Język Polski
English
Published
:
2012-06-30
Controversy about the Number of the Countries Around the World
Remigiusz Mielcarek
Abstract
The question how many countries are in the world produces a serious problem. Various lists of world countries provide a different number. The cause of this discrepancy lies in the constantly changing global political situation, yet only to a limited extent. It is linked primarily to the lack of a consistent application of the definition of a country itself, which excludes, inter alia, uninhabited territories. This article provides a new author's vision dividing the world altogether into 306 countries, including 209 sovereign states and 97 dependencies based on many years of study on this issue, including the author's personal journeys to 287 countries from this list. Any potentially doubtful cases are discussed to justify their inclusion into a category of country.(original abstract)Keywords:
State, Sovereignty, National territoryMost read articles by the same author(s)
- Remigiusz Mielcarek, Mountain Gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) Tracking the Main Form of Tourism in Rwanda (Central Africa) , Studia Periegetica: Vol. 5 (2010)
- Remigiusz Mielcarek, Active Tourism on Saint Helena Island , Studia Periegetica: Vol. 6 (2011)
- Remigiusz Mielcarek, The Papuan Dani People Disapearing Culture and the Contribution of Turism in Its Conservation , Studia Periegetica: Vol. 7 (2012)
- Remigiusz Mielcarek, Incomming Tourism in North Korea , Studia Periegetica: Vol. 5 (2010)
- Remigiusz Mielcarek, The Reason of a Low Tourists Interest in an Attractive Highlands Region of Papua New Guinea , Studia Periegetica: Vol. 7 (2012)
Details
References
Statistics
Authors
Citation rules
Mielcarek, R. (2012). Controversy about the Number of the Countries Around the World. Studia Periegetica, 7, 91–120. Retrieved from https://journals.wsb.poznan.pl/index.php/sp/article/view/234
Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.