| Country | Country name |
| Bolivia | 
conventional long form: Plurinational State of Bolivia
conventional short form: Bolivia
local long form: Estado Plurinational de Bolivia
local short form: Bolivia |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Bosnia and Herzegovina
local long form: none
local short form: Bosna i Hercegovina
former: People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Botswana | conventional long form: Republic of Botswana
conventional short form: Botswana
local long form: Republic of Botswana
local short form: Botswana
former: Bechuanaland |
| Bouvet Island | conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Bouvet Island |
| Brazil | conventional long form: Federative Republic of Brazil
conventional short form: Brazil
local long form: Republica Federativa do Brasil
local short form: Brasil |
| British Indian Ocean Territory | conventional long form: British Indian Ocean Territory
conventional short form: none
abbreviation: BIOT |
| British Virgin Islands | conventional long form: none
conventional short form: British Virgin Islands
abbreviation: BVI |
| Brunei | conventional long form: Brunei Darussalam
conventional short form: Brunei
local long form: Negara Brunei Darussalam
local short form: Brunei |
| Bulgaria | conventional long form: Republic of Bulgaria
conventional short form: Bulgaria
local long form: Republika Balgariya
local short form: Balgariya |
| Burkina Faso | conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Burkina Faso
local long form: none
local short form: Burkina Faso
former: Upper Volta, Republic of Upper Volta |
| Burma | conventional long form: Union of Burma
conventional short form: Burma
local long form: Pyidaungzu Myanma Naingngandaw (translated by the US Government as Union of Myanma and by the Burmese as Union of Myanmar)
local short form: Myanma Naingngandaw
former: Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma
note: since 1989 the military authorities in Burma have promoted the name Myanmar as a conventional name for their state; this decision was not approved by any sitting legislature in Burma, and the US Government did not adopt the name, which is a derivative of the Burmese short-form name Myanma Naingngandaw |
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