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Category
Current
Suggested
Notes
Category:Afghanistan
495
0
764 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Albania
4
0
Category:Algeria
438
0
Category:American Samoa
49
0
Category:Andorra
70
0
Category:Angola
91
0
Category:Anguilla
19
0
Category:Antigua and Barbuda
65
0
Category:Argentina
417
0
Category:Armenia
88
0
Category:Aruba
10
0
Category:Australia
0
0
Category:Austria
4
0
Category:Azerbaijan
169
0
Category:Bahamas
0
0
Category:Bahrain
110
0
Category:Bangladesh
128
0
Category:Barbados
191
0
Category:Belarus
0
0
Category:Belgium
0
0
Category:Belize
0
0
Category:Benin
633
0
Category:Bermuda
185
0
Category:Bhutan
532
0
Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina
0
0
Category:Botswana
106
0
Category:Brazil
3,737
0
Category:British Virgin Islands
35
0
Category:Brunei
21
0
Category:Bulgaria
307
0
Category:Burkina Faso
119
0
Category:Burundi
99
0
Category:Cambodia
550
0
Category:Cameroon
656
0
Category:Canada
7
0
Category:Cayman Islands
78
0
Category:Central African Republic
53
0
Category:Chad
63
0
Category:Chile
227
0
Category:China
262
0
Category:Colombia
850
0
Category:Comoros
9
0
Category:Cook Islands
63
0
Category:Costa Rica
16
0
Category:Croatia
74
0
Category:Cuba
9
0
Category:Curacao
0
0
Category:Cyprus
106
0
Category:Czech Republic
6
0
Category:Côte d'Ivoire
0
0
Category:Denmark
0
0
Category:Djibouti
233
0
Category:Dominica
109
0
Category:Dominican Republic
14
0
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo
74
0
Category:East Timor
4
0
Category:Ecuador
4,808
0
Category:Egypt
714
0
Category:El Salvador
70
0
Category:Equatorial Guinea
27
0
Category:Eritrea
65
0
Category:Estonia
0
0
Category:Eswatini
28
0
Category:Ethiopia
425
0
Category:Falkland Islands
30
0
Category:Faroe Islands
0
0
Category:Federated States of Micronesia
58
0
Category:Fiji
393
0
Category:Finland
155
0
Category:France
0
0
Category:French Guiana
28
0
Category:French Polynesia
120
0
Category:The Gambia
0
0
Category:Georgia
0
0
Category:Germany
3
0
Category:Ghana
747
0
Category:Gibraltar
761
0
Category:Greece
67
0
Category:Greenland
52
0
Category:Grenada
59
0
Category:Guadeloupe
2
0
Category:Guam
101
0
Category:Guatemala
0
0
Category:Guernsey
107
0
Category:Guinea
66
0
Category:Guinea-Bissau
35
0
Category:Guyana
122
0
Category:Haiti
144
0
Category:Honduras
72
0
Category:Hong Kong
434
0
Category:Hungary
48
0
Category:Iceland
1
0
Category:India
0
0
About 2000 added in June 2016
Category:Indonesia
21
0
Category:Iran
991
0
Category:Ireland
0
0
Category:Isle of Man
532
0
Category:Israel
1,599
0
1,157 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Italy
0
0
Category:Jamaica
157
0
Category:Japan
2,079
0
Category:Jersey
91
0
Category:Jordan
483
0
Category:Kazakhstan
135
0
Category:Kenya
485
0
Category:Kiribati
158
0
Category:Kosovo
211
0
Category:Kuwait
198
0
Category:Kyrgyzstan
325
0
Category:Laos
165
0
Category:Latvia
65
0
Category:Lebanon
326
0
Category:Lesotho
55
0
Category:Liberia
71
0
Category:Libya
201
0
Category:Liechtenstein
69
0
Category:Lithuania
87
0
Category:Luxembourg
15
0
Category:Macau
27
0
Category:Republic of Macedonia
0
0
Category:Madagascar
158
0
Category:Malawi
55
0
Category:Malaysia
4,212
0
4,642 as at
Category:Maldives
134
0
Category:Mali
452
0
Category:Malta
248
0
Category:Marshall Islands
173
0
Category:Martinique
4
0
Category:Mauritania
228
0
Category:Mauritius
87
0
Category:Mayotte
7
0
Category:Mexico
0
0
Category:Moldova
113
0
Category:Monaco
131
0
Category:Mongolia
346
0
Category:Montenegro
4
0
Category:Montserrat
50
0
Category:Morocco
1,000
0
728 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Mozambique
2
0
Category:Myanmar
496
0
Category:Burma is a redirect
Category:Nauru
8
0
Category:Nepal
0
0
Category:Netherlands
17
0
Category:New Caledonia
120
0
Category:New Zealand
260
0
Category:Nicaragua
207
0
Category:Niger
59
0
Category:Nigeria
944
0
Category:Niue
86
0
Category:North Korea
248
0
Category:Northern Mariana Islands
21
0
Category:Norway
0
0
Category:Oman
69
0
Category:Pakistan
515
0
Category:Palau
9
0
Category:Palestine
451
0
Category:Panama
0
0
Category:Papua New Guinea
226
0
Category:Paraguay
347
0
Category:Peru
151
0
Category:Philippines
8
0
Category:Pitcairn Islands
15
0
Category:Poland
1,610
0
Category:Portugal
0
0
Category:Puerto Rico
212
0
Category:Qatar
107
0
Category:Republic of the Congo
40
0
Category:Romania
63
0
Category:Russia
391
0
Category:Rwanda
0
0
Category:Réunion
48
0
Category:Saint Barthelemy
0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Saint Helena
0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Saint Kitts and Nevis
61
0
Category:Saint Lucia
241
0
Category:Saint Martin
1
0
Category:Saint Pierre and Miquelon
0
0
Category:Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
40
0
Category:Samoa
80
0
Category:San Marino
149
0
Category:Sao Tome and Principe
0
0
Category:Saudi Arabia
952
0
Category:Senegal
545
0
Category:Serbia
357
0
Category:Seychelles
2
0
Category:Sierra Leone
36
0
Category:Singapore
1,275
0
Category:Sint Maarten
2
0
redirect needed?
Category:Slovakia
107
0
Category:Slovenia
4
0
Category:Solomon Islands
48
0
Category:Somalia
54
0
Category:South Africa
68
0
Category:South Korea
289
0
Category:South Sudan
114
0
Category:Spain
1
0
Category:Sri Lanka
721
0
Category:Sudan
35
0
Category:Suriname
78
0
Category:Sweden
11
0
Category:Switzerland
0
0
Category:Syria
262
0
Category:Taiwan
288
0
Category:Tajikistan
122
0
Category:Tanzania
662
0
Category:Thailand
279
0
Category:Togo
530
0
Category:Tokelau
0
0
Category:Tonga
165
0
Category:Trinidad and Tobago
37
0
Category:Tunisia
0
0
Category:Turkey
136
0
Category:Turkmenistan
92
0
Category:Turks and Caicos Islands
24
0
Category:Tuvalu
35
0
Category:Uganda
76
0
Category:Ukraine
1,256
0
Category:United Arab Emirates
694
0
Category:United Kingdom
4
0
Category:United States
0
0
Category:United States Virgin Islands
31
0
Category:Uruguay
53
0
Category:Uzbekistan
312
0
Category:Vanuatu
196
0
Category:Venezuela
7
0
Category:Vietnam
1,145
0
Category:Wallis and Futuna
16
0
Category:Western Sahara
65
0
Category:Yemen
420
0
Category:Zambia
169
0
Category:Zimbabwe
55
0
(These are probably the more important ones)
(These are probably the more important ones)
The templates {{Categorise}} and {{CatDiffuse}} are used on some of the categories that need maintenance. They appear to be ignored by editors, including uploaders, and are unnecessary clutter for the viewers of Wikimedia Commons.
The tables above are for some of the more important categories. {{MetaCat}} and {{CatCat}} are used on categories which should only contain subcategories. Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Metacat can be used to find them.
If you do not know what would be a more appropriate category use {{Check categories}} to mark it for other editors to resolve.
As of November 2022 Category:Categories requiring permanent diffusion to zero has 12,733 entries.