United Nations

United Nations

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Basic Information
Type	Organization

The United Nations is a political intergovernmental organization with representatives from 193 countries in attendance, plus two members with Observer status; The Holy See, and the State of Palestine. While the United Nations are composed of many umbrella organisations, two are of particular significance; the General Assembly, and the Security Council. The United Nations was formed when the UN Charter took effect on October 24, 1945, after the events of World War II.

Current Members of the United Nations[]

Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina (Founding member)
Armenia (originally part of the United Nations while part of the Soviet Union as the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic)
25px Australia (Founding member)
Austria
Azerbaijan (originally part of the United Nations while part of the Soviet Union as the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic)
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus (founding member of United Nations while part of the Soviet Union as the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic)
Belgium (Founding member)
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Plurinational State of Bolivia (Founding member)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (originally part of the United Nations while part of Yugoslavia)
Botswana
Brazil (Founding member)
Brunei Darussalam
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cabo Verde
Cambodia
Cameroon
25px Canada (Founding member)
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile (Founding member)
People's Republic of China (Treated as a founding member of the United Nations, took up seat formerly held by Taiwan (Republic of China) in 1971)
Colombia (Founding member)
Comoros
Congo
Costa Rica (Founding member)
Côte d'Ivoire
Croatia (originally part of the United Nations while part of Yugoslavia)
Cuba (Founding member)
Cyprus
Czechia (originally part of the United Nations while part of Czechoslovakia, previously known as the Czech Republic)
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Democratic Republic of the Congo (known as Zaire between 1971 to 1997)
Denmark (Founding member)
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic (Founding member)
Ecuador (Founding member)
Egypt (founding member, originally joined the United Nations as the United Arab Republic)
El Salvador (Founding member)
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia (while originally part of the Soviet Union as the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, it was widely unrecognised as being under Soviet control)
Eswatini (originally joined the United Nations when known as Swaziland)
Ethiopia (Founding member)
Fiji
Finland
France (Founding member)
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia (originally part of the United Nations while part of the Soviet Union as the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic)
Germany (includes the current Federal Republic of Germany, and its two previous constituent states West Germany and East Germany)
Ghana
Greece (Founding member)
Grenada
Guatemala (Founding member)
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti (Founding member)
Honduras (Founding member)
Hungary
Iceland
India (Founding member)
Indonesia (Briefly expelled between 1965 and 1966)
Islamic Republic of Iran (Founding member)
Iraq (Founding member)
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan (originally part of the United Nations while part of the Soviet Union as the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic)
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan (originally part of the United Nations while part of the Soviet Union as the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic)
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Latvia (while originally part of the Soviet Union as the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, it was widely unrecognised as being under Soviet control)
Lebanon (Founding member)
Lesotho
Liberia (Founding member)
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania (while originally part of the Soviet Union as the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, it was widely unrecognised as being under Soviet control)
Luxembourg (Founding member)
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia (originally joined the United Nations as the Federation of Malaya)
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico (Founding member)
Federated States of Micronesia
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro (originally part of the United Nations while part of Yugoslavia and again under Serbia and Montenegro)
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands (Founding member)
New Zealand (Founding member)
Nicaragua (Founding member)
Niger
Nigeria
North Macedonia (originally part of the United Nations while part of Yugoslavia, and also formally known as The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)
Norway (Founding member)
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Panama (Founding member)
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay (Founding member)
Peru (Founding member)
Philippines (Founding member)
Poland (Founding member)
Portugal
Qatar
Republic of Korea
Republic of Moldova (while originally part of the Soviet Union as the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, it was widely unrecognised as being under Soviet control)
Romania
Russian Federation (Founding member while originally part of the Soviet Union as the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic)
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe
Saudi Arabia (Founding member)
Senegal
Serbia (originally part of the United Nations while part of Yugoslavia and again under Serbia and Montenegro)
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore (originally part of the United Nations as part of the Federation of Malaya)
Slovakia (originally part of the United Nations while part of Czechoslovakia)
Slovenia (originally part of the United Nations while part of Yugoslavia)
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa (Founding member, originally joined as the Union of South Africa)
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Syrian Arab Republic (founding member, originally joined the United Nations as the United Arab Republic)
Tajikistan (originally part of the Soviet Union as the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic)
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey (Founding member)
Turkmenistan (originally part of the Soviet Union as the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic)
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine (founding member of United Nations while part of the Soviet Union as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic)
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Founding member)
United Republic of Tanzania
United States of America (Founding member)
Uruguay (Founding member)
Uzbekistan (originally part of the Soviet Union as the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic)
Vanuatu
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Founding member)
Viet Nam
Yemen (includes the current Republic of Yemen, and its two previous constituent states North Yemen and South Yemen)
Zambia
Zimbabwe