To qualify for this list, the national anthem must be performed at public events, and be universally recognised as being the appropriate national anthem by the listening public. National anthems can change over time - this is a list of those currently used.
| Country |
National anthem |
Date adopted |
Lyrics writer |
Music writer |
 Abkhazia |
"Aiaaira" ("Victory") |
1992 |
unknown |
unknown |
 Acadia |
"Ave Maris Stella" ("Star of the Sea, We Hail Thee") |
1884 |
unknown |
unknown |
 Åland Islands |
"Ålänningens sång" ("The Ålander's Song") |
1922 |
John Grandell |
Johan Fridolf Hagfors |
 Afghanistan |
"Milli Tharana" ("National Anthem") |
2006 |
Abdul Bari Jahani |
Babrak Wassa |
 Albania |
"Himni i Flamurit" ("Hymn to the Flag") |
— |
Aleksander Stavre Drenova |
Ciprian Porumbescu |
 Algeria |
"Kassaman" ("We Pledge") |
1963 |
Mufdi Zakariah |
Mohamed Fawzi |
 American Samoa |
"Amerika Samoa" |
1950 |
Mariota Tiumalu Tuiasosopo |
Napoleon Andrew Tuiteleleapaga |
 Andalusia |
"La bandera blanca y verde" ("The white and green flag") |
— |
Blas Infante |
Sevilla José del Castillo Díaz |
 Andorra |
"El Gran Carlemany" ("The Great Charlemagne") |
1921 |
Enric Marfany Bons |
Juan Benlloch y Vivó |
 Angola |
"Angola Avante" ("Forward Angola") |
1975 |
Manuel Rui Alves Monteiro |
Rui Alberto Vieira Dias Mingas |
 Anguilla |
"God Save the Queen", "God Bless Anguilla" (unofficial) |
—,1981 |
unknown, Alex Richardson |
unknown, Alex Richardson |
 Antigua and Barbuda |
"Fair Antigua, We Salute Thee"[note 1] |
1967 |
Novelle Hamilton Richards |
Walter Garnet Picart Chambers |
 Argentina |
"Himno Nacional Argentino" ("Argentine National Anthem") |
1813 |
Vicente López y Planes |
Blas Parera |
 Armenia |
"Mer Hayrenik"' ("Our Fatherland") |
1991 |
Mikael Nalbandian |
Barsegh Kanachyan |
 Australia |
"Advance Australia Fair"[note 1] |
1984 |
Peter Dodds McCormick |
Peter Dodds McCormick |
 Austria |
"Land der Berge, Land am Strome" ("Land of Mountains, Land on the River") |
1946 |
Paula von Preradovic |
Johann Holzer |
 Azerbaijan |
"Azərbaycan marşı" ("Azerbaijan's Anthem") |
1918 |
Ahmed Javad |
Uzeyir Hajibeyov |
 Bahamas |
"March On, Bahamaland"[note 1] |
1973 |
Timothy Gibson |
Timothy Gibson |
 Bahrain |
"Bahrainona" ("Our Bahrain") |
1971 |
Mohamed Sudqi Ayyash |
unknown |
 Bangladesh |
"Amar Shonar Bangla" ("My Golden Bengal") |
1972 |
Rabindranath Tagore |
Rabindranath Tagore |
 Barbados |
"In Plenty and In Time of Need" |
1966 |
Irving Burgie |
C. Van Roland Edwards |
 Belarus |
"My Belarusy" ("We, the Belarusians")[note 2] |
1955 |
Michael Klimovich |
Nestar Sakalowski |
 Belgium |
"The Brabançonne" ("The Song of Brabant") |
1860 |
Jenneval (Louis-Alexandre Dechet) |
François Van Campenhout |
 Belize |
"Land of the Free" |
1981 |
Samuel Alfred Haynes |
Selwyn Walford Young |
 Benin |
"L'Aube Nouvelle" ("The Dawn of a New Day") |
1960 |
Gilbert Jean Dagnon |
Gilbert Jean Dagnon |
 Bhutan |
"Druk tsendhen" (The Thunder Dragon Kingdom) |
1953 |
Dasho Gyaldun Thinley |
Aku Tongmi |
 Bolivia |
"Himno Nacional de la República de Bolivia" ("National Anthem of the Republic of Bolivia") |
1851 |
José Ignacio de Sanjinés |
Leopoldo Benedetto Vincenti |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina |
"Državna himna Bosne i Hercegovine" ("The National Anthem of Bosnia and Herzegovina") |
1999 |
none |
Dušan Šestić |
 Botswana |
"Fatshe leno la rona" ("Blessed Be This Noble Land") |
1966 |
Kgalemang Tumedisco Motsete |
Kgalemang Tumedisco Motsete |
 Brazil |
"Hino Nacional Brasileiro" ("Brazilian National Anthem") |
1922 |
Joaquim Osório Duque Estrada |
Francisco Manuel da Silva |
 Brunei |
"Allah Peliharakan Sultan" ("God Bless the Sultan") |
1951 |
Pengiran Haji Mohamed Yusuf bin Abdul Rahim |
Awang Haji Besar bin Sagap |
 Bulgaria |
"Mila Rodino" ("Dear Motherland") |
1964 |
Tsvetan Radoslavov |
Tsvetan Radoslavov |
 Burkina Faso |
"Une Seule Nuit" ("One Single Night") |
1984 |
Thomas Sankara |
Thomas Sankara |
 Burma |
"Kaba Ma Kyei" ("Till the End of the World, Burma") |
1947 |
Saya Tin |
Saya Tin |
 Burundi |
"Burundi bwacu" ("Our Burundi") |
1962 |
Jean-Baptiste Ntahokaja and others |
Marc Barengayabo |
 Cambodia |
"Nokoreach" ("Royal Kingdom") |
1941 |
Chuon Nat |
F. Perruchot and J. Jekyll |
 Cameroon |
"O Cameroun, Berceau de nos Ancêtres" ("O Cameroon, Cradle of Our Forefathers") |
1957 |
René Djam Afame, Samuel Minkio Bamba, and Moïse Nyatte Nko'o |
René Djam Afame |
 Canada |
"O Canada"[note 1] |
1980 |
Adolphe-Basile Routhier (French); Robert Stanley Weir (English) |
Calixa Lavallée |
 Cape Verde |
"Cântico da Liberdade" ("Song of Freedom") |
1996 |
Amílcar Spencer Lopes |
Adalberto Higino Tavares Silva |
 Catalonia |
"Els Segadors" ("The Reapers") |
1899 |
Emili Guanyavents |
Francesc Alió |
 Central African Republic |
La Renaissance ("The Rebirth") |
1960 |
Barthélémy Boganda |
Herbert Pepper |
 Chad |
"La Tchadienne" ("People of Chad") |
1960 |
Louis Gidrol and others |
Paul Villard |
 Chile |
"Himno Nacional de Chile" ("National Anthem of Chile") |
1828 |
Eusebio Lillo |
Ramón Carnicer |
 People's Republic of China |
"Yìyǒngjūn Jìnxíngqǔ" ("The March of the Volunteers") |
1949 (provisional); 1982 (official); 2004 (constitutional) |
Tian Han |
Nie Er |
 Colombia |
"Himno Nacional de la República de Colombia" ("National Anthem of the Republic of Colombia") |
1920 |
Rafael Núñez |
Oreste Sindici |
 Comoros |
"Udzima wa ya Masiwa" ("The Union of the Great Islands") |
1978 |
Said Hachim Sidi Abderemane |
Said Hachim Sidi Abderemane and Kamildine Abdallah |
 Democratic Republic of the Congo |
"Debout Congolais" ("Arise Congolese") |
1960 |
Joseph Lutumba |
Simon-Pierre Boka di Mpasi Londi |
 Republic of the Congo |
"La Congolaise" ("The Congolese") |
1959 |
Levent Kimbangui |
Français Jacques Tondra |
 Costa Rica |
"Himno Nacional de Costa Rica" ("National Anthem of Costa Rica") |
1853 |
José María Zeledón Brenes |
Manuel María Gutiérrez |
 Côte d'Ivoire |
"L'Abidjanaise" ("Song of Abidjan") |
1960 |
Mathieu Ekra, Joachim Bony, and Pierre Marie Coty |
Pierre Marie Coty and Pierre Michel Pango |
 Croatia |
"Hrvatska domovina" ("Croatian Homeland") |
1991 |
Antun Mihanović |
Josip Runjanin |
 Cuba |
"El Himno de Bayamo" ("The Anthem of Bayamo") |
1902 |
Perucho Figueredo |
Perucho Figueredo |
 Cyprus |
"Ýmnos eis tīn Eleutherían" ("Hymn to Liberty")[note 3] |
1865 |
Dionýsios Solomós |
Nikolaos Mantzaros |
 Czech Republic |
"Kde domov můj?" ("Where is My Home?") |
1918 (Czechoslovakia); 1993 (Czech Republic) |
Josef Kajetán Tyl |
František Škroup |
 Denmark |
"Der er et yndigt land" ("There is a Lovely Country")[note 4] |
1835 |
Adam Oehlenschläger |
Hans Ernst Krøyer |
 Djibouti |
"Djibouti" ("Djibouti") |
1977 |
Aden Elmi |
Abdi Robleh |
 Dominica |
"Isle of Beauty, Isle of Splendour" |
1967 |
Wilfred Oscar Morgan Pond |
Lemuel McPherson Christian |
 Dominican Republic |
"Himno Nacional" ("National Anthem") |
1934 |
Emilio Prud'homme |
Jose Rufino Reyes Siancas |
 East Timor |
"Pátria" ("Fatherland") |
2002 |
Francisco Borja da Costa |
Afonso de Araujo |
 Ecuador |
"Salve, Oh Patria" ("We Salute You, Our Homeland") |
1948 |
Juan León Mera |
Antonio Neumane |
 Egypt |
"Bilady, Bilady, Bilady" ("My Country, My Country, My Country") |
1979 |
Sayed Darwish (adapted from a speech by Mustafa Kamil) |
Sayed Darwish |
 El Salvador |
"Himno Nacional de El Salvador" ("National Anthem of El Salvador") |
1879 |
Juan José Cañas |
Juan Aberle |
 England |
Unofficial: "God Save the Queen". See also: United Kingdom |
— |
unknown |
unknown |
 Equatorial Guinea |
"Caminemos pisando la senda" ("Let Us Tread the Path") |
1968 |
Atanasio Ndongo Miyone |
Atanasio Ndongo Miyone |
 Eritrea |
"Ertra, Ertra, Ertra" ("Eritrea, Eritrea, Eritrea") |
1993 |
Solomon Tsehaye Beraki |
Isaac Abraham Meharezghi and Aron Tekle Tesfatsion |
 Estonia |
"Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm" ("My Fatherland, My Happiness and Joy") |
1920 |
Johann Voldemar Jannsen |
Fredrik Pacius |
 Ethiopia |
"Wodefit Gesgeshi, Widd Innat Ityopp'ya" ("March Forward, Dear Mother Ethiopia") |
1992 |
Dereje Melaku Mengesha |
Solomon Lulu Mitiku |
 Fiji |
"Meda Dau Doka" ("God Bless Fiji") |
1970 |
Michael Francis Alexander Prescott |
Charles Austin Miles |
 Finland |
"Maamme" ("Our Land") |
1867 |
Johan Ludvig Runeberg |
Fredrik Pacius |
 France |
"La Marseillaise" ("The Song of Marseille") |
1795 |
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle |
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle |
 Gabon |
"La Concorde" ("The Concord") |
1960 |
Georges Aleka Damas |
Georges Aleka Damas |
 The Gambia |
"For The Gambia Our Homeland" |
1965 |
Virginia Julie Howe |
Jeremy Frederick Howe |
 Georgia |
"Tavisupleba" ("Freedom") |
2004 |
David Magradze |
Zakaria Paliashvili |
 Germany |
Third stanza of "Das Deutschlandlied" ("The Germany Song") |
1922 |
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben |
Joseph Haydn |
 Ghana |
"God Bless Our Homeland Ghana" |
1957 |
Philip Gbeho |
Philip Gbeho |
 Greece |
"Ýmnos eis tīn Eleutherían" ("Hymn to Liberty")[note 5] |
1865 |
Dionýsios Solomós |
Nikolaos Mantzaros |
 Grenada |
"Hail Grenada" |
1974 |
Irva Merle Baptiste |
Louis Arnold Masanto |
 Guatemala |
"Himno Nacional de Guatemala" ("National Anthem of Guatemala") |
1896 |
José Joaquín Palma |
Rafael Álvarez Ovalle |
 Guinea |
"Liberté" ("Liberty") |
1958 |
Unknown |
Kodofo Moussa |
 Guinea-Bissau |
"Esta é a Nossa Pátria Bem Amada" ("This Is Our Beloved Country") |
1974 |
Amílcar Cabral |
Amílcar Cabral |
 Guyana |
"Dear Land of Guyana, of Rivers and Plains" |
1966 |
Archibald Leonard Luker |
Robert Cyril Gladstone Potter |
 Haiti |
"La Dessalinienne" ("Song of Dessalines") |
1904 |
Justin Lhérisson |
Nicolas Geffrard |
 Honduras |
"Himno Nacional de Honduras" ("National Anthem of Honduras") |
1915 |
Augusto Constancio Coello |
Carlos Hartling |
 Hungary |
"Himnusz" ("Hymn") |
1844 |
Ferenc Kölcsey |
Ferenc Erkel |
 Iceland |
"Lofsöngur" ("Hymn") |
— |
Matthías Jochumsson |
Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson |
 India |
"Jana Gana Mana" ("Thou Art the Ruler of the Minds of All People") |
1950 |
Rabindranath Tagore |
Rabindranath Tagore |
 Indonesia |
"Indonesia Raya" ("Great Indonesia") |
1945 |
Wage Rudolf Supratman |
Wage Rudolf Supratman |
 Iran |
"Soroud-e Melli-e Jomhouri-e Eslami-e Iran" ("National Anthem of Iran") |
1990 |
multiple |
Hassan Riyahi |
 Iraq |
"Mawtini" ("My Homeland") |
2004 |
Ibrahim Touqan |
Muhammad Fuliefil |
 Ireland |
"Amhrán na bhFiann" ("The Soldier's Song") |
1926 |
Liam Ó Rinn |
Peadar Kearney and Patrick Heeney |
 Israel |
"HaTikvah" ("The Hope") |
1948 (de facto); 2004 (de jure) |
Naftali Herz Imber |
Samuel Cohen |
 Italy |
"Il Canto degli Italiani" ("The Song of the Italians") |
1946 (de facto); 2005 (de jure) |
Goffredo Mameli |
Michele Novaro |
 Jamaica |
"Jamaica, Land We Love"[note 1] |
— |
Hugh Sherlock |
Robert Lightbourne |
 Japan |
"Kimi ga Yo" ("May Your Reign Last Forever") |
1999 |
traditional Waka poem from the Heian period |
traditional melody of the Meiji period |
 Jordan |
"Al-salam Al-malaki Al-urdoni" ("The Royal Anthem of Jordan") |
1946 |
Abdul Monem Al-Refai |
Abdul Qader al-Taneer |
 Kazakhstan |
"Meniñ Qazaqstanım" ("My Kazakhstan") |
2006 |
Zhumeken Nazhimedenov (with modifications by Nursultan Nazarbayev) |
Shamshi Kaldayakov |
 Kenya |
"Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu" ("Oh God of All Creation") |
1963 |
Graham Hyslop, G. W. Senoga-Zake, Thomas Kalume, Peter Kibukosya, and Washington Omondi |
traditional African tune |
 Kiribati |
"Teirake Kaini Kiribati" ("Stand up, Kiribati") |
1979 |
Urium Tamuera Ioteba |
Urium Tamuera Ioteba |
 North Korea |
"Aegukka" ("The Patriotic Song") |
1947 |
Pak Seyŏng |
Kim Wŏn'gyun |
 South Korea |
"Aegukga" ("The Patriotic Song") (unofficial) |
1948 |
uncertain |
Ahn Eak-tae |
 Kosovo |
"Europe"[1] |
2008 |
none[1] |
Mendi Mengjiqi[1] |
 Kurdistan |
Ey Reqîb |
1938 |
Dildar (Yunis Rauf) |
 Kuwait |
"Al-Nasheed Al-Watani" ("National Anthem") |
1978 |
Ahmad Meshari Al-Adwani |
Ibrahim Al-Soula |
 Kyrgyzstan |
"Kyrgyz Respublikasynyn Mamlekettik Gimni" ("National Anthem of the Kyrgyz Republic") |
1992 |
Djamil Sadykov and Eshmambet Kuluev |
Nasyr Davlesov and Kalyi Moldobasanov |
 Laos |
Pheng Xat Lao ("National Anthem of Laos") |
1947 |
Sisana Sisane |
Thongdy Sounthonevichit |
 Latvia |
"Dievs, svētī Latviju!" ("God Bless Latvia") |
1920 |
Kārlis Baumanis |
Kārlis Baumanis |
 Lebanon |
"Koullouna Lilouataan Lil Oula Lil Alam" ("We are All for Our Nation, for Our Flag and Glory") |
— |
Rashid Nakhle |
Wadih Sabra |
 Lesotho |
"Lesotho Fatse La Bontata Rona" ("Lesotho, Land of Our Fathers") |
1967 |
François Coillard |
Ferdinand-Samuel Laur |
 Liberia |
"All Hail, Liberia, Hail!" |
1847 |
Daniel Bashiel Warner |
Olmstead Luca |
 Libya |
"Allahu Akbar" ("God Is Great") |
1969 |
Egyptian marching song |
Egyptian marching song |
 Liechtenstein |
"Oben am jungen Rhein" ("Up Above the Young Rhine") |
1963 |
Jakob Josef Jauch |
unknown |
 Lithuania |
"Tautiška giesmė" ("National Song") |
1919 |
Vincas Kudirka |
Vincas Kudirka |
 Luxembourg |
"Ons Hémécht" ("Our Homeland") |
1895 |
Michel Lentz |
Jean Antoine Zinnen |
 Macedonia |
"Denes nad Makedonija" ("Today Over Macedonia")[note 6] |
1944 |
Vlado Maleski |
Todor Skalovski |
 Madagascar |
"Ry Tanindraza nay malala ô" ("Oh, Our Beloved Fatherland") |
— |
Norbert Raharisoa |
Rahajason |
 Malawi |
"Mlungu dalitsani Malawi" ("God Bless Malawi") |
1964 |
Michael-Fredrick Paul Sauka |
Michael-Fredrick Paul Sauka |
 Malaysia |
"Negaraku" ("My Country") |
1957 |
multiple |
folk song ("Terang Bulan") |
 Maldives |
"Gaumii salaam" ("National Salute") |
1972 |
Muhammad Jameel Didi |
Pandit Wannakuwattawaduge Don Amaradeva |
 Mali |
"Pour l'Afrique et pour toi, Mali" ("For Africa and for You, Mali") |
1962 |
Seydou Badian Kouyate |
Banzoumana Sissoko |
 Malta |
"L-Innu Malti" ("The Maltese Hymn") |
1964 |
Dun Karm Psaila |
Robert Samut |
 Marshall Islands |
"Forever Marshall Islands" |
— |
Amata Kabua |
Amata Kabua |
 Mauritania |
"National Anthem of Mauritania" |
1960 |
Baba Ould Cheikh |
Tolia Nikiprowetzky |
 Mauritius |
"Motherland" |
— |
Jean Georges Prosper |
Philippe Gentil |
 Mexico |
"Himno Nacional Mexicano" ("Mexican National Anthem") |
1943 |
Francisco González Bocanegra |
Jaime Nunó |
 Federated States of Micronesia |
"Patriots of Micronesia" |
1991 |
— |
traditional German song (Ich hab' mich ergeben) |
 Moldova |
"Limba Noastră" ("Our Language") |
1994 |
Alexei Mateevici |
Alexandru Cristea |
 Monaco |
"Hymne Monégasque" ("Monégasque Anthem") |
1848 |
Louis Notari |
Théophile Bellando de Castro |
 Mongolia |
"Mongol ulsiin töriin duulal" ("National Anthem of Mongolia") |
1950 |
Tsendiin Damdinsüren |
Bilegiin Damdinsüren and Luvsanjyamts Murdorj |
 Montenegro |
"Oj, svijetla majska zoro" ("O, Bright Dawn of May") |
— |
Sekula Drljević |
unknown |
 Morocco |
"Hymne Cherifien" ("Anthem of Morocco") |
1956 |
Ali Squalli Houssaini |
Léo Morgan |
 Mozambique |
"Pátria Amada" ("Lovely Homeland") |
2002 |
|
 Namibia |
"Namibia, Land of the Brave" |
1991 |
Axali Doëseb |
Axali Doëseb |
 Nauru |
"Nauru Bwiema" ("Song of Nauru") |
1968 |
Margaret Hendrie |
Laurence Henry Hicks |
 Nepal |
"Sayaun Thunga Phool Ka" ("Hundreds of Flowers") |
2007 |
Byakul Maila |
Ambar Gurung |
 Netherlands |
"Het Wilhelmus" ("The William") |
1932 |
unknown |
Adrianus Valerius |
 New Zealand |
"God Defend New Zealand", "God Save the Queen"[note 7] |
1940 |
Thomas Bracken |
John Joseph Woods |
 Nicaragua |
"Salve a ti, Nicaragua" ("Hail to Thee, Nicaragua") |
1971 |
Salomón Ibarra Mayorga |
Author is anonymous. Musical arrangement by Luis A. Delgadillo |
 Niger |
"La Nigérienne" ("The Nigeriens") |
1961 |
Maurice Albert Thiriet |
Robert Jacquet and Nicolas Abel François Frionnet |
 Nigeria |
"Arise O Compatriots, Nigeria's Call Obey" |
1978 |
John A. Ilechukwu, Eme Etim Akpan, B. A. Ogunnaike, Sotu Omoigui, and P. O. Aderibighe |
Nigerian Police Band, under the directorship of B. E. Odiase |
 Northern Ireland |
"God Save the Queen". Unofficial: "Londonderry Air". See also: United Kingdom |
|
unknown , Jane Ross |
unknown , unknown |
 Norway |
"Ja, vi elsker dette landet" ("Yes, We Love This Country")[note 8] |
1864 |
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson |
Rikard Nordraak |
 Oman |
"Nashid as-Salaam as-Sultani" ("National Anthem of Oman") |
1970 |
|
 Pakistan |
"Qaumī Tarāna" ("National Anthem") |
1954 |
Hafeez Jullundhri |
Ahmed Ghulamali Chagla |
 Palau |
"Belau rekid" ("Our Palau") |
1980 |
multiple |
Ymesei O. Ezekiel |
 Palestine |
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