Short-lived countries

government that controlled North Korea between 1947–1948; replaced in 1948 by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

German national state (in establishment) 1848/1849

first democratic state on the current German territory

short-lived puppet government proclaimed in Pudong on 5 Dec. 1937, to administer Japanese-occupied Shanghai in the early stages of the Second Sino-Japanese War

Iskolat (, ), or formally the Executive Committee of the Soviet of Workers, Soldiers, and the Landless in Latvia, was the governing body in the territory of Latvia that was under control of the pro-Communist Red Latvian Riflemen in 1917–1918.

regimes in Crimean Peninsula, 1918 and 1919

defunct nineteenth-century kingdom in Indochina

Belarusian political structure established as a representative body during World War II in the German-occupied Belarus, later one of two Belarusian anti-Soviet political centres in exile

Bolshevik and Left SR members of the 1918 Baku Commune

1921 unrecognised state in modern Croatia

Soviet republic

European polity

former country (1797–1798)

Central European state between

self-proclaimed oblast (1990–1991)

Azadistan (), was a short-lived state in Iranian Azerbaijan that lasted from early 1920 until September of that year. It was established by Mohammad Khiabani, an Iranian patriot, who was a representative to the parliament, and a prominent dissident against the Soviet Union and British colonialism. Khiabani and his followers chose the name "Azadistan" as a gesture of protest against the giving of the name "Azerbaijan" to the government centered on Baku in Transcaucasia which was called Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, and also to serve as a model of freedom and independence for the rest of Iran.

Serb state that existed during the Siege of Dubrovnik in the Croatian War of Independence, self-proclaimed by the Yugoslav People's Army on 15 October 1991 in occupied areas of Croatia

former state

short-lived Boer republic in southern Africa (1882–1883)

short lived republic in the Rhineland

Self-proclaimed oblast (1991–1995)

Anti-Kuomintang government in Fujian, China 1933-1934

short-lived revolutionary state in 1798

municipality

Fascist regime in Romania

autonomous entity of the Russian Republic from 1917 to 1918

Anarcho-communist administrative entity established during the Spanish Civil War

short lived, unrecognised independent state on the island of Anguilla (11 July 1967 – 18 March 1969)

Bashkir national and territorial autonomy in 1917-1919

first independent government of Venezuela

1917 Russian political committee

thumb|In 1921, Major Gyula Ostenburg-Moravek leads a detachment of mounted gendarmes through Sopron in support of the West-Hungarians who are protesting the Trianon Treaty which would turn over West Hungary to Austria. thumb|A provisional 20 Hungarian forint|forint stamp, issued on 12 October 1921 thumb|A provisional 2.5 forint stamp thumb|Pál Prónay, leader of the Rongyos Gárda Lajtabánság (; ), or the Banate of Leitha, was a short-lived western Hungarian state in the region that today forms the Austrian state of Burgenland. It existed between 4 October and 10 November 1921, following the Tre

short-lived country that existed from 1919 to 1920 during the Russian Civil War

former country

short-lived rebellion in 1824 in Brazil

short-lived October-November 1918 republic in Eastern Europe

African country from 1963 to 1964

Short-Lived Republic in Central America from 1896 to 1898

former country

unrecognized state in Cabinda Province, Angola (1975–76)

1848-49 autonomous region in Austrian Serbia

1945 Japanese puppet state

Russian White movement government, 1920

short-lived socialist republic

former country

Yugoslav territory liberated from the Nazis

Post–Russian Empire government

self-proclaimed Ukrainian government established on the Ukrainian territories occupied by Nazi Germany

protostate existing between 1992–1995

European polity

de facto government of North Korea 1946-1947

1906 autonomous Gagauz republic in Russia

reestablished Venezuelan Republic declared by Simón Bolívar

Administrative body in southern Russia, 1918–19

occupation of Western Armenia by the Russian Empire during World War I

unrecognized republic in Western Europe between 1789–1791

short-lived 1810 republic in North America

former country

Self-proclaimed Serbian Oblast in Bosnia and Herzegovina

former unrecognized state in Central Asia