Random Country Picker

This picker chooses a country for you at random. Set it to one country or to a batch of up to fifty, narrow it to a continent if you want, and press the button. Nothing to install and nothing to sign up for.

One countryListWheel

RegionAll regionsAll of AfricaCentral AfricaEast AfricaNorth AfricaSouthern AfricaWest AfricaAll of AsiaCentral AsiaEast AsiaMiddle EastSouth AsiaSoutheast AsiaWestern AsiaAll of EuropeEastern EuropeNorthern EuropeSouthern EuropeWestern AsiaWestern EuropeAll of North AmericaCaribbeanCentral AmericaNorthern AmericaAll of OceaniaAustralasiaMelanesiaMicronesiaPolynesiaAll of South America

How many

13510

Include territories No repeats

Generate

195 countries in this selection

Tanzania

East Africa, Africa

Capital

Dodoma

Population

68.6 million

Area

945,087 km²

Ranked 22nd of 195 countries by population and 30th by area.

Learn more about Tanzania

How the picker chooses

Every country in the pool has exactly the same chance of coming up. The draw uses your browser’s cryptographic random number generator rather than a simple pseudo-random call, so repeated picks do not fall into a pattern and the result is not weighted towards larger or better known countries. Andorra is as likely as India.

Two switches change what sits in the pool:

• Include territories adds 34 dependencies and overseas territories — Puerto Rico, Greenland, Guam, the Faroe Islands and so on — to the 195 sovereign states. Leave it off and you get UN member states plus the Vatican and Palestine.
• No repeats matters when you draw several at once. With it on, a batch of ten gives ten different countries. With it off, each draw is independent and the same country can appear twice, which is what you want if you are modelling real random sampling.

What people use it for

Teachers pull a country per pupil for a geography project. Quiz writers use it to build question sets that do not lean on the usual twenty famous countries. Language learners pick a country and spend a week on its news in the target language. Travellers use it to break a planning deadlock. Writers and game masters use it to seed a setting. Developers use it to generate believable test data for address and locale fields.

Picker, generator, selector — the same thing

People search for this tool under a dozen names: random country picker, country selector, country chooser, country randomizer, “give me a random country”. They all describe one action — drawing a name from a hat that contains every country on Earth. This page, the main generator and the wheel all draw from the same list; they only differ in how the result is shown.