Member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations

██ ASEAN full members
██ ASEAN observers
██ ASEAN candidate members
██ ASEAN Plus Three
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As of 2010, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has 10 member states, one candidate member state, and one observer state.

ASEAN was founded on 8 August 1967 with five members: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.

Lists

A list of member states is provided below. The members of ASEAN Plus Three and the East Asia Summit are also listed. Both forums are ASEAN-led and meetings are held following the ASEAN Summit.

Also listed are participants of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), an organisation throughout the Asia-Pacific region whose objectives are to foster dialogue and consultation, and promote confidence-building and preventive diplomacy in the region.^[1]

The ASEAN is an organisation on the Southeast Asian region that aims to accelerate economic growth, social progress, and cultural development among its members and to promote regional peace.^[2]

ASEAN member states

Flag	Country	Capital	Area (km²)	Population	Density (/km²)	GDP per cap. (PPP)[3]	HDI[4]	Currency	Official languages	Leaders	Accession
	Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan	5,765	429,646[5]	65	73,233	0.852	Brunei dollar (BND; B$)	Malay	Head of state and government: Hassanal Bolkiah	7 January 1984
	Cambodia	Phnom Penh	181,035	15,708,756[6]	78	3,263	0.584	Cambodian riel (KHR; ៛)	Khmer	Head of state: Norodom Sihamoni Head of government: Hun Sen	30 April 1999
	Indonesia	Jakarta	1,904,569	255,461,700[7]	113	10,641	0.684	Indonesian rupiah (IDR; Rp)	Indonesian	Head of state and government: Joko Widodo	8 August 1967
	Laos	Vientiane	236,800	6,911,544[8]	24	4,987	0.569	Lao kip (LAK; ₭)	Lao	Head of state: Choummaly Sayasone Head of government: Thongsing Thammavong	23 July 1997
	Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	329,847	30,513,848[9]	72	24,654	0.773	Malaysian ringgit (MYR; RM)	Malay	Head of state: Abdul Halim Head of government: Najib Razak	8 August 1967
	Myanmar	Naypyidaw	676,578	51,486,253[10]	81	4,706	0.524	Myanmar kyat (MMK; K)	Burmese	Head of state: Htin Kyaw Head of government: Aung San Suu Kyi	23 July 1997
	Philippines	Manila	300,000	101,974,400[11]	295	6,962	0.660	Philippine peso (PHP; ₱)	Filipino and English	Head of state and government: Benigno Aquino III	8 August 1967
	Singapore	Singapore	707.1	5,469,700[12]	6,619	82,762	0.901	Singapore dollar (SGD; S$)	Malay, Mandarin, English and Tamil	Head of state: Tony Tan Head of government: Lee Hsien Loong	8 August 1967
	Thailand	Bangkok	513,115	65,104,000[13]	126	14,354	0.722	Thai baht (THB; ฿)	Thai	Head of state: Bhumibol Adulyadej Head of government: Prayut Chan-o-cha	8 August 1967
	Vietnam	Hanoi	331,690	91,812,000[14]	248	5,635	0.638	Vietnamese đồng (VND; ₫)	Vietnamese	Head of state: Trần Đại Quang Head of government: Nguyễn Xuân Phúc	28 July 1995
	ASEAN	—	4,479,210	625,000,000[15]	135	5,869[16]	0.669 (UNDP cal.)	—	—	Secretary General: Lê Lương Minh	—

Non-member states

ASEAN candidate/observer states

Flag	Country	Capital	Area (km²)	Population	Density (/km²)	GDP per cap. (PPP)	HDI	Currency	Official languages	Leaders	Status
	Papua New Guinea[17][18]	Port Moresby	462,840	7,400,000[19]	14.5	2,399	0.491	Papua New Guinean kina (PGK; K)	English, Tok Pisin and Hiri Motu	Head of state: Elizabeth II Governor-General: Michael Ogio Head of government: Peter O'Neill	Observer
	Timor-Leste[20]	Dili	14,874	1,231,116[21]	76.2	4,928	0.620	United States dollar (USD; $)	Tetum and Portuguese	Head of state: Taur Matan Ruak Head of government: Rui Maria de Araújo	Observer

ASEAN Plus Three

The present members of ASEAN together with:

Flag	Country	Capital	Area (km²)	Population	Density (/km²)	GDP per cap. (PPP)	HDI	Currency	Official languages	Leaders
	China	Beijing	9,640,011	1,371,790,000[22]	139.6	12,880	0.719	Chinese yuan (CNY; ¥)	Standard Chinese	Head of state: Xi Jinping Head of government: Li Keqiang
	Japan	Tokyo	377,873	126,865,000[23]	337.6	37,390	0.890	Japanese yen (JPY; ¥)	Japanese (de facto)	Head of state: Akihito Head of government: Shinzo Abe
	South Korea	Seoul	100,140	51,448,183[24]	493	35,277	0.891	South Korean won (KRW; ₩)	Korean	Head of state: Park Geun-hye Head of government: Hwang Kyo-ahn

East Asia Summit

The present members of ASEAN Plus Three together with:

Flag	Country	Capital	Area (km²)	Population	Density (/km²)	GDP per cap. (PPP)	HDI	Currency	Official languages	Leaders
	Australia	Canberra	7,686,850	23,881,139[25]	2.833	46,433	0.933	Australian dollar (AUD; A$)	English (de facto)	Head of state: Elizabeth II Governor-General: Peter Cosgrove Head of government: Malcolm Turnbull
	India	New Delhi	3,287,240	1,276,370,000[26]	364.4	5,855	0.586	Indian rupee (INR; ₹)	Hindi in Devanagari script, English and others	Head of state: Pranab Mukherjee Head of government: Narendra Modi
	New Zealand	Wellington	268,680	4,612,280[27]	16.1	35,152	0.910	New Zealand dollar (NZD; NZ$)	English, Māori and NZ Sign Language	Head of state: Elizabeth II Governor-General: Jerry Mateparae Head of government: John Key
	Russia	Moscow	17,075,400	146,567,880[28]	8.3	24,805	0.778	Russian ruble (RUB; )	Russian	Head of state: Vladimir Putin Head of government: Dmitry Medvedev
	United States	Washington, D.C.	9,629,091	321,719,000[29]	32	54,597	0.914	United States dollar (USD; $)	English (de facto)	Head of state and government: Barack Obama

ASEAN Regional Forum

The ASEAN Regional Forum is an informal multilateral dialogue of 27 members that seeks to address security issues in the Asia-Pacific region.

The list includes the members of the East Asia Summit plus:

Flag	Country	Capital	Area (km²)	Population	Density (/km²)	GDP per cap. (PPP)	HDI	Currency	Official languages	Leaders
	Bangladesh[30]	Dhaka	147,570	159,143,012[31]	1,099.3	3,373	0.558	Bangladeshi taka (BDT; ৳)	Bengali	Head of state: Abdul Hamid Head of government: Sheikh Hasina Wazed
	Canada	Ottawa	9,984,670	35,749,600[32]	3.41	44,843	0.902	Canadian dollar (CAD; C$)	English and French	Head of state: Elizabeth II Governor-General: David Johnston Head of government: Justin Trudeau
	Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar	1,564,115	3,032,606[33]	1.75	11,882	0.698	Mongolian tögrög (MNT; ₮)	Mongolian	Head of state: Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Head of government: Norovyn Altankhuyag
	North Korea	Pyongyang	120,540	25,155,000[34]	198.3	1,800 est.	0.540 (2012 UNDP)	North Korean won (KPW; ₩)	Korean	Supreme Leader: Kim Jong-Un Head of state: Kim Yong-Nam (de jure & de facto) Head of government: Pak Pong-ju
	Pakistan	Islamabad	796,095	191,198,263[35]	214.3	4,736	0.537	Pakistani rupee (PKR; ₨)	Urdu and English	Head of state: Mamnoon Hussain Head of government: Nawaz Sharif
	Sri Lanka	Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (Administrative) Colombo (Commercial)	65,610	20,771,00[36]	323	10,372	0.750	Sri Lankan rupee (LKR; රු)	Sinhalese and Tamil	Head of state and government: Maithripala Sirisena
	European Union	Brussels (de facto)	4,324,782	508,191,116[37]	115.9	37,607	0.876 (UNDP cal.)	Euro (EUR; €) and 10 others	Various	Head of state: Donald Tusk (Council) Head of government: Jean-Claude Juncker (Commission)

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External links

• ASEAN Secretariat
• ASEAN Regional Forum