List of men's national basketball teams

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This is a list of the men's national basketball teams in the world.

Contents 1 Active teams 1.1 FIBA Africa 1.1.1 Zone 1 1.1.2 Zone 2 1.1.3 Zone 3 1.1.4 Zone 4 1.1.5 Zone 5 1.1.6 Zone 6 1.1.7 Zone 7 1.2 FIBA Americas 1.2.1 CONCECABA 1.2.1.1 Caribbean 1.2.1.2 Central America 1.2.2 North America 1.2.3 South America 1.3 FIBA Asia 1.3.1 East Asia 1.3.2 Gulf 1.3.3 Middle Asia 1.3.4 SEABA 1.3.5 WABA 1.4 FIBA Europe 1.5 FIBA Oceania 1.6 Non-FIBA members 2 Defunct teams 3 FIBA country codes 4 References

[edit] Active teams

The International Basketball Federation, or FIBA recognizes 213 national teams divided into 5 zones, each roughly corresponding to a continent (North America and South America are grouped under the Americas.)

The newest national team is Montenegro which was recognized on 2006.

It is interesting to note that there are more FIBA-recognized teams than FIFA-recognized teams (209).

[edit] FIBA Africa

FIBA Africa, which has 53 national teams,^[1] is divided into 7 zones.^[2]

[edit] Zone 1  Algeria  Libya  Morocco  Tunisia [edit] Zone 2  Cape Verde  Gambia  Guinea-Bissau  Guinea  Mali  Mauritania  Senegal  Sierra Leone [edit] Zone 3  Benin  Burkina Faso  Côte d'Ivoire  Ghana  Liberia  Niger  Nigeria  Togo

[edit] Zone 4  Cameroon  Central African Republic  Chad  Congo  DR Congo  Equatorial Guinea  Gabon  São Tomé and Príncipe [edit] Zone 5  Burundi  Djibouti  Egypt  Eritrea  Ethiopia  Kenya  Rwanda  Somalia  Sudan  Tanzania  Uganda

[edit] Zone 6  Angola  Botswana  Lesotho  Malawi  Mozambique  Namibia  South Africa  Swaziland  Zambia  Zimbabwe [edit] Zone 7  Comoros  Madagascar  Mauritius  Seychelles

[edit] FIBA Americas

FIBA Americas (formerly the Pan-American Basketball Confederation), which controls North America, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, has 44 national teams, divided into three areas.^[3]. The Central American and Caribbean Confederations of Basketball (CONCECABA) is further divided into the Central America and Caribbean zone.^[4]

[edit] CONCECABA [edit] Caribbean  Antigua and Barbuda  Aruba  Bahamas  Barbados  Bermuda  British Virgin Islands  Cayman Islands  Cuba  Dominica  Dominican Republic  Grenada  Guyana  Haiti  Jamaica  Montserrat  Netherlands Antilles  Puerto Rico  Saint Kitts and Nevis  Saint Lucia  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines  Suriname  Trinidad and Tobago  Turks and Caicos Islands  Virgin Islands

[edit] Central America  Belize  Costa Rica  El Salvador  Guatemala  Honduras  Mexico  Nicaragua  Panama [edit] North America  Canada  USA [edit] South America  Argentina  Bolivia  Brazil  Chile  Colombia  Ecuador  Paraguay  Peru  Uruguay  Venezuela

[edit] FIBA Asia

FIBA Asia (formerly the Asian Basketball Confederation) is divided into 5 zones.^[5]

[edit] East Asia  China  Chinese Taipei  DPR Korea  Hong Kong  Japan  Korea  Macau  Mongolia [edit] Gulf  Bahrain  Kuwait  Oman  Qatar  Saudi Arabia  United Arab Emirates  Yemen

[edit] Middle Asia  Afghanistan  Bangladesh  Bhutan  India  Kazakhstan  Kirgiziya  Maldives  Nepal  Pakistan  Sri Lanka  Tajikistan  Turkmenistan  Uzbekistan

[edit] SEABA  Brunei  Cambodia  Indonesia  Laos  Malaysia  Myanmar  Philippines  Singapore  Thailand  Vietnam [edit] WABA  Iran  Iraq  Jordan  Lebanon  Palestine  Syria

[edit] FIBA Europe

FIBA Europe has 51 member nations under it.^[6]

Albania  Andorra  Armenia  Austria  Azerbaijan  Belarus  Belgium  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Bulgaria  Croatia  Cyprus  Czech Republic  Denmark  England  Estonia  Finland  France

Georgia  Germany  Gibraltar  Great Britain  Greece  Hungary  Iceland  Ireland  Israel  Italy  Latvia  Lithuania  Luxembourg  FYR Macedonia  Malta  Moldova  Monaco  Montenegro

Netherlands  Norway  Poland  Portugal  Romania  Russia  San Marino  Scotland  Serbia  Slovak Republic  Slovenia  Spain  Sweden  Switzerland  Turkey  Ukraine  Wales

 Great Britain, a combined team of England, Scotland and Wales, is currently competing for Eurobasket 2009 qualification and will play at the 2012 Olympics.

[edit] FIBA Oceania

FIBA Oceania has 21 member nations under it.^[7]

American Samoa  Australia  Cook Islands  Federated States of Micronesia  Fiji  Guam  Kiribati  Marshall Islands  Nauru  New Caledonia

New Zealand  Norfolk Island  Northern Mariana Islands  Palau  Papua New Guinea  Samoa  Solomon Islands  Tahiti  Tonga  Tuvalu  Vanuatu

[edit] Non-FIBA members

Anguilla  Bonaire  Chuuk  Curaçao  French Guiana  Guadeloupe  Falkland Islands  Martinique  Mayotte  Niue  Northern Ireland  Pohnpei  Réunion  Saba  Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Saint Helena  Saint Martin  Sint Eustatius  Sint Maarten  Somaliland  Timor-Leste  Tokelau  Northern Cyprus  Vatican City  Wallonia  Wallis and Futuna  Western Sahara  Yap  Zanzibar

[edit] Defunct teams

•  Czechoslovakia - split into  Czech Republic and  Slovak Republic, Czech Republic is the sole successor and carried the old records with it
•  East Germany - merged into  West Germany; West Germany assumes the records of a unified  Germany team
•  Serbia and Montenegro - successor of  Yugoslavia; FIBA recognizes  Serbia as the sole successor and attributes all records to it.  Montenegro is descended from Serbia and Montenegro.
•  South Vietnam - merged into  North Vietnam; North Vietnam assumes the records of a unified  Vietnam team
•  South Yemen - merged into  North Yemen; North Yemen assumes the records of a unified  Yemen team
•  Soviet Union - split into 15 different national teams; FIBA recognizes  Russia as the sole successor although the records achieved doesn't carry over. Other national teams descended from  Soviet Union are:

Armenia  Azerbaijan  Belarus

Georgia  Kazakhstan  Kirgiziya

Moldova  Tajikistan  Turkmenistan

Ukraine  Uzbekistan

The three Baltic states and Russia which played international basketball prior to 1945 inherited their old records prior to being merged with  Soviet Union:

•  Estonia
•  Latvia
•  Lithuania
•  Russia

The Unified Team (a.k.a. the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) team) for the 1992 Summer Olympics was a one-off team.

•  United Arab Republic - merged from  Egypt and  Syria; FIBA recognizes  Egypt as the sole successor when Syria seceded;  Syria retained their old records.
•  Yugoslavia - FIBA recognizes  Yugoslavia as the sole successor although the records achieved doesn't carry over. Other national teams descended from  Yugoslavia are:
  •  Bosnia and Herzegovina
  •  Croatia
  •  FYR Macedonia
  •  Montenegro - from  Serbia and Montenegro
  •  Serbia - from  Serbia and Montenegro
  •  Slovenia
•  Yugoslavia - succeeded by Serbia and Montenegro, the records are carried over

[edit] FIBA country codes

FIBA uses IOC country codes for most countries which are IOC members. For non-IOC members and exceptions, FIBA uses the following codes:

•  England: ENG
•  Gibraltar: GIB
•  Marshall Islands: MIS (IOC: MHL)
•  Montserrat: MAT
•  New Caledonia: CAL
•  Norfolk Island: NIS
•  Northern Mariana Islands: SAI
•  Scotland: SCO
•  Tahiti: TAH
•  Turks and Caicos Islands: TCI
•  Wales: WAL

[edit] References

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Africa: FIBA Africa – Africa Championship      Americas: FIBA Americas – Americas Championship      Asia: FIBA Asia – Asian Championship      Europe: FIBA Europe – EuroBasket      Oceania: FIBA Oceania – Oceania Championship