Practice question · Numerical answer
Roughly how many member states does the United Nations have today? (The number is a census of the nation-state form’s triumph.)
Hints
- Under two hundred.
- South Sudan, admitted 2011, is the newest.
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193 (answers within ±5 count)
Why
193, nearly every human now lives in a nation-state, a political form barely two centuries old. Few inventions have conquered so completely while claiming to be eternal.
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