igeography

Countries That Start With W

No country starts with W in English

No country starts with W in English: none of the countries on this site has a name beginning with W. The names below come close, and each says what it is.

A country counts under the first letter of its English name as written on this site; accented letters count as the base letter.

Other names that start with W

  • Western Samoa: the name of Samoa until 1997

Close, but not countries

  • Wales: one of the four countries of the United Kingdom, not a sovereign state
  • Wallis and Futuna: a French overseas collectivity in the South Pacific
  • Western Sahara: a territory in North Africa whose status is disputed; the United Nations lists it as a non-self-governing territory
  • West Germany: the common name of the Federal Republic of Germany before reunification in 1990