Every load and every press of Draw picks one nationality from all 193 UN member states, with the country and both ISO codes. Narrow the pool to a region, stick to the awkward demonyms, or hide the answer for a geography quiz.
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DJDJIMost nationalities add -an or -ian to the country name. These five show where English stops following the rule. Tick Tricky demonyms only and the draw sticks to words like these.
Forms mix these three up all the time. They are separate fields with separate answers.
Copy CSV row gives one line in the order nationality,country,iso2,iso3,region. Copy JSON gives the same five fields as an object. Draw, copy, paste, repeat.
Key the column on the alpha-2 or alpha-3 code and look up the word for display. Congolese covers two countries and so does Dominican, so a column of words loses information a column of codes keeps.
Every country has the same chance. Tuvalu, about 11,000 people, comes up as often as India with 1.4 billion. Fine for one-off form testing, wrong for a set of records meant to look like real users. Weight your own data by population if realism matters.
One draw at a time also makes this a poor fit for seeding hundreds of rows. For bulk data, load the ISO 3166 list into your seeder and pick rows in code.
A production form also needs a Stateless option and room for more than one nationality. This generator returns neither, since both depend on your form, not on a country list.
191 distinct words cover 193 countries, because Congolese and Dominican each serve two. Grouped by ending:
| Ending | Words | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| -an / -ian | 117 | Algerian, Angolan, Burundian, Cabo Verdean |
| -i | 21 | Swazi, Somali, Azerbaijani, Bahraini |
| Irregular | 21 | Motswana, Burkinabe, Mosotho, Malagasy |
| -ese | 20 | Beninese, Congolese, Gabonese, Senegalese |
| -ish | 9 | Turkish, Danish, Finnish, Irish |
| -er | 3 | Liechtensteiner, New Zealander, Solomon Islander |
The irregular row is where quizzes get hard. Swiss, Dutch, Malagasy, and Monégasque share no rule with their country names, so students have to know them.
For a harder round, tick Tricky demonyms only. Tricky plus South America leaves two countries, Argentina and Colombia, so the round alternates between them.
A demonym names the people of any place: Londoner, Texan, Parisian. A nationality adjective is the demonym of a sovereign state, the word printed in the Nationality field of a passport. Every nationality word on this page is a demonym, but Texan is not a nationality.
Each of the 193 UN member states grants its own nationality, and this generator draws from exactly those 193. Count the two UN observer states and partly recognized states such as Kosovo and Taiwan and the number climbs past 195, which is why published lists disagree.
The pool stops at UN membership so the count has one clear source. Taiwan, Kosovo, Palestine, and Vatican City all issue passports, but none holds a UN seat. If your project needs them, add them to your own data by hand.
No. Nigerian refers to Nigeria, population over 200 million. Nigerien refers to Niger, the country on its northern border. Both appear in the generator, and the tricky filter puts Nigerien in the draw more often.
No. Each draw skips the country on screen, so pressing Draw always changes the result. Over many draws, repeats are normal, since every draw picks from the full filtered pool again.
Not here. The generator returns one nationality per draw. For a full ordered list, the ISO 3166 country list published by ISO is the better source.