A very frequent geographical question is "How many countries are in the world?" Different numbers pop up when one inquires about how many countries there are.
Each source you use often yields a different answer. Ultimately, the best answer is that there are 195 countries in the world.So how can it be that there are 204 countries participating in the 2008 Bejing Olympics?
The following 204 countries will be participating in the 2008 Olympic Games:
Afghanistan Albania Andorra Antigua and Barbuda Angola Algeria Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bangladesh Barbados Burundi Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia-Herzegovina Bahrain Botswana Belarus Brazil British Virgin Islands Bulgaria Burkina Faso Cameroon Cambodia Canada
Cayman Islands Central Africa Chad Chile China Republic Chinese Taipei Colombia Comoros Cape Verde Congo Cook Islands Costa Rica Cote-d´lvoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador
Arab Rep. of Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland France Gabon The Gambia Germany Ghana Great Britain Guinea-Bissau Georgia
Greece Grenada Guam Guatemala Guinea Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland
India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Italy Israel Ivory Coast Jamaica Japan Jordon
Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Kenya Korea people Republic Korea Democratic People Republic
Kuwait Laos Latvia Saint Lucia Lebanon Lesotho Libya Lichtenstein Luxembourg
Rep. of Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Rep. of Moldova Marshall Islands
Maldives Malta Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia Monaco Montenegro Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama
Papua New Guinea Palestine Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico
Qatar Rhodesia Romania Rwanda Saint Lucia St. Vincent & Gr. Saint Kitts and Nevis
American Samoa Western Samoa San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Seychelles Sierra Leone Senegal Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa Sri Lanka
Slovakia Swaziland Serbia Singapore Spain Sudan Surinam Syria Sweden Switzerland
Tanzania Tonga Thailand Togo Trinidad & Tobago Tajikistan Timor-Leste Turkmenistan
Tunisia Turkey Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine Unified Team United Arab Emirates U.S.S.R.
U.S.A. US Virgin Islands Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Yugoslavia Zambia Zimbabwe.
With so many countries compeating in a peaceful yet competative setting,
one would think that the people on this world would get along with each other,
a heck of a lot better than they have been.
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