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Category
Current
Suggested
Notes
Category:Afghanistan
477
0
764 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Albania
2
0
Category:Algeria
506
0
Category:American Samoa
43
0
Category:Andorra
51
0
Category:Angola
82
0
Category:Anguilla
14
0
Category:Antigua and Barbuda
70
0
Category:Argentina
13
0
Category:Armenia
351
0
Category:Aruba
26
0
Category:Australia
1
0
Category:Austria
3
0
Category:Azerbaijan
1
0
Category:Bahamas
0
0
Category:Bahrain
158
0
Category:Bangladesh
166
0
Category:Barbados
162
0
Category:Belarus
127
0
Category:Belgium
1
0
Category:Belize
4
0
Category:Benin
731
0
Category:Bermuda
179
0
Category:Bhutan
565
0
Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina
1
0
Category:Botswana
132
0
Category:Brazil
4,166
0
Category:British Virgin Islands
41
0
Category:Brunei
56
0
Category:Bulgaria
312
0
Category:Burkina Faso
407
0
Category:Burundi
366
0
Category:Cambodia
486
0
Category:Cameroon
248
0
Category:Canada
45
0
Category:Cayman Islands
75
0
Category:Central African Republic
32
0
Category:Chad
199
0
Category:Chile
719
0
Category:China
609
0
Category:Colombia
134
0
Category:Comoros
16
0
Category:Cook Islands
12
0
Category:Costa Rica
65
0
Category:Croatia
0
0
Category:Cuba
29
0
Category:Curacao
0
0
Category:Cyprus
31
0
Category:Czech Republic
30
0
Category:Côte d'Ivoire
0
0
Category:Denmark
0
0
Category:Djibouti
217
0
Category:Dominica
102
0
Category:Dominican Republic
27
0
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo
59
0
Category:East Timor
1
0
Category:Ecuador
4,818
0
Category:Egypt
943
0
Category:El Salvador
99
0
Category:Equatorial Guinea
27
0
Category:Eritrea
38
0
Category:Estonia
4
0
Category:Eswatini
41
0
Category:Ethiopia
519
0
Category:Falkland Islands
69
0
Category:Faroe Islands
0
0
Category:Federated States of Micronesia
74
0
Category:Fiji
340
0
Category:Finland
1
0
Category:France
11
0
Category:French Guiana
45
0
Category:French Polynesia
123
0
Category:The Gambia
1
0
Category:Georgia
2
0
Category:Germany
10
0
Category:Ghana
2,471
0
Category:Gibraltar
763
0
Category:Greece
94
0
Category:Greenland
58
0
Category:Grenada
106
0
Category:Guadeloupe
14
0
Category:Guam
106
0
Category:Guatemala
7
0
Category:Guernsey
104
0
Category:Guinea
600
0
Category:Guinea-Bissau
68
0
Category:Guyana
130
0
Category:Haiti
165
0
Category:Honduras
22
0
Category:Hong Kong
165
0
Category:Hungary
27
0
Category:Iceland
1
0
Category:India
1
0
About 2000 added in June 2016
Category:Indonesia
2,927
0
Category:Iran
1,082
0
Category:Ireland
3
0
Category:Isle of Man
374
0
Category:Israel
1,262
0
1,157 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Italy
25
0
Category:Jamaica
171
0
Category:Japan
5
0
Category:Jersey
95
0
Category:Jordan
511
0
Category:Kazakhstan
146
0
Category:Kenya
516
0
Category:Kiribati
148
0
Category:Kosovo
271
0
Category:Kuwait
261
0
Category:Kyrgyzstan
303
0
Category:Laos
146
0
Category:Latvia
91
0
Category:Lebanon
240
0
Category:Lesotho
76
0
Category:Liberia
73
0
Category:Libya
381
0
Category:Liechtenstein
48
0
Category:Lithuania
86
0
Category:Luxembourg
5
0
Category:Macau
24
0
Category:Republic of Macedonia
0
0
Category:Madagascar
1,419
0
Category:Malawi
70
0
Category:Malaysia
4,484
0
4,642 as at
Category:Maldives
163
0
Category:Mali
440
0
Category:Malta
209
0
Category:Marshall Islands
87
0
Category:Martinique
59
0
Category:Mauritania
232
0
Category:Mauritius
66
0
Category:Mayotte
10
0
Category:Mexico
1
0
Category:Moldova
25
0
Category:Monaco
158
0
Category:Mongolia
319
0
Category:Montenegro
0
0
Category:Montserrat
50
0
Category:Morocco
1,478
0
728 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Mozambique
31
0
Category:Myanmar
724
0
Category:Burma is a redirect
Category:Nauru
12
0
Category:Nepal
0
0
Category:Netherlands
11
0
Category:New Caledonia
82
0
Category:New Zealand
159
0
Category:Nicaragua
216
0
Category:Niger
62
0
Category:Nigeria
1,500
0
Category:Niue
354
0
Category:North Korea
237
0
Category:Northern Mariana Islands
20
0
Category:Norway
0
0
Category:Oman
139
0
Category:Pakistan
509
0
Category:Palau
16
0
Category:Palestine
432
0
Category:Panama
1
0
Category:Papua New Guinea
245
0
Category:Paraguay
442
0
Category:Peru
40
0
Category:Philippines
299
0
Category:Pitcairn Islands
8
0
Category:Poland
1,423
0
Category:Portugal
0
0
Category:Puerto Rico
138
0
Category:Qatar
119
0
Category:Republic of the Congo
217
0
Category:Romania
50
0
Category:Russia
243
0
Category:Rwanda
5
0
Category:Réunion
89
0
Category:Saint Barthelemy
0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Saint Helena
0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Saint Kitts and Nevis
167
0
Category:Saint Lucia
291
0
Category:Saint Martin
4
0
Category:Saint Pierre and Miquelon
0
0
Category:Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
48
0
Category:Samoa
80
0
Category:San Marino
167
0
Category:Sao Tome and Principe
0
0
Category:Saudi Arabia
959
0
Category:Senegal
291
0
Category:Serbia
0
0
Category:Seychelles
1
0
Category:Sierra Leone
47
0
Category:Singapore
1,591
0
Category:Sint Maarten
0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Slovakia
511
0
Category:Slovenia
0
0
Category:Solomon Islands
190
0
Category:Somalia
126
0
Category:South Africa
86
0
Category:South Korea
92
0
Category:South Sudan
186
0
Category:Spain
27
0
Category:Sri Lanka
801
0
Category:Sudan
37
0
Category:Suriname
46
0
Category:Sweden
17
0
Category:Switzerland
1
0
Category:Syria
264
0
Category:Taiwan
333
0
Category:Tajikistan
200
0
Category:Tanzania
634
0
Category:Thailand
609
0
Category:Togo
471
0
Category:Tokelau
2
0
Category:Tonga
174
0
Category:Trinidad and Tobago
11
0
Category:Tunisia
0
0
Category:Turkey
394
0
Category:Turkmenistan
79
0
Category:Turks and Caicos Islands
40
0
Category:Tuvalu
42
0
Category:Uganda
200
0
Category:Ukraine
1,201
0
Category:United Arab Emirates
815
0
Category:United Kingdom
29
0
Category:United States
0
0
Category:United States Virgin Islands
32
0
Category:Uruguay
55
0
Category:Uzbekistan
474
0
Category:Vanuatu
213
0
Category:Venezuela
92
0
Category:Vietnam
1,243
0
Category:Wallis and Futuna
20
0
Category:Western Sahara
81
0
Category:Yemen
543
0
Category:Zambia
161
0
Category:Zimbabwe
39
0
(These are probably the more important ones)
(These are probably the more important ones)
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The tables above are for some of the more important categories. {{MetaCat}} and {{CatCat}} are used on categories which should only contain subcategories. Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Metacat can be used to find them.
If you do not know what would be a more appropriate category use {{Check categories}} to mark it for other editors to resolve.
As of November 2022 Category:Categories requiring permanent diffusion to zero has 12,733 entries.
Often, files do not belong into just one subcategory but into multiple subcategories.