The answer to how many continents and countries make up the world is somewhat disputed and uncertain. However many believe it to be 6 or 7 continents and between 192 & 195 countries.
This is a list of them all as of 2014 as it may change due to political disputes and wars!!
I have listed them in alphabetical order.
The names in italic are capital cities.
The places we have visited are in BOLD and dated.
“Asia”
With 27 countries listed here;
- Bangladesh (Dhaka) (AS)
- Bhutan (Thimphu) (AS)
- Brunei (Bandar Seri Begawan) (AS)
- Cambodia (Phnom Penh) (AS)
- China (Beijing) (AS)
- India (New Delhi) (AS)
- Indonesia (Jakarta) (AS)
- Japan (Tokyo) (AS)
- Kazakhstan (Astana) (AS)
- North Korea (Pyongyang) (AS)
- South Korea (Seoul) (AS)
- Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek) (AS)
- Laos (Vientiane) (AS)
- Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) (Putrajaya) (AS)
- Maldives (Male) (AS)
- Mongolia (Ulan Bator) (AS)
- Myanmar/Burma (Nay Pyi Taw) (AS)
- Nepal (Kathmandu) (AS)
- Philippines (Manila) (AS)
- Singapore (Singapore City) (AS)
- Sri Lanka (Colombo) (Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte) (AS)
- Taiwan (Taipei) Though may not be correct
- Tajikistan (Dushanbe) (AS)
- Thailand (Bangkok) (AS)
- Turkmenistan (Ashgabat) (AS)
- Uzbekistan (Tashkent) (AS)
- Vietnam (Hanoi) (AS)
“Middle East, North Africa, and Arabia”
With 23 countries listed here;
- Afghanistan (Kabul) (AS)
- Algeria (Algiers) (AF)
- Azerbaijan (Baku) (AS)
- Bahrain (Manama) (AS)
- Egypt (Cairo) (AF)
- Iran (Tehran) (AS)
- Iraq (Baghdad) (AS)
- Israel (Jerusalem) (AS)
- Jordan (Amman) (AS)
- Kuwait (Kuwait City) (AS)
- Lebanon (Beirut) (AS)
- Libya (Tripoli) (AF)
- Morocco (Rabat) (AF) (including Western Sahara)
- Oman (Muscat) (AS)
- Pakistan (Islamabad) (AS)
- Qatar (Doha) (AS)
- Saudi Arabia (Riyadh) (AS)
- Somalia (Mogadishu) (AF)
- Syria (Damascus) (AS)
- Tunisia (Tunis) (AF)
- Turkey (Ankara) (AS) & (EU)
- United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi) (AS)
- Yemen (Sana) (AS)
“Europe”
With 48 countries listed here;
- Albania (Tirane) (EU)
- Andorra (Andorra la Vella) (EU)
- Armenia (Yerevan) (EU)
- Austria (Vienna) (EU)
- Belarus (Minsk) (EU)
- Belgium (Brussels) (EU)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo) (EU)
- Bulgaria (Sofia) (EU)
- Croatia (Zagreb) (EU)
- Cyprus (Nicosia) (AS) and/or (EU)
- Czech Republic (Prague) (EU)
- Denmark (Copenhagen) (EU)
- Estonia (Tallinn) (EU)
- Finland (Helsinki) (EU)
- France (Paris) (EU)
- Georgia (Tbilisi) (Kutaisi ) (EU)
- Germany (Berlin) (EU)
- Greece (Athens) (EU)
- Hungary (Budapest) (EU)
- Iceland (Reykjavik) (EU)
- Ireland (Dublin) (EU)
- Italy (Rome) (EU)
- Kosovo (Pristina) Though may not be correct
- Latvia (Riga) (EU)
- Liechtenstein (Vaduz) (EU)
- Lithuania (Vilnius) (EU)
- Luxembourg (Luxembourg) (EU)
- Macedonia (Skopje) (EU)
- Malta (Valletta) (EU)
- Moldova (Chisinau) (EU)
- Monaco (Monaco) (EU)
- Montenegro (Podgorica) (Cetinje) (EU)
- Netherlands (Amsterdam, The Hague) (EU)
- Norway (Oslo) (EU)
- Poland (Warsaw) (EU)
- Portugal (Lisbon) (EU)
- Romania (Bucharest) (EU)
- Russia (Moscow) (AS)
- San Marino (San Marino) (EU)
- Serbia (Belgrade) (EU)
- Slovakia (Bratislava) (EU)
- Slovenia (Ljubljana) (EU)
- Spain (Madrid) (EU)
- Sweden (Stockholm) (EU)
- Switzerland (Bern) (EU)
- Ukraine (Kiev) (EU)
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (London) (EU)
- Vatican City (na) (EU)
“North America”
With 4 countries listed here;
- Canada (Ottawa) (NA)
- Greenland (Nuuk) Though may not be correct (still not an independent country) – Self-governing country within the Kingdom of Denmark
- Mexico (Mexico City) (NA)
- United States of America (Washington D.C.) (NA)
“Central America and the Caribbean”
With 20 countries listed here;
- Antigua and Barbuda (St. John’s) (NA)
- The Bahamas (Nassau) (NA)
- Barbados (Bridgetown) (NA)
- Belize (Belmopan) (NA)
- Costa Rica (San Jose) (NA)
- Cuba (Havana) (NA)
- Dominica (Roseau) (NA)
- Dominican Republic (Santo Domingo) (NA)
- El Salvador (San Salvador) (NA)
- Grenada (St. George’s) (NA)
- Guatemala (Guatemala City) (NA)
- Haiti (Port-au-Prince) (NA)
- Honduras (Tegucigalpa) (NA)
- Jamaica (Kingston) (NA)
- Nicaragua (Managua) (NA)
- Panama (Panama City) (NA)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis (Basseterre) (NA)
- Saint Lucia (Castries) (NA)
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Kingstown) (NA)
- Trinidad and Tobago (Port-of-Spain) (NA)
“South America”
With 12 countries listed here;
- Argentina (Buenos Aires) (SA)
- Bolivia (Sucre) (SA)
- Brazil (Brasilia) (SA)
- Chile (Santiago) (Valparaiso) (SA) Arica 12/2014, Valparaiso 12/2014, Vina del Mar 12/2014, Santiago 1/2015,
- Colombia (Bogota) (SA) Medellin 8/2014, Cartagena 12/2014
- Ecuador (Quito) (SA)
- Guyana (Georgetown) (SA)
- Paraguay (Asuncion) (SA)
- Peru (Lima) (SA) Salavery(Trujilo 12/2014, Lima 12/2014
- Suriname (Paramaribo) (SA)
- Uruguay (Montevideo) (SA)
- Venezuela (Caracas) (SA)
“Africa”
With 48 countries listed here;
- Angola (Luanda) (AF)
- Benin (Porto-Novo) (Cotonou) (AF)
- Botswana (Gaborone) (AF)
- Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou) (AF)
- Burundi (Bujumbura) (AF)
- Cameroon (Yaounde) (AF)
- Cape Verde (Praia) (EU – Portugal)
- Central African Republic (Bangui) (AF)
- Chad (N’Djamena) (AF)
- Comoros (Moroni) (AF)
- Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) (AF)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa) (AF)
- Cote d’Ivoire (Yamoussoukro) or (Abidjan) (AF)
- Djibouti (Djibouti) (AF)
- Equatorial Guinea (Malabo) (AF)
- Eritrea (Asmara) (AF)
- Ethiopia (Addis Ababa) (AF)
- Gabon (Libreville) (AF)
- Gambia (Banjul) (AF)
- Ghana (Accra) (AF)
- Guinea (Conakry) (AF)
- Guinea-Bissau (Bissau) (AF)
- Kenya (Nairobi) (AF)
- Lesotho (Maseru) (AF)
- Liberia (Monrovia) (AF)
- Madagascar (Antananarivo) (AF)
- Malawi (Lilongwe) (AF)
- Mali (Bamako) (AF)
- Mauritania (Nouakchott) (AF)
- Mauritius (Port Louis) (AF)
- Mozambique (Maputo) (AF)
- Namibia (Windhoek) (AF)
- Niger (Niamey) (AF)
- Nigeria (Abuja) (AF)
- Rwanda (Kigali) (AF)
- Sao Tome and Principe (Sao Tome) (AF)
- Senegal (Dakar) (AF)
- Seychelles (Victoria) (AF)
- Sierra Leone (Freetown) (AF)
- South Africa (Pretoria, Cape Town, Bloemfontein)(AF)
- South Sudan (Juba) (AF)
- Sudan (Khartoum) (AF)
- Swaziland (Mbabane) (Lobamba) (AF)
- Tanzania (Dodoma) (AF)
- Togo (Lome) (AF)
- Uganda (Kampala) (AF)
- Zambia (Lusaka) (AF)
- Zimbabwe (Harare) (AF)
“Australia and Oceania”
With 15 countries listed here;
- Australia (Canberra) (AU)
- East Timor (Dili) (AS)
- Fiji (Suva) (AU – Oceania)
- Kiribati (South Tarawa) (AU – Oceania)
- Marshall Islands (Majuro) (AU – Oceania)
- Federated States of Micronesia (Palikir) (AU – Oceania)
- Nauru (no official capital) (Yaren) (AU – Oceania)
- New Zealand (Wellington) (AU)
- Palau (Koror) (AU – Oceania)
- Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby) (AU)
- Samoa (Apia) (AU – Oceania)
- Solomon Islands (Honiara) (AU – Oceania)
- Tonga (Nuku’alofa) (AU – Oceania)
- Tuvalu (Funafuti) (AU – Oceania)
- Vanuatu (Port-Vila) (AU – Oceania)
Some places that you may think to be countries (like I did) are probably listed below.
They may well become a country.
This list is taken from Wikipedia;
Cocos (Keeling) Islands (West Island) – External territory of Australia
Curaçao (Willemstad) – Self-governing country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Anguilla (The Valley) – British Overseas Territory
South Ossetia (Tskhinvali)
Faroe Islands (Tórshavn) – Self-governing country within the Kingdom of Denmark
Transnistria (Tiraspol) – De facto independent state, not recognized by any UN-member, but by Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Claimed in whole by the Republic of Moldova as the Territorial Unit of Transnistria.
Abkhazia (Sukhumi) – De facto independent state recognised by Russia, Nauru, Nicaragua, Venezuela, South Ossetia and Transnistria. Claimed in whole by Republic of Georgia as the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia.
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Stepanakert) – The self-declared country remains diplomatically unrecognised by UN-member states, including Armenia. Transnistria, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia, all UN non-member states, recognise the state. Claimed in whole by Azerbaijan.
Falkland Islands (Stanley) is a British Overseas Territory
Saint Pierre and Miquelon (St. Pierre) – Overseas collectivity of France
Guernsey (St. Peter Port) – British Crown Dependency
Jersey (St. Helier) – British Crown Dependency
Puerto Rico (San Juan) – Territory of the United States
Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan) – Territory of the United States
British Virgin Islands (Road Town) – British Crown Dependency
Montserrat (Plymouth Brades Estate) – British Overseas Territory.
Sint Maarten (Philipsburg) – Self-governing country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Saint Martin (Marigot) – Overseas collectivity of France
French Polynesia (Papeete) – Overseas collectivity of France
American Samoa (Pago Pago) – Territory of the United States
Aruba (Oranjestad) – Self-governing country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands
New Caledonia (Nouméa) – Sui generis collectivity of France
Burma (Naypyidaw) Comoros (Moroni)
Wallis and Futuna (Mata-Utu) – Overseas collectivity of France
Norfolk Island (Kingston) – External territory of Australia
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (King Edward Point) – British Overseas Territory
State of Palestine (East Jerusalem, Ramallah, Gaza) –
Saint Helena (Jamestown) – Part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena,
Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Somaliland (Hargeisa) – De facto independent state not diplomatically recognized by any other state, claimed in whole by the Somali Republic.
Easter Island (Hanga Roa) – Special territory of Chile
Bermuda (Hamilton) – British Overseas Territory
Guam (Hagåtña) – Territory of the United States
Saint Barthélemy (Gustavia) – Overseas collectivity of France
Gibraltar (Gibraltar) – British Overseas Territory
Ascension Island (Georgetown) – Part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Cayman Islands (George Town) – British Overseas Territory
Christmas Island (Flying Fish Cove) – External territory of Australia
Akrotiri and Dhekelia (Episkopi Cantonment) – British Overseas Territory
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (El Aaiún) –
Tristan da Cunha (Edinburgh of the Seven Seas) – Part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Isle of Man (Douglas) – British Crown Dependency
Turks and Caicos Islands (Cockburn Town) – British Overseas Territory
United States Virgin Islands (Charlotte Amalie) – Territory of the United States
French Guiana (Cayenne) – Overseas department of France
Cook Islands (Avarua) – Self-governing in free association with New Zealand
Niue (Alofi) – Self-governing in free association with New Zealand.
Pitcairn Islands (Adamstown) – British Overseas Territory