Membership
As of 2012 member states of the organisation include 181 of the 193 UN members, the Cook Islands and Niue, for a total of 183 member states. Additionally there are 6 member territories, listed below.
There are 12 states that are members of the United Nations, but not of the WMO. These are: Andorra, Equatorial Guinea, Grenada, Liechtenstein, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, South Sudan, and Tuvalu. Non-members of either organisation include the Vatican City and the states with limited recognition.
The six member territories are: the British Caribbean Territories (joint meteorological organisation and membership), French Polynesia, Hong Kong, Macau, Curaçao and Sint Maarten (joint meteorological service and membership), New Caledonia.
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