Random Country Generator
Press Draw again and this hands you a country from a list it will show you: 193 UN member states plus the 2 observer states, the Holy See and the State of Palestine, 195 in all, typed out for this tool in September 2026. That convention is the thing the other generators on this search leave out, which is why they disagree with each other about how many countries there are: some quietly mix in territories, and none of them say when their list was written. Filter by the five UN regions, drop the observers to draw from the 193 alone, ask for up to 195 at once, and keep No repeats on so a country cannot come up twice inside one draw. Territories the list leaves out, Taiwan, Kosovo, Western Sahara and the rest, can be added in a box of your own, and they are drawn alongside the 195 in their own group rather than being folded into the count.
Press Draw again for a country.
195 of the 195 in the pool right now. 193 UN member states plus 2 observer states, 195 in all, as authored in September 2026.
Press Space or Draw again for another. With No repeats on, a country cannot come up twice inside one draw, and asking for more than the filters hold is refused with the pool size rather than quietly answered short.
Show the whole list: 195 countries, as authored in September 2026
| Region | How many | Countries |
|---|---|---|
| Africa | 54 members | Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| Americas | 35 members | Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela |
| Asia | 47 members + 1 observer | Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, State of Palestine (observer), Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen |
| Europe | 43 members + 1 observer | Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holy See (observer), Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom |
| Oceania | 14 members | Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu |
What this list leaves out, and why
The count follows one convention: a seat at the United Nations. These are the places people most often expect to find here. Add any of them to your own list and it is drawn alongside the 195, in its own group, without joining them.
One per line, or separated by commas: up to 50 of them, 60 characters each. They are drawn alongside the 195 and shown in their own group, never counted as part of it. A repeat is kept once, and the list stays in this browser.
Common questions
- How many countries are there in the world?
- The honest answer is that it depends on what you count, which is why two generators can both be right and still disagree. This page counts seats at the United Nations: 193 member states plus the 2 non-member observer states, 195 in all. Count only full members and it is 193. Count every place with its own government, its own flag and control of its own territory and you pass 200. The convention sits under the draw with the date the list was written, and the whole list opens on the page, so you can check the number rather than take it.
- Which two observer states are included?
- The Holy See and the State of Palestine. Both hold non-member observer status at the General Assembly, which lets them take part in its work without a vote. They are the reason the list is 195 rather than 193, and the Include switch drops them, so a geography quiz that wants the membership alone can draw from exactly 193.
- Are Taiwan, Kosovo or Western Sahara on the list?
- No, and the page says so rather than leaving you to notice. Taiwan governs itself but is not a UN member state: the General Assembly gave the seat to the People's Republic of China in 1971. Kosovo declared independence in 2008 and is recognised by many states, but has never been admitted. Western Sahara is listed by the UN as a non-self-governing territory with its status unresolved. Each one has an Add button under the draw that drops it into your own list, where it is drawn alongside the 195 and shown in its own group.
- Can I add my own countries or territories?
- Yes. Type them into the box under the tool, one per line or separated by commas, up to 50 of them at 60 characters each. They join the pool and can be drawn like any other row, but they appear in a group of their own labelled as added by you, and the count of 195 never moves. That separation is deliberate: the moment a tool folds a user's additions into its own total, its number stops meaning anything.
- Can the same country come up twice?
- Not with No repeats on, which is how the tool opens. The draw walks a shuffle over the filtered pool, so every country in one set is a different one. Ask for more than the filters hold and it refuses and tells you how many are in the pool, rather than handing back a short list and saying nothing. Turn No repeats off and each pick is independent, so repeats become possible. Each press of Draw again is its own round and can overlap with the last.
- Why does the list say Türkiye, Czechia and Eswatini?
- Because those are the names those states use now: Türkiye since 2022, Czechia since 2016 and Eswatini since 2018, and Cabo Verde for the same reason. Names here are the ordinary English short form in its current spelling, so the list reads North Korea and Laos rather than their longer protocol names. A dated list is the point of this page, and a name is part of what the date covers.
- How random is the pick, and is anything sent anywhere?
- The pick comes from your browser's own cryptographic random generator, through crypto.getRandomValues, not from a seeded pattern that repeats. Nothing is uploaded and no account is asked for: the list is bundled with the page, the draw happens on your device, and your regions, count and added territories are remembered in this browser alone.
Draws from an authored list of the 193 UN member states plus the 2 observer states, 195 in all, as of September 2026. Several territories have contested status, so the page states the convention it counts by rather than implying a single universal answer. Anything you add yourself is kept separate and is not part of that 195.