The CIA World Factbook Edition 2023 Government

Member states In 22 editions of 36.

Member states was published in 22 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 2004 to 2025. The 2023 edition carries it in 1 entry, in its Government section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 2023 edition
1
the first edition with it
2004
the latest edition with it
2025

Published as “Member states” (2004 to 2025) and “Member States” (2018 to 2020).

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Europe

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European Union

  • 27 countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden;
  • note - 8 candidate countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine

there are 13 overseas countries and territories (OCTs) (1 with Denmark [Greenland], 6 with France [French Polynesia, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, New Caledonia, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Wallis and Futuna], and 6 with the Netherlands [Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten]), all are part of the Overseas Countries and Territories Association (OCTA)

note: there are non-European OCTs having special relations with Denmark, France, and the Netherlands (list is annexed to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union), that are associated with the EU to promote their economic and social development; member states apply to their trade with OCTs the same treatment as they accord each other pursuant to the treaties; OCT nationals are in principle EU citizens, but these countries are neither part of the EU, nor subject to the EU

Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2023, “Member states”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/member-states/2023.

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