Subject: how many countries in the world<br/>
Date: Apr 29, 2001 @ 14:02<br/>
Author: michael donner (michael donner &lt;m@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-619872019">brendan recently<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;196, inc taiwan but not palestine.<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>thanx<br/>
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presumably this includes hutt & 3 others<br/>
since most almanacs & similar refs say 192<br/>
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  namely the 189 members of the united nations  plus<br/>
    switzerland<br/>
    vatican city &<br/>
    taiwan<br/>
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so would you say if you agree with that part of the analysis<br/>
  & could you name your additional countries<br/>
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this is purely a matter of recreational geographics<br/>
since i dont think anything really depends on the answer<br/>
i mean<br/>
apart from our own also recreational & quasiofficial count & roster of<br/>
tricountry points<br/>
& of course the quest for the truest available truth<br/>
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m<br/>
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a browse of the 878 northernlight answers to the subject search question<br/>
gave the following range<br/>
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168 the lowest answer given by anyone  tho unexplained<br/>
170 number of currencies<br/>
172 countries recognized by russia<br/>
189 members of u n & thus upu<br/>
190 number given by info please kids almanac<br/>
191 recognized by uk<br/>
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192 most popular refs  as detailed above<br/>
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194 recognized by switzerland<br/>
200 plus  recognized by germany<br/>
239 iso diglyphs<br/>
266 or so  the highest  including all dependencies etc</div>