United Nations Member Countries Map

A map of the 193 member countries of the United Nations, drawn from the roster as it stood in September 2026, in four map styles and free to download at high resolution.

Members: 193
Founded: 1945
Headquarters: New York City, United States
Roster as of: September 2026

Map of the 193 United Nations member countries shaded in colour on a flat Natural Earth political map, as of September 2026 — United Nations member countries as of September 2026 — download PNG · SVG

About the United Nations

The United Nations has 193 member states, which is why a UN membership map looks very close to a plain political map of the world — and why the interesting part is what is left uncoloured. Every sovereign state recognised by the General Assembly is shaded here in a single colour, because UN membership has no tiers: a state is a member or it is not.

Two territories are shaded separately as non-member observer states: Palestine, granted that status in 2012, and the Holy See, which has held it since 1964. Both may attend and speak in the General Assembly but cannot vote. Taiwan appears on the map in the neutral base colour — the seat it once held passed to the People's Republic of China in 1971. Kosovo and Western Sahara are likewise unshaded, as neither holds a General Assembly seat.

The organisation was founded in 1945 by 51 states and is headquartered in New York, with major offices in Geneva, Vienna and Nairobi. Membership roughly quadrupled over the following eight decades, most of that growth arriving in two waves — African decolonisation through the 1960s, and the break-up of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. South Sudan, admitted in July 2011, is the newest member.

The same membership in four map styles

Every map on this page shows the identical roster — only the base layer and the projection change. Pick whichever reads best for what you are making, and download it at 3200 pixels wide.

Map of the 193 United Nations member countries shaded in colour over satellite imagery on a globe, as of September 2026 — **Satellite globe** Esri World Imagery under a translucent membership shading, on an orthographic globe turned to face the bloc. Download: JPG (3200 px)

Map of the 193 United Nations member countries shaded in colour on a Mercator projection map, as of September 2026 — **Mercator projection** The same membership on Web Mercator, the projection every online map uses. It stretches everything far from the equator — compare Canada and Russia here against the Equal Earth version below. Download: PNG (3200 px)

Map of the 193 United Nations member countries shaded in colour on an Equal Earth equal-area map, as of September 2026 — **Equal Earth projection** An equal-area projection: every country covers the share of the image that it covers of the planet. The honest choice when a map is making a point about size. Download: PNG (3200 px)

The 193 UN member countries

Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cabo Verde
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czechia
Côte d'Ivoire
DR Congo
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
North Korea
North Macedonia
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Republic of the Congo
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Korea
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
São Tomé and Príncipe
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
The Bahamas
The Gambia
The Netherlands
The Philippines
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Türkiye
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Non-member observer states (2)

Holy See, Palestine

Shown as markers: Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahrain, Barbados, Cabo Verde, Comoros, Dominica, Grenada, Kiribati, Liechtenstein, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Monaco, Nauru, Palau, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Seychelles, Singapore, São Tomé and Príncipe, Tonga, Tuvalu. The boundary data behind these maps is Natural Earth's 1:110m world geometry, which carries no polygon for states this small — at world scale they are smaller than a single pixel. Rather than drop them from a membership map, each is drawn as a marker at its true position.

Colour your own version of this map

The link below opens this exact roster in the world map maker, already shaded. From there you can change the colours, relabel the legend, switch projection, add pins or annotations, and export your own version as PNG or SVG.

Open the UN map in the editor →

Source for the roster: www.un.org, checked September 2026.

Using these maps

All four downloads are free for personal, classroom, academic and editorial use — a school project, a lecture slide, a blog post, a news graphic. Boundaries come from Natural Earth, which is public domain. The satellite, street and terrain versions are drawn over Esri basemap imagery, credited in the corner of each image; keep that credit visible when you reuse them.

Please keep the "September 2026" date on the map. Membership changes, and a membership map without a date is the single most common way an out-of-date roster ends up being republished as current.

Questions about UN membership

How many countries are in the United Nations?

193 states are full UN members as of September 2026. Palestine and the Holy See attend as non-member observer states, which brings the number of states seated in the General Assembly chamber to 195 but the voting membership to 193.

Which countries are not in the UN?

Taiwan, Kosovo and Western Sahara are the most commonly asked about. Taiwan's seat was transferred to the People's Republic of China in 1971; Kosovo's independence is not recognised by enough members to secure admission; Western Sahara's status remains formally unresolved.

Can I use this UN map in a school project or presentation?

Yes. Every image on this page can be downloaded free for personal, classroom and editorial use. Please keep the 'as of' date visible, since membership maps go out of date.

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