Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] how many countries in the world<br/>
Date: Apr 30, 2001 @ 01:02<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (&quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-975479362">I got my count of a website, that listed countries of the world, so I may <br/>
have miscounted. Are places like Tuvalu and andoraa UN members?<br/>
How about cook Islands? Like Bhutan, they are a country but NZ looks after <br/>
foreign affairs and defence, like Indiadoes for bhutan.<br/>
The Chinese would include Sikkim as they do not recognise the referendum for <br/>
union with India (after all, referenda set dangerous precednets... :-)  ).<br/>
Is East Timor a country yet?<br/>
<br/>
BW<br/>
<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;From: michael donner &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:m@...">m@...</a>&gt;<br/>
&gt;Reply-To: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a><br/>
&gt;To: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a><br/>
&gt;Subject: [BoundaryPoint] how many countries in the world<br/>
&gt;Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 10:02:34 -0400<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;brendan recently<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt;196, inc taiwan but not palestine.<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;thanx<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;presumably this includes hutt & 3 others<br/>
&gt;since most almanacs & similar refs say 192<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;   namely the 189 members of the united nations  plus<br/>
&gt;     switzerland<br/>
&gt;     vatican city &<br/>
&gt;     taiwan<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;so would you say if you agree with that part of the analysis<br/>
&gt;   & could you name your additional countries<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;this is purely a matter of recreational geographics<br/>
&gt;since i dont think anything really depends on the answer<br/>
&gt;i mean<br/>
&gt;apart from our own also recreational & quasiofficial count & roster of<br/>
&gt;tricountry points<br/>
&gt;& of course the quest for the truest available truth<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;m<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;a browse of the 878 northernlight answers to the subject search question<br/>
&gt;gave the following range<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;168 the lowest answer given by anyone  tho unexplained<br/>
&gt;170 number of currencies<br/>
&gt;172 countries recognized by russia<br/>
&gt;189 members of u n & thus upu<br/>
&gt;190 number given by info please kids almanac<br/>
&gt;191 recognized by uk<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;192 most popular refs  as detailed above<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;194 recognized by switzerland<br/>
&gt;200 plus  recognized by germany<br/>
&gt;239 iso diglyphs<br/>
&gt;266 or so  the highest  including all dependencies etc<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
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