Practice question · Estimate
Approximately how many states are there in the world today?
Estimate on a scale from 0 states (0) to 400 states (400).
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- Around two hundred.
- Roughly 195, depending on how contested cases are counted.
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195 (answers within ±20 count)
Why
About 195, and the vagueness is real: the count depends on how you treat contested and partially recognised entities. Against several thousand ethnic and linguistic groups, this is the arithmetic that makes multinational states the normal case.
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