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.
Name and capital city | Information on status and recognition of sovereignty | |
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A | ||
→ Afghanistan – Emirate of Afghanistan 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] | |
→ Albania(from 28 November 1912) Capital: Durrës
| 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. | |
Andorra – Principality of Andorra Capital: Andorra La Vella | Widely recognized independent state. [4] | |
Angoche – Angoche Sultanate (to 1910) Capital: Angoche | Widely recognized state. | |
Argentina – Argentine Republic Capital: Buenos Aires | Widely recognized independent state | |
Armenia – Republic of Armenia (from 28 May 1918) Capital: Yerevan | Widely recognized state. | |
Asir – Idrisid Emirate of Asir (from 3 August 1917) Capital: Sabya | Widely recognized independent state | |
Aussa – Sultanate of Aussa Capital: Aussa | Widely recognized state. | |
Australia – Commonwealth of Australia (Dominion of the British Empire) Capital: Melbourne | Widely recognized independent state. Australia is autonomous but still dependent from the United Kingdom. Australia had two external territories:
| |
Austria(from 12 November 1918) Capital: Vienna
| Widely recognized independent state. | |
Austria-Hungary – Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (to 31 October 1918) [5] Capital: Vienna and Budapest | Widely recognized independent state. Austria-Hungary had one concession:
| |
Azerbaijan – Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (from 28 May 1918) [6] Capital: Ganja (to September, 1918), Baku (from September, 1918) | Widely recognized state. | |
B | ||
Belgium – Kingdom of Belgium Capital: Brussels | Widely recognized state. Belgium had one colony and one concession:
| |
Bhutan – Kingdom of Bhutan (to January 8, 1910) Capital: Thimphu | Widely recognized state. | |
Bolivia – Republic of Bolivia Capital: Sucre | Widely recognized state. | |
Brazil – Republic of the United States of Brazil Capital: Rio de Janeiro | Widely recognized state. Brazil was a federation of 20 states, one territory, and one federal district. [a] | |
Bulgaria – Tsardom of Bulgaria Capital: Sofia | Widely recognized state. | |
C | ||
Canada – Dominion of Canada (Dominion of the British Empire) Capital: Ottawa | Widely recognized state. Canada is autonomous but still dependent from the United Kingdom. | |
Chile – Republic of Chile Capital: Santiago | Widely recognized state. | |
→ → → China Capital: Peking
| Widely recognized state to December 12, 1915, and from June 6, 1916. | |
Colombia – Republic of Colombia Capital: Bogotá | Widely recognized state. | |
Costa Rica – Republic of Costa Rica Capital: San José | Widely recognized state. | |
Crete – Cretan State (de jure to December 1, 1913) Capital: Chania | De jure autonomous state of the Ottoman Empire to December 1, 1913. De facto unilaterally annexed by Greece. | |
Cuba – Republic of Cuba Capital: Havana | Widely recognized state. | |
Czechoslovakia – Czechoslovak Republic (from October 28, 1918) Capital: Prague | Widely recognized state. | |
D | ||
Dar al Kuti – Sultanate of Dar Al Kuti (to 1911) Capital: N'Délé | Widely recognized state. | |
Darfur – Sultanate of Darfur (to 1916) Capital: El Fasher | Widely recognized state. | |
Denmark – Kingdom of Denmark Capital: Copenhagen | Widely recognized state. Denmark had one colony and one dependency:
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Dominican Republic – Second Dominican Republic Capital: Santo Domingo | Widely recognized state. Under United States military occupation from May 5, 1916. | |
E | ||
Ecuador – Republic of Ecuador Capital: Quito | Widely recognized state. | |
→ El Salvador – Republic of El Salvador Capital: San Salvador | Widely recognized state. | |
Estonia(from February 24, 1918)
| Widely recognized state. | |
→ Ethiopia – Ethiopian Empire Capital: Addis Ababa | Widely recognized state. | |
F | ||
→ & Finland (from December 6, 1917) Capital: Helsinki
| Widely recognized state. | |
France – French Republic Capital: Paris | Widely recognized state. The following are colonies, concessions and protectorates of France:
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G | ||
Georgia – Democratic Republic of Georgia (from May 26, 1918) Capital: Tiflis | Widely recognized state. Immediately recognized by Germany and the Ottoman Empire. | |
→ Germany Capital: Berlin
| Widely recognized state. The following are colonies, concessions and protectorates of Germany:
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Greece – Kingdom of Greece Capital: Athens | Widely recognized state. | |
Gowa – Sultanate of Gowa [8] (to 1911) Capital: Jongaya | Widely recognized state to 1911. Annexed by the Netherlands in 1911. | |
Guatemala – Republic of Guatemala Capital: Guatemala City | Widely recognized state. | |
H | ||
Ha'il – Emirate of Jabal Shammar Capital: Ha'il | Widely recognized state. | |
Haiti – Republic of Haiti Capital: Port-au-Prince | Widely recognized state. Under United States military occupation from July 28, 1915. | |
→ Hejaz – Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz (from June 10, 1916) Capital: Mecca | Widely recognized state. | |
Honduras – Republic of Honduras Capital: Tegucicalpa | Widely recognized state. | |
→ → → Hungary(from November 16, 1918) Capital: Budapest
| Unrecognized state from August 1 to 8, 1919. | |
I | ||
Iceland – Kingdom of Iceland (from December 1, 1918) Capital: Reykjavík | Widely recognized independent state under a personal union with Denmark. Still dependent from Denmark. | |
Italy – Kingdom of Italy Capital: Rome | Widely recognized state. Italy had four colonies and three concessions:
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J | ||
Japan – Empire of Japan 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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L | ||
& Latvia(disputed between two governments)(from November 18, 1918)
| Widely recognized state. | |
Liberia – Republic of Liberia Capital: Monrovia | Widely recognized state. | |
Liechtenstein – Principality of Liechtenstein Capital: Vaduz | Widely recognized state. | |
→ & Lithuania(from February 16, 1918) Capital: Vilnius
| Widely recognized state. | |
Luxembourg – Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (to August 1914, from November 11, 1918) Capital: Luxembourg City | Widely recognized state. Limited sovereignty for occupation. | |
M | ||
Mbundaland – Mbunda Kingdom (to 1917) Capital: Lumbala N'guimbo | Widely recognized state. | |
→ Mexico Capital: Mexico City
| Widely recognized state. Mexico had one territory:
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Monaco – Principality of Monaco Capital: Monaco | Widely recognized state. | |
Mongolia - Great Mongolian State [9] (from December 29, 1911 to June 17, 1915) Capital: Niislel Khuree | Widely recognized state. Still dependent from China. | |
→ Montenegro Capital: Cetinje
| Widely recognized state. Limited sovereignty for occupatio bellica to December 1, 1918. | |
Morocco – Sultanate of Morocco (to March 30, 1912) Capital: Fes | De jure sovereign state under French and Spanish protectorate from March 30, 1912. [10] [11] | |
Mountain Republic - Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus (from March 6, 1917) Capital: Temir-Khan-Shura | Widely recognized state. | |
Muscat and Oman – Sultanate of Muscat and Oman Capital: Muscat | De jure independent state. De facto a British protectorate. | |
N | ||
→ Riyadh / Nejd Capital: Riyadh
| Widely recognized state. | |
Netherlands – Kingdom of the Netherlands Capital: Amsterdam | Widely recognized independent state. The Netherlands had sovereignty over three colonies: | |
Newfoundland – Dominion of Newfoundland Capital: St. John's | Widely recognized state. Newfoundland is autonomous but still dependent from the United Kingdom. | |
New Zealand – Dominion of New Zealand 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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Nicaragua – Republic of Nicaragua Capital: Managua | Widely recognized state. Under United States military occupation from 1912. | |
Nri – Kingdom of Nri (to 1911) Capital: Igbo-Ukwu | Widely recognized state. | |
Norway – Kingdom of Norway Capital: Oslo | Widely recognized state. Norway had three uninhabited possessions: | |
O | ||
Ottoman Empire – Sublime Ottoman State 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. | |
P | ||
Panama – Republic of Panama Capital: Panama City | Widely recognized state. | |
Paraguay – Republic of Paraguay Capital: Asuncion | Widely recognized state. | |
Persia – Persian Empire Capital: Tehran | Widely recognized state. | |
Peru Capital: Lima
| Widely recognized independent state. | |
Poland(from January 14, 1917) Capital: Warsaw
| Client / Puppet state of Germany until November 11, 1918. Widely recognized independent state from November 11, 1918. | |
→ Portugal Capital: Lisbon
| Widely recognized independent state. The following are colonies, vassal state and possession of Portugal:
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R | ||
Romania – Kingdom of Romania Capital: Bucharest | Widely recognized state. | |
→ → Russia Capital: Saint Petersburg
| Widely recognized state. Russia had three protectorates, one concession and one autonomous grand duchy: | |
S | ||
San Marino – Most Serene Republic of San Marino Capital: San Marino | Widely recognized state. | |
→ Serbia / Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Capital: Belgrade
| Widely recognized state. Limited sovereignty for occupatio bellica to December 1, 1918. | |
Setul Mambang Segara – Kingdom of Setul Mambang Segara (to 1916) Capital: Kota Mambang Segara | Widely recognized state. | |
→ → Siam – Kingdom of Siam Capital: Bangkok | Widely recognized state. | |
→ South Africa – Union of South Africa (Dominion of the British Empire) (from May 31, 1910) 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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Spain – Kingdom of Spain Capital: Madrid | Widely recognized state. Spain had three colonies, one protectorate and two possessions:
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Sulu – Sultanate of Sulu (to 1915) Capital: Jolo | Widely recognized state. | |
Sweden – Kingdom of Sweden Capital: Stockholm | Widely recognized state. | |
Switzerland – Swiss Confederation Capital: Bern | Widely recognized state. | |
T | ||
Tibet (from 1912) Capital: Lhasa | De facto independent state. Claimed by the Republic of China. | |
Transcaucasia – Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic (from February 22 to May 28, 1918) Capital: Tiflis | Widely recognized independent state. | |
U | ||
United Kingdom – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Capital: London | Widely recognized state. The following are colonies, concessions, territories, dependencies and protectorates of the United Kingdom:
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→ United States – United States of America Capital: Washington, D.C. | Widely recognized state. The following are territories of the United States of America:
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Upper Asir - Sheikdom of Upper Asir (from August 1916) Capital: Abha | Widely recognized state. | |
Uruguay – Eastern Republic of Uruguay Capital: Montevideo | Widely recognized state. | |
V | ||
Venezuela – United States of Venezuela Capital: Caracas | Widely recognized state. | |
Y | ||
Yemen – Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen (from October 30, 1918) Capital: Sana`a | Widely recognized independent state. [12] [13] | |
States claiming sovereignty | ||
Alash – Alash Autonomy (from December 13, 1917) Capital: Alash-Qala | Unrecognized state. [14] | |
Alsace-Lorraine – Alsace-Lorraine Soviet Republic (from November 10 to 22, 1918) Capital: Straßburg | Unrecognized socialist state created during the German Revolution after the World War I. | |
Altai – Confederated Republic of Altai (from 1917) Capital: Gorno-Altaysk | Unrecognized state. | |
Aras – Republic of Aras (from December 1918 to June 1919) Capital: Nakhchivan | Unrecognized state. | |
Banat Republic (from October 31, 1918 to February 20, 1919) 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. | |
→ Bavaria Capital: Munich
| Unrecognized socialist state created during the German Revolution after the World War I. | |
→ Belarus Capital: Minsk
| Partially-recognized state from 1918 to 1919. Puppet/Buffer State of Soviet Russia from January 1, 1919. | |
Bottleneck – Free State Bottleneck (from January 10, 1919) Capital: Lorch | Unoccupied territory within post-World War I Germany. | |
Bremen – Bremen Soviet Republic (from January 10 to February 4, 1919) Capital: Bremen | Unrecognized socialist state created during the German Revolution after the World War I. | |
Central Albania – Republic of Central Albania (from October 16, 1913 to March 7, 1914) Capital: Durrës | Unrecognized state. | |
Centrocaspian Dictatorship – Centro-Caspian Dictatorship (from August 1 to September 15, 1918) Capital: Baku | Unrecognized state. | |
Courland and Semigallia – Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (from March 8 to September 22, 1918) Capital: Riga | Client state of Germany. | |
→ Crimea Capital: Bakhchysarai
| Self-proclaimed autonomy of the Russian Democratic Federative Republic. | |
Don – Don Republic (from May 18, 1918) Capital: Novocherkassk | Unrecognized state. | |
Donbas and Kryvbas – Donets-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic (from February 12 to March 20, 1918) Capital: Kharkiv | Unrecognized, self-declared state. | |
Hutsul Republic (from January 8 to June 11, 1919) Capital: Yasinia | Unrecognized state. | |
Icaria – Free State of Icaria (from July 18 to November 1912) Capital: Icaria | Unrecognized state. | |
Idel-Ural – Idel-Ural State (from March 1, 1918 to April 1918) Capital: Ufa | Semi-Independent state. | |
Ireland – Irish Republic (from January 21, 1919) Capital: Dublin | Revolutionary state. | |
Kars Republic – Provisional National Government of the Southwestern Caucasus (from December 1, 1918 to April 1919) Capital: Kars | Nominally-independent provisional government. | |
Kokand – Turkestan Autonomy (from November 27, 1917 to February 22, 1918) Capital: Kokand | Unrecognized state. | |
Komancza – Komancza Republic (from November 4, 1918 to January 24, 1919) Capital: Komańcza | Microstate. | |
Korea, Provisional Government of – Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (from April 11, 1919) Capital-in-exile: Shanghai | Partially recognized Korean government-in-exile. | |
Kuban – Kuban People's Republic (from January 28, 1918) Capital: Yekaterinodar | Unrecognized state. | |
Lemko Republic – Lemko-Rusyn People's Republic (from December 5, 1918) Capital: Florynka | Unrecognized state from December 5, 1918. [15] | |
Lithuania-Byelorussia – Lithuanian-Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (from February 17 to July 17, 1919) Capital: Vilnius , Minsk , and Smolensk | Soviet puppet state from February 17 to July 17, 1919. | |
Moldova – Moldavian Democratic Republic (from December 15, 1917 to December 10, 1918) Capital: Argyrokastron | Unrecognized state. | |
Northern Epirus – Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus (from February 28 to May 17, 1914) 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. | |
North Ingria – Republic of North Ingria (from January 23, 1919) Capital: Kirjasalo | Unrecognized state. | |
Oman, Imamate of – Imamate of Oman (from 1913) Capital: Nizwa | Unrecognized state. | |
Odessa – Odessa Soviet Republic (from January 17 to March 13, 1918) Capital: Odessa | Puppet state of Soviet Russia. | |
Perloja – Republic of Perloja (from November 1918) | Unrecognized state. | |
Slovakia – Slovak Soviet Republic (from June 16 to July 7, 1919) Capital: Prešov | Puppet state of the Hungarian Soviet Republic. | |
Slovenes, Croats and Serbs – State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (from October 29 to December 1, 1918) Capital: Zagreb | Unrecognized provisional government. | |
Syria – Arab Kingdom of Syria (from November 26, 1919) Capital: Damascus | De facto independent state not recognized by any other state. [16] | |
Tarnobrzeg – Republic of Tarnobrzeg (from November 6, 1918, to spring 1919) Capital: Tarnobrzeg | Unrecognized state. | |
Tripolitania – Tripolitanian Republic (from November 16, 1918) Capital: ‘Aziziya | Unrecognized state. | |
Uhtua – Republic of Uhtua (from June 21, 1918) Capital: Uhtua | Unrecognized state. | |
Ukraine(separated into several governments)
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Uryankhay – Uryankhay Republic (from December 1, 1911 to April 17, 1914) Capital: Belotsarsk | Self-declared independent state. | |
Western Thrace – Independent Government of Western Thrace (from August 31 to October 25, 1913) Capital: Komotini | Unrecognized state. | |
Würzburg – Würzburg Soviet Republic (from April 7 to 9, 1919) Capital: Würzburg | Unrecognized socialist state created during the German Revolution after the World War I. | |
Zakopane – Republic of Zakopane (from October 13 to November 16, 1918) Capital: Zakopane | Unrecognized state. | |
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