Civilizations

Each Civilization game features playable historic nations, empires, and cultural groups known as civilizations (or "civs" for short). The number of playable civs differs with each game.

Table of Civilizations by game appearance

Main article: List of civilizations

This table only includes civilizations in the base version of these games. Civilization II and Call to Power II have several scenarios with many non-traditional civilizations not found on this list. Moreover, most Civilization games let players rename the civilization one plays as to whatever a player chooses.

Civilization	Civ1	Civ2	Civ3	Civ4	Civ5	Civ6	CivRev	CivRev2	CTP1	CTP2	C-evo
American	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Arabian			✓^[1]	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Assyrian					✓				✓	✓
Australian						✓^[2]			✓	✓
Austrian			-^[3]		✓
Aztec	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓^[4]	✓	✓
Babylonian	✓	✓	✓	✓^[5]	✓^[6]						✓
Brazilian					✓	✓			✓	✓
Byzantine			✓^[7]	✓^[5]	✓
Canadian									✓	✓
Carthaginian		✓	✓^[1]	✓^[8]	✓
Celtic		✓	✓^[1]	✓^[8]	✓
Chinese	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Cree						✓
Cuban									✓	✓
Danish					✓^[6]
Dutch (Netherlands)			✓^[7]	✓^[5]	✓	✓			✓	✓
Egyptian	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
English (British)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Ethiopian				✓^[5]	✓				✓	✓
French	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
German	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Georgian						✓
Greek	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Hebrew									✓	✓
Hittite			✓^[7]
Holy Roman				✓^[5]
Hungarian						✓
Hunnic					✓
Incan			✓^[7]	✓	✓^[6]				✓	✓
Indian	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Indonesian					✓	✓^[2]			✓	✓
Irish									✓	✓
Iroquois			✓		✓
Jamaican										✓
Japanese	-^[9]	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Khmer				✓^[5]		✓^[2]
Kongolese						✓
Korean			✓^[1]	✓^[8]	✓^[6]	✓		✓	✓	✓
Macedonian						✓^[2]
Malinese				✓
Maori						✓
Mapuche						✓
Mayan			✓^[7]	✓^[5]	✓				✓	✓
Mexican									✓	✓
Mongol	✓	✓	✓^[1]	✓	✓^[6]	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Moroccan					✓
Native American				✓^[5]					✓	✓
Nicaraguan									✓	✓
Nigerian									✓	✓
Norwegian						✓
Nubian						✓^[2]
Ottoman			✓^[1]	✓^[8]	✓
Persian		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓^[2]			✓	✓	✓
Phoenician									✓	✓	✓
Polish					✓	✓^[2]			✓	✓
Polynesian					✓^[6]				✓	✓
Portuguese			✓^[7]	✓^[5]	✓				✓	✓
Roman	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Russian	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Scottish						✓			✓	✓
Scythian						✓
Shoshone					✓
Siamese					✓
Sioux		✓
Songhai					✓
Spanish		✓	✓^[1]	✓	✓^[6]	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Sumerian			✓^[7]	✓^[5]		✓
Swedish					✓
Thai									✓	✓
Turkish									✓	✓
Venetian					✓
Viking		✓	✓^[1]	✓^[8]					✓	✓	✓
Welsh									✓	✓
Zulu	✓	✓	✓	✓^[8]	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Total	14	21	31	34	43	42^[10]	16	17	42	41	15

Number of Civilizations Per Game

Base Game	Game/ Expansion Pack	Civs Added	Total Civs	Civs Introduced to series
Civilization	Original	14^[11]	14^[11]	American Aztec Babylonian Chinese Egyptian English French German Greek Indian Mongolian Roman Russian Zulu Japanese^[9]
Civilization II	Original	21	21	Celtic Carthaginian Persian Sioux Spanish Viking Japanese^[11]
	Conflicts in Civilization	?
	Fantastic Worlds	?
	Test of Time	?
Civilization III	Original	16	31	Mayan Portuguese Sumerian Hittite Incan Dutch Byzantine Ottoman Korean Arabian Iroquois
	Play The World	8
	Conquests	7
Civilization IV	Original	18	34	Ethiopian Holy Roman Malian Native American Khmer
	Warlords	6
	Beyond the Sword	10
Civilization Revolution	Original	16	16	None
Civilization V	Original	18	43	Austrian^[3] Assyrian Brazilian Danish Hunnic Indonesian Moroccan Polish Polynesian Siamese Shoshone Songhai Swedish Venetian
	Gods & Kings	9
	Brave New World	9
	DLC (All)	7
Civilization Revolution 2	Original	17	17	None
Civilization VI	Original	19	42^[10]	Australian Cree Georgian Hungarian Kongolese Macedonian Mapuche Norwegian Nubian Scottish Scythian
	Rise & Fall	8
	Gathering Storm	8^[10]
	DLC (All)	7^[10]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 Play the World expansion pack
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 Civilization VI DLC
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Hidden civ in Civilization III. Because of hardcoded civilizations limit, another civilization must be replaced with Austria to play as them. The game with Austria as an official Civilization is Civilization V: Gods and Kings.
↑ Preorder bonus DLC. Given for free for all players 90 days after game is released so it is considered a part of the original civilizations.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 ^5.4 ^5.5 ^5.6 ^5.7 ^5.8 ^5.9 Beyond the Sword expansion pack
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 ^6.3 ^6.4 ^6.5 ^6.6 Civilization V DLC
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 ^7.2 ^7.3 ^7.4 ^7.5 ^7.6 Conquests expansion pack
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 ^8.3 ^8.4 ^8.5 Warlords expansion pack
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 Only on SNES version of the game. Replaces Zulus
↑ ^10.0 ^10.1 ^10.2 ^10.3 Not all Civilizations for the new Gathering Storm Expansion have been announced
↑ ^11.0 ^11.1 ^11.2 Japanese civilization replaces Zulu civilization in the original Civilization. Japanese are found in every Civilization game since the original game.

Added in the Gods & Kings expansion pack.
Added in the Brave New World expansion pack.
Added in the Rise and Fall expansion pack.
Added in the Gathering Storm expansion pack.

Civilization: Beyond Earth

Main article: List of Sponsors (CivBE)

The sponsors in Beyond Earth are not the same as the historical based civilizations.

Freeciv

Main article: List of civilizations (Freeciv)

The Freeciv civilizations were far too numerous to put on this list. Each civilization plays the same way.

Colonization

Main articles: List of civilizations (Col) and List of civilizations (Civ4Col)

European Civilizations (In all versions of Colonization)

British
Dutch
French
Spanish

Native "Indian" tribes

Indian Tribes

FreeCol

Early versions have just the same as Col1, but recent versions have an option of adding:

Danish
Portuguese
Russian
Swedish

Other Games

Alpha Centauri

Main article: Factions (SMAC)

Starships

See also: Leaders (Starships)

Starships doesn't have a factions page because they are the same as the original sponsors of Beyond Earth.

CivWorld

Main article: CivWorld § Civilizations

Imperialism

Main article: Imperialism

Great Britain
France
Prussia
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Sardinia
Italy
Russia
Ottoman Empire

External links

Who Gets to Be a CIVILIZATION? - Between the Lines- A documentary on the concept of Civilizations in the game.

[:0-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 Play the World expansion pack

[:5-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 Civilization VI DLC

[:9-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Hidden civ in Civilization III. Because of hardcoded civilizations limit, another civilization must be replaced with Austria to play as them. The game with Austria as an official Civilization is Civilization V: Gods and Kings.

[4] Preorder bonus DLC. Given for free for all players 90 days after game is released so it is considered a part of the original civilizations.

[:1-5] 5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 ^5.4 ^5.5 ^5.6 ^5.7 ^5.8 ^5.9 Beyond the Sword expansion pack

[:2-6] 6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 ^6.3 ^6.4 ^6.5 ^6.6 Civilization V DLC

[:3-7] 7.0 ^7.1 ^7.2 ^7.3 ^7.4 ^7.5 ^7.6 Conquests expansion pack

[:4-8] 8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 ^8.3 ^8.4 ^8.5 Warlords expansion pack

[:6-9] 9.0 ^9.1 Only on SNES version of the game. Replaces Zulus

[:8-10] 10.0 ^10.1 ^10.2 ^10.3 Not all Civilizations for the new Gathering Storm Expansion have been announced

[:7-11] 11.0 ^11.1 ^11.2 Japanese civilization replaces Zulu civilization in the original Civilization. Japanese are found in every Civilization game since the original game.

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