How Many Countries Are There? (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More

Gary Arndt

Education, History

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🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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If you wanted to know how many countries there were in the world, it should be a pretty easy thing to find out. Go to a map, count all the countries, and voila! However, it isn’t even remotely close to being that simple. Defining what a country is is extremely difficult and has been a point of contention in many wars and conflicts. Find out the problem of determining out how many countries are in the world on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors BetterHelp is an online platform that provides therapy and counseling services to individuals in need of mental health support. The platform offers a range of communication methods, including chat, phone, and video sessions with licensed and accredited therapists who specialize in different areas, such as depression, anxiety, relationships, and more. Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/Everywhere ButcherBox is the perfect solution for anyone looking to eat high-quality, sustainably sourced meat without the hassle of going to the grocery store. With ButcherBox, you can enjoy a variety of grass-fed beef, heritage pork, free-range chicken, and wild-caught seafood delivered straight to your door every month. Visit ButcherBox.com/Daily to get 10% off and free chicken thighs for a year. InsideTracker provides a personal health analysis and data-driven wellness guide to help you add years to your life—and life to your years. Choose a plan that best fits your needs to get your comprehensive biomarker analysis, customized Action Plan, and customer-exclusive healthspan resources. For a limited time, Everything Everywhere Daily listeners can get 20% off InsideTracker’s new Ultimate Plan. Visit InsideTracker.com/eed. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following is an encore presentation of everything everywhere daily.
0:04.0	If you wanted to know how many countries there are in the world,
0:10.0	it should be a pretty easy thing to find out.
0:12.0	Go to a map, count the countries, and voila, you have your answer.
0:16.6	However, it isn't even remotely close to being that simple.
0:20.3	Defining what a country is is extremely difficult and has been the point of contention in many wars and conflicts.
0:26.0	Find out the problem of determining how many countries there are in the world
0:30.0	in this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Now before I start let me make the following disclaimer.
0:55.0	With the following places I'm about to list, I am not claiming that any of them are independent or sovereign.
1:01.0	My goal is to simply explain their disputed status and the
1:04.8	controversy surrounding them. I am not picking sides, so if you happen to live in one of
1:09.4	these places or are in a neighboring country, please don't send me any emails.
1:14.0	Now that being said, if we wanted a starting point for this discussion,
1:19.0	the best place to start is in the United Nations.
1:22.0	The UN is the club for countries and if you wanted to find
1:24.4	out how many countries are worth the easiest thing to do would just be to ask the
1:27.9	UN. As of the time I am recording this there are currently 193 countries in the United Nations.
1:35.0	And we'll use this number as our starting point.
1:37.2	If you're a country, you're in the United Nations,
1:39.7	then it's safe to say you are in fact a country. The problem is that the opposite is not true.
1:45.0	If you're not in the United Nations, it doesn't mean that you're not a country.
1:49.0	The best example of this was probably Switzerland, which didn't become a member of the United Nations until 2002,
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