id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3401 List of sovereign states - Wikipedia .html text/html 11274 1706 70 The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The list is intended to include entities that have been recognised as having de facto status as sovereign states, and inclusion should not be seen as an endorsement of any specific claim to statehood in legal terms. Georgia contains two autonomous republics, Adjara and Abkhazia.[f] In Abkhazia and South Ossetia, de facto states have been formed. Azad Kashmir describes itself as a "self-governing state under Pakistani control", while Gilgit-Baltistan is described in its governance order as a group of "areas" with self-government.[42][43][44] These territories are not usually regarded as sovereign, as they do not fulfil the criteria set out by the declarative theory of statehood (for example, their current laws do not allow them to engage independently in relations with other states). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3401.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3401.txt