Short-lived countries

former country in North America formed by the Southern United States during the American Civil War (1861-1865)

thumb|Map of Azawad, as claimed by the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad|MNLA. Dark grey dots indicate regions with a Tuareg majority. The west is mainly inhabited by Maures, and the south by sub-Saharan peoples. Azawad, or Azawagh (Tuareg: Azawaɣ, or Azawad; ), was a short-lived unrecognised state lasting between 2012 and 2013. The Azawadi declaration of independence was declared unilaterally by the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) in 2012, after a Tuareg rebellion drove the Malian Armed Forces from the region.

client state of Nazi Germany, administering the Free Zone in southern France and French colonial possessions (1940–1944)

revolutionary city council of Paris in 1871

first Azerbaijani republic

1943–1945 German puppet state in northern Italy

country in Eastern Europe (1917–1921); government in exile (1921–1992)

proposed merger of Donetsk and Lugansk People Republics that was never realized

self-proclaimed 1918-1919 country in Eastern Europe

first modern establishment of Georgia as an independent state (1918-1921)

1919 socialist state in Central Europe

Armenian state existing from 1918–1920

short-lived unrecognised socialist state in Bavaria during the German Revolution of 1918–19

short-lived South Caucasian state (1918)

short-lived state on the Balkan Peninsula between late-October and early-December 1918

short lived Belarusian Republic from 1918 - 1919

country comprising areas with a predominantly German-speaking or ethnic German population and constituent part of the German republic (1918–1919)

republic created to resist Japanese occupation

former country in Europe

political regime that existed in Spain between 11 February 1873 and 29 December 1874

former country

1946 unrecognised Kurdish state in Iran

historical unrecognized state

short-lived state entity declared on February 9, 1849

former West African country consisting of the French colonies of Senegal and French Sudan

former state between 1920 and 1924

short-lived state established in 1869 by former Tokugawa retainers in what is now known as Hokkaido, notable for being the first government to attempt to institute democracy in Japan

former country

former country in Europe

former country

former country

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

republic at Italy between 1798–1799

short-lived country that was formed in 1958 from the union of Iraq and Jordan

unrecognized breakaway state

1938–1939 republic in Central/Eastern Europe

former state in Central Asia

former country

state of the Federal Republic of Central America

proposed country in 1918

former country in Europe (1796-1797)

former country

short-lived socialist republic in Iran

short-lived puppet state (March–August 1945) of Japan governing the former French protectorates of Annam and Tonkin

former country

confederation in the Southern Netherlands (1790)

republic in Central-Eastern Europe between 1945–1948

Carpatho-Ukraine or Carpathian Ukraine (, ) was an autonomous region within the Second Czechoslovak Republic and short-lived state. It was created in December 1938 and renamed from Subcarpathian Rus', whose full administrative and political autonomy had been confirmed by constitutional law of 22 November 1938.

former country in western Asia

sovereign state in Central Europe (1934–1938)

short-lived country in Eastern Europe (1918-1920)

former state

1990-1993 federal republic in Central/Eastern Europe

former country

1945–1946 provisional government on the Korean Peninsula

former country

short-lived autonomous region of the United Kingdom

former country (1949–1950)

republic on the Hawaii Islands between 1894–1898

former country