Practice question · Estimate
How many member states does the United Nations have?
Estimate on a scale from 100 states (100) to 250 states (250).
Hints
- A little under two hundred.
- Between 190 and 195.
Show the answer
193 (answers within ±5 count)
Why
193. Set that against the roughly two hundred entities usually described as states and you have the measure of how contested the margin is. Membership is not the same as statehood, and several entities that satisfy the usual criteria are not members, which is why counting states is a political exercise dressed as an arithmetical one.
Practise The International Legal Order
The app has 5 more questions on this lesson, and keeps your place in the course. Law I is free to start.
More questions on The International Legal Order
- Sort each item by the kind of international source it belongs to.
- Under Article 96.1 of the Spanish Constitution, a validly concluded treaty forms part of the internal legal…
- Why can a rule of customary international law bind a state that has never signed anything?
- Complete the vocabulary of the international order.
- The lex mercatoria draws its binding force from the statutes of the states whose traders use it.
- A norm of ius cogens is distinguished from an ordinary treaty obligation by its peremptory character. What…
- Arrange these international instruments in the order they were adopted.