This is a list of sovereign states, dependent territories and other states of the world alphabetically (266 countries and territories in total). The list also includes capitals of states and territories, population of countries, areas of countries, currencies and locations/continents., List of all Sovereign Nations and their Capital Cities. Since South Sudan became an independent state on 9 July 2011, there are now 195 independent sovereign states in the world (including de facto independent Taiwan)., This is an alphabetical list of the sovereign states of the world, including both de jure and de facto independent states. This list derives its definition of a sovereign state from Article 1 of the Montevideo Convention from 1933., List of 196 States on Earth + Sovereign Nations incl. Capitals, Size, Population, holiday, currency. Independent States on Earth, in Africa, Asia, Europe, There are 195 countries in the world today. This total comprises 193 countries that are member states of the United Nations and 2 countries that are non-member observer states: the Holy See and the State of Palestine. Not included in this total count of 195 countries are:, Up-to-date list of all 195 flags of sovereign states of the world with images, names and main information about countries..