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# How Many Countries are There?
How many countries are there?
Easy: just grab a map and start counting,
yes? No.
Not all maps are created equal -- borders
will differ depending on who you got the map
from.
So if individuals disagree, then surely a
committee will save the day. Go to the United
Nations, find the room where countries sit
-- each with a little name tag -- start counting
and get an answer. Now of course, countries
come and countries go, but at the time this
video was made the answer is 193.
Fastest video ever, right? Except: you know
this isn't over. The United Nations list is
less a complete class roster than a club membership
that doesn't include everyone.
Take, Vatican City who is a country but is
too cool for school when it comes to being
a member of the United Nations.
And while Vatican City's exact situation is…
complicated he's straightforward compared
to other non-United Nations countries… or
places -- the terminology is going to have
a be a bit, unclear here.
Take Kosovo, who want's to join the UN club,
but membership requires none of these five
countries to reject you. And while the United
States, The United Kingdom and France think
Kosovo is a country, Russia and China think
she's just a rebellious part of Serbia and
so veto her membership. As for everyone else,
just over half recognize Kosovo as independent
and Kosovo, adorably, has a website where
she thanks each one in their own language.
But Kosovo, is not there only other… place
that wants to be considered a real country.
There's Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic,
Abkhazia, and South Ossetia. Which might,
or might not, be part of Moldova, Azerbaijan
or Georgia depending on who you ask. Two of
these… countries, no UN members recognize
as countries, and other two have only five
supporters. Though all four of these... places
recognize each other as countries. There's
also The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
and Northern Cyprus each with their own supporters.
At this point you might be thinking 'OK, srsly,
what's the deal? I don't care who these guys
think are countries, are these places countries
or not?' If I fly to one for a Holliday, will
it *look* like a country when I get there?
The answer is, 'maybe'.
These... countries are all autonomous, to
some extent, with governments that issue passports
though these may be of rather limited use
and depending on which ones you're visiting
they may have more or less control of the
territory they claim as theirs. You won't
always find a clear border.
What makes many of these places... fuzzy is
they're *usually* born of conflict in the
recent-ish past.
That answer is probably less helpful than
you want so think of it like this: while The
United States is clearly a country now, in
1776, not so much. Then she was just an idea
in minds of rebel scum. She wasn't recognized
as a country instantly and without diplomatic
effort to change that Young America would
never have made it on her own. Much like what
happened a century later when she got her
own rebel who, unlike elder sister, failed
in the diplomacy department so… yeah.
And so it goes today with many of the maybe
countries in the world. Maybe they're future
United States and maybe they're future Confederacies
-- but in the moment it's hard to say -- because
these things can take decades to settle.
By the way, these maybe-countries are super
awkward for countries to deal with. While
your tiny island nation might not want to
get involved in the affairs of distant lands
you still have to decide to send a diplomat,
or not -- meaning even inaction forces you
to pick a side in *every territorial skirmish
in the world*.
A notably awkward case being: Taiwan… errr,
sorry, Chinese Taipei which is *totally* part
of China and no one would ever think otherwise…
Is China gone?
OK: by any reasonable definition, Taiwan is
a separate country and has been for years,
but China won't let go and insists you call
her Chinese Taipei and don't forget who makes
all your clothing and utensils and TVs and
phones and computers and everything.
So almost all countries -- including the mighty
United States -- plays along even though they
unofficially acknowledge Taiwan's independence
and do things that wouldn't make any senses
otherwise -- like sending aircraft carriers
to protect one part of China from another
part of China.
Thus the innocent question 'how many countries?'
has led us straight to a big 'World War III:
Press Here to Start' button which is getting
depressing so lets move on to...
Ohhhh, right.
::sigh::
No more politics: on to higher ideas: The
Olympics. Surely from their perch among the
gods they have a disinterested view of the
countries below. "How many are there, Olympics?"
Two hundred and four? Huh.
So Olympics is a bit… special. She defines
Puerto Rico as a 'country' even though it's
unambiguously part of the United States as
well as Bermuda and Aruba which are connected
to the UK and The Netherlands along with a
bunch of other places that are happy to play
in her Olympic Games as Nations but make no
claims to independence.
Presumably, Olympics includes these to bump
up the number so she can say 'more than 200
countries compete!' Though even her inflated
list doesn't include Vatican City -- because,
given his demographics, divine intervention
would be required to take home a gold.
And Vatican City brings us right back to the
core of the difficulty with this question:
a consistent definition of 'country' is impossible
because your checklist needs to both include
Vatican City the least country-like country
that's still a country -- and that also exclude
the Anti-Vatican City: Hong Kong: -- the most
country-like country that isn't.
Also don't forget from previous episodes the
seemingly endless territories which look and
act like independent countries, but just sort
of aren't.
And this isn't even brining up the various
Nutters who plant a flag on an Island, or
an oil rig, start printing currency on their
fancy inkjet and declare Deludtopia a new
nation.
So with no checklist to follow where does
that leave us? The best answer to the question
'how many countries' for the forceable future
is probably to say 'around 200' and leave
it at that.
An answer with more significant figures implies
more agreement than there really is -- because
ultimately, what makes a country a country
is if other countries think that country is
a country.
Li Ke (born Nico Yennaris), footballer, gave up his British citizenship to play for the Chinese national team; Eurasian
Tyias Browning, footballer, (also known as Jiang Guangtai) gave up his British citizenship to play for the Chinese national team; Chinese from his maternal grandfather.