That's because day 1 no longer counts against the 70 hour limit (you are only required to count the current day and the previous 7 days for 8 days total). Since the driver had -5 hours available and 10 hours fell off the calculation, the driver had a total of 5 hours available on the 70 hour limit.
How many countries are there in the world? Since South Sudan became an independent state on 9 July 2011, there are now 195 independent sovereign nations in the world (including disputed but defacto independent Taiwan), plus about 60 dependent areas, and five disputed territories, like Kosovo.
The term country is frequently used to refer to sovereign states. There is no universal agreement on the number of countries in the world, since a number of states have disputed sovereignty status.There are 206 total states, with 193 states participating in the United Nations, two observer states (the Holy See and Palestine), and 11 other states.n English the word has increasingly become associated with political divisions, so that one sense, associated with the indefinite article â a country â is now a synonym for state, or a former sovereign state, in the sense of sovereign territory or district, native land.