Random country generator

The pool has 197 countries: the 193 member states of the United Nations plus Vatican City, Palestine, Kosovo and Taiwan. They're grouped by continent:

Transcontinental countries are placed in one group: Russia is listed under Europe, and Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan under Asia. Territories such as Greenland, Puerto Rico or Hong Kong aren't included as separate countries.

• Geography class: each student draws a country and presents its capital, flag and one fun fact.
• Travel inspiration: draw a country and look into it as a future trip.
• Cooking challenge: cook a dish from a random country every week.
• Trivia and quiz nights: draw countries for flag, capital or map questions.
• Pen pals and language learning: pick a country whose language or culture to explore.
• Writing prompts: set a story in a country you know little about.

Narrow the pool by unticking continents, for example only Europe for a European history class or only Africa for a unit on African geography.

For a semester-long project, draw all the countries a class needs at once, so nobody gets the same one. With 20 per click and repeats excluded within a draw, larger classes can draw in two or three batches and swap any duplicates by hand.

Countries are drawn with your browser's cryptographic random generator. Each country in the selected continents has the same chance; a small island nation is just as likely as a large one. When you ask for several countries, they're all different. Draw again for a fresh set.

The tool doesn't weight countries by population or area, so a microstate like Tuvalu is exactly as likely as China or Brazil.

Country names are shown in English using your browser's built-in list of region names, so they follow standard forms such as Czechia, Türkiye or Côte d'Ivoire, depending on your browser. Each result has a link to the English Wikipedia article for the country, labeled with its continent, so you can quickly read about its capital, population, language and history.

Want a random letter for a geography game like Stop or Scattergories? Use the random letter generator. To pick from your own list of destinations, use spin the wheel. Nothing is uploaded; the draw happens in your browser.