This guide has profiles for countries of the world. This guide is a work in progress. We are beginning with countries that are less-commonly studied or less often in the news, as finding information on those countries can be more difficult. Use the navigation to the left to see countries alphabetically. Below, you will also see boxes dedicated to regions, topics, world organizations, and more with links to the applicable countries' pages.
For the purposes of this guide, we will focus only on countries that are UN members.
Visit the Libraries' subject guides and see the following subject areas for additional resources related to countries or regions of the world:
Other guides may apply depending on the topical need related to a specific country. For example, Music, Environmental Studies, Law, etc.
Below are countries, grouped by regions of the world. Note that these regions may overlap and are not always well defined. For best discovery of countries for which we have a page, see the left alphabetical menu. Countries were chosen due to United Nations memberships.
Below are major world organizations, with a list of member states, linking to a country page, if available.
See alphabetical listing of countries using the pages on the left menu. Countries for this guide were chosen due to UN member status.
Source: Heraldry, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons
Note: suspended members in light green
Member states:
Note: Western Sahara, not a UN member, is also listed as a member of OAU.
Alliance of Small Island States
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Member states:
Members of AOSIS but not UN: Cook Islands, Niue
Source: Applysense, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Member states (See a map)
Source: Bourrichon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Member states:
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
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Member states:
Note: Palestine, not a UN member, is also listed as a member of OIC
Organization of American States (OAS)
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Member States:
