Name a founding member of the United Nations in 1945.
Use the UN's 51 founding-member list. Historical member entities count; modern successors are aliases only where explicitly listed.
The UN identifies 51 original members. Several historical member names differ from today's names; historical entities should not be confused with all later successor states.
Reveal all 51 checked answers and scores
Points are editorial tiers. The source supports membership in the set, not how many people know an answer.
- United States 25 · Familiar
- United States is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
Also accepted: US · USA · United States of America
- United Kingdom 25 · Familiar
- United Kingdom is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
Also accepted: UK · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- China 25 · Familiar
- China is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- France 25 · Familiar
- France is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Soviet Union 25 · Familiar
- Soviet Union is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
Also accepted: Russia · Russian Federation · USSR · Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Canada 25 · Familiar
- Canada is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Australia 25 · Familiar
- Australia is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- India 25 · Familiar
- India is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Brazil 25 · Familiar
- Brazil is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Argentina 25 · Familiar
- Argentina is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Mexico 25 · Familiar
- Mexico is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Egypt 25 · Familiar
- Egypt is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- New Zealand 25 · Familiar
- New Zealand is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Norway 50 · Less common
- Norway is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Denmark 50 · Less common
- Denmark is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Belgium 50 · Less common
- Belgium is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Netherlands 50 · Less common
- Netherlands is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Greece 50 · Less common
- Greece is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Poland 50 · Less common
- Poland is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Turkey 50 · Less common
- Turkey is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
Also accepted: Turkiye · Türkiye
- Iran 50 · Less common
- Iran is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Iraq 50 · Less common
- Iraq is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Saudi Arabia 50 · Less common
- Saudi Arabia is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Syria 50 · Less common
- Syria is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
Also accepted: Syrian Arab Republic
- Lebanon 50 · Less common
- Lebanon is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- South Africa 75 · Uncommon
- South Africa is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Ethiopia 75 · Uncommon
- Ethiopia is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Liberia 75 · Uncommon
- Liberia is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Philippines 75 · Uncommon
- Philippines is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
Also accepted: Philippine Commonwealth
- Chile 75 · Uncommon
- Chile is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Peru 75 · Uncommon
- Peru is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Colombia 75 · Uncommon
- Colombia is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Venezuela 75 · Uncommon
- Venezuela is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
Also accepted: Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela · Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
- Uruguay 75 · Uncommon
- Uruguay is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Paraguay 75 · Uncommon
- Paraguay is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Bolivia 75 · Uncommon
- Bolivia is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
Also accepted: Bolivia (Plurinational State of) · Plurinational State of Bolivia
- Ecuador 75 · Uncommon
- Ecuador is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Costa Rica 75 · Uncommon
- Costa Rica is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Cuba 100 · Rare
- Cuba is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Dominican Republic 100 · Rare
- Dominican Republic is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- El Salvador 100 · Rare
- El Salvador is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Guatemala 100 · Rare
- Guatemala is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Haiti 100 · Rare
- Haiti is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Honduras 100 · Rare
- Honduras is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Nicaragua 100 · Rare
- Nicaragua is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Panama 100 · Rare
- Panama is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Luxembourg 100 · Rare
- Luxembourg is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Czechoslovakia 100 · Rare
- Czechoslovakia is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Yugoslavia 100 · Rare
- Yugoslavia is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
- Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic 100 · Rare
- Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
Also accepted: Belarus · Byelorussian SSR
- Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 100 · Rare
- Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic is in the 51-answer set defined by this question.
Also accepted: Ukraine · Ukrainian SSR
Checked exclusions
- Germany: Germany was not a UN founding member in 1945.
- Japan: Japan was not a UN founding member in 1945.
Sources for this question
- UN Founding Members - UN Membership - Research Guides at United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library
UN founding-members table: fifty-one rows; historical names and explicitly named continuities preserved. Thailand not included.
research.un.org · Checked 2026-11-02
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