It depends whose figures you use. There are 192 independent countries or states recognised by the UN.
Though some countries do not recognise others the best figure is 195.
Many individual countries are broken down into states, territories or other local governmental departments. In this case there would be several thousand.
I'm pretty sure there are 194 sovereign states in the world today! :)
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There are 7 continents in the world today.
There are 28 megacities as of March 2013
I'm pretty sure there are 194 sovereign states in the world today! :)
To the best of my knowledge, there are three sovereign city states in the world today: Monaco, Singapore and the Vatican.
195. maybe 196 but definitely no less than 195
Today there are more than 160 states in the world. no. no. no. their are probly more kasey7866's answer .. there are about five thousand or ten thousand states in the world of our gods creation
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There are 50 states in the United States.
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The world as of June 2014 has many sovereign governments. One example of a sovereign government is the United States of America.
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There are 47 third world countries today.