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| 1 | English: Australia â Commonwealth of Australia | 67439 |
| 2 | The European Union, a sui generis supranational organisation which currently has 27 member states. The member states have transferred a measure of their legislative, executive, and judicial powers to the institutions of the EU, and as such the EU has some elements of sovereignty, without generally being considered a sovereign state. The European Union does not claim to be a sovereign state and has only limited capacity for relations with other states. | 38623 |
| 3 | Latin: â | 23857 |
| 4 | French: â | 22846 |
| 5 | Spanish: | 22509 |
| 6 | German: â | 20495 |
| 7 | Taiwan and associated islands, Kinmen, Matsu, the Pratas and Itu Aba, which are governed by the Republic of China (which claims sovereignty over the whole of China). | 19236 |
| 8 | Arabic: â | 18637 |
| 9 | Russian: â | 17924 |
| 10 | Antarctica as a whole has no government and no permanent population. Seven states claim portions of Antarctica and five of these have reciprocally recognised one another's claims. "Australia, New Zealand, France, Norway and the United Kingdom reciprocally recognize the validity of each other's claims."</ref> These claims, which are regulated by the Antarctic Treaty System, are neither recognised nor disputed by any other signatory state. [link] â accessed 19 January 2008</ref> | 17087 |
| 11 | Chinese: | 16291 |
| 12 | Greek: â | 14873 |
| 13 | Japanese: â | 12743 |
| 14 | Hindi: â <!-- Romanisation as called for in the UN source --> | 11443 |
| 15 | Sanskrit: â | 10637 |
| 16 | Hebrew: â | 10558 |
| 17 | Persian: â | 9775 |
| 18 | Italian: â | 9574 |
| 19 | Dutch: â | 8951 |
| 20 | Tamil: â | 8687 |
| 21 | Urdu: â | 8423 |
| 22 | Portuguese: â | 8337 |
| 23 | Irish: | 7421 |
| 24 | Korean: íêµ â ëíë¯¼êµ | 6863 |
| 25 | Polish: â | 6815 |
| 26 | Swedish: â | 6427 |
| 27 | Welsh: Source for the Irish, Scottish, and Welsh is {{Cite web | 5532 |
| 28 | Hungarian: â | 5338 |
| 29 | Bengali: â | 5254 |
| 30 | Afrikaans: â | 5148 |
| 31 | Turkish: â | 5116 |
| 32 | Malayalam: â | 4995 |
| 33 | Telugu: â | 4825 |
| 34 | Scottish Gaelic: | 4593 |
| 35 | Catalan: â | 4505 |
| 36 | Finnish: â | 4471 |
| 37 | 4395 | |
| 38 | Federation | 4267 |
| 39 | Dependent territories that are under the sovereignty of states from the above lists. | 4231 |
| 40 | Marathi: â | 4011 |
| 41 | Vietnamese: â | 3901 |
| 42 | Romanian: â | 3810 |
| 43 | Albanian: â | 3784 |
| 44 | Swahili: â | 3773 |
| 45 | Basque: â | 3733 |
| 46 | Malay: â | 3649 |
| 47 | Czech: â | 3536 |
| 48 | Danish: â | 3516 |
| 49 | Punjabi: â | 3510 |
| 50 | Ukrainian: â | 3203 |
| 51 | Indonesian: â | 3182 |
| 52 | Kannada: â | 3171 |
| 53 | Bulgarian: â | 3164 |
| 54 | List of statistically superlative countries | 3066 |
| 55 | Thai: â | 3049 |
| 56 | Pashto: â | 2905 |
| 57 | Serbian: / â / | 2900 |
| 58 | Croatian: â | 2851 |
| 59 | Gujarati: â | 2829 |
| 60 | Armenian: â | 2639 |
| 61 | Scots: | 2633 |
| 62 | Quechua: â Source for the Aymara, GuaranÃ, and Quechua is the {{Cite web | 2505 |
| 63 | Occitan: â Names in additional regional and minority languages are taken from {{Cite web | 2466 |
| 64 | 2398 | |
| 65 | Hawaiian: â Source for the Hawaiian is {{Cite web | 2396 |
| 66 | Filipino and Tagalog: }} â }} | 2270 |
| 67 | Icelandic: â | 2267 |
| 68 | Estonian: â | 1915 |
| 69 | Amharic: â | 1886 |
| 70 | Georgian: | 1863 |
| 71 | Lithuanian: â | 1860 |
| 72 | The Spratly Islands (disputed). | 1810 |
| 73 | Burmese: <font face=Padauk> â </font> | 1804 |
| 74 | Slovenian: â | 1769 |
| 75 | Mongolian: | 1762 |
| 76 | Khmer: <big> â </big> | 1757 |
| 77 | Nepali: â | 1755 |
| 78 | Slovak: â | 1722 |
| 79 | The Sovereign Military Order of Malta is a United Nations observer in the category "Other entities having received a standing invitation to participate as observers in the sessions and the work of the General Assembly and maintaining permanent offices at Headquarters." The order has bi-lateral diplomatic relations with 104 states, but has no territory other than extraterritorial areas within Rome. Its website asserts that "it has always been recognised by nations as an independent subject of international law." The order's Constitution states: "The Order is a subject of international law and exercises sovereign functions." Although the order frequently asserts its sovereignty, including in its name, it does not claim to be a sovereign state. It lacks a defined territory. As with other embassies, Italy could theoretically break diplomatic relations with the order and oblige the non-Italian members to leave Italian territory. Since all its members are citizens of other states, almost all of them live in their native countries, and those who reside in the order's extraterritorial properites in Rome do so only in connection with their official duties, the order lacks the characteristic of having a permanent population. | 1722 |
| 80 | (disputed by Comoros) | 1705 |
| 81 | Maltese: â | 1666 |
| 82 | Macedonian: â | 1654 |
| 83 | Galician: â Reino de España | 1615 |
| 84 | Romansh: â | 1598 |
| 85 | Latvian: â | 1588 |
| 86 | 1491 | |
| 87 | Haitian Creole: â | 1454 |
| 88 | Federated state | 1431 |
| 89 | Azerbaijani: â | 1426 |
| 90 | Belarusian: â | 1350 |
| 91 | Kurdish: â Source for the official name in Kurdish is the {{Cite web | 1349 |
| 92 | Luxembourgish: â | 1332 |
| 93 | 1300 | |
| 94 | 1291 | |
| 95 | Uncontacted peoples who exercise varying degrees of de facto sovereignty over the areas under their control, but either live in societies that cannot be defined as states or whose statuses as such are currently too data deficient to be definitively known. | 1265 |
| 96 | Sinhala: â | 1240 |
| 97 | Somali: â | 1234 |
| 98 | The International Committee of the Red Cross is a nongovernmental organization incorporated under Swiss law with a unique status. Although not a subject of international law, it plays a formal role under the Geneva Conventions as an impartial humanitarian body, and may serve in the same role as a protecting power in times of war. {{Cite book | 1210 |
| 99 | Gallery of sovereign-state flags | 1208 |
| 100 | Bosnian and Croatian: }} | 1203 |
| 101 | Sindhi: , â , | 1119 |
| 102 | 1106 | |
| 103 | Dari/Persian: â | 1094 |
| 104 | List of international rankings | 1076 |
| 105 | Konkani: â | 1018 |
| 106 | Zulu: â | 1016 |
| 107 | separatist governments in exile.</ref> | 977 |
| 108 | Xhosa: â | 966 |
| 109 | Yoruba: â | 961 |
| 110 | List of micronations | 947 |
| 111 | Kazakh: â | 920 |
| 112 | (includes the Antarctic claim of Adélie Land). | 920 |
| 113 | Bhojpuri: â | 918 |
| 114 | Terra nullius | 914 |
| 115 | Frisian: â | 898 |
| 116 | Oriya: â | 840 |
| 117 | Tigrinya: â | 836 |
| 118 | Assamese: â | 833 |
| 119 | Table of administrative divisions by country | 764 |
| 120 | Dhivehi: â | 761 |
| 121 | The Paracel Islands (disputed). The Chinese sovereignty over the Paracel Islands is disputed by Vietnam and the Republic of China (see List of territorial disputes).</ref> | 757 |
| 122 | Lao: â | 746 |
| 123 | Hausa: â | 744 |
| 124 | List of territorial disputes | 730 |
| 125 | Samoan: â | 720 |
| 126 | Associated state | 651 |
| 127 | Uzbek: â | 648 |
| 128 | Uyghur: â | 644 |
| 129 | Tajik: â | 630 |
| 130 | Malagasy: â | 620 |
| 131 | Montenegrin: | 618 |
| 132 | Igbo: â | 616 |
| 133 | Tibetan: <big> â </big> | 612 |
| 134 | Tok Pisin and Hiri Motu: }} | 610 |
| 135 | 610 | |
| 136 | Kashmiri: | 604 |
| 137 | Tswana: â | 596 |
| 138 | Shona: â | 568 |
| 139 | Aymara: â | 540 |
| 140 | Moldovan: â | 493 |
| 141 | Jawi: | 492 |
| 142 | Maithili: â | 489 |
| 143 | Asturian: â | 483 |
| 144 | 475 | |
| 145 | Chewa: â | 468 |
| 146 | Kyrgyz: â | 467 |
| 147 | Ossetian: â | 464 |
| 148 | 460 | |
| 149 | Dzongkha: <big>༠â </big> | 423 |
| 150 | Sotho: â | 416 |
| 151 | Kinyarwanda: â | 394 |
| 152 | South Tibet (governed by India as part of Arunachal Pradesh). | 387 |
| 153 | Fijian: â | 382 |
| 154 | Mirandese: â | 381 |
| 155 | Turkmenian: | 380 |
| 156 | Swazi: â | 345 |
| 157 | Hindustani: / â / Source for the Hindustani, which uses both the Hindi and Urdu script, is {{Cite web | 332 |
| 158 | Tongan: â | 313 |
| 159 | Northern Sotho: â | 312 |
| 160 | List of autonomous areas by country | 309 |
| 161 | Abkhaz: â | 308 |
| 162 | Meitei: â | 299 |
| 163 | Katharevousa: â | 290 |
| 164 | Kirundi: â | 283 |
| 165 | Tetum: â | 274 |
| 166 | Zhuang: â Source for names in regional and minority languages is the Federal Foreign Office of Germany (see references)</ref> Names in additional regional and minority languages are taken from {{Cite web | 264 |
| 167 | Bislama: â | 257 |
| 168 | Dimotiki: â | 254 |
| 169 | Mauritian Creole: â | 253 |
| 170 | Marshallese: â Source for the formal native version is {{Cite web | 253 |
| 171 | Sango: | 249 |
| 172 | Palauan: â | 248 |
| 173 | Gilbertese: â | 245 |
| 174 | Sino-Vietnamese: â | 233 |
| 175 | Tsonga: â | 221 |
| 176 | Papiamentu: (or ) â | 204 |
| 177 | Tuvaluan and English: | 171 |
| 178 | Southern Ndebele: â | 167 |
| 179 | Venda: â | 167 |
| 180 | Seselwa: â | 166 |
| 181 | Ndebele: â | 152 |
| 182 | Comorian: â | 142 |
| 183 | Bemba: â | 119 |
| 184 | Nauruan: â | 107 |
| 185 | Lozi: â | 78 |
| 186 | Lists of sovereign states by year | 73 |
| 187 | Declarative theory of statehood | 73 |
| 188 | Constitutive theory of statehood | 61 |
| 189 | Tonga: â | 42 |
| 190 | Kaonde: â | 32 |
| 191 | TaÃno: | 9 |
| 192 | Quechua: â Source for the Ayamara and Quechua is {{Cite web | < 5 |
| 193 | 193 sovereign states with general international recognition: | < 5 |
| 194 | < 5 | |
| 195 | GuaranÃ: â | < 5 |
| 196 | List of governments-in-exile | < 5 |
| 197 | Monegasque: â | < 5 |
| 198 | < 5 | |
| 199 | MÄori: | < 5 |
| 200 | BokmÃ¥l: â | < 5 |
| 201 | the federal structures if applicable. Some sovereign states have more or less federal structures. More information can be found at a List of federations. | < 5 |
| 202 | Chewa: â | < 5 |
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