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Timeline of UN member States

As of 2026 there are 193 United Nations member states and 2 observer states those Being Palestine and Vatican city .

Some flags may be outdated, the flags shown are the flags are of the states at time of admission.

1945 original 51 States

Canada

United States

Mexico

Dominican Republic

Haiti

Cuba

Guatemala

Honduras

El Salvador

Nicaragua

Costa Rica

Panama

Colombia

Venezuela

Ecuador

Brazil

Peru

Chile

Argentina

Bolivia

Paraguay

Uruguay

Liberia

Egypt

Ethiopia

Union of South Africa

Saudi Arabia

Syria

Lebanon

Iraq

Türkiye

Iran

India

China

Philippines

Australia

New Zealand

USSR

Ukraine

Belarus

greece

Yugoslavia

Czechoslovakia

Poland

Netherlands

Norway

Luxembourg

Belgium

Denmark

France

great Britain

1946

Afghanistan

Thailand

Sweden

Iceland

1947

Pakistan

Kingdom of Yemen

1948

Burma

1949

Israel

1950

Indonesia

1955

Republic of Ireland

Kingdom of Libya

Spain

Portugal

Nepal

Jordan

Cambodia

Laos

Ceylon

Finland

Italy

Austria

Hungary

Albania

Romania

Bulgaria

1956

Morocco

Sudan

Tunisia

Japan

1957

Ghana

Malaysia

1958

Guinea

1960

Congo DR

Cyprus

Somalia

Madagascar

Congo

Senegal

Mali

Upper volta

Cote D'Ivôre

Dahomey

Togo

Nigeria

Niger

Chad

Cameroon

Central African Republic

Gabon

1961

Mauritania

Tanganyika

Mongolia

Sierra Leone

1962

Rwanda

Burundi

Trinidad and Tobago

Jamaica

Algeria

Uganda

1963

Zanzibar

Kuwait

Kenya

1964

Malta

Malawi

Zambia

Tanzania

1966

Botswana

Barbados

Guyana

Lesotho

1967

Southern Yemen

1968

Equatorial Guinea

Swaziland

Mauritius

1970

Fiji

1971

UAE

Oman

Qatar

Bahrain

Bhutan

China

1972

Bahamas

East Germany

West Germany

1974

Bangladesh

Grenada

Guinea Bissau

1975

Cabo Verde

Suriname

Comoros

Papua New Guinea

Sao Tome and Principe

Mozambique

1976

Angola

Seychelles

western Samoa

1977

Djibouti

Vietnam

1978

Dominica

Solomon Islands

1979

Saint Lucia

1980

Saint Vincent and The Grenadines

Zimbabwe

1981

Belize

Antigua and Barbuda

Vanuatu

1983

Saint Kitts and Nevis

1984

Brunei

1990

Liechtenstein

Namibia

Germany

1991

Estonia

Russian Federation

Lithuania

Latvia

Korea DPR

Korea republic

1992

slovenia

san Marino

Croatia

Moldova

Bosnia and herzogovina

georgia

armenia

Azerbijan

Kazakhstan

Uzbekistan

Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan

Turkmenistan

1993

Eritrea

Czechia

Slovakia

Andorra

F.Y.R.O.M

1994

Palau

1999

Kiribati

Nauru

Tonga

2000

Serbia and Montinegro

Vanuatu

2002

Switzerland

East Timor

2006

Montenegro

serbia

2011

South Sudan

Former Member states

Since 1945 there have been 10 Non Existent UN member States those being the folowing countries below

USSR 1945-1991

Czechoslovakia 1945-1991

Yugoslavia 1945-1991

China 1945-1991

Yemen 1947-1990

Tanganyika 1961-1964

Zanzibar 1963-1964

South Yemen 1967-1990

East gemany 1972-1990

Serbia and Montinegro 2000-2006

Draft:UN member states timeline