This
cemented carbide is provided with a plurality of multiple
tungsten carbide particles and a binding phase. The
cemented carbide contains a total of 80 vol% or more of the
tungsten carbide particles and the binding phase. The
cemented carbide contains 0.1-20 vol% of the binding phase. The cemented
carbide contains one or more first elements selected from the group consisting of
titanium,
tantalum,
niobium,
zirconium,
cerium,
yttrium, and
boron. The cemented carbide contains a total of 0.01-20 at% of the first elements. The binding phase contains 50
mass% or more of
cobalt. In a first graph indicating, in a coordinate
system in which the X-axis represents the distance from a position at which
cobalt exhibits the
maximum intensity and the Y-axis represents the standardized intensity, the result obtained through a line analysis performed in a first direction from the binding phase to an adjacent one of the
tungsten carbide particles by using an
energy dispersion type X-
ray spectroscopy device that is accessory to a transmission
electron microscope, the maximum peak M of each of the first elements exists between a peak W1 of tungsten located closest to the point of origin and another peak W2 of tungsten located closest to the peak W1, and the ratio IB / IA of an intensity IB with respect to the maximum
peak intensity IA of the maximum peak M for each of the first elements is 0.5 or less, where the intensity IB is the intensity of the first element at a distance P2 which is 0.2 nm beyond a distance P1 of the maximum
peak intensity IA toward the opposite side with respect to the point of origin.