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Information on politics by country is available for every List of countries, that means each country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. The entries are listed below.

• Abkhazia - Afghanistan - Åland - Albania - Algeria - American Samoa - Andorra - Angola - Anguilla - Antigua and Barbuda - Argentina - Armenia - Aruba - Australia - Austria - Azerbaijan
• Bahamas - Bahrain - Bangladesh - Barbados - Belarus - Belgium - Belize - Benin - Bermuda - Bhutan - Bolivia - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Botswana - Brazil - British Virgin Islands - Brunei - Bulgaria - Burkina Faso - Burma (now Myanmar) - Burundi
• Cambodia - Cameroon - Canada - Cape Verde - Cayman Islands - Central African Republic - Chad - Chile - People's Republic of China - Republic of China (Taiwan) - Colombia - Comoros - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Republic of the Congo - Cook Islands - Costa Rica - Côte d'Ivoire - Croatia - Cuba - Cyprus - Czech Republic
• Democratic Republic of the Congo - Denmark - Djibouti - Dominica - Dominican Republic
• Ecuador - East Timor - Egypt - El Salvador - Equatorial Guinea - Eritrea - Estonia - Ethiopia
• Falkland Islands - Faroe Islands - Fiji - Finland - France - French Polynesia
• Gabon - The Gambia - Georgia - Germany - Ghana - Gibraltar - Greece - Grenada - Guam - Guatemala - Guernsey - Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Guyana
• Haiti - Holy See (see Vatican City) - Honduras - Hong Kong - Hungary
• Iceland - India - Indonesia - Iran - Iraq - Ireland - Israel - Italy - Ivory Coast (see Côte d'Ivoire)
• Jamaica - Japan - Jersey - Jordan
• Kazakhstan - Kenya - Kiribati - Korea, North - Korea, South - Kosovo - Kuwait - Kyrgyzstan
• Laos - Latvia - Lebanon - Lesotho - Liberia - Libya - Liechtenstein - Lithuania - Luxembourg
• Macau - Madagascar - Malawi - Malaysia - Maldives - Mali - Malta - Man - Marshall Islands - Mauritania - Mauritius - Mayotte - Mexico - Federated States of Micronesia - Moldova - Monaco - Mongolia - Montenegro - Montserrat - Morocco - Mozambique - Myanmar
• Nagorno Karabakh - Namibia - Nauru - Nepal - Netherlands - Netherlands Antilles - New Zealand (Aotearoa) - Nicaragua - Niger - Nigeria - Niue - Norfolk Island - Northern Cyprus - North Korea - North Macedonia - Northern Mariana Islands - Norway
• Oman
• Pakistan - Palau - Palestine - Panama - Papua New Guinea - Paraguay - Peru - Philippines - Pitcairn Islands - Poland - Portugal - Puerto Rico
• Qatar
• Romania - Russia - Rwanda
• Saint Helena - Saint Kitts and Nevis - Saint Lucia - Saint Pierre and Miquelon - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Samoa - San Marino - São Tomé and Príncipe - Saudi Arabia - Senegal - Serbia - Seychelles - Sierra Leone - Singapore - Slovakia - Slovenia - Solomon Islands - Somalia - Somaliland - South Africa - South Korea - Spain - Sri Lanka - Sudan - Suriname - Swaziland - Sweden - Switzerland - Syria
• Taiwan (see Republic of China) - Tajikistan - Tanzania - Thailand - Togo - Tokelau - Tonga - Transnistria - Trinidad and Tobago - Tunisia - Turkey - Turkmenistan - Turks and Caicos Islands - Tuvalu
• Uganda - Ukraine - United Arab Emirates - United Kingdom - United States of America - Uruguay - Uzbekistan
• Vanuatu - Vatican City (Holy See) - Venezuela - Vietnam - Virgin Islands
• Western Sahara - Wallis and Futuna
• Yemen
• Zambia - Zimbabwe

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