Uh as of 2011, there are this many officially recognized states in the world:

In the year 2011 there were 195 recognized sovereign states and 11 entities , 206 entries altogether.

A sovereign state is a state with borders where a particular group of people sharing a common language and common cultural values live. This formation is represented by a centralized government that makes laws followed by people.

An entity is a partially recognized state that claims sovereignty but is usually a constituent ( part ) of other powers. Some examples of entities are : Kosovo, Cook Islands, Northern Cyprus and Niue.

john smith was the first englishman to sail around the world. francis bacon served as attorney general and lord chancellor of england. he took up aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry.

a variant spelling of the word dote (british)