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Category
Current
Suggested
Notes
Category:Afghanistan
502
0
764 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Albania
6
0
Category:Algeria
435
0
Category:American Samoa
51
0
Category:Andorra
69
0
Category:Angola
92
0
Category:Anguilla
19
0
Category:Antigua and Barbuda
66
0
Category:Argentina
438
0
Category:Armenia
130
0
Category:Aruba
8
0
Category:Australia
0
0
Category:Austria
1
0
Category:Azerbaijan
217
0
Category:Bahamas
0
0
Category:Bahrain
109
0
Category:Bangladesh
127
0
Category:Barbados
192
0
Category:Belarus
0
0
Category:Belgium
3
0
Category:Belize
0
0
Category:Benin
555
0
Category:Bermuda
164
0
Category:Bhutan
532
0
Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina
0
0
Category:Botswana
105
0
Category:Brazil
3,623
0
Category:British Virgin Islands
35
0
Category:Brunei
22
0
Category:Bulgaria
308
0
Category:Burkina Faso
183
0
Category:Burundi
99
0
Category:Cambodia
555
0
Category:Cameroon
656
0
Category:Canada
3
0
Category:Cayman Islands
78
0
Category:Central African Republic
52
0
Category:Chad
59
0
Category:Chile
213
0
Category:China
271
0
Category:Colombia
870
0
Category:Comoros
9
0
Category:Cook Islands
65
0
Category:Costa Rica
11
0
Category:Croatia
78
0
Category:Cuba
9
0
Category:Curacao
0
0
Category:Cyprus
91
0
Category:Czech Republic
93
0
Category:Côte d'Ivoire
0
0
Category:Denmark
0
0
Category:Djibouti
235
0
Category:Dominica
109
0
Category:Dominican Republic
14
0
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo
71
0
Category:East Timor
3
0
Category:Ecuador
4,772
0
Category:Egypt
707
0
Category:El Salvador
71
0
Category:Equatorial Guinea
27
0
Category:Eritrea
66
0
Category:Estonia
0
0
Category:Eswatini
28
0
Category:Ethiopia
419
0
Category:Falkland Islands
31
0
Category:Faroe Islands
0
0
Category:Federated States of Micronesia
57
0
Category:Fiji
393
0
Category:Finland
2
0
Category:France
0
0
Category:French Guiana
28
0
Category:French Polynesia
120
0
Category:The Gambia
0
0
Category:Georgia
117
0
Category:Germany
8
0
Category:Ghana
720
0
Category:Gibraltar
761
0
Category:Greece
42
0
Category:Greenland
51
0
Category:Grenada
60
0
Category:Guadeloupe
0
0
Category:Guam
94
0
Category:Guatemala
1
0
Category:Guernsey
107
0
Category:Guinea
57
0
Category:Guinea-Bissau
35
0
Category:Guyana
123
0
Category:Haiti
152
0
Category:Honduras
51
0
Category:Hong Kong
416
0
Category:Hungary
48
0
Category:Iceland
1
0
Category:India
4
0
About 2000 added in June 2016
Category:Indonesia
9
0
Category:Iran
994
0
Category:Ireland
0
0
Category:Isle of Man
581
0
Category:Israel
1,661
0
1,157 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Italy
0
0
Category:Jamaica
159
0
Category:Japan
2,170
0
Category:Jersey
102
0
Category:Jordan
519
0
Category:Kazakhstan
156
0
Category:Kenya
486
0
Category:Kiribati
159
0
Category:Kosovo
208
0
Category:Kuwait
190
0
Category:Kyrgyzstan
300
0
Category:Laos
164
0
Category:Latvia
3
0
Category:Lebanon
300
0
Category:Lesotho
55
0
Category:Liberia
74
0
Category:Libya
203
0
Category:Liechtenstein
69
0
Category:Lithuania
0
0
Category:Luxembourg
19
0
Category:Macau
33
0
Category:Republic of Macedonia
0
0
Category:Madagascar
137
0
Category:Malawi
55
0
Category:Malaysia
4,201
0
4,642 as at
Category:Maldives
129
0
Category:Mali
452
0
Category:Malta
245
0
Category:Marshall Islands
174
0
Category:Martinique
3
0
Category:Mauritania
222
0
Category:Mauritius
86
0
Category:Mayotte
5
0
Category:Mexico
0
0
Category:Moldova
113
0
Category:Monaco
130
0
Category:Mongolia
349
0
Category:Montenegro
4
0
Category:Montserrat
50
0
Category:Morocco
1,010
0
728 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Mozambique
1
0
Category:Myanmar
530
0
Category:Burma is a redirect
Category:Nauru
8
0
Category:Nepal
0
0
Category:Netherlands
18
0
Category:New Caledonia
122
0
Category:New Zealand
274
0
Category:Nicaragua
207
0
Category:Niger
78
0
Category:Nigeria
928
0
Category:Niue
90
0
Category:North Korea
248
0
Category:Northern Mariana Islands
22
0
Category:Norway
0
0
Category:Oman
71
0
Category:Pakistan
522
0
Category:Palau
7
0
Category:Palestine
442
0
Category:Panama
0
0
Category:Papua New Guinea
229
0
Category:Paraguay
331
0
Category:Peru
123
0
Category:Philippines
10
0
Category:Pitcairn Islands
13
0
Category:Poland
1,678
0
Category:Portugal
0
0
Category:Puerto Rico
217
0
Category:Qatar
108
0
Category:Republic of the Congo
39
0
Category:Romania
61
0
Category:Russia
500
0
Category:Rwanda
0
0
Category:Réunion
46
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
261
0
Category:Saint Martin
5
0
Category:Saint Pierre and Miquelon
0
0
Category:Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
41
0
Category:Samoa
82
0
Category:San Marino
149
0
Category:Sao Tome and Principe
0
0
Category:Saudi Arabia
962
0
Category:Senegal
357
0
Category:Serbia
406
0
Category:Seychelles
2
0
Category:Sierra Leone
35
0
Category:Singapore
1,321
0
Category:Sint Maarten
2
0
redirect needed?
Category:Slovakia
88
0
Category:Slovenia
2
0
Category:Solomon Islands
49
0
Category:Somalia
46
0
Category:South Africa
48
0
Category:South Korea
331
0
Category:South Sudan
138
0
Category:Spain
1
0
Category:Sri Lanka
766
0
Category:Sudan
37
0
Category:Suriname
85
0
Category:Sweden
111
0
Category:Switzerland
0
0
Category:Syria
263
0
Category:Taiwan
280
0
Category:Tajikistan
113
0
Category:Tanzania
662
0
Category:Thailand
360
0
Category:Togo
454
0
Category:Tokelau
14
0
Category:Tonga
174
0
Category:Trinidad and Tobago
33
0
Category:Tunisia
0
0
Category:Turkey
146
0
Category:Turkmenistan
90
0
Category:Turks and Caicos Islands
24
0
Category:Tuvalu
39
0
Category:Uganda
84
0
Category:Ukraine
1,302
0
Category:United Arab Emirates
655
0
Category:United Kingdom
4
0
Category:United States
415
0
Category:United States Virgin Islands
31
0
Category:Uruguay
48
0
Category:Uzbekistan
306
0
Category:Vanuatu
197
0
Category:Venezuela
5
0
Category:Vietnam
1,210
0
Category:Wallis and Futuna
16
0
Category:Western Sahara
64
0
Category:Yemen
462
0
Category:Zambia
164
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.