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Lists of national institutions cover various transnational lists associated with

nation state A nation state is a political unit where the state and nation are congruent. It is a more precise concept than "country", since a country does not need to have a predominant ethnic group. A nation, in the sense of a common ethnicity, may i ...

s. These include lists related to government, services, sports and culture.

Government

Lists of countries and territories This is a list of lists of countries and territories by various criteria. A country or territory is a geographical area, either in the sense of ''nation'' (a cultural entity) or ''state'' (a political entity).The Oxford English Dictionary, Second ...

List of sovereign states 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 206 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership withi ...

Member states of the United Nations The United Nations member states are the sovereign states that are members of the United Nations (UN) and have equal representation in the United Nations General Assembly, UN General Assembly. The UN is the world's largest international o ...

List of national border changes since World War I A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...

List of national capitals This is a list of national capitals, including capital city, capitals of Territory (administrative division), territories and dependent territory, dependencies, non-sovereign states including associated states and entities whose sovereignty is te ...

List of national constitutions The following is a list of national constitutions by country, semi-recognized countries, and by codification. Codified constitutions (most recent, in use today) A codified constitution is a constitution that is contained in a single document, ...

List of national governments This is a list of the offices of heads of state, heads of government, cabinet, and legislature, of sovereign states. Date of Origin refers to most recent fundamental change in form of government, for example independence, change from absolute mo ...

List of current heads of state and government This is a list of current heads of state and heads of government. In some cases, mainly in presidential systems, there is only one leader being both head of state and head of government. In other cases, mainly in semi-presidential and parliamen ...

List of legislatures by country This is a list of legislatures by country. A "legislature" is the generic name for the national parliaments and congresses that act as a plenary general assembly of representatives and that have the power to legislate. All entities included in ...

List of supreme courts by country List of supreme courts States recognised by the United Nations States recognised by at least one United Nations member States not recognised by any United Nations members '' Sui generis'' entities International courts There are a num ...

Services

List of national and international statistical services The following is a list of national and international statistical services. Central national statistical services Nearly every country in the world has set a central public sector unit entirely devoted to the production, harmonisation and dissemin ...

List of national archives National archives are central archives maintained by countries. This article contains a list of national archives. Among its more important tasks are to ensure the accessibility and preservation of the information produced by governments, both ...

* Flag carrier#List of flag-carrying airlines *

List of law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is any agency which enforces the law. This may be a special or Police in the United States, local police/Sheriffs in the United States, sheriffs, State trooper (United States), state troopers, and Federal law enfor ...

List of national and state libraries A national library is established by the government of a nation to serve as the pre-eminent repository of information for that country. Unlike public libraries, they rarely allow citizens to borrow books. Often, they include numerous rare, valuab ...

List of national newspapers This list of national newspapers is a list of national newspapers as described at newspaper types. In particular, this list considers a newspaper to be a ''national newspaper'' if the newspaper circulates throughout the whole country (as contras ...

List of national parks This is a list of the number of national parks per nation, as defined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Nearly 100 countries around the world have lands classified as a national park by this definition. Note that this articl ...

List of national parks in the Alps This is a list of national parks in the Alps. *Swiss National Park (1914) *Gran Paradiso National Park (1922, coupled with the Vanoise) *Stelvio National Park (1935) * Val Grande National Park (1992) * Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park (1990) ...

Sports

National sport A national sport is considered to be an intrinsic part of the culture of a nation. Some sports are ''de facto'' (not established by law) national sports, as sumo is in Japan and Gaelic games are in Ireland and field hockey in Pakistan, while oth ...

List of women's national association football teams This is a complete list of national teams in women's association football, arranged alphabetically within their confederations. AFC (Asia) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ...

List of men's national association football teams This is a listof the men's national association football teams in the world. There are more nations with football teams than for any other sport, with teams representing 191 of the 193 UN member states, as well as several dependent territo ...

List of International Rugby League members The International Rugby League (IRL) was founded in its current form in 1998, consisting of 10 full members. The federation currently consists of 35 members (19 full and 16 affiliate), and 24 observer members. Members Full Affiliate Observe ...

List of international rugby union teams The following is a list of international rugby union teams: National teams – band classification Starting in 2008, in addition to the existing tier system, the IRB introduced a four-band system of classification in which unions are classifi ...

List of NHL statistical leaders by country This is a list of National Hockey League statistical leaders by country of birth, sorted by total points. The top ten players from each country are included. Statistics are current through the end of the 2021–22 NHL season and players currently p ...

List of national netball teams The International Netball Federation (INF) has over 70 members spanning all corners of the globe. Membership is split into five Regional Federations including the Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania. Full Member Associations Oceania * (N ...

Culture

National poet A national poet or national bard is a poet held by tradition and popular acclaim to represent the identity, beliefs and principles of a particular national culture. The national poet as culture hero is a long-standing symbol, ...

National poetry This is a list of articles about poetry in a single language or produced by a single nation. World languages will tend to have a large body of poetry contributed to by several nations (Anglosphere, Francophonie, Latin America, German-speaking Eur ...

* State religion *

List of national theatres Several countries have one or more national theatres. This component in the name of a theatre indicates that the funding is not only a concern of private investors or the local city, but of the national or federal budget. The Comédie-Française in ...

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