Talk:List of countries

Surely Puerto Rico is not a country, but a dependency of the United States?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.120.102.143 (talk) 15:04, 21 November 2006‎ (UTC)

True. Palestine is also not a country— This unsigned comment was added by APT41790 (talk • changes) on 17:23, 7 January 2007‎ (UTC). 

Palestine is considered a country, not any. ThePurgatori (talk) 03:17, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Is Greenland not a country but a territory of Denmark?—Preceding unsigned comment added by ThePurgatori (talk) 21:25, 12 January 2024 (UTC) -->

Yeah. Vatican City is also not a country. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ThePurgatori (talk) 21:20, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

hi im dumb 86.27.124.211 (talk) 20:39, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

@ThePurgatori: Vatican City is considered a country. -- Auntof6 (talk) 03:13, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

KHALISTAN?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.157.173.183 (talk) 23:32, 27 July 2011‎ (UTC)

Khalistan has been eliminated.--Jcaraballo 23:50, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

--- Kosovo ---

Shouldn't Kosovo be on this list?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.104.79.219 (talk) 23:14, 24 February 2014‎ (UTC)

Bumping for Kosovo 96.245.6.26 (talk) 05:09, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Good point, I have added Kosovo. Thanks for pointing it out. Kk.urban (talk) 05:12, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

TARTARSTAN is not a country, it's an autonomous region in the country of Russia—Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.45.231.159 (talk) 12:06, 19 July 2015‎ (UTC)

Putting the country names of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Wales next to the United Kingdom.

Should I put the country names of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland next to the United Kingdom and if not, why? -- PK2 (talk) 12:16, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

No. I realize that those four are called "constituent countries". However, Wikipedia treats the UK as the country, not those four. It's just the standard way Wikipedia does it, just like what it considers the continents to be. It doesn't mean that's the only way to look at it, just that we treat them that way to be consistent. --Auntof6 (talk) 17:51, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

Edit Suggestion: Delete Second Qatar

Qatar has been listed twice. — This unsigned comment was added by RobertIbarra3 (talk • changes) at 03:22, 19 May 2017‎™.

@RobertIbarra3: Thanks. I've deleted the duplicate. --Auntof6 (talk) 04:39, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Brunei and all countries beginning with V are missing from the list

Girafft91 (talk) 17:28, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

@Girafft91: Brunei was not missing, but I have put back the "V" countries. Thanks for pointing this out! --Auntof6 (talk) 18:34, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

Koreas duplicated

There are two of each, for instance Korea South and K, and South Korea under S. Syced (talk) 07:40, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

@Syced: Thanks, I've removed all the ones under K. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:10, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

Tibet is not a country

Tibet (Xizang) is not a country, it is a autonomous region of China (People's Republic of China). Please correct the error as soon as possible, thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Physixfan (talk • contribs) 20:09, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

@Physixfan:  Done hiàn 20:12, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Democratic republic of Congo

Just a little suggestion, why don't you put the DRoC under D, instead of putting int under Z, saying it used to be Zaire?

Kosovo

Kosovo should be on here

Why we do not use flags in this wiki?

I've checked this page in other languages and every one of them uses flags. They make easy to remember the countries and not confuse them. Also, some wikis even keep them ordered in a list, that makes easier to find the names. So why we do not use it? 🕵📚 NeopunkLM 💬 Talk 19:42, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

Taiwan

I'm not sure if the change I did for Taiwan is the correct one.--Adam080 (talk) 13:40, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

restoration of the old layout

I propose that we restore the old layout for this article like we had until three and a half years ago, because it looks much simpler than the current tabled version, but with flags beside their names as well. What do you think? -- PK2 (talk) 21:30, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request

I want to replace the Afghanistan flag with the taliban flag, the flag of the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan 88.110.38.249 (talk) 19:16, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

 Done Kk.urban (talk) 19:18, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Countries?

Why are places like reunion listed here, in a list of countries?- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 12:53, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

This is one of the most contended pages we have. What defines a country? It seems there is no perfect answer. I, personally, agree that colonies should be under their respective owners (especially French which list them as overseas departments). fr33kman 12:56, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

Disputed countries

I think the disputed countries section has too many items. Is anyone seriously suggesting that regions of Russia like Altai Republic or Sakha are countries? 2601:644:907E:A450:A433:8BBE:85C1:4869 (talk) 08:38, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

P and V sections

I think two countries were missing on these sections, is anyone seriously suggesting that Palestine and Vatican City are not countries? ThePurgatori (talk) 21:30, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Pretty sure Vatican is considered a country by reliable sources. Palestine is a bit iffy, but AFAIK a lot of other countries recognize it. LilianaUwU ^{(talk / changes)} 21:31, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Palestine

is Palestine a country 2800:CD0:AD01:C700:8D4E:FA39:5ACB:ACCE (talk) 21:34, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Yes, Palestine is considered a country because it's an observer state of the UN ThePurgatori (talk) 21:35, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Criteria for inclusion

I think because of the frequent disruption on this page, we should just adopt the English Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 22:28, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Countries with no indigenous population

What countries had no indigenous population? ThePurgatori (talk) 22:30, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

1. Iceland all at once was settled in the 800 AD, but then, the indigenous populations of them is now dead due to some reasons.

2. Vatican City is so small and has no indigenous peoples, so these are the 2 countries that don't have any indigenous population. ThePurgatori (talk) 22:33, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Interesting read, but this talk page is for discussing ways to make the page List of countriesbetter.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 11:56, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Please change "Flag of the Principality of Snake Hill.png" to "Flag of the Principality of Snake Hill.svg"

I've vectorized the flag, please use that version. Thanks! Rainbowlack (talk) 22:49, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Can somone add this country?

Its Gibraltar, either disputed country or place sometimes considered country but not actually countries according to the international law.

45.65.90.57 (talk) 10:24, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

 Not done Gibraltar is a British territory, not a country. Thanks - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 10:32, 28 February 2024 (UTC)