States Recognized By The United Nations

States recognized by the United Nations State Afghanist

Head of state

Head of government President Hamid Karzai

an Albania Algeria

President Bamir Topi President Abdelaziz Bouteflika Co-Prince Joan Enric Vives Sicília

Prime Minister Sali Berisha Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia

Andorra

Representative Nemesi Marquès Oste

Prime Minister Jaume Bartumeu

Co-Prince Nicolas Sarkozy Representative Christian Frémont

Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia

President José Eduardo dos Santos Queen Elizabeth II[1] Governor General Louise Lake-Tack

Prime Minister Paulo Kassoma Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner President Serzh Sargsyan Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan [1] Australia Queen Elizabeth II Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Governor General Quentin Bryce

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Austria President Heinz Fischer Azerbaija President Ilham Aliyev

Chancellor Werner Faymann Prime Minister Artur Rasizade

Bahamas

Queen Elizabeth II[1]

Bahrain

King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah

Prime Minister Khalifah ibn Sulman Al Khalifah

President Zillur Rahman

Prime Minister Hasina Wazed

Banglades h

Governor General Arthur Dion Hanna

[1] Barbados Queen Elizabeth II

Governor General Clifford Husbands

Belarus

President Alexander Lukashenko

Belgium

King Albert II

Belize

Queen Elizabeth II[1]

Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil

Governor General Colville Young

Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham

Prime Minister David Thompson Prime Minister Sergey Sidorsky Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy Prime Minister Dean Barrow

President Yayi Boni King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Prime Minister Jigme Thinley Wangchuck President Evo Morales Chairman of the Presidency Željko Komšić[2] Prime Minister Nikola Špirić Presidency Member Nebojša Radmanović Presidency Member Haris Silajdžić

President Ian Khama President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso

Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah President Georgi Parvanov Prime Minister Boyko Borisov President Blaise Compaoré

Prime Minister Tertius Zongo

Chairman of the State Peace and Prime Minister Thein Sein Development Council Than Shwe Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza Cambodia King Norodom Sihamoni Prime Minister Hun Sen Cameroon President Paul Biya Prime Minister Philémon Yang [1] Canada Queen Elizabeth II Prime Minister Stephen Harper Burma

Governor General Michaëlle Jean

Cape Verde Central African Republic

President Pedro Pires

Prime Minister José Maria Neves

President François Bozizé

Prime Minister Faustin-Archange Touadéra

Prime Minister Youssouf Saleh Abbas Chile President Michelle Bachelet China President Hu Jintao Premier Wen Jiabao Colombia President Álvaro Uribe Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi CongoPresident Denis Sassou-Nguesso Prime Minister Isidore Mvouba Brazzaville CongoPresident Joseph Kabila Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito Kinshasa Costa Rica President Óscar Arias Croatia President Stjepan Mesić Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor Cuba President Raúl Castro Cyprus President Dimitris Christofias Czech President Václav Klaus Prime Minister Jan Fischer Republic Prime Minister Lars Løkke Denmark Queen Margrethe II Rasmussen Prime Minister Dileita Mohamed Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh Dileita Dominica President Nicholas Liverpool Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Dominica President Leonel Fernández n Republic East Timor President José Ramos-Horta Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão Ecuador President Rafael Correa Egypt President Hosni Mubarak Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif El President Mauricio Funes Chad

President Idriss Déby

Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland France Gabon Gambia Georgia (country) Germany Ghana Greece Grenada

President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Prime Minister Ignacio Milam Mbasogo Tang President Isaias Afewerki President Toomas Hendrik Ilves Prime Minister Andrus Ansip President Girma Wolde-Giorgis Prime Minister Meles Zenawi Acting President Epeli Nailatikau

Interim Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama

President Tarja Halonen President Nicolas Sarkozy

Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen Prime Minister François Fillon Acting President Rose Francine Rogombé Prime Minister Paul Biyoghé Mba President Yahya Jammeh President Mikheil Saakashvili

Prime Minister Nikoloz Gilauri

President Horst Köhler

Chancellor Angela Merkel President John Atta Mills President Karolos Papoulias Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis [1] Queen Elizabeth II Prime Minister Tillman Thomas Governor General Carlyle Glean

Guatemala President Álvaro Colom Guinea President Moussa Dadis Camara Prime Minister Kabiné Komara Guinea- Acting President Raimundo Pereira Prime Minister Carlos Gomes President-elect Malam Bacai Sanhá Bissau Júnior Guyana President Bharrat Jagdeo Prime Minister Sam Hinds Prime Minister Michèle PierreHaiti President René Préval Louis Honduras President Roberto Micheletti Hungary President László Sólyom Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai Prime Minister Jóhanna President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson Iceland Sigurðardóttir India President Pratibha Patil Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Jalal Talabani (Pres.),[3] Adil Abdul Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Mahdi (VP), Tariq al-Hashimi (VP) Ireland President Mary McAleese Taoiseach Brian Cowen Prime Minister Benjamin President Shimon Peres Israel Netanyahu Italy President Giorgio Napolitano Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Ivory President Laurent Gbagbo Prime Minister Guillaume Soro Coast [1] Jamaica Queen Elizabeth II Prime Minister Bruce Golding Governor General Patrick Allen

Japan

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Jordan King Abdullah II Kazakhsta President Nursultan Nazarbayev Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzsta

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Prime Minister Taro Aso Prime Minister-desigante Yukio Hatoyama Prime Minister Nader al-Dahabi Prime Minister Karim Massimov

President Mwai Kibaki

Prime Minister Raila Odinga President Anote Tong Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber AlPrime Minister Nasser AlSabah Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah President Kurmanbek Bakiyev

Prime Minister Igor Chudinov

Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh Prime Minister Valdis Latvia President Valdis Zatlers Dombrovskis Prime Minister Fouad Siniora Lebanon President Michel Sleiman Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri Lesotho King Letsie III Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili Liberia President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Guide of the Revolution Muammar al-Gaddafi Libya Secretary General of the General Prime Minister Baghdadi People's Congress Imbarek Shamekh Mahmudi Liechtenst Prince Hans-Adam II Prime Minister Klaus Tschütscher Laos

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Emperor Akihito

President Choummaly Sayasone

Prince-Regent Alois

Lithuania President Dalia Grybauskaitė Luxembou Grand Duke Henri Macedonia President Gjorge Ivanov Madagasc President of the High Authority of Transition Andry Rajoelina

ar Malawi

Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski Prime Minister Monja Roindefo

President Bingu wa Mutharika Yang di-Pertuan Agong Mizan Zainal Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak Abidin Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed Mali President Amadou Toumani Touré Prime Minister Modibo Sidibé Malta President George Abela Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi Marshall President Litokwa Tomeing Islands Mauritani Prime Minister Moulaye Ould President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz a Mohamed Laghdaf Mauritius President Anerood Jugnauth Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam

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Mexico President Felipe Calderón Micronesia President Manny Mori Moldova President Vladimir Voronin Prime Minister Zinaida Greceanîi Minister of State Jean-Paul Proust Monaco Prince Albert II Mongolia President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Prime Minister Sanjaagiin Bayar Monteneg President Filip Vujanović Prime Minister Milo Đukanović Morocco King Muhammad VI Mozambiq President Armando Guebuza

Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi Prime Minister Luisa Diogo

Namibia Nauru

President Hifikepunye Pohamba Prime Minister Nahas Angula President Marcus Stephen Prime Minister Madhav Kumar President Ram Baran Yadav Nepal Nepal Netherlan Prime Minister Jan Peter Queen Beatrix ds Balkenende [1] New Queen Elizabeth II Prime Minister John Key Governor General Anand Satyanand Zealand Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega President Tandja Mamadou Prime Minister Seyni Oumarou Niger Nigeria President Umaru Yar'Adua Chairman of the National Defence Commission Kim Jong-il Chairman of the Presidium of the North Supreme People's Assembly Kim Korea Premier Kim Yong-il Yong-nam Eternal President Kim Il-sung[4]

Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippine s Poland Portugal Qatar

King Harald V

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg Sultan Qaboos Prime Minister Yousaf Raza President Asif Ali Zardari Gillani President Johnson Toribiong President Ricardo Martinelli [1] Queen Elizabeth II Prime Minister Michael Somare Governor General Paulias Matane

President Alan García

President Fernando Lugo Prime Minister Javier Velásquez

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo President Lech Kaczyński President Aníbal Cavaco Silva Emir Hamad bin Khalifa

Romania President Traian Băsescu

Prime Minister Donald Tusk Prime Minister José Sócrates Prime Minister Hamad ibn Jaber Al Thani Prime Minister Emil Boc

Russia President Dmitry Medvedev Rwanda President Paul Kagame Saint Kitts Queen Elizabeth II[1] Governor General Cuthbert Sebastian and Nevis Saint Queen Elizabeth II[1] Governor General Pearlette Louisy Lucia Saint Vincent and Queen Elizabeth II[1] Governor General Frederick Ballantyne the Grenadines

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Prime Minister Bernard Makuza Prime Minister Denzil Douglas Prime Minister Stephenson King Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves

Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi Captain Regent Massimo Cenci San Captain Regent Oscar Mina Marino São Tomé Prime Minister Joaquim Rafael President Fradique de Menezes and Príncipe Branco Saudi King Abdullah Arabia Prime Minister Souleymane Ndéné Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade Ndiaye Serbia President Boris Tadić Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković Seychelles President James Michel Sierra President Ernest Bai Koroma Leone Singapore President Sellapan Ramanathan Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Slovakia President Ivan Gašparovič Prime Minister Robert Fico Slovenia President Danilo Türk Prime Minister Borut Pahor [1] Solomon Queen Elizabeth II Prime Minister Derek Sikua Governor General Frank Kabui Islands Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Somalia President Sharif Ahmed Ali Sharmarke South President Jacob Zuma Africa South President Lee Myung-bak Prime Minister Han Seung-soo Korea Prime Minister José Luis Spain King Juan Carlos I Rodríguez Zapatero Prime Minister Ratnasiri Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa Wickremanayake Sudan President Omar al-Bashir Suriname President Ronald Venetiaan Prime Minister Barnabas Sibusiso Swaziland King Mswati III Dlamini Sweden King Carl XVI Gustaf Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt Samoa

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Hans-Rudolf Merz (Pres.),[5] Doris Leuthard (VP), Moritz Leuenberger, Pascal Couchepin, Micheline Calmy-Rey, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, Ueli Maurer Prime Minister Muhammad Naji President Bashar al-Assad al-Otari President Emomalii Rahmon Prime Minister Oqil Oqilov President Jakaya Kikwete Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda King Bhumibol Adulyadej Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva President Faure Gnassingbé Prime Minister Gilbert Houngbo King George Tupou V Prime Minister Feleti Sevele

Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad President George Maxwell Richards and Tobago Tunisia

President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

Turkey

President Abdullah Gül

Turkmenis tan Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekista n Vanuatu

Prime Minister Patrick Manning Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow Queen Elizabeth II[1] Governor General Filoimea Telito

Prime Minister Apisai Ielemia

President Yoweri Museveni President Viktor Yushchenko

Prime Minister Apolo Nsibambi Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko Prime Minister Mohammed bin President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Rashid Al Maktoum Queen Elizabeth II

Prime Minister Gordon Brown President Barack Obama

President Tabaré Vázquez Prime Minister Shavkat President Islam Karimov Mirziyoyev Acting President Maxime Carlot Korman Prime Minister Edward Natapei President of the Governorate Vatican Sovereign Benedict XVI Giovanni Lajolo City Venezuela President Hugo Chávez Vietnam President Nguyễn Minh Triết Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng Prime Minister Ali Muhammad Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh Mujawar Zambia President Rupiah Banda Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai

[edit] States recognized by United Nations member states

State

Head of state

Head of government

Abkhazia President Sergei Bagapsh Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu

Prime Minister Alexander Ankvab

Northern Cyprus

Prime Minister Derviş Eroğlu

Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi

President Mehmet Ali Talat

Palestinian (disputed) President either (disputed) Prime Minister either Salam National Mahmoud Abbas or Aziz Duwaik[6] Fayyad or Ismail Haniyeh[7] Authority South President Eduard Kokoity[8] Prime Minister Vadim Brovtsev Ossetia Republic of China (Taiwan)

President Ma Ying-jeou

Premier Liu Chao-shiuan

Western Sahara

President Mohamed Abdelaziz

Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Oumar

[edit] States not recognized by any United Nations members This list encompasses the leaders of geo-political entities that lack significant international recognition. The degree of control these entities exert over their claimed territories may vary. State

Head of state

Head of government

Prime Minister Arayik Nagorno- President Bako Sahakyan Harutyunyan Karabakh Somalil President Dahir Riyale Kahin and Transnistria

President Igor Smirnov