| ||||
O | ||||
| ||||
ඕමානය - Sultanate of Oman
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
P | ||||
| ||||
පාකිස්ථානය - Islamic Republic of Pakistan
| Widely recognized member of the . Pakistan is a divided in . Pakistan claims sovereignty over and occupies part of . | |||
| ||||
පලාවු - Republic of Palau
| Widely recognized member of the under with the United States. | |||
| ||||
The Palestinian territories → Other states | ||||
| ||||
පැනමාව - Republic of Panama
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
පපුවා නව ගිනිය - Independent State of Papua New Guinea
| Widely recognized member of the . Papua New Guinea is a and has an autonomous province, . | |||
| ||||
පැරගුවේ - Republic of Paraguay
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
පෙරූ - Republic of Peru
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
පිලිපීනය - Republic of the Philippines
| Widely recognized member of the . The Philippines has an autonomous region, the . The Philippines claim the . | |||
| ||||
පෝලන්තය - Republic of Poland
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. | |||
| ||||
පෘතුගාලය - Portuguese Republic
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. Portugal has two autonomous regions, and . Portugal does not recognize Spanish sovereignty over and . | |||
| ||||
Pridnestrovie → Other states, Transnistria | ||||
| ||||
Q | ||||
| ||||
කාටාර් - State of Qatar
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
R | ||||
| ||||
රුමේනියාව
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. | |||
| ||||
රුසියාව - Russian Federation
| Widely recognized member of the . Russia is a divided in Subjects of Russia (oblasts, republics, autonomous okrugs, krays, and federal cities). Several of the federal subjects are autonomous republics: | |||
| ||||
රුවන්ඩා - Republic of Rwanda
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
S | | |||
ශාන්ත කිට්ස් සහ නේවිස් - Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis
| Widely recognized member of the . Saint Kitts and Nevis is a and is a of the islands. | |||
| ||||
ශාන්ත ලුසියා
| Widely recognized member of the . Saint Lucia is a . | |||
| ||||
| Widely recognized member of the . Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a . | |||
| ||||
සැමෝවා - Independent State of Samoa
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
සැන් මරිනෝ - Republic of San Marino
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
සාඕ ටොමේ සහ ප්රින්සිපේ - Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe
| Widely recognized member of the . São Tomé and Príncipe has an autonomous province, . | |||
| ||||
සවුදි අරාබියාව - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
සෙනගෝල් - Republic of Senegal
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
සර්බියාව - Republic of Serbia
| Widely recognized member of the . Serbia has two autonomous provinces, Kosovo and Metohija and . The Serbian autonomous province of is currently administered by the under the supervision of . In Kosovo a de facto country in the de jure territory of Serbia has been established and remains partially recognised. | |||
| ||||
- Republic of Seychelles
| Widely recognized member of the . The Seychelles claim the and the French and . | |||
| ||||
සියෙරා ලියෝන් - Republic of Sierra Leone
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
සිංගප්පූරුව - Republic of Singapore
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
- Slovak Republic
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. | |||
| ||||
- Republic of Slovenia
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. | |||
| ||||
| Widely recognized member of the . The Solomon Islands is a . | |||
| ||||
සෝමාලියාව - Republic of Somalia
| Widely recognized member of the . Somalia is presently fragmented with its . Somalia disputed the Yemenite sovereignty over . See Somaliland for the de facto country inside the de jure territory of Somalia. | |||
| ||||
දකුණු අප්රිකාව - Republic of South Africa
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
South Korea → Korea, Republic of | ||||
| ||||
South Ossetia → Other states | ||||
| ||||
ස්පාඤ්ඤය - Kingdom of Spain
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. Spain is divided in ./> The sovereignty over , , , , and is disputed by (Morocco). The sovereignty over and is disputed by පෘතුගාලය. Spain disputes the British sovereignty over . | |||
| ||||
ශ්රී ලංකාව - Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
| A widely recognized member of the United Nations. It is a completely peaceful independent state. | |||
| ||||
- Republic of the Sudan
| Widely recognized member of the . Sudan is a divided in and it has one autonomous region, , formed out of the Southern Sudanese states. | |||
| ||||
සුරිනාමය - Republic of Suriname
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ස්වාසිලන්තය - Kingdom of Swaziland
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ස්වීඩනය - Kingdom of Sweden
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. | |||
| ||||
ස්විට්සර්ලන්තය - Swiss Confederation
| Widely recognized member of the . Switzerland is a divided in . | |||
| ||||
සිරියාව - Syrian Arab Republic
| Widely recognized member of the . The is occupied by Israel. Syria disputed the Turkish sovereignty over . | |||
| ||||
T | | |||
China, Republic of (commonly known as "Taiwan") → Other states | ||||
| ||||
ටජිකිස්තානය - Republic of Tajikistan
| Widely recognized member of the . Tajikistan has an autonomous province, . | |||
| ||||
ටැන්සානියාව - United Republic of Tanzania
| Widely recognized member of the . Tanzania is a with an autonomous status for . | |||
| ||||
තායිලන්තය - Kingdom of Thailand
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
Timor-Leste → East Timor | ||||
| ||||
- Togolese Republic
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
- Kingdom of Tonga
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
Transnistria → Other states | ||||
| ||||
ට්රිනිඩෑඩ් සහ ටොබැගෝ - Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
| Widely recognized member of the . Trinidad and Tobago has an autonomous island, . | |||
| ||||
ටියුනීසියාව - Tunisian Republic
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
තුර්කිය - Republic of Turkey
| Widely recognized member of the . The Turkish sovereignty over the is disputed by Syria | |||
| ||||
ටර්ක්මෙනිස්තානය
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
ටුවාලු
| Widely recognized member of the . Tuvalu is a . | |||
| ||||
U | ||||
| ||||
උගන්ඩාව - Republic of Uganda
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
යුක්රේනය
| Widely recognized member of the . Ukraine has an autonomous republic, . | |||
| ||||
එක්සත් අරාබි එමිරේට්ස් - United Arab Emirates
| Widely recognized member of the . The United Arab Emirates is a divided into . | |||
| ||||
එක්සත් රාජධානිය - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
| Widely recognized member of the and the EU. The United Kingdom is a comprising four / . The United Kingdom has the following overseas territories:
The British Crown has sovereignty over
| |||
| ||||
ඇමරිකානු එක්සත් ජනපද
| Widely recognized member of the . The United States is a divided in . The United States has sovereignty over the following (inhabited) territories and commonwealths Besides these, there are uninhabited territories in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea: , , , , , , , (disputed by the ) as well as (disputed by ). Of these only Palmyra Atoll is fully incorporated and considered a part of the US. The Cuban area of is as the under the permanent control (with no claim of sovereignty) of the United States which pays rent under terms of treaties with Cuba. | |||
| ||||
උරුගුවේ - Eastern Republic of Uruguay
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
උස්බෙකිස්තානය - Republic of Uzbekistan
| Widely recognized member of the . Uzbekistan has an autonomous republic, . | |||
| ||||
V | ||||
| ||||
- Republic of Vanuatu
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
- State of the Vatican City
| Widely recognized country. Vatican City is administered by a appointed by the Pope, with the latter being the head of the Holy See, and therefore ex officio sovereign of Vatican City. The Holy See also administers a number of in Italy. | |||
| ||||
වෙනිසියුලාව - Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
| Widely recognized member of the . Venezuela is a divided in . | |||
| ||||
වියට්නාමය - Socialist Republic of Vietnam
| Widely recognized member of the . Vietnam claims sovereignty over the and the . | |||
| ||||
W | ||||
| ||||
Western Sahara → Other states | ||||
| ||||
Y | ||||
| ||||
යේමනය - Republic of Yemen
| Widely recognized member of the . The Yemenite sovereignty over is disputed by Somalia. | |||
| ||||
Z | ||||
| ||||
- Republic of Zambia
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
| ||||
සිම්බාබ්වේ - Republic of Zimbabwe
| Widely recognized member of the . | |||
|
අනෙකුත් රාජ්යයන්
This annex lists states that claim sovereignty and have control over (part of) its claimed territory, but due to disputes over their legitimacy, do not have normal diplomatic relations with the majority of sovereign states. Entities considered to be are not included.
| |
: අබ්ගාසියා සමූහාණ්ඩුව
| De facto independent state only recognised by Russia, Nicaragua, South Ossetia and Transnistria. Claimed in whole by as the . |
| |
- කොසෝවෝ සමූහාණ්ඩුව
| De facto independent state that is recognised by UN member states and by the Republic of China. Party to the . Claimed in whole by the Republic of Serbia as part of its . In turn, the Republic of Kosovo claims the part of Kosovo controlled by the Republic of Serbia and still administered by the . |
| |
- නගෝර්නෝ-කරබාක් ජනරජය
| De facto independent state that has not been diplomatically recognized by any other state. Claimed in whole by the Republic of Azerbaijan. |
| |
උතුරු සයිප්රසය - උතුරු සයිප්රස තුර්කි සමූහාණ්ඩුව
| De facto independent state that is recognised only by Turkey. It was accepted as an observer state of the under the name of the Turkish Cypriot State since 1979. In addition, the regards TRNC as sovereign but Azerbaijan (the sovereign state that Nakhichevan belongs to) has not followed suit. Northern Cyprus is claimed in whole by the Republic of Cyprus. |
| |
පලස්තීන අධිකාරිය
| The are partially controlled by Israel and partially under control of the . has gained control of the Gaza Strip, but has not declared independence. Palestine has received a standing invitation to participate as observer at United Nations General Assembly and maintains a permanent observer mission at the UN Headquarters The proposed State of Palestine is recognized by 103 countries. In diplomatic relations, the proposed State of Palestine is represented by the .[] |
| |
- සෝමාලිලන්ත සමූහාණ්ඩුව
| De facto independent state not diplomatically recognized by any other state, claimed in whole by the Somali Republic. |
| |
- දකුණු ඔසේටියා සමූහාණ්ඩුව
| De facto independent state only recognised by Russia, Nicaragua, Abkhazia and Transnistria. Claimed in whole by the Republic of Georgia as the . |
| |
තායිවානය - චීන සමූහාණ්ඩුව
| De facto independent state; de jure the , a polity regarded by the to be its defunct (and no longer legitimate) predecessor state. In addition to Taiwan, the Republic of China also governs part of the and has not renounced claims over the territory of the PRC and Mongolia. . The territory of the Republic of China is claimed in whole by the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China participates in a number of non-UN international organizations such as the , and others under a variety of pseudonyms, most commonly . |
| |
- ට්රානිස්ට්රියානු මෝල්ඩෝවියානු සමූහාණ්ඩුව (Pridnestrovie, Trans-Dniester)
| De facto independent state, recognized only by Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Claimed in whole by the Republic of Moldova as the Territorial Unit of Transnistria. |
| |
- සහරාවි අරාබි ප්රජාතාන්ත්රීය සමූහාණ්ඩුව -
| De facto independent state recognized by . It is a member of the and the Asian-African Strategic Partnership formed at the 2005 . The territories under its control, the so-called , are claimed in whole by Morocco as part of its . In turn, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic claims the part of the to the west of the controlled by Marocco. Its government resides in exile in Algeria. |
ආශ්රිතසටහන්මූලාශ්ර
|
විකිපීඩියාව, විකි, සිංහල, පොත, පොත්, පුස්තකාලය, ලිපිය, කියවන්න, බාගන්න, නොමිලේ, නොමිලේ බාගන්න, mp3, වීඩියෝ, mp4, 3gp, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, පින්තූරය, සංගීතය, ගීතය, චිත්රපටය, පොත, ක්රීඩාව, ක්රීඩා., ජංගම දුරකථන, android, ios, apple, ජංගම දුරකථන, samsung, iphone, xiomi, xiaomi, redmi, honor, oppo, nokia, sonya, mi, පීසී, වෙබ්, පරිගණකය
ම ම ල ප ය පර වර තනය කළ ය ත ය කර ණ කර ම ම ල ප ය ස හල භ ෂ වට පර වර තනය ක ර ම න ද යකවන න ම ම ල ප ය හ අන ම ත ක ක ටස ය වත ක ල න න ව ත බ මට ඉඩ ඇත ඔබ නව ත රත ර ස යන න නම ව නස ව මට ඉඩ ඇත ත රත ර සහ දත ත සඳහ අද ල ඉ ග ර ස ජ මන ව න ව ඩ ක ර ය කර ව ක ප ඩ ය වක ල ප ය හ ම ත ක වට වඩ ත අද ලවන ප රජ ව බස න ඇත ල ප ය ක යවන න එය ය වත ක ල න කර ත බ මට ව ඩ සම භ ව ත වක ඇත ඔබ ම ම ව ෂයය ප ල බඳ ද න වත නම ම ය ය වත ක ල න ක ර මට ද යකවන න ම ම ල ප ය පහස ක ය ව මට හ ස ර ස ර මට බ ධ වන තරම ව ශ ලත වයක න ය ක ත ව මට ඉඩ ඇත අන තර ගතය ක ටස ව න ක ර ම මග න අන ල ප ව ත ග න ය ම ස ක ෂ ප ත ක ර ම හ අන ශ ර ෂ එකත ක ර ම ප ළ බඳව සලක බලන න ල ප ය ව ත ග ස ම ම ග ටල ව ප ළ බඳ ඔබග අදහස ද ක ව මට ක ර ණ ක වන න අග ස ත 2011 ස ව ට සර ලන තය හ ඉද ර ප ට ඔසව ඇත ස ම ජ ක සහ ස ම ජ ක න වන GA න ර ක ෂක ර ජ යවල ක ඩ ජ ත යන තරව ප ළ ග න න ස ව ර ර ජ යයන Name in English and the official languages of the state Information on the extent of the sovereigntyAAbkhazia Other states ඇෆ ගන ස ත නය Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Pashto د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت 2 Persian افغانستان جمهوری اسلامی افغانستان 2 Widely recognized member of the ඇල බ න ය ව Republic of Albania Albanian Shqiperia Republika e Shqiperise Widely recognized member of the ඇල ජ ර ය ව People s Democratic Republic of Algeria Arabic الجزائر الجمهورية الجزائرية الديمقراطية الشعبية 2 Widely recognized member of the ඇන ඩ ර Principality of Andorra Catalan Andorra Principat d Andorra Widely recognized member of the ඇන ග ල ව Republic of Angola Portuguese Angola Republica de Angola Widely recognized member of the A separatist government in exile claims independence for Antigua and Barbuda English Antigua and Barbuda Widely recognized member of the Antigua and Barbuda is a and has a division dependency with an autonomous status ආර ජන ට න ව Argentine RepublicSpanish Argentina Republica Argentina Widely recognized member of the Argentina is a divided in Argentina also claims sovereignty over the British overseas territories of the and ආර ම න ය ව Republic of Armenia Armenian Հայաստան Հայաստանի Հանրապետություն 2 Widely recognized member of the ඕස ට ර ල ය ව Commonwealth of Australia English Australia Commonwealth of Australia Widely recognized member of the Australia is a and a of states and territories Australia has sovereignty over Christmas Island Norfolk Island Australia claims sovereignty over parts of Antarctica as ඔස ට ර ය ව Republic of Austria German Osterreich Republik Osterreich Widely recognized member of the and the EU Austria is a divided in අසර බය ජ න Republic of Azerbaijan Azeri Azerbaycan Azerbaycan Respublikasi Widely recognized member of the Azerbaijan has one autonomous republic and the autonomous region of Dagliq Qarabag In Nagorno Karabakh a de facto country in the de jure territory of Azerbaijan has been established B බහ ම ස Commonwealth of The Bahamas English The Bahamas Commonwealth of The Bahamas Widely recognized member of the The Bahamas is a බහර න Kingdom of Bahrain Arabic البحرين مملكة البحرين 2 Widely recognized member of the බ ග ල ද ශය People s Republic of Bangladesh Bengali ব ল দ শ গণপ রজ তন ত র ব ল দ শ 2 Widely recognized member of the English Barbados Widely recognized member of the Barbados is a බ ල ර ස Republic of Belarus Belarusian Belarus Respublika Belarus 2 Russian Belorussiya Respublika Belarus 2 Widely recognized member of the බ ල ජ යම Kingdom of Belgium Dutch Belgie Koninkrijk Belgie French Belgique Royaume de Belgique German Belgien Konigreich Belgien Widely recognized member of the and the EU Belgium is a divided in බ ල ස English Belize Widely recognized member of the Belize is a බ න න Republic of BeninFrench Benin Republique du Benin Widely recognized member of the භ ත නය Kingdom of Bhutan Dzongkha འབ ག ཡ ལ འབ ག ར ལ ཁབ 2 Widely recognized member of the බ ල ව ය ව Republic of Bolivia Spanish Bolivia Republica de Bolivia Quechua Bulibiya Bulibiya Mama Llaqta Aymara Wuliwya Wuliwya Suyu Widely recognized member of the බ ස න ය සහ හර ස ග ව න Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian and Croatian Bosna i Hercegovina Serbian Bosna i Hercegovina Bosna i Hercegovina Widely recognized member of the As a result of the between and the former Bosnia and Herzegovina is divided into two constituent entities the and the බ ට ස ව න Republic of Botswana Tswana Botswana Lefatshe la Botswana English Botswana Republic of Botswana Widely recognized member of the බ රස ලය Federative Republic of Brazil Portuguese Brasil Republica Federativa do Brasil Widely recognized member of the Brasil is a divided in බ නය Negara Brunei Darussalam Malay Brunei Negara Brunei Darussalam Widely recognized member of the Brunei claims sovereignty over part of the Spratly Islands බල ග ර ය ව Republic of Bulgaria Bulgarian Blgariya Republika Blgariya 2 Widely recognized member of the and the EU බර ක න ෆ ස Burkina FasoFrench Burkina Faso Widely recognized member of the බ ර මය Union of Myanmar Burma Burmese မန မ 2 Widely recognized member of the බ ර න ඩ Republic of Burundi Kirundi Uburundi Republika y Uburundi French Burundi Republique du Burundi Widely recognized member of the C ක ම බ ජය Kingdom of Cambodia Cambodian កម ព ជ ព រ រ ជ ណ ចក រ កម ព ជ 2 Widely recognized member of the ක මර න Republic of Cameroon French Cameroun Republique du Cameroun English Cameroon Republic of Cameroon Widely recognized member of the ක නඩ වEnglish and French Canada Widely recognized member of the Canada is a and a divided into Republic of Cape Verde Portuguese Cabo Verde Republica de Cabo Verde Widely recognized member of the මධ යම අප ර ක න ජනරජය French Republique Centrafricaine Sangho Kodorosese ti Beafrika Widely recognized member of the ච ඩ Republic of Chad French Tchad Republique du Tchad Arabic تشاد جمهوري ة تشاد 2 Widely recognized member of the ච ල Republic of Chile Spanish Chile Republica de Chile Widely recognized member of the is an integral part of Chile ච න මහජන සම හ ණ ඩ ව People s Republic of ChinaChinese 中国 中华人民共和国 2 Widely recognized member of the Commonly known as ච නය the People s Republic of China PRC has five autonomous regions and Tibet Additionally it has sovereignty over the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong special administrative region of Hong Kong Macau special administrative region of Macau It claims sovereignty over the territories of Taiwan and associated islands which are governed by the Republic of China which claims sovereignty over the whole of China The disputed by the ROC and The disputed by the ROC Vietnam the Philippines Malaysia and Brunei Part of the Indian state of controlled by the PRC is claimed by India as a part of and have separatist governments in exile China Republic of Taiwan listed Other states Republic of Colombia Spanish Colombia Republica de Colombia Widely recognized member of the ක මර ස Union of the Comoros Komori Komori Udzima wa Komori French Comores Union des Comores Arabic القمر اتحاد القمر 2 Widely recognized member of the The Comoros is a with autonomous islands The Comoros dispute the French sovereignty over and the ක න ග ව Democratic Republic of the Congo Congo Kinshasa French Congo Republique Democratique du Congo Widely recognized member of the ක න ග ව Republic of the Congo Congo Brazzaville French Congo Republique du Congo Widely recognized member of the ක ස ට ර ක Republic of Costa Rica Spanish Costa Rica Republica de Costa Rica Widely recognized member of the ක ට ඩව ර Republic of Cote d Ivoire Ivory Coast French Cote d Ivoire Republique de Cote d Ivoire Widely recognized member of the ක ර ඒෂ ය Republic of Croatia Croatian Hrvatska Republika Hrvatska Widely recognized member of the ක ය බ ව Republic of Cuba Spanish Cuba Republica de Cuba Widely recognized member of the The Cuban area of is as the under the permanent control with no claim of sovereignty of the United States which pays rent under terms of treaties with Cuba සය ප රස Republic of Cyprus Greek Kypros Kypriakh Dhmokratia 2 Turkish Kibris Kibris Cumhuriyeti Widely recognized member of the and the EU See Northern Cyprus for the de facto state in the de jure territory of Cyprus ච ක ජනරජයCzech Cesko Ceska republika Widely recognized member of the and the EU D ඩ න ම ර කය Kingdom of Denmark Danish Danmark Kongeriget Danmark Widely recognized member of the and the EU The includes also two autonomous countries For more information see Foroyar Faeroerne Kalaallit Nunaat Gronland ජ බ ට Republic of Djibouti French Djibouti Republique de Djibouti Arabic جيبوتي جمهورية جيبوتي 2 Widely recognized member of the ඩ ම න ක Commonwealth of Dominica English Dominica Commonwealth of Dominica Widely recognized member of the Spanish Republica Dominicana Widely recognized member of the and E න ග නහ ර ට ම රය Democratic Republic of Timor LesteTetum Timor Lorosa e Republika Demokratika Timor Lorosa e Portuguese Timor Leste Republica Democratica de Timor Leste Widely recognized member of the ඉක වද රය Republic of Ecuador Spanish Ecuador Republica del Ecuador Widely recognized member of the ඊජ ප ත ව Arab Republic of Egypt Arabic مصر جمهوري ة مصرالعربي ة 2 Widely recognized member of the එල ස ල වද රය Republic of El Salvador Spanish El Salvador Republica de El Salvador Widely recognized member of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea Spanish Guinea Ecuatorial Republica de Guinea Ecuatorial Widely recognized member of the එර ට ර ය State of Eritrea Tigrinya ኤርትራ ሃግሬ ኤርትራ 2 Arabic إرتريا دولة إرتريا 2 Widely recognized member of the එස ට න ය Republic of Estonia Estonian Eesti Eesti Vabariik Widely recognized member of the and the EU ඉත ය ප ය ව Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Amharic ኢትዮጵያ የኢትዮጵያ ፈደራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ 2 Widely recognized member of the Ethiopia is a divided in F Republic of the Fiji Islands Fijian Viti Matanitu Tu Vaka i koya ko Viti English Fiji Republic of the Fiji Islands Hindustani फ ज ف جی फ ज गणर ज य ف جی رپبلک 2 Widely recognized member of the Fiji has an autonomous region dependency ෆ න ලන තය Republic of Finland Finnish Suomi Suomen Tasavalta Swedish Finland Republiken Finland Widely recognized member of the and the EU is a neutral and demilitarised autonomous region of Finland ප ර ශය French Republic French France Republique francaise Widely recognized member of the and the EU The French overseas regions departments and are legally part of France and France possesses the uninhabited The French sovereignty includes also the overseas territories of Polynesie francaise disputed by Nouvelle Caledonie Saint Martin Saint Pierre et Miquelon Wallis et Futuna Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises uninhabited It includes the Antarctic claim of The French sovereignty over and is disputed by Madagascar over by Madagascar the Seychelles and the and over by and the Seychelles G Gabonese Republic French Gabon Republique Gabonaise Widely recognized member of the ග ම බ ය ව Republic of The Gambia English The Gambia Republic of The Gambia Widely recognized member of the ජ ර ජ ය ව Georgian საქართველო 2 Widely recognized member of the Georgia has three divisions with an autonomous status and Both in Abkhazia and South Ossetia de facto states inside the de jure territory of Georgia have been formed ජර මන ය Federal Republic of Germany German Deutschland Bundesrepublik Deutschland Widely recognized member of the and the EU Germany is a divided in ඝ න ව Republic of Ghana English Ghana Republic of Ghana Widely recognized member of the ග ර ස ය Hellenic Republic Greek Ellada Ellhnikh Dhmokratia 2 Widely recognized member of the and the EU ග ර න ඩ English Grenada Widely recognized member of the Grenada is a ග තම ල ව Republic of Guatemala Spanish Guatemala Republica de Guatemala Widely recognized member of the Republic of Guinea French Guinee Republique de Guinee Widely recognized member of the Republic of Guinea Bissau Portuguese Guine Bissau Republica da Guine Bissau Widely recognized member of the ගයන Co operative Republic of Guyana English Guyana Co operative Republic of Guyana Widely recognized member of the H හය ට Republic of Haiti French Haiti Republique d Haiti Haitian Creole Ayiti Repiblik dAyiti Widely recognized member of the Haiti claims the uninhabited United States possession of හ න ඩ ය ර ස Republic of Honduras Spanish Honduras Republica de Honduras Widely recognized member of the හන ග ර ය ව Republic of Hungary Hungarian Magyarorszag Magyar Koztarsasag Widely recognized member of the and the EU I අය ස ලන තය Republic of Iceland Icelandic Island Lydveldid Island Widely recognized member of the ඉන ද ය ව Republic of India Hindi भ रत भ रत गणर ज य 2 English India Republic of India Widely recognized member of the India is a divided in The Indian sovereignty over is disputed by the People s Republic of China India claims sovereignty over and administers part of ඉන ද න ස ය ව Republic of Indonesia Indonesian Indonesia Republik Indonesia Widely recognized member of the Indonesia has four provinces with special status and Separatist governments in exile claim independence for the the and the Sultanate of Nangroe Darusalam ඉර නය Islamic Republic of Iran Persian ایران جمهوری اسلامی ایران 2 Widely recognized member of the Divided into and ඉර කය Republic of Iraq Arabic العراق جمهورية العراق 2 Kurdish عێراق كۆماری عێراق 2 Widely recognized member of the Iraq s constitution labels the country as a divided in regions governorates and the capital district At present the only region is අයර ලන තය IrelandIrish Eire English Ireland Widely recognized member of the and the EU ඊශ ර ය ලය State of Israel Hebrew ישראל מדינת ישראל 2 Arabic اسرائيل دولة اسرائيل 2 Widely recognized member of the Israel occupies the Golan Heights and parts of the West Bank and It has supervision over the partially occupied These occupations are internationally not recognized See for more information also Palestine ඉත ල ය Italian Republic Italian Italia Repubblica Italiana Widely recognized member of the and the EU Italy has autonomous regions and Ivory Coast Cote d IvoireJ ජ ම ය ක ව English Jamaica Widely recognized member of the Jamaica is a ජප නය State of JapanJapanese 日本 日本国 2 Widely recognized member of the ජ ර ද නය Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Arabic الاردن المملكة الأردن ي ة الهاشمي ة 2 Widely recognized member of the K කසකස ත නය Republic of Kazakhstan Kazakh Қazakstan Қazakstan Respublikasy 2 Widely recognized member of the ක න ය ව Republic of Kenya English Kenya Republic of Kenya Swahili Kenya Jamhuri ya Kenya Widely recognized member of the ක ර බත Republic of Kiribati Gilbertese Kiribati Ribaberikin Kiribati English Kiribati Republic of Kiribati Widely recognized member of the ක ර ය ව උත ර Democratic People s Republic of Korea North Korea Korean 조선 조선민주주의인민공화국 2 Widely recognized member of the ක ර ය ව දක ණ Republic of Korea South Korea Korean 한국 대한민국 2 Widely recognized member of the Kosovo Other states ක ව ටය State of Kuwait Arabic الكويت دولة الكويت 2 Widely recognized member of the ක යර ග ස ත නය Kyrgyz Republic Kyrgyz Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyz Respublikasy 2 Russian Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzskaya respublika 2 Widely recognized member of the L ල ඕසය Lao People s Democratic Republic Laotian ນລາວ ສາທາລະນະລ ດປະຊາທ ປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊ ນລາວ 2 Widely recognized member of the ල ට ව ය ව Republic of Latvia Latvian Latvija Latvijas Republika Widely recognized member of the and the EU ල බනනය Republic of Lebanon Arabic لبنان الجمهوري ة البناني ة 2 Widely recognized member of the ල ස ත ව Kingdom of Lesotho English Lesotho Kingdom of Lesotho Sotho Lesotho Mmuso wa Lesotho Widely recognized member of the ලය බ ර ය ව Republic of Liberia English Liberia Republic of Liberia Widely recognized member of the ල බ ය ව Socialist People s Libyan Arab Great Jamahiriya Arabic ليبيا الجماهيرية العربية الليبية الشعبية الإشتراكية العظمى 2 Widely recognized member of the Principality of Liechtenstein German Liechtenstein Furstentum Liechtenstein Widely recognized member of the ල ත ව න ය ව Republic of Lithuania Lithuanian Lietuva Lietuvos Respublika Widely recognized member of the and the EU ලක සම බර ග Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Luxembourgian Letzebuerg Groussherzogdem Letzebuerg French Luxembourg Grand Duche du Luxembourg German Luxemburg Grossherzogtum Luxemburg Widely recognized member of the and the EU M ම සඩ න ය ව Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Macedonian Makedoniјa Republika Makedoniјa 2 Widely recognized member of the ම ඩගස කර Republic of Madagascar Malagasy Madagasikara Repoblikan i Madagasikara French Madagascar Republique de Madagascar Widely recognized member of the Madagascar claims the French possessions of the and මල ව Republic of Malawi English Malawi Republic of Malawi Chewa Malaŵi Mfuko la Malaŵi Widely recognized member of the මලය ස ය ව Malay Malaysia Widely recognized member of the Malaysia is a divided in Malaysia claims part of the Republic of Maldives Divehi ގ ޖ އ ރ ޔ އ ރ ހ މ ޖ ހ ވ ދ ގ ޖ އ ރ ޔ އ ރ ހ މ ޖ 2 Widely recognized member of the ම ල Republic of Mali French Mali Republique du Mali Widely recognized member of the ම ල ට ව Republic of Malta Maltese Malta Repubblika ta Malta English Malta Republic of Malta Widely recognized member of the and the EU ම ෂල ද වය න Republic of the Marshall Islands Marshallese Aorōkin M ajel Aolepan Aorōkin M ajel English Marshall Islands Republic of the Marshall Islands Widely recognized member of the under with the United States The Marshall Islands claim the United States territory of ම ර ට න ය Islamic Republic of Mauritania Arabic موريتانيا الجمهورية الإسلامية الموريتانية 2 French Mauritanie Republique Islamique de la Mauritanie Widely recognized member of the ම ර ෂස Republic of Mauritius English Mauritius Republic of Mauritius French Maurice Republique de Maurice Widely recognized member of the Mauritius has an autonomous island Mauritius claims the and the French island of ම ක ස ක ව United Mexican States Spanish Mexico Estados Unidos Mexicanos Widely recognized member of the Mexico is a divided into මය ක ර න ස ය Federated States of Micronesia English Micronesia Federated States of Micronesia Widely recognized member of the under with the United States Micronesia is a divided into states ම ල ඩ ව Republic of Moldova Moldovan Moldova Republica Moldova Widely recognized member of the Moldova has an autonomous region See Transnistria for the de facto state inside the de jure territory of Moldova ම න ක Principality of Monaco French Monaco Principaute de Monaco Widely recognized member of the ම න ග ල ය ව Mongolian Mongol Uls 2 Widely recognized member of the ම න ට න ග ර Montenegrin Crna Gora Crna Gora 2 Widely recognized member of the Kingdom of Morocco Arabic المغرب المملكة المغربية 2 Widely recognized member of the Morocco claims sovereignty over the and controls most of it which is disputed by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Morocco disputes the Spanish sovereignty over and ම ස ම බ ක Republic of Mozambique Portuguese Mocambique Republica de Mocambique Widely recognized member of the Myanmar BurmaNනග ර න කරබ ක අන ක ත ර ජ යයන න ම බ ය ව Republic of Namibia English Namibia Republic of Namibia Widely recognized member of the Republic of Nauru Nauruan Naoero Republik Naoero English Nauru Republic of Nauru Widely recognized member of the න ප ලය Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal Nepali न प ल 2 Widely recognized member of the න දර ලන තය Kingdom of the Netherlands Dutch Nederland Koninkrijk der Nederlanden Widely recognized member of the and the EU Legally the refers to the European part of the with the latter consisting of one European country and the two overseas associated countries Nederlandse Antillen නවස ලන තය English New Zealand Maori Aotearoa Widely recognized member of the New Zealand is a and has responsibilities for the two free of The Cook Islands have received some diplomatic recognition Niue only has diplomatic relations with New Zealand The dependent territory of New Zealand also claims sovereignty over parts of Antarctica as න කරග ව Republic of Nicaragua Spanish Nicaragua Republica de Nicaragua Widely recognized member of the නය ජර Republic of Niger French Niger Republique du Niger Widely recognized member of the නය ජ ර ය ව Federal Republic of Nigeria English Nigeria Federal Republic of Nigeria Widely recognized member of the Nigeria is a divided in Northern Cyprus Other statesNorth Korea Korea Democratic People s Republic of න ර ව Kingdom of Norway Norwegian Norge Kongeriket Norge Noreg Kongeriket Noreg Widely recognized member of the is an integral part of Norway but has a special status due to the The overseas uninhabited possessions of and are integral parts of Norway The Norwegian claim of and Antarctica as part of Norway is suspended O ඕම නය Sultanate of Oman Arabic ع مان سلطنة ع مان 2 Widely recognized member of the P ප ක ස ථ නය Islamic Republic of Pakistan Urdu پاکستان اسلامی جمہوریۂ پاکستان 2 English Pakistan Islamic Republic of Pakistan Widely recognized member of the Pakistan is a divided in Pakistan claims sovereignty over and occupies part of පල ව Republic of Palau Paluan Belau Beluu er a Belau English Palau Republic of Palau Widely recognized member of the under with the United States The Palestinian territories Other states ප නම ව Republic of Panama Spanish Panama Republica de Panama Widely recognized member of the පප ව නව ග න ය Independent State of Papua New Guinea English Papua New Guinea Independent State of Papua New Guinea Tok Pisin Papua Niugini Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini Widely recognized member of the Papua New Guinea is a and has an autonomous province ප රග ව Republic of Paraguay Spanish Paraguay Republica del Paraguay Guarani Paraguai Teta Paraguai Widely recognized member of the ප ර Republic of Peru Spanish Peru Republica del Peru Quechua Piruw Piruw Mama Llaqta Aymara Piruw Piruw Suyu Widely recognized member of the ප ල ප නය Republic of the Philippines Filipino Pilipinas Republika ng Pilipinas English Philippines Republic of the Philippines Widely recognized member of the The Philippines has an autonomous region the The Philippines claim the ප ලන තය Republic of Poland Polish Polska Rzeczpospolita Polska Widely recognized member of the and the EU ප ත ග ලය Portuguese Republic Portuguese Portugal Republica Portuguesa Widely recognized member of the and the EU Portugal has two autonomous regions and Portugal does not recognize Spanish sovereignty over and Pridnestrovie Other states TransnistriaQ ක ට ර State of Qatar Arabic قطر دولة قطر 2 Widely recognized member of the R ර ම න ය ව Romanian Romania Widely recognized member of the and the EU ර ස ය ව Russian Federation Russian Rossiya Rossijskaya Federaciya 2 Widely recognized member of the Russia is a divided in Subjects of Russia oblasts republics autonomous okrugs krays and federal cities Several of the federal subjects are autonomous republics ර වන ඩ Republic of Rwanda KinyaRwanda Rwanda Repubulika y u Rwanda French Rwanda Republique du Rwanda English Rwanda Republic of Rwanda Widely recognized member of the S ශ න ත ක ට ස සහ න ව ස Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis English Saint Kitts and Nevis Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis Widely recognized member of the Saint Kitts and Nevis is a and is a of the islands ශ න ත ල ස ය English Saint Lucia Widely recognized member of the Saint Lucia is a English Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Widely recognized member of the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a ස ම ව Independent State of Samoa Samoan Samoa Malo Tuto atasi o Samoa English Samoa Independent State of Samoa Widely recognized member of the ස න මර න Republic of San Marino Italian San Marino Repubblica di San Marino Widely recognized member of the ස ඕ ට ම සහ ප ර න ස ප Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe Portuguese Sao Tome e Principe Republica Democratica de Sao Tome e Principe Widely recognized member of the Sao Tome and Principe has an autonomous province සව ද අර බ ය ව Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Arabic السعودية المملكة العربي ة الس عودي ة 2 Widely recognized member of the ස නග ල Republic of Senegal French Senegal Republique du Senegal Widely recognized member of the සර බ ය ව Republic of Serbia Serbian Srbiјa Republika Srbiјa 2 Widely recognized member of the Serbia has two autonomous provinces Kosovo and Metohija and The Serbian autonomous province of is currently administered by the under the supervision of In Kosovo a de facto country in the de jure territory of Serbia has been established and remains partially recognised Republic of Seychelles English Seychelles Republic of Seychelles French Seychelles Republique des Seychelles Seselwa Sesel Repiblik Sesel Widely recognized member of the The Seychelles claim the and the French and ස ය ර ල ය න Republic of Sierra Leone English Sierra Leone Republic of Sierra Leone Widely recognized member of the ස ගප ප ර ව Republic of Singapore English Singapore Republic of Singapore Malay Singapura Republik Singapura Chinese 新加坡 新加坡共和国 2 Tamil ச ங கப ப ர ச ங கப ப ர க ட யரச 2 Widely recognized member of the Slovak Republic Slovak Slovensko Slovenska republika Widely recognized member of the and the EU Republic of Slovenia Slovenian Slovenija Republika Slovenija Widely recognized member of the and the EU English Solomon Islands Widely recognized member of the The Solomon Islands is a ස ම ල ය ව Republic of Somalia Somali Soomaaliya Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliya Arabic الصومال جمهورية الصومال 2 Widely recognized member of the Somalia is presently fragmented with its Somalia disputed the Yemenite sovereignty over See Somaliland for the de facto country inside the de jure territory of Somalia දක ණ අප ර ක ව Republic of South Africa English South Africa Republic of South Africa Afrikaans Suid Afrika Republiek van Suid Afrika Xhosa Mzantsi Afrika IRiphabliki yaseMzantsi Afrika Zulu Ningizimu Afrika IRiphabliki yaseNingizimu Afrika Ndbele Sewula Afrika IRiphabliki yeSewula Afrika North Sotho Afrika Borwa Rephaboliki ya Afrika Borwa Sotho Afrika Borwa Rephaboliki ya Afrika Borwa Tswana Aforika Borwa Rephaboliki ya Aforika Borwa Swazi Ningizimu Afrika IRiphabhulikhi yeNingizimu Afrika Venda Afurika Tshipembe Riphabuḽiki ya Afurika Tshipembe Tsonga Afrika Dzonga Riphabliki ra Afrika Dzonga Widely recognized member of the South Korea Korea Republic ofSouth Ossetia Other states ස ප ඤ ඤය Kingdom of Spain Spanish Espana Reino de Espana Widely recognized member of the and the EU Spain is divided in gt The sovereignty over and is disputed by Morocco The sovereignty over and is disputed by ප ත ග ලය Spain disputes the British sovereignty over ශ ර ල ක ව Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Sinhala ශ ර ල ක ව ශ ර ල ක ප රජ ත න ත ර ක සම ජව ද ජනරජය 2 Tamil இலங க இலங க ஜனந யக சமத த வ க ட யரச 2 A widely recognized member of the United Nations It is a completely peaceful independent state Republic of the Sudan Arabic السودان جمهورية السودان 2 English Sudan Republic of the Sudan Widely recognized member of the Sudan is a divided in and it has one autonomous region formed out of the Southern Sudanese states ස ර න මය Republic of Suriname Dutch Suriname Republiek Suriname Widely recognized member of the ස ව ස ලන තය Kingdom of Swaziland English Swaziland Kingdom of Swaziland Swazi eSwatini Umbuso weSwatini Widely recognized member of the ස ව ඩනය Kingdom of Sweden Swedish Sverige Konungariket Sverige Widely recognized member of the and the EU ස ව ට සර ලන තය Swiss Confederation German Schweiz Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft French Suisse Confederation Suisse Italian Svizzera Confederazione Svizzera Raeto Romance Svizra Confederaziun Svizra Widely recognized member of the Switzerland is a divided in ස ර ය ව Syrian Arab Republic Arabic سورية الجمهوري ة العربي ة الس وري ة 2 Widely recognized member of the The is occupied by Israel Syria disputed the Turkish sovereignty over TChina Republic of commonly known as Taiwan Other states ටජ ක ස ත නය Republic of Tajikistan Tajik Toҷikiston Ҷumҳurii Toҷikiston 2 Widely recognized member of the Tajikistan has an autonomous province ට න ස න ය ව United Republic of Tanzania Swahili Tanzania Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania Widely recognized member of the Tanzania is a with an autonomous status for ත ය ලන තය Kingdom of Thailand Thai praethsithy rachxanackrithy 2 Widely recognized member of the Timor Leste East Timor Togolese Republic French Togo Republique Togolaise Widely recognized member of the Kingdom of Tonga Tongan Tonga Pule anga Fakatu i o Tonga English Tonga Kingdom of Tonga Widely recognized member of the Transnistria Other states ට ර න ඩ ඩ සහ ට බ ග Republic of Trinidad and Tobago English Trinidad and Tobago Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Widely recognized member of the Trinidad and Tobago has an autonomous island ට ය න ස ය ව Tunisian Republic Arabic تونس الجمهورية التونسية 2 Widely recognized member of the ත ර ක ය Republic of Turkey Turkish Turkiye Turkiye Cumhuriyeti Widely recognized member of the The Turkish sovereignty over the is disputed by Syria ටර ක ම න ස ත නය Turkmenian Turkmenistan Widely recognized member of the ට ව ල Tuvaluan and English Tuvalu Widely recognized member of the Tuvalu is a U උගන ඩ ව Republic of Uganda English Uganda Republic of Uganda Swahili Uganda Jamhuri ya Uganda Widely recognized member of the ය ක ර නය Ukrainian Ukrayina 2 Widely recognized member of the Ukraine has an autonomous republic එක සත අර බ එම ර ට ස United Arab Emirates Arabic الإمارات العربي ة المت حدة 2 Widely recognized member of the The United Arab Emirates is a divided into එක සත ර ජධ න ය United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland English United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Welsh Teyrnas Gyfunol Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon Widely recognized member of the and the EU The United Kingdom is a comprising four England Northern Ireland The United Kingdom has the following overseas territories claimed by and the Seychelles claimed by Argentina Gibraltar claimed by Spain with its dependencies of and claimed by Argentina disputed The British Crown has sovereignty over with the dependencies of and ඇමර ක න එක සත ජනපද English United States of America Widely recognized member of the The United States is a divided in The United States has sovereignty over the following inhabited territories and commonwealths American Samoa Puerto Rico Besides these there are uninhabited territories in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea disputed by the as well as disputed by Of these only Palmyra Atoll is fully incorporated and considered a part of the US The Cuban area of is as the under the permanent control with no claim of sovereignty of the United States which pays rent under terms of treaties with Cuba උර ග ව Eastern Republic of Uruguay Spanish Uruguay Republica Oriental del Uruguay Widely recognized member of the උස බ ක ස ත නය Republic of Uzbekistan Uzbek Ўzbekiston Ўzbekiston Respublikasi 2 Widely recognized member of the Uzbekistan has an autonomous republic V Republic of Vanuatu Bislama Vanuatu Ripablik blong Vanuatu English Vanuatu Republic of Vanuatu French Vanuatu Republique du Vanuatu Widely recognized member of the State of the Vatican City Latin Civitas Vaticana Status Civitatis Vaticanae Italian Citta del Vaticano Stato della Citta del Vaticano Widely recognized country Vatican City is administered by a appointed by the Pope with the latter being the head of the Holy See and therefore ex officio sovereign of Vatican City The Holy See also administers a number of in Italy ව න ස ය ල ව Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Spanish Venezuela Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela Widely recognized member of the Venezuela is a divided in ව යට න මය Socialist Republic of Vietnam Vietnamese Việt Nam Cộng hoa Xa hội Chủ nghĩa Việt Nam Widely recognized member of the Vietnam claims sovereignty over the and the WWestern Sahara Other statesY ය මනය Republic of Yemen Arabic اليمن الجمهوري ة اليمنية 2 Widely recognized member of the The Yemenite sovereignty over is disputed by Somalia Z Republic of Zambia English Zambia Republic of Zambia Widely recognized member of the ස ම බ බ ව Republic of Zimbabwe English Zimbabwe Republic of Zimbabwe Widely recognized member of the අන ක ත ර ජ යයන This annex lists states that claim sovereignty and have control over part of its claimed territory but due to disputes over their legitimacy do not have normal diplomatic relations with the majority of sovereign states Entities considered to be are not included අබ ග ස ය සම හ ණ ඩ ව Abkhazian Aҧsny Aҧsnytәi Respublika 2 Russian Abhaziya Respublika Abhaziya 2 De facto independent state only recognised by Russia Nicaragua South Ossetia and Transnistria Claimed in whole by as the ක ස ව සම හ ණ ඩ ව Albanian Kosoves Republika e Kosoves Serbian Kosovo Republika Kosovo 2 De facto independent state that is recognised by UN member states and by the Republic of China Party to the Claimed in whole by the Republic of Serbia as part of its In turn the Republic of Kosovo claims the part of Kosovo controlled by the Republic of Serbia and still administered by the නග ර න කරබ ක ජනරජය Armenian Լեռնային Ղարաբաղ Լեռնային Ղարաբաղի Հանրապետություն 2 De facto independent state that has not been diplomatically recognized by any other state Claimed in whole by the Republic of Azerbaijan උත ර සය ප රසය උත ර සය ප රස ත ර ක සම හ ණ ඩ ව Turkish Kuzey Kibris Kuzey Kibris Turk Cumhuriyeti De facto independent state that is recognised only by Turkey It was accepted as an observer state of the under the name of the Turkish Cypriot State since 1979 In addition the regards TRNC as sovereign but Azerbaijan the sovereign state that Nakhichevan belongs to has not followed suit Northern Cyprus is claimed in whole by the Republic of Cyprus පලස ත න අධ ක ර ය Arabic فلسطين 2 The are partially controlled by Israel and partially under control of the has gained control of the Gaza Strip but has not declared independence Palestine has received a standing invitation to participate as observer at United Nations General Assembly and maintains a permanent observer mission at the UN Headquarters The proposed State of Palestine is recognized by 103 countries In diplomatic relations the proposed State of Palestine is represented by the තහව ර කර න ම ත ස ම ල ලන ත සම හ ණ ඩ ව Somali Soomaaliland Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliland Arabic ارض الصومال جمهورية ارض الصومال 2 De facto independent state not diplomatically recognized by any other state claimed in whole by the Somali Republic දක ණ ඔස ට ය සම හ ණ ඩ ව Ossetian Hussar Iryston Respublikae Hussar Iryston 2 Russian Yuzhnaya Osetiya Respublika Yuzhnaya Osetiya 2 De facto independent state only recognised by Russia Nicaragua Abkhazia and Transnistria Claimed in whole by the Republic of Georgia as the ත ය ව නය ච න සම හ ණ ඩ වChinese 臺灣 台灣 中華民國 2 De facto independent state de jure the a polity regarded by the to be its defunct and no longer legitimate predecessor state In addition to Taiwan the Republic of China also governs part of the and has not renounced claims over the territory of the PRC and Mongolia The territory of the Republic of China is claimed in whole by the People s Republic of China The Republic of China participates in a number of non UN international organizations such as the and others under a variety of pseudonyms most commonly ට ර න ස ට ර ය න ම ල ඩ ව ය න සම හ ණ ඩ ව Pridnestrovie Trans Dniester Russian Pridnestrove Pridnestrovskaya Moldavskaya Respublika 2 Ukrainian Pridnistrov ya Pridnistrovska Moldavska Respublika 2 Moldovan Nistrya Republika Moldovenyaske Nistryane 2 De facto independent state recognized only by Abkhazia and South Ossetia Claimed in whole by the Republic of Moldova as the Territorial Unit of Transnistria සහර ව අර බ ප රජ ත න ත ර ය සම හ ණ ඩ ව Arabic الجمهورية العربية الصحراوية الديمقراطية 2 De facto independent state recognized by It is a member of the and the Asian African Strategic Partnership formed at the 2005 The territories under its control the so called are claimed in whole by Morocco as part of its In turn the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic claims the part of the to the west of the controlled by Marocco Its government resides in exile in Algeria ආශ ර ත ISO 3166 1 List of countries and dependencies by area List of international rankings Member states of the United Nations Sovereign state List of sovereign states and dependent territories by continent සටහන ම ල ශ ර The names of the items in the list are given in English and include both an English version of the short official names e g Afghanistan and an English version of the longer official names e g Islamic Republic of Afghanistan as well as the same names in the de jure or de facto official languages on national level of the entity Main source for the names in the official languages are the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the CIA World Fact Book 2018 12 14 at the Wayback Machine both retrieved 14 August 2007 If needed they have been into Romanized characters but original scripts such as or are included When possible the Romanization preferred by the country has been used The sources for both flag and names official languages and Romanizations are the main articles on these entities When other sources are used these sources are mentioned See for a gallery of flags Information is included on the extent of recognition and membership of the United Nations Source the website of the UN the reason a non state is listed More information can be found at the the Some sovereign states have overseas dependencies generally not part of the territory of the state More information can be found at the the if applicable Some sovereign states have more or less structures More information can be found at a the inside the territory of the sovereign state Some sovereign states have one or more autonomous areas as part of the their territory see separatist governments in exile More information on separatism can be found at the and the main articles The are members of the in which the head of state of the United Kingdom is head of state The realms are sovereign states see For more information on divisions with a high degree of autonomy see the Argentina is also named Argentine Nation for purposes of legislation More information on more or less structures can be found at a More information on territorial disputes can be found at the and the main articles The member countries of the ය ර ප ය න ස ගමය transferred part of their sovereignty in the form of legislative executive and judicial powers to the institutions of the EU Formerly referred to as its official name until 1975 See form more information about the division of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the text of the The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina 2015 06 04 at the Wayback Machine The sovereignty over the is disputed by the the Philippines part Malaysia part and Brunei part Except Brunei each of these countries occupies part of the islands see Also known as Burkina formerly referred to as its official name until 1984 The Burmese short name in Burmese writing system is not available in Wikipedia The legal name for Canada is the sole word an officially sanctioned though disused name is Dominion of Canada which includes its legal title see The PRC is commonly referred to as ච නය while the ROC is commonly referred to as Taiwan The ROC is also occasionally known as or The People s Republic of China is currently not recognized by 23 countries and Vatican City which recognise the Republic of China see Special administrative region of Hong Kong is a special administrative region People s Republic of China of the People s Republic of China It is often diplomatically known as Special administrative region of Macau is a of the People s Republic of China It is diplomatically known as In 1949 during the the Republic of China government under the KMT of lost control of to the CPC under and relocated to the island of Taiwan The CPC established the PRC As such the of the ROC and the alongside the currently under ROC jurisdiction are in dispute In 1971 at the to the PRC most states recognize or acknowledge the PRC to be the and the UN reckons the former as The ROC is currently recognized by the Holy See and UN member states and has de facto international relations with most others The moniker is proposed by supporters of The Chinese sovereignty over the is disputed by and the see The sovereignty over is disputed by India and Pakistan smaller parts are disputed by the and the De facto Kashmir is divided between India Pakistan and China See the Abbreviated as DRC and also known as Congo Kinshasa also formerly referred to as its official name from 1971 to 1997 Cyprus is recognized by all countries except Turkey see A simpler official short form name has been encouraged by the Czech government the English variant Czechia remains uncommon but variants in Czech Cesko and some other languages are more popular See The government of East Timor uses Timor Leste as English translation Hindustani uses both the Hindi and Urdu script Source for the romanization is Geonames It was demilitarised by the in 1856 which was later affirmed by the in 1921 and in a somewhat different context reaffirmed in the treaty on Finland s admission to the ය ර ප ය න ස ගමය in 1995 See Source Iraqi constitution Ireland is often referred to as the Republic of Ireland its official description but not its name Sometimes this is done to distinguish Ireland from island of Ireland as a whole However sometimes it is done for Israel is currently non recognized by 34 countries see The translation of Nihon koku was found at the Afrikaans Wikipedia Though the sovereignty of the is not disputed Greece disputes its name Therefore the republic is referred to by the UN and a number of countries and international organizations as Some argue that Albanian is the second official language others argue that Albanian is not used as a second official language See for more information See also is often considered to be the same language as Romanian see E g the Federal Republic of Germany has diplomatic relations with the Source German foreign ministry retrieved 14 August 2007 For more information Tokelau remains a dependent territory after referendums Source New Zealand Herald retrieved 8 August 2008 The continent of Antarctica including its outlying islands south of 60 S are held in abeyance under the terms of the All claims are suspended Claiming countries are Argentina Australia Chile France New Zealand Norway and the United Kingdom There is also an informal claim Whether or not the Russian Federation is a genuine federation is a matter of dispute See Russian Federation section The Holy See a sovereign entity recognized by 176 countries administers the territory of Vatican City the Holy See is a permanent observer of the Vatican City s foreign relations are handled by the Holy See Russia condemned for recognizing rebel regions CNN com 2008 08 26 සම ප රව ශය 2008 08 26 See Regions and territories Nagorno Karabakh 17 January 2006 BBC News Retrieved January 17 2006 See The World Factbook Cyprus 2018 12 26 at the Wayback Machine 10 January 2006 Central Intelligence Agency Retrieved January 17 2006 Source for observership See for more information See Regions and territories Somaliland 30 December 2005 BBC News Retrieved January 17 2006 Romanization in Ma refers to China as ROC territory in magazine interview Taipei Times 2008 10 08 See Regions and territories Trans Dniester 13 December 2005 BBC News Retrieved January 17 2006 ද ව ර භ ග ල ව ද ය ව ද ශප ලනය World