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The main method of browsing Wikimedia Commons (as opposed to searching) is via the category system . Often, categorisation is quite broad so the ability to browse Wikimedia Commons effectively is limited as the categories are incomplete or cluttered. This page has been developed to help maintain more important categories and for information on how files are best diffused from categories into a or multiple subcategories. The tool cat-a-lot is very helpful for moving many files at once into fitting subcategories.
More information is below these tables.
These tables allow editors to quickly see which categories contain files and allows comparison to how many the category should have. The "Current" column is dynamically generated and the "Suggested" column is an indication of the number that should be present.
The purge button to the right should be used to get the latest data.
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It is unlikely to find a file in a country category that cannot be subcategorised.
Category
Current
Suggested
Notes
Category:Afghanistan 480
0
764 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Albania 3
0
Category:Algeria 489
0
Category:American Samoa 41
0
Category:Andorra 53
0
Category:Angola 85
0
Category:Anguilla 14
0
Category:Antigua and Barbuda 72
0
Category:Argentina 1
0
Category:Armenia 970
0
Category:Aruba 28
0
Category:Australia 0
0
Category:Austria 5
0
Category:Azerbaijan 1
0
Category:Bahamas 0
0
Category:Bahrain 155
0
Category:Bangladesh 235
0
Category:Barbados 173
0
Category:Belarus 52
0
Category:Belgium 0
0
Category:Belize 0
0
Category:Benin 759
0
Category:Bermuda 0
0
Category:Bhutan 931
0
Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina 0
0
Category:Botswana 135
0
Category:Brazil 4,144
0
Category:British Virgin Islands 41
0
Category:Brunei 68
0
Category:Bulgaria 250
0
Category:Burkina Faso 365
0
Category:Burundi 424
0
Category:Cambodia 477
0
Category:Cameroon 563
0
Category:Canada 50
0
Category:Cayman Islands 74
0
Category:Central African Republic 25
0
Category:Chad 487
0
Category:Chile 674
0
Category:China 244
0
Category:Colombia 237
0
Category:Comoros 12
0
Category:Cook Islands 33
0
Category:Costa Rica 66
0
Category:Croatia 0
0
Category:Cuba 25
0
Category:Curacao 0
0
Category:Cyprus 36
0
Category:Czech Republic 18
0
Category:Côte d'Ivoire 0
0
Category:Denmark 1
0
Category:Djibouti 220
0
Category:Dominica 101
0
Category:Dominican Republic 43
0
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo 59
0
Category:Ecuador 3,572
0
4771 as at 22 Aug 2026
Category:Egypt 996
0
Category:El Salvador 115
0
Category:Equatorial Guinea 26
0
Category:Eritrea 40
0
Category:Estonia 10
0
Category:Eswatini 41
0
Category:Ethiopia 524
0
Category:Falkland Islands 72
0
Category:Faroe Islands 0
0
Category:Federated States of Micronesia 76
0
Category:Fiji 342
0
Category:Finland 0
0
Category:France 0
0
Category:French Guiana 47
0
Category:French Polynesia 88
0
Category:The Gambia 9
0
Category:Georgia 5
0
Category:Germany 16
0
Category:Ghana 2,705
0
Category:Gibraltar 758
0
Category:Greece 80
0
Category:Greenland 60
0
Category:Grenada 103
0
Category:Guadeloupe 16
0
Category:Guam 48
0
Category:Guatemala 3
0
Category:Guernsey 104
0
Category:Guinea 11
0
Category:Guinea-Bissau 68
0
Category:Guyana 125
0
Category:Haiti 272
0
Category:Honduras 2
0
Category:Hong Kong 444
0
Category:Hungary 35
0
Category:Iceland 0
0
Category:India 19
0
About 2000 added in June 2016
Category:Indonesia 5,047
0
Category:Iran 1,097
0
Category:Ireland 0
0
Category:Isle of Man 377
0
Category:Israel 748
0
1,157 as of 2015-01-24 1,348 as of 2026-08-22
Category:Italy 0
0
Category:Jamaica 0
0
Category:Japan 22
0
Category:Jersey 95
0
Category:Jordan 502
0
Category:Kazakhstan 179
0
Category:Kenya 531
0
Category:Kiribati 145
0
Category:Kosovo 264
0
Category:Kuwait 260
0
Category:Kyrgyzstan 310
0
Category:Laos 146
0
Category:Latvia 100
0
Category:Lebanon 241
0
Category:Lesotho 67
0
Category:Liberia 74
0
Category:Libya 386
0
Category:Liechtenstein 46
0
Category:Lithuania 0
0
Category:Luxembourg 10
0
Category:Macau 32
0
Category:Madagascar 1,934
0
Category:Malawi 65
0
Category:Malaysia 4,664
0
4,642 as at
Category:Maldives 2
0
Category:Mali 356
0
Category:Malta 274
0
Category:Marshall Islands 121
0
Category:Martinique 63
0
Category:Mauritania 230
0
Category:Mauritius 66
0
Category:Mayotte 13
0
Category:Mexico 0
0
Category:Moldova 0
0
Category:Monaco 150
0
Category:Mongolia 295
0
Category:Montenegro 0
0
Category:Montserrat 47
0
Category:Morocco 1,497
0
728 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Mozambique 33
0
Category:Myanmar 713
0
Category:Burma is a redirect
Category:Nauru 12
0
Category:Nepal 0
0
Category:Netherlands 22
0
Category:New Caledonia 96
0
Category:New Zealand 147
0
Category:Nicaragua 220
0
Category:Niger 97
0
Category:Nigeria 1,676
0
Category:Niue 368
0
Category:North Korea 229
0
Category:North Macedonia 828
0
Category:Northern Mariana Islands 16
0
Category:Norway 0
0
Category:Oman 129
0
Category:Pakistan 536
0
Category:Palau 15
0
Category:Palestine 411
0
Category:Panama 0
0
Category:Papua New Guinea 255
0
Category:Paraguay 449
0
Category:Peru 64
0
Category:Philippines 490
0
Category:Pitcairn Islands 7
0
Category:Poland 1,468
0
Category:Portugal 0
0
Category:Puerto Rico 72
0
Category:Qatar 123
0
Category:Republic of the Congo 217
0
Category:Romania 61
0
Category:Russia 457
0
Category:Rwanda 0
0
Category:Réunion 25
0
Category:Saint Barthelemy 0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Saint Helena 0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Saint Kitts and Nevis 156
0
Category:Saint Lucia 328
0
Category:Saint Martin 7
0
Category:Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0
0
Category:Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 48
0
Category:Samoa 98
0
Category:San Marino 287
0
Category:São Tomé and Príncipe 45
0
Category:Saudi Arabia 935
0
Category:Senegal 342
0
Category:Serbia 0
0
Category:Seychelles 0
0
Category:Sierra Leone 50
0
Category:Singapore 1,685
0
Category:Sint Maarten, Dutch Caribbean 13
0
Category:Slovakia 417
0
Category:Slovenia 0
0
Category:Solomon Islands 199
0
Category:Somalia 146
0
Category:South Africa 86
0
Category:South Korea 6
0
Category:South Sudan 0
0
Category:Spain 19
0
Category:Sri Lanka 824
0
Category:Sudan 50
0
Category:Suriname 47
0
Category:Sweden 1
0
Category:Switzerland 0
0
Category:Syria 277
0
Category:Taiwan 355
0
Category:Tajikistan 7
0
Category:Tanzania 648
0
Category:Thailand 953
0
Category:Timor-Leste 0
0
Category:Togo 316
0
Category:Tokelau 22
0
Category:Tonga 199
0
Category:Trinidad and Tobago 12
0
Category:Tunisia 0
0
Category:Turkey 461
0
Category:Turkmenistan 79
0
Category:Turks and Caicos Islands 44
0
Category:Tuvalu 46
0
Category:Uganda 217
0
Category:Ukraine 1,415
0
Category:United Arab Emirates 848
0
Category:United Kingdom 16
0
Category:United States 0
0
Category:United States Virgin Islands 33
0
Category:Uruguay 43
0
Category:Uzbekistan 648
0
Category:Vanuatu 214
0
Category:Venezuela 70
0
Category:Vietnam 1,319
0
Category:Wallis and Futuna 20
0
Category:Western Sahara 82
0
Category:Yemen 571
0
Category:Zambia 157
0
Category:Zimbabwe 45
0
(These are probably the more important ones) (These are probably the more important ones) The templates {{Categorise}} {{CatDiffuse}}
The tables above are for some of the more important categories. {{MetaCat}} {{CatCat}} Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Metacat can be used to find them.
If you do not know what would be a more appropriate category use {{Check categories}}
As of November 2022 Category:Categories requiring permanent diffusion to zero has 12,733 entries.
Often, files do not belong into just one subcategory but into multiple subcategories.
