List of sovereign states in the 1910s
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This is a list of sovereign states in the 1910s, giving an overview of states around the world during the period between 1 January 1910 and 31 December 1919. It contains entries, arranged alphabetically, with information on the status and recognition of their sovereignty. It includes 94 widely recognized sovereign states, and entities which were de facto sovereign but which were not widely recognized by other states.
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Sovereign states
[edit]Name and capital city | Information on status and recognition of sovereignty | |
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![]() ![]() Capital: Kabul |
De facto independent state that was a de jure British protectorate (to 8 August 1919). Widely recognized independent state (from 8 August 1919).[1] | |
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![]() ![]() Capital: Durrës
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Limited sovereignty for occupatio bellica by the Balkan League states. Recognized independent state de jure from 29 July 1913.[2][3] De facto Italian protectorate from 23 June 1917. | |
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![]() Capital: Andorra La Vella |
Widely recognized independent state.[4] | |
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Angoche – Angoche Sultanate (to 1910) Capital: Angoche |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Buenos Aires |
Widely recognized independent state | |
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![]() Capital: Yerevan |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Sabya |
Widely recognized independent state | |
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![]() Capital: Aussa |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Melbourne |
Widely recognized independent state. Australia is autonomous but still dependent from the United Kingdom. Australia had two external territories:
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![]() Capital: Vienna
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Widely recognized independent state. | |
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![]() Capital: Vienna and Budapest |
Widely recognized independent state. Austria-Hungary had one concession:
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![]() Capital: Ganja (to September, 1918), Baku (from September, 1918) |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Brussels |
Widely recognized state. Belgium had one colony and one concession:
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Bhutan – Kingdom of Bhutan (to January 8, 1910) Capital: Thimphu |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Sucre |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Rio de Janeiro |
Widely recognized state. Brazil was a federation of 20 states, one territory, and one federal district.[a] | |
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![]() Capital: Sofia |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Ottawa |
Widely recognized state. Canada is autonomous but still dependent from the United Kingdom. | |
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![]() Capital: Santiago |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Capital: Peking
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Widely recognized state to December 12, 1915, and from June 6, 1916. | |
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![]() Capital: Bogotá |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: San José |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Chania |
De jure autonomous state of the Ottoman Empire to December 1, 1913. De facto unilaterally annexed by Greece. | |
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![]() Capital: Havana |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Prague |
Widely recognized state. | |
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Dar al Kuti – Sultanate of Dar Al Kuti (to 1911) Capital: N'Délé |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: El Fasher |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Copenhagen |
Widely recognized state. Denmark had one colony and one dependency:
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![]() Capital: Santo Domingo |
Widely recognized state. Under United States military occupation from May 5, 1916. | |
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![]() Capital: Quito |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() ![]() Capital: San Salvador |
Widely recognized state. | |
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Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Addis Ababa |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() ![]() ![]() Capital: Helsinki
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Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Paris |
Widely recognized state. The following are colonies, concessions and protectorates of France:
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![]() Capital: Tiflis |
Widely recognized state. Immediately recognized by Germany and the Ottoman Empire. | |
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![]() ![]() Capital: Berlin
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Widely recognized state. The following are colonies, concessions and protectorates of Germany:
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![]() Capital: Athens |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Jongaya |
Widely recognized state to 1911. Annexed by the Netherlands in 1911. | |
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![]() Capital: Guatemala City |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Ha'il |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Port-au-Prince |
Widely recognized state. Under United States military occupation from July 28, 1915. | |
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![]() ![]() Capital: Mecca |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Tegucicalpa |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Capital: Budapest
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Unrecognized state from August 1 to 8, 1919. | |
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![]() Capital: Reykjavík |
Widely recognized independent state under a personal union with Denmark. Still dependent from Denmark. | |
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![]() Capital: Rome |
Widely recognized state. Italy had four colonies and three concessions:
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![]() Capital: Tokyo City |
Widely recognized state. Japan had sovereignty over the following protectorates, dependencies and concessions:
Japan administered one League of Nations mandate:
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Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Monrovia |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Vaduz |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() ![]() ![]() Capital: Vilnius
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Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Luxembourg City |
Widely recognized state. Limited sovereignty for occupatio bellica. | |
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![]() Capital: Lumbala N'guimbo |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() ![]() Capital: Mexico City
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Widely recognized state. Mexico had one territory:
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![]() Capital: Monaco |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Niislel Khuree |
Widely recognized state. Still dependent from China. | |
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![]() ![]() Capital: Cetinje
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Widely recognized state. Limited sovereignty for occupatio bellica to December 1, 1918. | |
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![]() Capital: Fes |
De jure sovereign state under French and Spanish protectorate from March 30, 1912.[10][11] | |
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![]() Capital: Temir-Khan-Shura |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Muscat |
De jure independent state. De facto a British protectorate. | |
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![]() ![]() Capital: Riyadh
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Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Amsterdam |
Widely recognized independent state. The Netherlands had sovereignty over three colonies: | |
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![]() Capital: St. John's |
Widely recognized state. Newfoundland is autonomous but still dependent from the United Kingdom. | |
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![]() Capital: Wellington |
Widely recognized state. New Zealand is autonomous but still dependent from the United Kingdom. The following are territories of New Zealand:
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![]() Capital: Managua |
Widely recognized state. Under United States military occupation from 1912. | |
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Nri – Kingdom of Nri (to 1911) Capital: Igbo-Ukwu |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Oslo |
Widely recognized state. Norway had three uninhabited possessions: | |
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![]() Capital: Constantinople |
Widely recognized state. Ottoman Empire had one protectorate:
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Ouaddai – Sultanate of Ouaddai (to 1912) Capital: Abeche |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Panama City |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Asuncion |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Tehran |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Lima
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Widely recognized independent state. | |
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![]() Capital: Warsaw
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Client / Puppet state of Germany until November 11, 1918. Widely recognized independent state from November 11, 1918. | |
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![]() ![]() Capital: Lisbon
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Widely recognized independent state. The following are colonies, vassal state and possession of Portugal:
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![]() Capital: Bucharest |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() ![]() ![]() Capital: Saint Petersburg
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Widely recognized state. Russia had three protectorates, one concession and one autonomous grand duchy: | |
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![]() Capital: San Marino |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() ![]() Capital: Belgrade
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Widely recognized state. Limited sovereignty for occupatio bellica to December 1, 1918. | |
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![]() Capital: Kota Mambang Segara |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() ![]() ![]() Capital: Bangkok |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() ![]() Capital: Pretoria |
Widely recognized independent state. South Africa is autonomous but still dependent from the United Kingdom. South Africa has one mandate:
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![]() Capital: Madrid |
Widely recognized state. Spain had three colonies, one protectorate and two possessions:
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![]() Capital: Jolo |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Stockholm |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Bern |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Lhasa |
De facto independent state. Claimed by the Republic of China. | |
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![]() Capital: Tiflis |
Widely recognized independent state. | |
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![]() Capital: London |
Widely recognized state. The following are colonies, concessions, territories, dependencies and protectorates of the United Kingdom:
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![]() ![]() Capital: Washington, D.C. |
Widely recognized state. The following are territories of the United States of America:
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![]() Capital: Abha |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Montevideo |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Caracas |
Widely recognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Sana`a |
Widely recognized independent state.[12][13] | |
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States claiming sovereignty[edit] | ||
![]() Capital: Alash-Qala |
Unrecognized state.[14] | |
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![]() Capital: Straßburg |
Unrecognized socialist state created during the German Revolution after the World War I. | |
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![]() Capital: Gorno-Altaysk |
Unrecognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Nakhchivan |
Unrecognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Timișoara |
Unrecognized state. Client state of the Hungarian People's Republic to November 1918. Client state of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from November 1918. | |
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![]() ![]() Capital: Munich
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Unrecognized socialist state created during the German Revolution after the World War I. | |
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![]() ![]() Capital: Minsk
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Partially-recognized state from 1918 to 1919. Puppet/Buffer State of Soviet Russia from January 1, 1919. | |
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![]() Capital: Lorch |
Unoccupied territory within post-World War I Germany. | |
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![]() Capital: Bremen |
Unrecognized socialist state created during the German Revolution after the World War I. | |
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![]() Capital: Durrës |
Unrecognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Baku |
Unrecognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Riga |
Client state of Germany. | |
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![]() ![]() Capital: Bakhchysarai
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Self-proclaimed autonomy of the Russian Democratic Federative Republic. | |
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![]() Capital: Novocherkassk |
Unrecognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Kharkiv |
Unrecognized, self-declared state. | |
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![]() Capital: Yasinia |
Unrecognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Icaria |
Unrecognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Ufa |
Semi-Independent state. | |
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![]() Capital: Dublin |
Revolutionary state. | |
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![]() Capital: Kars |
Nominally-independent provisional government. | |
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![]() Capital: Kokand |
Unrecognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Komańcza |
Microstate. | |
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![]() Capital-in-exile: Shanghai |
Partially recognized Korean government-in-exile. | |
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![]() Capital: Yekaterinodar |
Unrecognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Florynka |
Unrecognized state from December 5, 1918.[15] | |
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![]() Capital: Vilnius, Minsk, and Smolensk |
Soviet puppet state from February 17 to July 17, 1919. | |
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![]() Capital: Argyrokastron |
Unrecognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Argyrokastron |
Unrecognized, self-declared independent state. Autonomy under nominal (unimplemented) Albanian sovereignty from May 17, 1914; de facto under Greek administration from October 27, 1914. | |
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![]() Capital: Kirjasalo |
Unrecognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Nizwa |
Unrecognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Odessa |
Puppet state of Soviet Russia. | |
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Unrecognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Prešov |
Puppet state of the Hungarian Soviet Republic. | |
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![]() Capital: Zagreb |
Unrecognized provisional government. | |
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![]() Capital: Damascus |
De facto independent state not recognized by any other state.[16] | |
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![]() Capital: Tarnobrzeg |
Unrecognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: ‘Aziziya |
Unrecognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Uhtua |
Unrecognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Belotsarsk |
Self-declared independent state. | |
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![]() Capital: Komotini |
Unrecognized state. | |
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![]() Capital: Würzburg |
Unrecognized socialist state created during the German Revolution after the World War I. | |
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![]() Capital: Zakopane |
Unrecognized state. | |
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Notes
[edit]- ^ 20 States: Alagoas, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraíba, Paraná, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Sergipe. 1 Territory: Acre. 1 Federal District: Federal District.
- ^ Claimed by Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (partially recognized government-in-exile) from April 11, 1919.
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