| 🇦🇫Afghanistan | Asia | Afghanistan Central Business Registry and Intellectual Property (ACBR-IP) ↗ |
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| 🇦🇱Albania | Europe | National Business Center (QKB) ↗ |
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| 🇩🇿Algeria | Africa | National Centre of the Trade Register (Centre National du Registre du Commerce, CNRC) ↗ |
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| 🇦🇸American Samoa | Oceania | Department of Commerce — Business Registration ↗ |
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| 🇦🇴Angola | Africa | Guiché Único da Empresa (GUE) — Commercial Registration ↗ |
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| 🇦🇬Antigua & Barbuda | Americas | Antigua and Barbuda Intellectual Property and Commerce Office (ABIPCO) ↗ |
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| 🇦🇷Argentina | Americas | Inspección General de Justicia (IGJ) and provincial public registries ↗IGJ covers Buenos Aires City; other provinces maintain their own public registries. |
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| 🇦🇲Armenia | Europe | State Register of Legal Entities ↗ |
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| 🇦🇼Aruba | Americas | Aruba Chamber of Commerce and Industry — Trade Register ↗ |
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| 🇦🇺Australia | Oceania | Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) — Companies Register ↗ |
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| 🇦🇹Austria | Europe | Firmenbuch — Austrian Commercial Register ↗ |
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| 🇦🇿Azerbaijan | Asia | State Tax Service — State Register of Commercial Entities ↗ |
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| 🇧🇸Bahamas | Americas | Registrar General’s Department ↗ |
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| 🇧🇭Bahrain | Middle East | Ministry of Industry and Commerce — Sijilat ↗ |
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| 🇧🇩Bangladesh | Asia | Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms (RJSC) ↗ |
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| 🇧🇧Barbados | Americas | Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property Office (CAIPO) ↗ |
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| 🇧🇾Belarus | Europe | Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs (managed by the Ministry of Justice) ↗ |
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| 🇧🇪Belgium | Europe | Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (Banque-Carrefour des Entreprises / Kruispuntbank van Ondernemingen) ↗ |
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| 🇧🇿Belize | Americas | Belize Companies and Corporate Affairs Registry (BCCAR) ↗ |
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| 🇧🇯Benin | Africa | Registre du Commerce et du Crédit Mobilier (RCCM) ↗ |
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| 🇧🇲Bermuda | Americas | Registrar of Companies ↗ |
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| 🇧🇴Bolivia | Americas | Servicio Plurinacional de Registro de Comercio (SEPREC) ↗ |
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| 🇧🇶Bonaire | Americas | Bonaire Chamber of Commerce and Industry — Trade Register ↗ |
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| 🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina | Europe | Register of Business Entities ↗ |
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| 🇧🇼Botswana | Africa | Companies and Intellectual Property Authority (CIPA) ↗ |
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| 🇧🇷Brazil | Americas | State Boards of Trade (Juntas Comerciais) / DREI ↗Registration is decentralised across state Boards of Trade. |
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| 🇻🇬British Virgin Islands | Americas | BVI Financial Services Commission — Registry of Corporate Affairs ↗ |
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| 🇧🇬Bulgaria | Europe | Registry Agency — Commercial Register and Register of Non-Profit Legal Entities ↗ |
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| 🇧🇫Burkina Faso | Africa | Registre du Commerce et du Crédit Mobilier (RCCM) — CEFORE ↗ |
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| 🇧🇮Burundi | Africa | Burundi Development Agency — Business Registration ↗ |
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| 🇰🇭Cambodia | Asia | Ministry of Commerce (Department of Business Registration) ↗ |
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| 🇨🇻Cape Verde | Africa | Conservatória do Registo Comercial (Commercial Registry Office) ↗ |
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| 🇰🇾Cayman Islands | Americas | Cayman Islands General Registry — Companies Registry ↗ |
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| 🇨🇱Chile | Americas | Registro de Empresas y Sociedades (RES) ↗RES covers the simplified registration regime; traditional registrations use the Registro de Comercio. |
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| 🇨🇳China | Asia | National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System (GSXT) — SAMR ↗National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System (GSXT). |
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| 🇨🇴Colombia | Americas | Registro Único Empresarial y Social (RUES) — Chambers of Commerce ↗ |
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| 🇭🇷Croatia | Europe | Court Register (Sudski registar) ↗ |
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| 🇨🇼Curaçao | Americas | Chamber of Commerce of Curaçao ↗ |
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| 🇨🇾Cyprus | Europe | Department of Registrar of Companies and Official Receiver ↗ |
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| 🇨🇿Czechia | Europe | Commercial Register (Obchodní rejstřík) ↗ |
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| 🇨🇮Côte d’Ivoire | Africa | Trade and Personal Property Credit Register ↗ |
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| 🇨🇩Democratic Republic of the Congo | Africa | Guichet Unique de Création d’Entreprise (GUCE) / RCCM ↗ |
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| 🇩🇰Denmark | Europe | Central Business Register (CVR) — Danish Business Authority ↗ |
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| 🇩🇯Djibouti | Africa | Registre de Commerce et du Crédit Mobilier (RCCM) ↗ |
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| 🇩🇲Dominica | Americas | Companies and Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) ↗ |
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| 🇩🇴Dominican Republic | Americas | Registro Mercantil — Chambers of Commerce (FEDOCÁMARAS) ↗ |
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| 🇪🇨Ecuador | Americas | Superintendencia de Compañías, Valores y Seguros ↗ |
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| 🇪🇬Egypt | Africa | Commercial Register — Internal Trade Development Authority (ITDA) ↗ |
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| 🇸🇻El Salvador | Americas | National Registry Center ↗ |
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| 🇪🇪Estonia | Europe | e-Business Register — Centre of Registers and Information Systems (RIK) ↗ |
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| 🇸🇿Eswatini | Africa | Eswatini Business Registry ↗ |
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| 🇪🇹Ethiopia | Africa | Ministry of Trade and Regional Integration — Commercial Registration ↗ |
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| 🇫🇯Fiji | Oceania | Fiji Registrar of Companies ↗ |
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| 🇫🇮Finland | Europe | Finnish Trade Register — Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH) ↗ |
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| 🇫🇷France | Europe | Registre National des Entreprises (RNE) — INPI ↗ |
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| 🇬🇫French Guiana | Americas | Registre National des Entreprises (RNE) — INPI / local RCS ↗ |
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| 🇬🇦Gabon | Africa | Agence Nationale de Promotion des Investissements (ANPI-Gabon) / RCCM ↗ |
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| 🇬🇲Gambia | Africa | Registrar General’s Department ↗ |
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| 🇬🇪Georgia | Europe | National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR) ↗ |
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| 🇩🇪Germany | Europe | Handelsregister (Commercial Register) ↗ |
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| 🇬🇭Ghana | Africa | Office of the Registrar of Companies (ORC) ↗ |
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| 🇬🇷Greece | Europe | General Commercial Registry (GEMI) ↗ |
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| 🇬🇱Greenland | Americas | Central Business Register (CVR) — Danish Business Authority ↗ |
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| 🇬🇩Grenada | Americas | Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property Office (CAIPO) ↗ |
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| 🇬🇵Guadeloupe | Americas | Registre National des Entreprises (RNE) — INPI / local RCS ↗ |
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| 🇬🇺Guam | Oceania | Department of Revenue and Taxation ↗ |
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| 🇬🇹Guatemala | Americas | Mercantile Registry (Registro Mercantil) ↗ |
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| 🇬🇳Guinea | Africa | APIP — Registre du Commerce et du Crédit Mobilier (RCCM) ↗ |
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| 🇬🇾Guyana | Americas | Deeds and Commercial Registries Authority — Commercial Registry ↗ |
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| 🇭🇹Haiti | Americas | Trade and Personal Property Credit Register ↗ |
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| 🇭🇳Honduras | Americas | Mercantile Registry (Registro Mercantil) ↗ |
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| 🇭🇰Hong Kong | Asia | Companies Registry ↗ |
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| 🇭🇺Hungary | Europe | Company Registration Court ↗ |
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| 🇮🇸Iceland | Europe | Register of Business Enterprises (Fyrirtækjaskrá) ↗ |
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| 🇮🇳India | Asia | Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) ↗ |
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| 🇮🇩Indonesia | Asia | Directorate General of General Legal Administration (AHU) — Company Register ↗ |
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| 🇮🇷Iran | Middle East | State Organization for Registration of Deeds and Properties — Legal Entity Register ↗ |
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| 🇮🇶Iraq | Middle East | Companies Registration Directorate (Ministry of Trade) ↗ |
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| 🇮🇪Ireland | Europe | Companies Registration Office (CRO) ↗ |
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| 🇮🇹Italy | Europe | Registro Imprese — Italian Business Register ↗ |
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| 🇯🇲Jamaica | Americas | Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ) ↗ |
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| 🇯🇵Japan | Asia | Legal Affairs Bureau (Houmu Kyoku) ↗Commercial registration is administered through Legal Affairs Bureaus. |
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| 🇯🇴Jordan | Middle East | Companies Control Department (CCD) ↗ |
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| 🇰🇿Kazakhstan | Asia | Ministry of Justice ↗ |
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| 🇰🇪Kenya | Africa | Business Registration Service (BRS) ↗ |
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| 🇽🇰Kosovo | Europe | Kosovo Business Registration Agency (KBRA) ↗ |
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| 🇰🇼Kuwait | Middle East | Ministry of Commerce and Industry — Commercial Register ↗ |
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| 🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan | Asia | Ministry of Justice ↗ |
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| 🇱🇦Laos | Asia | Ministry of Industry and Commerce ↗ |
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| 🇱🇻Latvia | Europe | Register of Enterprises of the Republic of Latvia ↗ |
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| 🇱🇧Lebanon | Middle East | Commercial Register — Ministry of Justice ↗ |
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| 🇱🇸Lesotho | Africa | Lesotho National Business Registry (LNBR) ↗ |
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| 🇱🇷Liberia | Africa | Liberia Business Registry ↗ |
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| 🇱🇮Liechtenstein | Europe | Commercial Register — Office of Justice ↗ |
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| 🇱🇹Lithuania | Europe | Centre of Registers (Registrų Centras) ↗ |
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| 🇱🇺Luxembourg | Europe | Luxembourg Business Register (Registre de Commerce et des Sociétés, RCS) ↗ |
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| 🇲🇬Madagascar | Africa | Commercial and Personal Property Credit Register ↗ |
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| 🇲🇼Malawi | Africa | Registrar General’s Department ↗ |
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| 🇲🇾Malaysia | Asia | Companies Commission of Malaysia (SSM) ↗ |
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| 🇲🇱Mali | Africa | Trade and Personal Property Credit Register ↗ |
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| 🇲🇹Malta | Europe | Malta Business Registry ↗ |
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| 🇲🇭Marshall Islands | Oceania | Registrar of Corporations ↗ |
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| 🇲🇶Martinique | Americas | Registre National des Entreprises (RNE) — INPI / local RCS ↗ |
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| 🇲🇷Mauritania | Africa | Trade and Personal Property Credit Register (Registre du Commerce et du Crédit Mobilier, RCCM) ↗ |
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| 🇲🇺Mauritius | Africa | Registrar of Companies ↗ |
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| 🇾🇹Mayotte | Africa | Registre National des Entreprises (RNE) — INPI / local RCS ↗ |
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| 🇲🇽Mexico | Americas | Registro Público de Comercio (RPC) — SIGER ↗ |
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| 🇫🇲Micronesia | Oceania | Registrar of Corporations — Department of Justice ↗ |
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| 🇲🇩Moldova | Europe | Public Services Agency (ASP) — State Register of Legal Entities ↗ |
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| 🇲🇪Montenegro | Europe | Central Register of Business Entities (CRPS) ↗ |
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| 🇲🇸Montserrat | Americas | Companies Registry ↗ |
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| 🇲🇦Morocco | Africa | OMPIC — Central Trade Register ↗ |
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| 🇲🇿Mozambique | Africa | Commercial Registry ↗ |
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| 🇲🇲Myanmar | Asia | Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA) — MyCO ↗ |
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| 🇳🇦Namibia | Africa | Business and Intellectual Property Authority (BIPA) ↗ |
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| 🇳🇵Nepal | Asia | Office of the Company Registrar ↗ |
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| 🇳🇱Netherlands | Europe | Netherlands Chamber of Commerce (Kamer van Koophandel, KvK) ↗ |
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| 🇳🇨New Caledonia | Oceania | Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés — Government of New Caledonia ↗ |
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| 🇳🇿New Zealand | Oceania | New Zealand Companies Office — Companies Register ↗ |
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| 🇳🇮Nicaragua | Americas | National Registry of Property and Commerce (Registro Nacional de la Propiedad y del Comercio) ↗ |
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| 🇳🇪Niger | Africa | RCCM ↗ |
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| 🇳🇬Nigeria | Africa | Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) ↗ |
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| 🇲🇰North Macedonia | Europe | Central Registry of the Republic of North Macedonia ↗ |
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| 🇴🇲Oman | Middle East | Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion — Oman Business Platform ↗ |
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| 🇵🇰Pakistan | Asia | Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) ↗ |
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| 🇵🇼Palau | Oceania | Palau Ministry of Justice ↗ |
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| 🇵🇸Palestine | Middle East | Ministry of National Economy ↗ |
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| 🇵🇦Panama | Americas | Public Registry of Panama (Registro Público de Panamá) ↗ |
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| 🇵🇾Paraguay | Americas | Public Registry of Commerce — Dirección General de los Registros Públicos ↗ |
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| 🇵🇪Peru | Americas | SUNARP — Registro de Personas Jurídicas ↗ |
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| 🇵🇱Poland | Europe | National Court Register (KRS) — Ministry of Justice ↗ |
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| 🇵🇹Portugal | Europe | Institute of Registries and Notary (IRN) — Commercial Register ↗ |
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| 🇵🇷Puerto Rico | Americas | Puerto Rico Department of State — Registry of Corporations and Entities ↗ |
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| 🇶🇦Qatar | Middle East | Ministry of Commerce and Industry ↗ |
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| 🇨🇬Republic of the Congo | Africa | Agence Congolaise pour la Création des Entreprises (ACPCE) / RCCM ↗ |
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| 🇷🇴Romania | Europe | National Trade Register Office ( ONRC) ↗ |
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| 🇷🇺Russia | Asia | Federal Tax Service ↗ |
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| 🇷🇼Rwanda | Africa | Rwanda Development Board — Office of the Registrar General ↗ |
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| 🇷🇪Réunion | Africa | Registre National des Entreprises (RNE) — INPI / local RCS ↗ |
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| 🇸🇹Sao Tome & Principe | Africa | Commercial Registry ↗ |
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| 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia | Middle East | Ministry of Commerce ↗ |
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| 🇸🇳Senegal | Africa | Registre du Commerce et du Crédit Mobilier (RCCM) — SEN-INFOGREFFE ↗ |
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| 🇷🇸Serbia | Europe | Serbian Business Registers Agency (SBRA) ↗ |
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| 🇸🇱Sierra Leone | Africa | Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) ↗ |
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| 🇸🇬Singapore | Asia | Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) ↗ |
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| 🇸🇰Slovakia | Europe | Business Register of the Slovak Republic ↗ |
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| 🇸🇮Slovenia | Europe | Slovenian Business Register (AJPES) ↗ |
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| 🇸🇴Somalia | Africa | Ministry of Commerce and Industry — Somali Business Registration System ↗ |
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| 🇿🇦South Africa | Africa | Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) ↗ |
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| 🇰🇷South Korea | Asia | Supreme Court Registry (Company Registration Division) ↗ |
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| 🇸🇸South Sudan | Africa | Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs — Business Registry ↗ |
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| 🇪🇸Spain | Europe | Mercantile Registries — Colegio de Registradores ↗ |
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| 🇱🇰Sri Lanka | Asia | Department of Registrar of Companies ↗ |
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| 🇧🇱St Barthélemy | Americas | Registre National des Entreprises (RNE) — INPI / local RCS ↗ |
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| 🇸🇭St Helena | Africa | St Helena Government — Companies Registry ↗ |
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| 🇰🇳St Kitts and Nevis | Americas | Registrar of Companies (St Kitts) / Nevis Financial Services Regulatory Commission ↗St Kitts and Nevis maintain distinct registration arrangements. |
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| 🇱🇨St Lucia | Americas | Registry of Companies and Intellectual Property (ROCIP) ↗ |
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| 🇸🇽St Maarten (Dutch) | Americas | Chamber of Commerce and Industry of St Maarten ↗ |
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| 🇲🇫St Martin (French) | Americas | Registre National des Entreprises (RNE) — INPI / local RCS ↗ |
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| 🇵🇲St Pierre & Miquelon | Americas | Registre National des Entreprises (RNE) — INPI / local RCS ↗ |
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| 🇻🇨St Vincent & the Grenadines | Americas | Commerce and Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) ↗ |
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| 🇸🇩Sudan | Africa | Ministry of Justice (Commercial Registration) ↗ |
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| 🇸🇷Suriname | Americas | Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Suriname ↗ |
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| 🇸🇯Svalbard & Jan Mayen | Europe | Brønnøysund Register Centre — Register of Business Enterprises ↗ |
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| 🇸🇪Sweden | Europe | Swedish Companies Registration Office (Bolagsverket) ↗ |
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| 🇨🇭Switzerland | Europe | Cantonal Commercial Registers / Zefix — Federal Commercial Registry Office ↗ |
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| 🇹🇼Taiwan | Asia | Department of Commerce ↗ |
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| 🇹🇯Tajikistan | Asia | State Register of Legal Entities ↗ |
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| 🇹🇿Tanzania | Africa | Business Registrations and Licensing Agency (BRELA) ↗ |
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| 🇹🇭Thailand | Asia | Department of Business Development (DBD) ↗ |
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| 🇹🇬Togo | Africa | Trade and Personal Property Credit Register (Registre du Commerce et du Crédit Mobilier, RCCM) ↗ |
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| 🇹🇹Trinidad & Tobago | Americas | Companies Registry ↗ |
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| 🇹🇳Tunisia | Africa | Registre National des Entreprises (RNE) ↗ |
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| 🇹🇷Turkey | Asia | Central Registration System (MERSIS) ↗ |
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| 🇹🇨Turks & Caicos | Americas | Companies Registry ↗ |
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| 🇺🇬Uganda | Africa | Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) ↗ |
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| 🇺🇦Ukraine | Europe | Unified State Register — Ministry of Justice ↗ |
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| 🇦🇪United Arab Emirates | Middle East | Emirate licensing authorities and free-zone registrars / National Economic Register ↗Separate registrars operate across emirates and free zones. |
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| 🇬🇧United Kingdom | Europe | Companies House ↗ |
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| 🇺🇾Uruguay | Americas | National Directorate of Commercial Registries ↗ |
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| 🇻🇮US Virgin Islands | Americas | Office of the Lieutenant Governor — Division of Corporations and Trademarks ↗ |
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| 🇺🇿Uzbekistan | Asia | State registration of business entities — Ministry of Justice ↗ |
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| 🇻🇪Venezuela | Americas | Servicio Autónomo de Registros y Notarías (SAREN) — Mercantile Registries ↗ |
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| 🇻🇳Vietnam | Asia | Business Registration Management Agency ↗ |
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| 🇾🇪Yemen | Middle East | Ministry of Industry and Trade ↗ |
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| 🇿🇲Zambia | Africa | Patents and Companies Registration Agency (PACRA) ↗ |
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| 🇿🇼Zimbabwe | Africa | Registrar of Companies ↗ |
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| 🇦🇽Åland Islands | Europe | Finnish Trade Register — Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH) ↗ |
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