Military dictatorships

Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the southeast, and South Sudan to the south. Sudan has a population of 51.8 million people as of 2025 and occupies 1,886,068 square kilometres (728,215 square miles), making it Africa's third-largest country by area. Sudan's capital and most populous city is Khartoum.

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It covers an area of 274,223 km2. In 2024, the country had an estimated population of approximately 23,286,000. After independence it was called the Republic of Upper Volta from 1958 to 1984. It was renamed Burkina Faso by then-president Thomas Sankara. Its citizens are known as Burkinabes, and its capital and largest city is Ouagadougou.

Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is a country in West Africa that covers with an estimated population of 2,080,000. It borders Senegal to its north and Guinea to its southeast.

Manchukuo or Manchoukuo, officially the Manchou Empire after 1934 and State of Manchoukuo prior, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Manchuria that existed from 1932 until its dissolution in 1945. It was ostensibly founded as a republic, its territory consisting of the lands seized in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria; it was later declared to be a constitutional monarchy in 1934, though very little changed in the actual functioning of government. Manchukuo received limited diplomatic recognition, primarily from states aligned with the Axis powers, with its existence widely regarded

imposition of direct military control of a government

1603–1868 Japanese military government

government of France under Napoleon III, from 1852 to 1870

republic governing France, 1792–1804

country in Central and Eastern Europe (1918–1939)

effective provisional control of a certain power over a territory

Goryeo (; ) was a Korean state founded in 918, during a time of national division called the Later Three Kingdoms period, that unified and ruled the Korean Peninsula until the establishment of Joseon in 1392. Goryeo achieved what has been called a "true national unification" by Korean historians as it not only unified the Later Three Kingdoms but also incorporated much of the ruling class of the northern kingdom of Balhae, who had origins in Goguryeo of the earlier Three Kingdoms of Korea. According to Korean historians, it was during the Goryeo period that the individual identities of Gogurye

form of dictatorial military rule

1939–1975 dictature period of Spain

former country

former country (1958–1984) in West Africa

former country

military rulers of Greece (1967–1974)

The Derg or Dergue (, ), officially the Provisional Military Administrative Council (PMAC), and also often simply known as Socialist Ethiopia, was the military junta that ruled Ethiopia, including present-day Eritrea, from 1974 to 1987, when they formally "civilianized" the administration, though remaining in power until 1991.

Transkei ( , meaning the area beyond [[Great Kei River|[the river] Kei]]), officially the Republic of Transkei (), was an unrecognised state in the southeastern region of South Africa from 1976 to 1994. It was, along with Ciskei, a Bantustan for the Xhosa people, and operated as a nominally independent parliamentary democracy. Its capital was Umtata (renamed Mthatha in 2004).

government led by a committee of military leaders

former sovereign state (1925–1979)

feudal military government of Japan (1336–1573)

anti-socialist government in Ukraine (except West Ukraine), 1918

President of Bangladesh from 1983 to 1990 Former (6th) Army chief of Bangladesh

sovereign monarchy in South Asia, lasting from 1768–2008

former country of Asia

1976–1983 Argentine military dictatorship

feudal military government of Japan

former country

1910–1926 republic in Southwestern Europe

unrecognized state of the ethnic Wa peoples located within Myanmar

Republic between 1950 and 1963

Mengjiang, also known as Mengkiang, officially the Mengjiang United Autonomous Government, was an autonomous zone of the Wang Jingwei regime in Inner Mongolia. It was formed in 1939 as its own puppet state of the Empire of Japan, and from 1940 was placed under the sovereignty of the Wang Jingwei regime, which was itself a puppet government. It consisted of the previously Chinese provinces of Chahar and Suiyuan, corresponding to the central part of modern Inner Mongolia. It has also been called Mongukuo or Mengguguo (or Mengkukuo; ; in analogy to Manchukuo, another Japanese puppet state in Manc

president of Venezuela (1952-1958)

former country in Africa

historiographical concept of Greece (1924–1935)

puppet state established in 1943 during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines

1964-1985 military regime in Brazil

12 September 1980 government coup in Turkey

period in 20th century Albanian history

period during the Commonwealth of England under the rule of the Lord Protector

1915–1916 country

Martial Law introduced by the government of the People's Republic of Poland, to suppress democratic mouvents and Solidarnosc activity

internationally recognized government of the Republic of China which was in place in Beijing from 1912 to 1928

Vietnamese monarchy (10th–19th century)

provisional government in Azerbaijan

former country

former country (1960–1971) in Africa, predecessor of Zaire

period of Chilean history under the rule of General Augusto Pinochet

statutory body of between 20 and 25 senior Egyptian military officers

imperial dynasty in Vietnam

Sanation (, ) was a Polish political movement that emerged in the interwar period, prior to Józef Piłsudski's May 1926 ''Coup d'État, and gained influence following the coup. In 1928, its political activists went on to form the Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government (BBWR'').

1953–1958 republic in Northern Africa

1889–1930 federal republic in South America

Ruling family of Nicaragua from 1936 to 1979

period of Russian history (1918–1920)

state forged in 1958 in Iraq and ended in 1968

Kuomintang-ruled government of the Republic of China between 1925 and 1948

historical period in Cuba between 20 May 1902 and 1 January 1959

military junta of Thailand