As of July 2011, there are 193 United Nations (UN) Member States. According to the UN Charter.
The members are listed below by alphabetical order in their short-form English names, with the date of joining. There were 51 original members of the United Nations which were admitted in 1945, of which 49, ( shown in bold ), are either still in the organization or had their seat taken by a successor state.. ( e.g. India for British India or Russia for USSR ). The other two original members were Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.