Defunct upper houses

upper house of the Directory-era French legislature

formal body of advisers to the sovereign in the Russian Empire

upper house of the legislature of Afghanistan

upper house

palace built in 1641–1674, which is owned and managed by Sweden's knights and nobility.

investigative agency of the Republic of China government

upper house of the Imperial Diet of Japan

The upper house of the Ottoman Parliament (General Assembly of the Ottoman Empire)

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French Constitutional Assembly of the Consulate and Empire (1800-1815)

French upper house from 1814 to 1848

institution of the rulers of the princely states of India

upper house of the Cisleithania (Austria-Hungary) Parliament

legislative body of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 until 1947

The Chamber of States () was the upper chamber of the bicameral legislature of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from its founding in 1949 until 1952, at which time it was largely sidelined, when the five Länder (states) of East Germany ceased to exist and were replaced with smaller administrative regions. The Chamber of States itself was dissolved on 8 December 1958. The lower chamber, which continued in existence until German reunification in 1990, was the Volkskammer (People's Chamber).

upper house of the former Parliament of Ireland in 1297–1800

upperhouse of Turkish parliament between 1961-1980

upper chamber

former upper house of Fiji, abolished in 2013

upper house in the Spanish Cortes between 1834 and 1836

Upper House of the Parliament of New Zealand (1841 - 1951)

former second chamber of the Landtag of Bavaria (1946–1999)

Upper house of South African Parliament

1848 French revolutionary body

upper house of Ceylon

upper house of the Mauritanian parliament

upper house of the Parliament of Malta (1921-1933)