Countries That Start With T

Sovereign countries (11)

Eleven sovereign UN member states have English names beginning with T. They span Central Asia (the two -stans, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan), Southeast Asia (Thailand and Timor-Leste), the Pacific (Tonga and Tuvalu), the Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago), Africa (Tanzania, Togo, and Tunisia), and Eurasia (Turkey, also officially known as Türkiye). Taiwan is listed separately below with a status note.

Tajikistan

Dushanbe · Central Asia

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Tanzania

Dodoma · Africa

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Thailand

Bangkok · Southeast Asia

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Timor-Leste (East Timor)

Dili · Southeast Asia

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Togo

Lomé · Africa

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Tonga

Nuku’alofa · Oceania

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Trinidad and Tobago

Port of Spain · The Caribbean

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Tunisia

Tunis · Africa

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Turkey (Türkiye)

Ankara · Eurasia

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Turkmenistan

Ashgabat · Central Asia

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Tuvalu

Funafuti · Oceania

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Taiwan (status note)

Taiwan is a self-governing democratic state with its own government, military, currency, and elected president. It is not a UN member state: a small number of countries recognise it as the sole legitimate government of China, while most maintain unofficial relations under variations of a "One China" policy. We list it here with a clear status note.

Taiwan

Self-governing democracy · limited UN recognition

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Territories and other entities (3)

Inhabited territories and dependencies whose English names also begin with T. These are not sovereign UN member states but have their own administrative status under the parent country.

Tokelau

Dependent territory of New Zealand

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Turks and Caicos Islands

British Overseas Territory

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Tristan da Cunha

Part of British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena

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Browsing the alphabet is a popular way to teach geography. Try the neighbouring letters:

Countries That Start With S — Twenty-five nations, the largest letter group, from Samoa to Switzerland.
Countries That Start With U — Six nations including Uganda, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.
Countries That Start With A — Eleven nations, the same count as T, from Afghanistan to Azerbaijan.

Quick answer for skimmers

Q: How many countries start with T?
A: Eleven UN member states. Taiwan is a self-governing democratic state with limited international recognition — recognised as the sole legitimate China by a small number of UN members — and is listed here with a status note.

Q: What is the difference between Tanzania and Tajikistan?
A: One letter and an entire hemisphere apart. Tanzania is in East Africa, with its capital at Dodoma; Tajikistan is in Central Asia, with its capital at Dushanbe. The two are sometimes confused in print because of the shared first three letters, but they share no political, linguistic, or geographic ties.

Q: Why is Turkey called Türkiye now?
A: In 2022, the country requested that international bodies use Türkiye, the Turkish-language self-name for the country. Both Turkey and Türkiye are widely used in English; the United Nations and many news organisations have adopted the latter.

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