List of former sovereign states
Ancient (see also ancient civilizations)
- Ur, Uruk, Kish, etc (Sumerian city-states)
- Old Babylonia
- New Babylonia
- Hittites
- Assyria
- Adiabene
- Commagene
- Persian Empire
- Ancient Israel
- Athens, Sparta, Syracuse, etc (Hellenic city-states)
- Empire of Alexander the Great (what is it called?)
- Carthage
- Indus Valley Civilisation
- Roman Republic, Roman Empire
- Magadhan Empire
- Mongol Empire
- Tang China
- Egyptian Empire
- Aztec Empire
- Mayan Empire Maya (civilization) Mayas Mayan Mayans (When somebody creates this please make these other headings redirect to it. Thanks.)
- Incan Empire (Tawatinsuyu, Inca, Inka, Incans)
- Iroquois Confederation
- Anasazi
Medieval
- States in Medieval Britain
- Kievan Rus
- Khazar Empire
- Byzantine Empire
- Frankish Kingdom
- Holy Roman Empire
- Ottoman Empire
- Republic of Venice
- Hanseatic League -- neither a country nor an empire
Modern
- Austria-Hungary - became Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia
- Basutoland - became Lesotho
- Bechuanaland - became Botswana
- Belgian Congo - became Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Bophuthatswana
- British Guiana - became Guyana
- British Honduras - became Belize
- British Somaliland - became Somalia
- Biafra
- Burma - became Myanmar
- Ceylon - became Sri Lanka
- Ciskei
- Confederate States of America - rejoined the United States after failed secession attempt and civil war
- Congo Free State - became the Belgian Congo
- Czechoslovakia - became the Czech Republic and Slovakia
- Danish West Indies - sold to the United States
- Fiume (under occupation by Gabrielle D'Annunzio)
- French Dahomey - now Benin
- French Equatorial Africa
- French Somaliland - became Djibouti
- French Sudan - became Mali
- French West Africa - became Algeria, Morocco, Ivory Coast
- German Democratic Republic - united with West Germany to form a united Germany
- German Empire - became the Weimar Republic
- German South-West Africa - became Namibia
- Gold Coast - became Ghana
- Ifni - incorporated into Morocco
- Ivory Coast - became Côte d'Ivoire
- Java
- Kalat
- Katanga
- Middle Congo - became Republic of Congo
- Naples Kingdom
- Netherlands East Indies - became Indonesia
- Netherlands Guiana - became Suriname
- Nyasaland - became Malawi
- Ottoman Empire - became multiple indepedent countries including Turkey
- Oubangui-Chari - became Central African Republic
- Persia - became Iran
- Portuguese Cabinda - became part of Angola
- Portuguese East Africa - became Mozambique
- Portuguese Guinea - became Guinea-Bissau
- Portuguese India - became part of India
- Portuguese Timor - became East Timor
- Portuguese West Africa - became Angola
- Prussia - abolished in 1947
- Republic of Texas - became part of the United States
- Rhodesia - became Zambia and Zimbabwe
- Spanish Guinea - became Equatorial Guinea
- Spanish Sahara - became Western Sahara
- Tannu Tuva
- German/British Tanganyika - became Tanzania
- Tavolara island, (now in Sardinia), smallest kingdom in the world
- Tibet
- Transkei
- Tuvalu - still exists, but evacuation is being planned
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
- United Arab Republic - became Egypt and Syria
- Upper Volta - became Burkina Faso
- Venda
- Yugoslavia
- Zaire - became Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Zanzibar - became part of Tanzania
see also Lost cities