List of countries by continent

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This is a list of the countries of the world by continent, displayed with their respective national flags and capitals. This list contains:

• Sovereign states (country names in bold), consisting of:
  • The member states of the United Nations (UN).
  • A UN-recognized non-member state: Vatican City.
  • States not recognized by the UN, but recognized by or maintaining de facto international relations with many UN members: the Republic of China and Kosovo.
• Territories de facto not independent, but recognized by many UN members as entitled to sovereignty (country names in bold italics): the Palestinian territories and Western Sahara.
• Dependent territories, including the overseas departments of France and the special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China (country names in italics).

However, this list does not contain de facto independent states that are generally unrecognized.

For a detailed discussion of how the world is divided into continents, see the articles Continent and Borders of the continents.

In this list, countries are classified according to the United Nations Statistics Division.^[1] There are countries that span more than one continent, according to either geographical or political and historical criteria. For the partition of countries into continents according to geographical criteria, see here.

Contents 1 Africa 2 Eurasia 2.1 Asia 2.2 Europe 3 Americas 3.1 North America 3.2 South America 4 Oceania 5 Antarctica 6 Notes 7 Partition of countries according to geographical criteria 7.1 Boundaries of Africa 7.1.1 Suez Canal 7.1.2 Continental shelf of Africa 7.2 Boundaries between Asia and Europe 7.2.1 Sea of Marmara and Turkish Straits 7.2.2 Ural definitions 7.2.3 Caucasus definitions 7.2.4 Continental shelfs of Asia and Europe 7.3 Boundaries between Asia and North America 7.3.1 Continental shelfs of Asia and North America 7.4 Boundaries between Europe and North America 7.4.1 Continental shelfs of Europe and North America 7.5 Boundaries between North and South America 7.5.1 Panama Canal 7.5.2 Continental shelfs of North and South America 7.6 Boundaries of Oceania 7.6.1 Asia-Australasia divisions 7.6.2 Pacific Islands 7.7 Boundaries of Antarctica 7.7.1 Sub-Antarctic islands 8 See also 8.1 Definition of continents 8.2 Lists of countries 9 External links

[edit] Africa

Main article: List of African countries

•  Algeria – Algiers
•  Angola – Luanda
•  Benin – Porto-Novo (seat of government at Cotonou)
•  Botswana – Gaborone
•  Burkina Faso – Ouagadougou
•  Burundi – Bujumbura
•  Cameroon – Yaoundé
•  Cape Verde – Praia
•  Central African Republic – Bangui
•  Chad – N'Djamena
•  Comoros – Moroni
•  Congo, Democratic Republic of (also known as Congo-Kinshasa) – Kinshasa
•  Congo, Republic of (also known as Congo-Brazzaville) – Brazzaville
•  Côte d'Ivoire (also commonly known as Ivory Coast) – Yamoussoukro (seat of government at Abidjan)
•  Djibouti – Djibouti
•  Egypt – Cairo
•  Equatorial Guinea – Malabo
•  Eritrea – Asmara
•  Ethiopia – Addis Ababa
•  Gabon – Libreville
•  Gambia – Banjul
•  Ghana – Accra
•  Guinea – Conakry
•  Guinea-Bissau – Bissau
•  Kenya – Nairobi
•  Lesotho – Maseru
•  Liberia – Monrovia
•  Libya – Tripoli
•  Madagascar – Antananarivo
•  Malawi – Lilongwe
•  Mali – Bamako
•  Mauritania – Nouakchott
•  Mauritius – Port Louis
•  Mayotte (overseas territory of France) – Mamoudzou
•  Morocco – Rabat
•  Mozambique – Maputo
•  Namibia – Windhoek
•  Niger – Niamey
•  Nigeria – Abuja
•  Réunion (overseas department of France) – Saint-Denis
•  Rwanda – Kigali
•  Saint Helena (overseas territory of the United Kingdom; including the territories of Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha) – Jamestown
•  Sao Tome and Principe – São Tomé
•  Senegal – Dakar
•  Seychelles – Victoria
•  Sierra Leone – Freetown
•  Somalia – Mogadishu
•  South Africa – Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial)
•  Sudan – Khartoum
•  Swaziland – Mbabane (administrative), <a href="/wiki/Lob