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NATO has 32 members. It began with 12 in 1949, no member has ever left, and the newest are Finland (2023) and Sweden (2024).
23 + 9 = 32. Every EU country except Austria, Ireland, Cyprus and Malta, plus nine outside the EU: the US, Canada, the UK, Norway, Iceland, Turkey, Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia.
Signed the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington on 4 April 1949: ten western European states plus the United States and Canada.
Greece and Turkey joined in 1952, West Germany in 1955 and Spain in 1982.
The first former Warsaw Pact states to join, on 12 March 1999.
Seven states joined on 29 March 2004, the largest single enlargement.
Albania and Croatia joined in 2009, Montenegro in 2017 and North Macedonia in 2020.
Finland (2023) and Sweden (2024) ended military non-alignment after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Can you name them all?
Test yourselfNATO has 32 members. It began with 12 in 1949, no member has ever left, and the newest are Finland (2023) and Sweden (2024).
Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom, United States, Greece, Turkey, Germany, Spain, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Finland and Sweden.
23 + 9 = 32. Every EU country except Austria, Ireland, Cyprus and Malta, plus nine outside the EU: the US, Canada, the UK, Norway, Iceland, Turkey, Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia.
Austria, Ireland, Cyprus and Malta. Nine NATO members are outside the EU: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Norway, Iceland, Turkey, Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia.
Each name checked against at least two sources, one of them NATO, on 1 October 2026. Next review by 1 October 2027.
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