Depending on how you define it, there are about 193 to 200 countries in the world today.

Over the last 100 years, that number has been constantly increasing.

Sometimes the number goes up a lot in short periods of time, and other times there might be decades between the creation of a new country.

There hasn't been a new country created since 2011, but it's entirely possible that

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In a previous episode, I discussed the problem of trying to count the number of countries in the world.

It's a far trickier problem than you might think.

Without getting into the weeds as to how many countries there are,

most people would say that there are between 193, which is the number of countries in the United

Nations, and the low 200s, which is the number in other international organizations.

The number of countries in the world has changed radically over time. In the early 19th century,

most of the estimates I've read put the number of countries at somewhere in the low has changed radically over time. In the early 19th century, most of the estimates I've

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