Scouting Elsewhere
Sometimes Scouting exists as overseas branches of current member organisations and in some cases Scouting exists, but there is no national organisation.
As of today there are, to WOSM's knowledge, only six countries where Scouting doesn't exist. In some of them, Scouting is not allowed.
Main Territories
There are 26 Main territories where Scouting exists, often as overseas branches of member Scout organizations:
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Anguilla Antarctica Aruba Bermuda Cayman Islands Cocos (Keeling) Islands Cook Islands Falkland Islands (Malvinas) Faroe Islands |
French Guiana French Polynesia Gibraltar Greenland Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat New Caledonia Norfolk Island |
Puerto Rico Réunion Saint Helena Saint Pierre and Miquelon Turks and Caicos Islands Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, U.S. Wallis and Futuna |
Potential Member Countries
There are 34 countries where Scouting exists (be it embryonic or widespread) but where there is no National Scout Organization which is yet a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement.
Note: In the independent countries marked with a "*", there is a Scout Association which is a branch of a WOSM member.
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Afghanistan Antigua and Barbuda* Belarus Cambodia Central African Republic Congo Djibouti East Timor Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Guinea-Bissau Iran |
Iraq Kyrgyzstan Mali Marshall Islands* Micronesia, Federated States of* Nauru Palau Saint Kitts and Nevis* Samoa Sao Tome and Principe |
Solomon Islands * Somalia Syrian Arab Republic Tonga* Turkmenistan Tuvalu* Ukraine Uzbekistan Vanuatu* Viet Nam |
WOSM maintains official contacts with the Scouts of Macau, and French Polynesia, which are associate members of the Asia-Pacific Scout Region, and with the Scouts of the Netherlands Antilles, an associate member of the Inter-American Scout Region.
Countries with no Scouting
There are 6 countries where Scouting, to WOSM's knowledge, does not exist; in some it would not be allowed. These are:
Andorra
People's Republic of China
Cuba
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Myanmar
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