page_title: Enlargement of the United Nations
section_title: Summary
hierarchical_section_title: Enlargement of the United Nations / Summary
caption_attribution_description: At the top right is an inset map showing Cold War countries - USSR, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and West Germany. Also shown are North Yemen and South Yemen, and Tanganyika and Zanzibar. Note: On the site, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine are given a 1945 date for joining, with the other former-Soviet republics given a 1990s date. China is given a 1945 date for joining, when they were represented by the Republic of China (which later relocated to Taiwan in 1949), and was replaced by the People's Republic of China as China's representative in 1971 (see China and the United Nations). All areas listed in gray are not UN members.
context_page_description: As of 23 August 2020, there are 193 member states of the United Nations, each of which is a member of the United Nations General Assembly.
  The following is a list of United Nations member states arranged in chronological order according to their dates of admission, including former members. Members denoted with "→" changed their names, had their memberships in the UN continued by a successor state, merged with other members, or were dissolved.
context_section_description: Below is a summary of the growth in UN membership.
caption: Map of the UN member states by the decade of their dates of admission (former member states shown in insets).
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