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Contents

1 Historical States in Africa
2 Historical States in Asia
3 Historical States in Australia and Oceania
4 Historical States in Europe
5 Historical States in North America and the Caribbean
6 Historical States in South America
7 Former Colonial Entities

Historical States in Africa

Historical States in Asia

in East Asia
- Chinese Empire (redirect to History of China)
  - ...
  - ...
  - Empire of the Great Ming
  - Empire of the Great Qing
  - Tibet
- Republic of China (currently mostly about the Republic of China on Taiwan)
- Korean Empire
- lots of others, I'd imagine, especially as you go back further.
in Southeast Asia
in South Asia
in the Middle East
in Central Asia

Historical States in Australia and Oceania

Kingdom of Hawaii

Historical States in Europe

in the British Isles
- Kingdom of England (10th century - 1707, redirects to England)
- Kingdom of Scotland (9th century - 1707, redirects to Scotland)
- Kingdom of Great Britain (1707-1800)
- Kingdom of Ireland (1541-1800)
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801-1922/1927)
- Irish Free State (1922-1937)
- Éire (1937-1949)
in Iberia - there are numerous former states in Iberia, but these largely currently exist as "communities" in Spain, which makes it hard to say exactly what's going on. Also, these states were basically sovereign, in merely personal union, until the 18th century, and possibly even after then.
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Aragon
- Biscay
- Valencian Country/Kingdom of Valencia
- Cartagena canton
- Catalonia/County of Barcelona
- Cordoba Caliphate
- Castile
- Kingdom of Granada
- Navarre
- Peñíscola (under antipope Benedict XIII)
- Ribagorza
- Sobrarbe
- Taifa kingdoms.
in France - various former states of the Holy Roman Empire along the northeastern border and in the southeast, but also perhaps former quasi-independent feudal territories like Brittany?
- Kingdom of France (until 1792)
- Avignon
- Basse Navarre
- Lorraine/Duchy of Lorraine
- Franche Comté/Free County of Burgundy
- Besançon/Archbishopric of Besançon
- Bar/Duchy of Bar
- Artois/County of Artois
- Cambrai/Bishopric of Cambrai
- Béarn (to 1620)
- Burgundy/Duchy of Burgundy (to 1477)
- Brittany/Duchy of Brittany (to 1524)
- Savoy/Duchy of Savoy (came to France in 1860, before that part of the Kingdom of Sardinia from 1730, and the Kingdom of Sicily 1720-1730)
- Comtat Venaissin (part of the Papal States)
- probably more could be found...
in the Low Countries
- United Kingdom of the Netherlands
- United Provinces
- Spanish Netherlands/Austrian Netherlands/Southern Netherlands
- Kingdom of Holland
- Batavian Republic
- Liège/Bishopric of Liège
- each of the Seventeen Provinces could be considered to have been a state at one point - many of them are current provinces of Belgium or the Netherlands, although with rather different borders, and consolidate or divided up.
in Switzerland - all of the cantons may be considered to have been sovereign entities, at least before the French Revolution. Also, independent allies like the Grisons or Geneva certainly were.
in Italy
- Kingdom of Sardinia/Piedmont-Sardinia
- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
  - Kingdom of Naples (officially the "Kingdom of Sicily")
  - Kingdom of Sicily (or "of Sicily beyond the Lighthouse")
- Grand Duchy of Tuscany/Kingdom of Etruria
  - Republic of Florence
  - Republic of Siena
- Republic of Venice
- Republic of Genoa
- Lucca/Republic of Lucca/Duchy of Lucca
- Modena/Duchy of Modena
- Parma/Duchy of Parma
- Milan/Duchy of Milan
- Mantua/Duchy of Mantua
- Ferrara/Duchy of Ferrara
- Massa/Duchy of Massa
- Carrara/Principality of Carrara
- Papal States
- Cisalpine Republic
- Ligurian Republic
- the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy
- Roman Empire
  - Western Roman Empire
- Rose Island
in Central Europe
- Holy Roman Empire
  - List of states in the Holy Roman Empire
- Kingdom of Poland, the old Polish state (pre-1795), could be mentioned here
- Kingdom of Hungary (1001-1918; 1920-1946, but this latter with today's borders)
  - Transylvania
- Bohemia/Kingdom of Bohemia (10th century-1918)
- Prussia
  - Duchy of Prussia (1535-1701)
  - Kingdom of Prussia (1701-1918, part of the German Empire from 1871)
  - Free State of Prussia (1918-1945, part of the German Empire)
- Habsburg Monarchy (1526-1918)
- Austrian Empire (1804-1867)
- Austria-Hungary (1867-1918)
- Confederation of the Rhine member states (1806-1813)
- German Confederation (1815-1871)
  - List of German Confederation member states
- German Empire (1871-1945)
- German Democratic Republic (East Germany) (1949-1990)
- West Germany (informal name for Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1990, prior to incorporation of former East Germany)
- Czechoslovakia (1918-1939, 1945-1992)
- Danzig
in Scandinavia
- I can't think of any...
in the Balkans
- Kingdom of Croatia
- Kingdom of Serbia
- Kingdom of Bulgaria
- Neopatria
- Latin Empire of Orient
- Ottoman Empire (1300-1922)
- Montenegro (ca. 1700-1918/1921)
- Serbia (ca. 1818-1918)
- Yugoslavia
  - Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes -&gt Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918-1941)
  - de jure 1941-1945
  - Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945-1992)
  - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992-2003)
in Eastern Europe
- Grand Duchy of Lithuania (-1569)
- Russian Empire (1721-1917)
- Soviet Union (1922-1991)
- Grand Duchy of Finland (-1918)
Moresnet

Historical States in North America and the Caribbean

in the present USA
- California Republic
- Confederate States of America
- Hawaiian Kingdom (not really North America...)
- Republic of Texas (1836-1845)
- Republic of Vermont
Aztec Empire
Tortuga
Mosquitia
United Provinces of Center America

Historical States in South America

Former Colonial Entities

Former Colonial Entities in Africa

Former Colonial Entities in Asia and the Pacific

Former Colonial Entities in North America

in North America
- New France
- Louisiana (don't seem to have a specific article on the colony)
- East Florida
- West Florida
- Rupert's Land
- New Spain
- 13 British colonies that became the US
- British colonies that became today's Canadian provinces
- Russian Alaska
in the Caribbean
- Leeward Islands
- Windward Islands
- Federation of the West Indies
- British colonies of Barbados, Trinidad, Jamaica, Bahamas

Former Colonial Entities in South America

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