Skip to content
Curated category

Member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation

  • AlgeriaAlgeria spans over 2,381,741 square kilometres, making it the largest country in Africa and the tenth largest on Earth. Most of that vast surface is the…
  • Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia is the only country on Earth with a coastline along both the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf. It covers roughly 2,150,000 square kilometers, the…
  • DjiboutiDjibouti is a country in the Horn of Africa, and it carries the smallest population in mainland Africa. The 2024 census counted 1,066,809 people, recorded on…
  • KuwaitKuwait sits at the head of the Persian Gulf, where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers have built their delta for thousands of years.
  • UzbekistanUzbekistan sits at the very center of the world's largest landmass, and it touches no ocean, no sea, and no coast of any kind.
  • Burkina FasoBurkina Faso sits at the heart of West Africa, entirely landlocked, ringed by six countries and a history that refuses to be still.
  • TunisiaTunisia sits at the precise point where the western and eastern halves of the Mediterranean Basin meet. From its northernmost tip, Cape Angela, you could…
  • SenegalSenegal occupies a singular position on the map of Africa: it is the westernmost country on the entire mainland of the Old World, the very edge of…
  • TajikistanTajikistan sits wedged between Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and China, a landlocked country where more than 90% of the land is mountain.
  • TurkmenistanTurkmenistan sits at the center of one of history's great crossroads. Bordered by Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Iran, and the Caspian Sea, this…
  • JordanJordan sits at a crossroads few countries can claim: the meeting point of Asia, Africa, and Europe, bordered by Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and…
  • KazakhstanKazakhstan is the largest landlocked country on Earth, a place where you can stand west of the Ural River in Europe, then travel east into Asia without…
  • GuyanaGuyana sits on the northern coast of South America, the only country on the mainland that holds English as its official language.
  • SudanAround 11500 BC, near Jebel Sahaba, people fought what scholars call the earliest known war in the world. That ground now sits inside Sudan, a country in…
  • PakistanPakistan takes its name from an acronym a student activist coined in a pamphlet. In January 1933, Choudhry Rahmat Ali published the word, first spelling it…
  • MalaysiaMalaysia sits split in two, divided by the South China Sea into Peninsular Malaysia on mainland Southeast Asia and East Malaysia on the island of Borneo.
  • AfghanistanAfghanistan has been called the graveyard of empires, and that nickname was not chosen lightly. Persians, Macedonians, Mongols, British, Soviets, and…
  • QatarQatar is a country smaller than Connecticut that holds the world's third-largest natural gas reserves, and for a stretch in the early 2010s it was ranked the…
  • AzerbaijanAzerbaijan sits at a crossroads so ancient and contested that even its name carries the echoes of a Persian satrap from the age of Alexander the Great.
  • IndonesiaIndonesia stretches more than 5,120 kilometres from east to west, scattered across over 17,000 islands between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
  • United Arab EmiratesThe United Arab Emirates sits at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula, a place where stone tools from 130,000 years ago share the same soil as the…
  • IraqIraq sits at the very point where human civilization first took hold. Between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, a region the ancients called Mesopotamia, the…
  • Ivory CoastIvory Coast holds a distinction that few nations on earth can claim: it supplies more cocoa beans to the world than any other country.
  • IranIran sits on one of the world's oldest continuous major civilizations, and the people of present-day Iran were first unified under the Medes in the 7th…
  • NigeriaNigeria is the most populous country in Africa, with more than 242 million people, making it the sixth-most populous country in the world.
  • BangladeshBangladesh holds almost 176 million people inside just 148,460 square kilometres of land. That makes it the eighth-most populous country on Earth, and one of…
  • EgyptEgypt covers the northeast corner of Africa and the southwest corner of Asia, joined by the Sinai Peninsula. Over 107 million people live there, making it…
  • TurkeyTurkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is home to over 86 million people. Its capital, Ankara, sits inland on the high central plateau, while Istanbul…
  • MaldivesThe Maldives sits an average of just 1.5 metres above the sea that surrounds it. Its highest natural point reaches only 2.4 metres, which makes it the…