United Nations Member States/Talk

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There are supposed to be 189 Member States. There are 188 listed below. I've already found several listed at http://www.state.gov/p/io/rls/fs/2001/index.cfm?docid=4842 that aren't on this list, making it well over 189. Anyone have any idea what's going on?

Answer: The problem is that the same country sometimes goes by different names. In particular (not counting obvious cases):

 on the mentioned list	on our list

 Burma			Myanmar
 Korea, North		Democratic People's Republic of Korea
 Korea, South		Republic of Korea
 Moldova		Republic of Moldova

The only one we really missed was the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

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Quite right. I had been counting the two Congos as well, but on looking again I see that they are already there; I just missed them. Thanks. --KQ