Country Wheel
Choose a country for a geography prompt or your next reading topic. This wheel uses a clearly defined set of 193 UN member states.
Why this country list?
Country and territory lists differ. This wheel explicitly uses UN members, rather than claiming to include every territory or disputed status. Each of the 193 entries has probability 1/193.
UN non-member observers: The Holy See and State of Palestine are observers, so they are outside this member-state set.
Country dataset source: Names were derived from this dataset with an explicit correction to exclude its incorrectly marked Holy See entry.
Download the derived country list: The derived list is available under the Open Database License.
Open Database License: Attribution and share-alike terms for the country database.