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Several countries in the world have no general international recognition, but are de facto independent. ... This is an alphabetical list of countries of the world, including both internationally recognized and generally unrecognized independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... In this Annex to the List of countries an outline is given on the entities not included in that list. ...