🌍 Country Information Lookup
Country info for 250 countries and territories — population, capital, area, currencies, languages, calling code, borders and flag. Bundled, not fetched.
What Country Information Lookup Does
This is a reference lookup for 250 countries and territories: population, capital, area, region, languages, currencies, calling code, internet domain, land borders and flag.
The data is bundled with the site rather than fetched live. That is a deliberate architectural choice with a specific history — an earlier version of this tool called restcountries.com, and when that service became unreliable the page broke. A static page that depends on someone else's uptime is a page that goes dark without warning.
The trade-off is honest: bundled data is fixed at build time, so it cannot reflect a change made yesterday. For the fields here — capitals, calling codes, land borders, areas — that matters very little, because they change on a timescale of years. Population is the exception and is dated on every record.
How to Use Country Information Lookup
- Type a country name in the search box
- Select from the autocomplete suggestions
- View detailed country information
- See the country flag, map, and neighbors
Formula Used by Country Information Lookup
Population density
density = population ÷ land area (km²)
- area
- Total area in square kilometers as recorded in the dataset
Worked example
The extremes in this dataset, computed across all 215 entries carrying both figures.
- Macau: about 22,863 people per km²
- Monaco: about 18,981 per km²
- Singapore: about 8,607 per km²
- Mongolia: 2.28 per km²
- Greenland: 0.03 per km²
Result: A spread of roughly 760,000 to one between the densest and the sparsest. Density is the figure most distorted by how a territory is defined — city-states dominate the top of the list because they have almost no non-urban land to average against.
What This Dataset Contains
Counts computed from the bundled file, not estimated.
| Measure | Count |
|---|---|
| Countries and territories | 250 |
| UN member states | 193 |
| Non-members and dependent territories | 57 |
| Landlocked | 45 |
| With no land border at all (islands and isolated territories) | 85 |
| Carrying a population figure | 215 |
| Carrying an area figure | 250 |
Most Land Borders
Neighbor counts from the dataset's border lists.
| Country | Bordering countries |
|---|---|
| China | 16 |
| Russia | 14 |
| Brazil | 10 |
Extremes
Population figures are 2025 estimates; areas are total area in square kilometers.
| Measure | Leaders |
|---|---|
| Largest population | India 1,463,865,525 · China 1,406,585,000 · United States 341,784,857 |
| Largest area (km²) | Russia 17,098,242 · Antarctica 14,000,000 · Canada 9,984,670 |
| Densest | Macau · Monaco · Singapore |
| Sparsest | Greenland · Mongolia · Australia |
How to Read Your Result
Why the count is 250 and not 195
The commonly quoted figure of 195 is 193 UN member states plus two observer states. This dataset holds 250 entries because it also includes dependent territories, overseas departments and other populated or claimed areas that are not sovereign states — Greenland, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, Antarctica and so on. Neither number is wrong; they answer different questions. The UN-member flag is there so you can filter to the narrower definition.
Vatican City is not a UN member, and the data used to say it was
The Holy See holds Permanent Observer Status at the United Nations rather than membership, alongside the State of Palestine. Our bundled data had it flagged as a member, which made the UN count come out at 194 instead of 193. That has been corrected. It is a small error and worth describing rather than quietly fixing, because it is exactly the kind of thing that propagates unchecked through reference sites that copy each other.
Population figures are estimates with a date on them
No country counts its people continuously. Published populations are projections from the last census, updated with birth, death and migration estimates, and different sources legitimately differ by millions for the same country in the same year. Every population in this dataset carries the year it refers to, which is the minimum honest treatment. Treat differences of a percent or two between sources as normal rather than as one of them being wrong.
Borders and areas carry political disagreements
Several entries here describe territory that is disputed, and any dataset of this kind has to make choices a reasonable person could disagree with — which entities appear at all, whose area includes what, and which pairs count as sharing a border. The underlying dataset documents its own decisions, and this page reproduces them rather than adjudicating them. For contested cases, it is a starting point rather than an authority.
Limitations & Accuracy Notes
- Bundled at build time, so nothing here reflects a change made after the last deploy. Population is dated per record; other fields are not.
- Population is present for 215 of 250 entries. Small territories frequently have none, and density cannot be computed for those.
- No economic data — no GDP, income classification, currency exchange rate, or trade figures.
- No time zones, no subdivisions or states, no postal formats, and no historical data of any kind.
- Area figures are total area and are not split into land and water, so density for countries with large inland water bodies is understated.
- Territorial and border definitions follow the upstream dataset and inevitably involve contested cases. They are reproduced, not arbitrated.
- Language and currency lists give what is official or widely used, not comprehensive linguistic or monetary detail.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many countries are in the database?
Is country information updated regularly?
Where does the data come from?
Why 193 countries?
How current are the population figures?
Why does a country show several capitals?
Are the borders and areas exact?
Is anything sent to a server?
References & Further Reading
- mledoze/countries — country dataset — The open dataset behind the reference fields here: names, capitals, regions, languages, currencies, calling codes, domains, borders and areas
- United Nations — Member States — The authoritative list of the 193 member states, and the basis for correcting the Vatican City flag described above
- World Bank — Population, total — Reference series for national population estimates and the year each figure refers to