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The list is intended to include entities that have been recognised as having de facto status as sovereign states, and inclusion should not be seen as an endorsement of any specific claim to statehood in legal terms.
This is a list of sovereign states in the 2020s, giving an overview of states around the world during the period between 1 January 2020 and the present day. It contains 210 entries, arranged alphabetically, with information on the status and recognition of their sovereignty .
A state of the United States is one of the 50 constituent entities that shares its sovereignty with the federal government. Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside , due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government. [ 1 ]
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
Local government in the United States varies widely by state; some entities cross county and other boundaries. The US Census in 2012 counted 19,522 municipalities, 16,364 townships , 37,203 special districts, and 12,884 independent school districts which have active governments. [ 64 ]
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories of the world by continent, displayed with their respective national flags, including the following entities: By association within the UN system: The 193 United Nations member states (UN).
Until 1964, state senators were generally elected from districts that were not necessarily equal in population. In some cases state senate districts were based partly on county lines. In the vast majority of states, the Senate districts provided proportionately greater representation to rural areas. However, in the 1964 decision Reynolds v.
This is a list of political entities in the 19th century AD (i.e. 1801–1900). It includes both sovereign states, self-declared unrecognized states, and any political predecessors of current sovereign states.