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Category
Current
Suggested
Notes
Category:Afghanistan
475
0
764 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Albania
1
0
Category:Algeria
500
0
Category:American Samoa
43
0
Category:Andorra
50
0
Category:Angola
82
0
Category:Anguilla
13
0
Category:Antigua and Barbuda
70
0
Category:Argentina
8
0
Category:Armenia
349
0
Category:Aruba
23
0
Category:Australia
24
0
Category:Austria
4
0
Category:Azerbaijan
1
0
Category:Bahamas
0
0
Category:Bahrain
157
0
Category:Bangladesh
138
0
Category:Barbados
162
0
Category:Belarus
151
0
Category:Belgium
1
0
Category:Belize
0
0
Category:Benin
960
0
Category:Bermuda
178
0
Category:Bhutan
560
0
Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina
0
0
Category:Botswana
119
0
Category:Brazil
4,146
0
Category:British Virgin Islands
41
0
Category:Brunei
57
0
Category:Bulgaria
311
0
Category:Burkina Faso
341
0
Category:Burundi
339
0
Category:Cambodia
483
0
Category:Cameroon
225
0
Category:Canada
35
0
Category:Cayman Islands
76
0
Category:Central African Republic
32
0
Category:Chad
198
0
Category:Chile
741
0
Category:China
613
0
Category:Colombia
106
0
Category:Comoros
16
0
Category:Cook Islands
12
0
Category:Costa Rica
64
0
Category:Croatia
0
0
Category:Cuba
22
0
Category:Curacao
0
0
Category:Cyprus
31
0
Category:Czech Republic
31
0
Category:Côte d'Ivoire
0
0
Category:Denmark
0
0
Category:Djibouti
217
0
Category:Dominica
102
0
Category:Dominican Republic
38
0
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo
50
0
Category:East Timor
1
0
Category:Ecuador
4,806
0
Category:Egypt
953
0
Category:El Salvador
98
0
Category:Equatorial Guinea
22
0
Category:Eritrea
38
0
Category:Estonia
0
0
Category:Eswatini
41
0
Category:Ethiopia
523
0
Category:Falkland Islands
69
0
Category:Faroe Islands
0
0
Category:Federated States of Micronesia
69
0
Category:Fiji
340
0
Category:Finland
3
0
Category:France
0
0
Category:French Guiana
43
0
Category:French Polynesia
124
0
Category:The Gambia
0
0
Category:Georgia
3
0
Category:Germany
6
0
Category:Ghana
2,130
0
Category:Gibraltar
763
0
Category:Greece
92
0
Category:Greenland
58
0
Category:Grenada
106
0
Category:Guadeloupe
13
0
Category:Guam
106
0
Category:Guatemala
7
0
Category:Guernsey
103
0
Category:Guinea
119
0
Category:Guinea-Bissau
68
0
Category:Guyana
129
0
Category:Haiti
157
0
Category:Honduras
11
0
Category:Hong Kong
157
0
Category:Hungary
26
0
Category:Iceland
1
0
Category:India
3
0
About 2000 added in June 2016
Category:Indonesia
957
0
Category:Iran
1,081
0
Category:Ireland
0
0
Category:Isle of Man
373
0
Category:Israel
1,292
0
1,157 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Italy
14
0
Category:Jamaica
169
0
Category:Japan
0
0
Category:Jersey
96
0
Category:Jordan
509
0
Category:Kazakhstan
140
0
Category:Kenya
514
0
Category:Kiribati
151
0
Category:Kosovo
271
0
Category:Kuwait
257
0
Category:Kyrgyzstan
299
0
Category:Laos
146
0
Category:Latvia
95
0
Category:Lebanon
240
0
Category:Lesotho
76
0
Category:Liberia
73
0
Category:Libya
378
0
Category:Liechtenstein
48
0
Category:Lithuania
87
0
Category:Luxembourg
4
0
Category:Macau
24
0
Category:Republic of Macedonia
0
0
Category:Madagascar
1,261
0
Category:Malawi
70
0
Category:Malaysia
4,435
0
4,642 as at
Category:Maldives
163
0
Category:Mali
441
0
Category:Malta
196
0
Category:Marshall Islands
87
0
Category:Martinique
73
0
Category:Mauritania
233
0
Category:Mauritius
66
0
Category:Mayotte
9
0
Category:Mexico
13
0
Category:Moldova
26
0
Category:Monaco
157
0
Category:Mongolia
318
0
Category:Montenegro
0
0
Category:Montserrat
50
0
Category:Morocco
1,321
0
728 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Mozambique
31
0
Category:Myanmar
725
0
Category:Burma is a redirect
Category:Nauru
12
0
Category:Nepal
2
0
Category:Netherlands
14
0
Category:New Caledonia
83
0
Category:New Zealand
154
0
Category:Nicaragua
215
0
Category:Niger
57
0
Category:Nigeria
1,464
0
Category:Niue
354
0
Category:North Korea
236
0
Category:Northern Mariana Islands
20
0
Category:Norway
0
0
Category:Oman
166
0
Category:Pakistan
509
0
Category:Palau
15
0
Category:Palestine
444
0
Category:Panama
0
0
Category:Papua New Guinea
244
0
Category:Paraguay
446
0
Category:Peru
35
0
Category:Philippines
290
0
Category:Pitcairn Islands
7
0
Category:Poland
1,414
0
Category:Portugal
0
0
Category:Puerto Rico
51
0
Category:Qatar
121
0
Category:Republic of the Congo
200
0
Category:Romania
50
0
Category:Russia
153
0
Category:Rwanda
5
0
Category:Réunion
93
0
Category:Saint Barthelemy
0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Saint Helena
0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Saint Kitts and Nevis
167
0
Category:Saint Lucia
291
0
Category:Saint Martin
4
0
Category:Saint Pierre and Miquelon
0
0
Category:Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
47
0
Category:Samoa
80
0
Category:San Marino
167
0
Category:Sao Tome and Principe
0
0
Category:Saudi Arabia
962
0
Category:Senegal
213
0
Category:Serbia
0
0
Category:Seychelles
1
0
Category:Sierra Leone
47
0
Category:Singapore
1,588
0
Category:Sint Maarten
0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Slovakia
499
0
Category:Slovenia
0
0
Category:Solomon Islands
190
0
Category:Somalia
123
0
Category:South Africa
86
0
Category:South Korea
78
0
Category:South Sudan
186
0
Category:Spain
15
0
Category:Sri Lanka
797
0
Category:Sudan
32
0
Category:Suriname
44
0
Category:Sweden
6
0
Category:Switzerland
2
0
Category:Syria
263
0
Category:Taiwan
329
0
Category:Tajikistan
148
0
Category:Tanzania
635
0
Category:Thailand
54
0
Category:Togo
322
0
Category:Tokelau
2
0
Category:Tonga
174
0
Category:Trinidad and Tobago
11
0
Category:Tunisia
0
0
Category:Turkey
383
0
Category:Turkmenistan
79
0
Category:Turks and Caicos Islands
40
0
Category:Tuvalu
42
0
Category:Uganda
199
0
Category:Ukraine
1,184
0
Category:United Arab Emirates
806
0
Category:United Kingdom
4
0
Category:United States
8
0
Category:United States Virgin Islands
32
0
Category:Uruguay
38
0
Category:Uzbekistan
471
0
Category:Vanuatu
213
0
Category:Venezuela
89
0
Category:Vietnam
1,370
0
Category:Wallis and Futuna
19
0
Category:Western Sahara
80
0
Category:Yemen
543
0
Category:Zambia
160
0
Category:Zimbabwe
31
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.
Often, files do not belong into just one subcategory but into multiple subcategories.