List of nations mentioned in the Bible

This is a list of nations mentioned in the Bible.

A

• Ammon^[1]
• Amorites^[2]
• Arabia^[3]
• Aram^[4]
• Armenia^[5] (in the King James Version), or the "Land of Ararat"^[6] (in other translations)
• Province of Asia (now Turkey and Greece)^[7]
• Assyria^[8]
• Avim^[9]

B

• Babylon (Iraq)^[10]
• Bashan^[11]
• Bulgaria^[12]

C

• Canaan^[13]
• Kingdom of Cappadocia^[14]
• Corinthia^[15]
• Crete^[16]
• Cyprus^[17]

D

• Dalmatia (Croatia)^[18]

E

• Edom^[19]
• Egypt^[20]
• Ethiopia^[21]

G

• Gaul^[22] (modern France). Only found within the deuterocanonical First Book of Maccabees which is found in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox bibles.
• Girgashites^[2]
• Gog (various times, mainly in the Prophets)^[23]
• Greece^[24]

H

• Hittites^[2]
• Hivites^[2]

I

• Iberia (modern Spain and Portugal)^[25][26][27]
• Illyricum (territories near the Adriatic from modern day Slovenia to Albania)^[28]
• India^[29]
• Israel^[30]
• Italy (Italy generally^[31] and the cities of Syracuse^[32] and Rome specifically^[33])

J

• Jebusites^[2]
• Kingdom of Judah^[34]
• Province of Judah^[35]

K

• Kingdom of Kush (modern day Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, and Eritrea)^[36][37]
• Kub/Chub (unknown location, possibly Libya)^[38]

L

• Lebanon^[39]
• Libya^[40][33]
• Lydia^[41][40]

M

• Macedonia^[42]
• Malta^[43]
• Mesopotamia^[33]
• Moab (Jordan)^[44]

P

• Perizzites^[2]
• Persia (Iran)^[45]
• Kingdom of Pontus^[33]
• Philistia^[46]

S

• Samaria^[47][48]
• Arabia (Saudi Arabia)^[49]
• Sheba^[50][51]
• Sinim (Possibly modern China)^[52]
• Spain^[53]
• Syria^[54] (Also referred to as Aram^[55])

See also

• List of biblical names
• List of Hebrew place names
• List of modern names for biblical place names

References