Countries & Territories

Bans recorded across 80 countries and territories. Click any country to browse its banned books and censorship history. Defunct states like the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany are listed separately.

1🇺🇸United States

492

422 active 2🇨🇳China

20 active 3🇻🇦Vatican City

4🇦🇺Australia

7 active 5🇮🇪Ireland

6🇩🇪Germany

3 active 7🇬🇧United Kingdom

14 active 13🇸🇦Saudi Arabia

14 active 14🇮🇹Italy

15🇹🇷Turkey

4 active 16🇨🇺Cuba

4 active 17🇿🇦South Africa

1 active 23🇵🇹Portugal

2 active 29🇵🇰Pakistan

4 active 30🇻🇳Vietnam

4 active 31🇧🇩Bangladesh

5 active 32🇲🇲Myanmar

3 active 33🇭🇺Hungary

34🇦🇪United Arab Emirates

3 active 40🇿🇼Zimbabwe

41🇦🇱Albania

42🇰🇵North Korea

3 active 43🇦🇷Argentina

2 active 48🇳🇱Netherlands

1 active 49🇳🇿New Zealand

1 active 63🇨🇿Czech Republic

1 active 70🇨🇴Colombia

Defunct states

Coverage is uneven: well-documented democracies like the United States appear to have more bans because their censorship attempts are systematically recorded. Bans in closed authoritarian states often go undocumented. This catalogue is a work in progress.