How many countries are there in the world?

There are 195 countries in the world. There are 192 members of the United Nations. http://geography.about.com/cs/countries/a/numbercountries.htm There are 35 independent countries in the Americas. - Canada - USA - Mexico - Bahamas - Cuba - Jamaica - Haiti - Dominican Republic - Belize - Guatemala - Puerto Rico - Honduras - El Salvador - Nicaragua - St. Kitts & Nevis - Antigua & Barbuda - Montserrat - Guadeloupe - Dominica - Martinique - St. Lucia - Barbados - St. Vincent and the Grenadines - Grenada - Trinidad & Tobago - Costa Rica - Panama - Colombia - Venezuela - Guyana - Suriname - French Guiana - Brazil - Ecuador - Peru - Bolivia - Chile - Paraguay - Argentina - Uruguay Maybe I missed some, but those are the "major ones". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:N%26SAmerica-pol.jpg

245 countries in the world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries Not to be a jerk posting a name of a website as an answer but it is so long

This question has been asked 500 times on Yahoo. Check the data base. For the rest, use an atlas, and yes I can name all those countries if I concentrate, but I would rather just look it up

192 sovereign nations are there in the world as member of United Nation. Taiwan is not a member.