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Appendix:Countries and territories of the world

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This is an alphabetical list of the countries and non-independent areas of the world that link to the appropriate articles.

Note: a "-" in the Demonym column indicates that there is no specific word to denote an inhabitant of or descendant from the corresponding country. They are referred to as Person from [country name]. A "-" in the Adjective column indicates that there is no specific adjective derived from the country name. Of [country name] is used instead. Attributive use is always an alternative.

States and dependencies of the world
Region Demonym Adjective
Abkhazia Abkhazian Abkhazian
Afghanistan Afghan, Afghani Afghan, Afghani
Aksum, Kingdom of Aksumite Aksumite
Aland, Åland. Aland Islands Alander, Ålander Alandish, Ålandish
Albania Albanian Albanian
Algeria Algerian Algerian
American Samoa American Samoan or Samoan American Samoan or Samoan
Andorra Andorran Andorran
Angola Angolan Angolan
Anguilla Anguillan Anguillan
Antarctica Antarctican Antarctic
Antigua and Barbuda Antiguan,
Barbudan or Barbudian
Antiguan,
Barbudan or Barbudian
Argentina Argentine (preferred), Argentinian or Argentinean Argentine (preferred), Argentinian or Argentinean
Armenia Armenian Armenian
Artsakh Artsakhi Artsakhian, Artsakhi
Aruba Aruban Aruban
Australia Australian Australian
Austria Austrian Austrian
Austria-Hungary Austro-Hungarian Austro-Hungarian
Azerbaijan Azerbaijani (preferred) or Azeri Azerbaijani
Babylonia Babylonian Babylonian
Bahamas Bahamian Bahamian
Bahrain Bahraini Bahraini
Baja California, Republic of Baja Californian Baja Californian
Bangladesh Bangladeshi Bangladeshi
Barbados Barbadian Barbadian
Belarus or Byelorussia or Belorussia Belarusian or Byelorussian or Belorussian Belarusian or Byelorussian or Belorussian
Belgium Belgian Belgian
Belize Belizean or Belizian Belizean or Belizian
Benin Beninese Beninese
Bermuda Bermudian (preferred) or Bermudan Bermudian (preferred) or Bermudan
Bhutan Bhutanese Bhutanese
Bicol Bicolano (male) or

Bicolana (female)

Bicolano
Bolivia Bolivian Bolivian
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian, Herzegovinian Bosnian, Herzegovinian
Botswana Botswanan or Tswana Botswanan
Bouvet Island N/A (uninhabited) Bouvet Island
Brazil Brazilian Brazilian
British Indian Ocean Territory or BIOT British British or UK
British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islander / Virgin Islander / Briton British or UK
Brunei Bruneian Bruneian
Bulgaria Bulgarian Bulgarian
Burkina Faso Burkinabe or Burkinese Burkinabe or Burkinese
Burundi Burundian Burundian
Byzantium or the Byzantine Empire Byzantine, Roman Byzantine
California or California Republic Californian Californian
Cambodia Cambodian Cambodian
Cameroon Cameroonian Cameroonian
Canada Canadian Canadian
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde Cape Verdean or Cabo Verdean Cape Verdean or Cabo Verdean
Cayman Islands Caymanian Caymanian
Central African Republic Central African Central African
Chad Chadian Chadian
Cherokee Nation Cherokee Cherokee
Chile Chilean Chilean
China Chinese Chinese
Christmas Island Christmas Islander Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands Cocos Islander Cocos
Colombia Colombian Colombian
Comoros Comoran or Comorian Comoran or Comorian
Confederacy Confederate Confederate
Congo, Democratic Republic of, the Congolese Congolese
Congo, Republic of, the Congolese Congolese
Cook Islands Cook Islander Cook Island
Costa Rica Costa Rican Costa Rican
Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast Ivoirian or Ivorian Ivoirian or Ivorian
Croatia Croat (or Croatian) Croatian
Cuba Cuban Cuban
Curaçao Curaçaoan Curaçaoan
Cyprus Cypriot Cypriot
Czech Republic or Czechia Czech or Czechian Czech or Czechian
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovak Czechoslovak
Denmark Dane Danish
Djibouti Djiboutian Djiboutian
Dominica Dominican Dominican
Dominican Republic Dominican Dominican
Donetsk People's Republic - -
East Germany East German East German
East Timor or Timor-Leste East Timorese East Timorese
Ecuador Ecuadorean or Ecuadorian Ecuadorean or Ecuadorian
Egypt Egyptian Egyptian
El Salvador Salvadoran or Salvadorean or
Salvadorian
Salvadoran or Salvadorean or
Salvadorian
Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinean Equatorial Guinean
Eritrea Eritrean Eritrean
Estonia Estonian Estonian
Eswatini (up to 2018 Swaziland) Swazi Swazi
Ethiopia Ethiopian Ethiopian
Faeroe Islands Faeroese or Faroese Faeroese or Faroese
Falkland Islands Falkland Islander Falkland
Fiji Fijian Fijian
Finland Finn Finnish
France Frenchman (male) or Frenchwoman (female) French
French Polynesia Polynesian Polynesian
French Southern and Antarctic Lands - -
Gabon Gabonese Gabonese
Gambia, The Gambian Gambian
Georgia Georgian Georgian
Germany German German
Ghana Ghanaian Ghanaian
Gibraltar Gibraltarian Gibraltarian
Gran Colombia Gran Colombian Gran Colombian
Greece Greek (preferred) or Hellene Greek or Hellenic
Greenland Greenlander Greenlandic
Grenada Grenadian Grenadian
Guam Guamanian Guamanian
Guatemala Guatemalan Guatemalan
Guinea Guinean Guinean
Guinea-Bissau Guinean -
Guyana Guyanese Guyanese
Haiti Haitian Haitian
Hawaiian Kingdom Hawaiian Hawaiian
Heard Island and McDonald Islands N/A (uninhabited) N/A (uninhabited)
Honduras Honduran Honduran
Hong Kong Hong Konger or Hongkonger Hongkongese or Hong Kong
Hungary Hungarian Hungarian
Iceland Icelander Icelandic
India Indian Indian
Indonesia Indonesian Indonesian
Iran Iranian Iranian
Iraq Iraqi Iraqi
Ireland Irishman (male) or Irishwoman (female) or Irelander Irish
Isle of Man Manxman (male) or Manxwoman (female) Manx
Israel Israeli Israeli
Italy Italian Italian
Jamaica Jamaican Jamaican
Jan Mayen N/A (no permanent inhabitants) Jan Mayen
Japan Japanese Japanese
Jordan Jordanian Jordanian
Kazakhstan Kazakhstani (preferred) or Kazakh Kazakhstani (preferred) or Kazakh
Kenya Kenyan Kenyan
Kiribati I-Kiribati or Kiribatian Kiribati or Kiribatian
Kosovo Kosovar (preferred) or Kosovan Kosovar (preferred) or Kosovan
Kuwait Kuwaiti Kuwaiti
Kyrgyzstan or Kirgizia or Kirghizia Kyrgyz or Kirgiz or Kirghiz Kyrgyz or Kirgiz or Kirghiz
Laos Laotian (preferred) or Lao Laotian (preferred) or Lao
Latvia Latvian (preferred) or Lett Latvian
Lebanon Lebanese Lebanese
Lesotho Mosotho (sing.), Basotho (pl.) Lesothan
Liberia Liberian Liberian
Libya Libyan Libyan
Liechtenstein Liechtensteiner Liechtensteiner
Lithuania Lithuanian Lithuanian
Luhansk People's Republic - -
Luxembourg Luxembourger or Luxemburger Luxembourgish, Luxembourgian, or Luxembourgeois
Macao or Macau Macanese Macanese
North Macedonia (official) or Macedonia North Macedonian (official) or Macedonian North Macedonian (official) or Macedonian
Madagascar Madagascan or Malagasy Madagascan or Malagasy
Malawi Malawian Malawian
Malaysia Malaysian Malaysian
Maldives Maldivian Maldivian
Mali Malian Malian
Malta Maltese Maltese
Marshall Islands Marshallese or Marshall Islander Marshallese
Mauritania Mauritanian Mauritanian
Mexico Mexican Mexican
Micronesia, Federated States of Micronesian Micronesian
Moldova Moldavian or Moldovan (preferred) Moldavian or Moldovan (preferred)
Monaco Monacan or Monégasque Monacan or Monégasque
Mongolia Mongolian or Mongol Mongolian or Mongol
Montenegro Montenegrin Montenegrin
Montserrat Montserratian Montserratian
Morocco Moroccan Moroccan
Mozambique Mozambican Mozambican
Myanmar or Burma Burmese or Myanmarese Burmese or Myanmarese
Namibia Namibian Namibian
Nauru Nauruan Nauruan
Nepal Nepalese Nepalese
Netherlands, The; or Holland Dutchman (male) or Dutchwoman (female) Dutch (preferred) or Netherlandish
New Caledonia New Caledonian New Caledonian
New Zealand New Zealander or Kiwi (informal) New Zealand
Nicaragua Nicaraguan Nicaraguan
Niger Nigerien Nigerien
Nigeria Nigerian Nigerian
Niue Niuean Niuean
Norfolk Island Norfolk Islander Norfolk Island
Northern Cyprus Turkish Cypriot or Cypriot Turk Turkish Cypriot or Cypriot Turk
Northern Marianas Northern Mariana Islander Northern Marianas
North Korea or Korea, Democratic People's Republic of, the North Korean or Korean North Korean or Korean
Norway Norwegian Norwegian
Oman Omani Omani
Orange Free State - -
Pakistan Pakistani Pakistani or Pak
Palau Palauan Palauan
Palestine Palestinian Palestinian
Panama Panamanian Panamanian
Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinean or New Guinean or Papuan Papua New Guinean or New Guinean or Papuan
Paraguay Paraguayan Paraguayan
Peru Peruvian Peruvian
Philippines Filipino (male) or Filipina (female) or Filipinx (gender-neutral neologism) Filipino or Philippine
Pitcairn Islands Pitcairner or Pitcairn Islander Pitcairn Islands
Poland Pole Polish
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Polish-Lithuanian Polish-Lithuanian
Portugal Portuguese Portuguese
Puerto Rico Puerto Rican Puerto Rican
Qatar Qatari Qatari
Rhodesia Rhodesian Rhodesian
Romania Romanian Romanian
Russia Russian Russian
Rwanda Rwandan (preferred) or Rwandese Rwandan (preferred) or Rwandese
Saint Helena Saint Helenian Saint Helenian
Saint Kitts and Nevis Kittsian, Nevisian Kittsian, Nevisian
Saint Lucia Saint Lucian Saint Lucian
Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint-Pierrais, Miquelonnais Saint-Pierrais, Miquelonnais
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincentian or Vincentian, Grenadine Vincentian, Grenadine
Samoa Samoan Samoan
San Marino Sammarinese or San Marinese Sammarinese or San Marinese
São Tomé and Principe São Toméan or Santomean, Principean São Toméan or Santomean, Principean
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabian / Saudi (inf.) Saudi Arabian / Saudi (inf.)
Sealand Sealander Sealandic
Senegal Senegalese Senegalese
Serbia Serbian (or Serb) Serbian
Seychelles, The Seychellois Seychellois
Sierra Leone Sierra Leonian Sierra Leonian
Singapore Singaporean Singaporean
Sint Maarten Sint Maartener Sint Maartenese
Slovakia Slovak Slovak or Slovakian
Slovenia Slovenian (or Slovene) Slovenian (or Slovene)
Solomon Islands Solomon Islander Solomon Islands
Somalia Somali or Somalian Somali or Somalian
Somaliland Somali or Somalilander Somali
South Africa South African South African
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands N/A N/A
South Korea or Korea, Republic of, the South Korean or Korean South Korean or Korean
South Ossetia South Ossetian South Ossetian
South Sudan South Sudanese or Sudanese South Sudanese or Sudanese
Soviet Union Soviet Soviet
Spain Spaniard Spanish
Sri Lanka Sri Lankan Sri Lankan
Sudan Sudanese Sudanese
Suriname Surinamer or Surinamese Surinamese
Svalbard N/A N/A
Sweden Swede Swedish
Switzerland Swiss Swiss
Syria Syrian Syrian
Taiwan (semi-formal) or China, Republic of, the (formal) Taiwanese or Chinese (depreciated) Taiwanese or Chinese (depreciated)
Tajikistan Tajikistani or Tadjik or Tajik Tadjik or Tajik
Tanzania Tanzanian Tanzanian
Texas, Republic of Texan Texan
Thailand Thai Thai
Thirteen Colonies - -
Tibet Tibetan Tibetan
Togo Togolese Togolese
Tokelau Tokelauan Tokelauan
Tonga Tongan Tongan
Transnistria Transnistrian or Pridnestrovian Transnistrian or Pridnestrovian
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidadian or Trinidadian and Tobagonian Trinidadian or Trinidadian and Tobagonian
Tunisia Tunisian Tunisian
Turkey Turk Turkish
Turkmenistan Turkmen (preferred) or Turkoman Turkmen (preferred) or Turkoman
Turks and Caicos Islands Turks and Caicos Islander Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu Tuvaluan Tuvaluan
Uganda Ugandan Ugandan
Ukraine Ukrainian Ukrainian
United Arab Emirates Emirati (preferred) or Emirian Emirati (preferred) or Emirian
United Kingdom or Britain (pars pro toto) or Great Britain (pars pro toto) Briton or Brit or Britisher (depreciated) British or United Kingdom
United States (official) or America American American or United States (preferred)
Uruguay Uruguayan Uruguayan
U.S. Virgin Islands U.S. Virgin Islander or Virgin Islander American or United States
Uzbekistan Uzbek or Uzbekistani Uzbek
Vanuatu ni-Vanuatu or Ni-Vanuatu or Vanuatuan Vanuatuan
Vatican City N/A Vatican
Venezuela Venezuelan Venezuelan
Venice, Republic of Venetian Venetian
Vietnam or Viet Nam Vietnamese or Viet (informal) Vietnamese
Wallis and Futuna Wallis and Futuna Islander or Wallisian (Wallis) or Futunan (Futuna) Wallis and Futuna
West Germany West German West German
Western Sahara Sahrawi or Saharan, or Western Saharan Sahrawi or Saharan, or Western Saharan
Weimar Republic Weimarian or German Weimarian or German
Yemen Yemeni Yemeni
Yugoslavia Yugoslav (preferred) or Yugoslavian Yugoslav (preferred) or Yugoslavian
Zambia Zambian Zambian
Zimbabwe Zimbabwean Zimbabwean

See also: Category:Countries