A country is an area of land, which has its own government and laws, or used to have them, [1] such as a state, a nation, a nation state, or other political entity.

Countries that start with: Eswatini (fmr. ""Swaziland"")

Vatican City holds the title as the world’s smallest country, with an area of just 0.17 square mile (0.44 square km). Following is an alphabetically ordered list of the countries of the world and …

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The English word country is derived from Latin contra, which means “against” or “on the opposite side.” In Medieval Latin the noun contrata was formed from contra.

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, …