List of sovereign states in the 1770s
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Sovereign states
A
Adal – Adal Sultanate
Algiers – Sultanate of Algiers- Alipura – Alipura
Andorra – Principality of Andorra
Anhalt – Principality of Anhalt- Annam – Empire of Annam
- Ansbach – Principality of Ansbach
Arakan – Kingdom of Arakan
Ashanti – Asante Union- Assam – Kingdom of Assam
Atjeh – Aceh Sultanate
Austria – Archduchy of Austria
B
Baden – Margraviate of Baden
Bali – Kingdom of Bali- Bamana – Bamana Empire
Banten – Sultanate of Banten
Bavaria – Duchy of Bavaria
Benin – Benin Empire
Bhonsle – Kingdom of Bhonsle- Bhutan – Kingdom of Bhutan
- Bornu – Bornu Empire
Brunei – Sultanate of Brunei
Brunswick – Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Bukhara – Khanate of Bukhara
Burma – Kingdom of Burma
C
- Carnatic – Kingdom of Carnatic
- Cayor – Kingdom of Cayor
- Champa – Kingdom of Champa
- Champasak – Kingdom of Champasak
- China – Great Qing Empire
- Cologne – Electorate of Cologne
- Comancheria – Nʉmʉnʉʉ Sookobitʉ
Cospaia – Republic of Cospaia- Crimea – Crimean Khanate
D
- Dendi – Dendi Kingdom
Denmark–Norway – United Kingdoms of Denmark and Norway
Durrani – Durrani Empire
E
Ethiopia – Ethiopian Empire
F
France – Kingdom of France
G
- Gakhar – Kingdom of Gakhar
- Garo – Kingdom of Garo
Georgia – Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti
Genoa – Republic of Genoa
H
Hamburg – Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Hanover – Electorate of Hanover- Hausa – Hausa Tribe
- Hedjaz – Sultanate of Hedjaz
Hesse – Landgraviate of Hesse
Holstein – Duchy of Holstein
Hungary – Kingdom of Hungary
Hyderābād – Princely state of the British Raj
I
J
- Janjero – Kingdom of Janjero
- Japan – Tokugawa shogunate
Johor – Johor Sultanate- Jolof – Jolof Empire
K
- Kaffa – Kingdom of Kaffa
- Kanem Bornu – Kanem Bornu Empire
- Kazakh – Kazakh Khanate
Khiva – Khanate of Khiva- Khmer – Srok Khmer
- Kokand – Khanate of Kokand
Knights Hospitaller – Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, Knights of Malta, Knights of Rhodes, and Chevaliers of Malta
Kongo – Kingdom of Kongo
Korea – Kingdom of Great Joseon- Koya – Kingdom of Koya
- Kuba – Kuba Kingdom
Kurland – Duchy of Kurland
L
- Liège – Prince-Bishopric of Liège
- Loango – Kingdom of Loango
- Luang Prabang – Kingdom of Luang Prabang
M
- Madurai – Kingdom of Madurai
- Maharashtra – Kingdom of Maharashtra
- Mainz – Archbishopric of Mainz
- Malacca – Sultanate of Malacca
- Malta – Order of Saint John
- Manipur – Kingdom of Manipur
Maratha – Maratha Empire- Mataram – Mataram Sultanate
Mecklenburg – Duchy of Mecklenburg
Mindanao – Sultanate of Maguindanao
Modena – Duchies of Modena and Reggio
Moldavia – Principality of Moldavia
Monaco – Principality of Monaco
Montenegro – Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro
Morocco – Sultanate of Morocco- Mrauk U – Kingdom of Mrauk U
- Mughal Empire – Mughal Empire
- Mutapa – Empire of Mutapa
Mysore – Kingdom of Mysore
N
Najd – Sultanate of Najd
Nepal – Gorkha Kingdom of Nepal
Netherlands – Republic of the Seven United Netherlands- Ngoyo – Kingdom of Ngoyo
O
- Ottoman Empire – Sublime Ottoman State
- Oudh – Kingdom of Oudh
- Oyo – Oyo Empire
P
- Electorate of the Palatinate
Papal States – States of the Church
Parma – Duchy of Parma
Persia – Persian Empire
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth – Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Portugal
- Kingdom of Portugal (to 1777)
- Kingdom of Portugal (from 1777)
Prussia – Kingdom of Prussia- Punjab – Punjabi Empire
R
Ragusa – Republic of Ragusa- Rajputana – Kingdom of Rajputana
- Rapa Nui – Kingdom of Rapa Nui
- Rozwi – Rozwi Empire
Russia – Russian Empire
Ryūkyū – Kingdom of Ryūkyū
S
- Salzburg – Archbishopric of Salzburg
- Samoa – Kingdom of Samoa
San Marino – Most Serene Republic of San Marino
Sardinia – Kingdom of Sardinia
Saxony – Electorate of Saxony- Sennar – Funj sultanate of Sennar
Sharjah – Emirate of Sharjah- Shaybanid – Khanate of Shaybanid
Sicily – Kingdom of Sicily- Sikh – Sikh Confederacy
- Sind – Sultanate of Sind
Spain – Kingdom of Spain
Sulu – Sulu Sultanate- Swahili – Swahili Tribe
Sweden
- Sweden (to August 19, 1772)
- Kingdom of Sweden (from August 17, 1772)
Switzerland – Swiss Confederation
T
Teutonic Knights – Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem- Taungu – Kingdom of Taungu
Thonburi – Kingdom of Thonburi- Tirol – County of Tirol
- Tonga – Tu'i Tonga
- Tonkin – Empire of Tonkin
Travancore – Kingdom of Travancore- Trier – Archbishopric of Trier
- Tripoli – Sultanate of Tripoli
Tuscany – Grand Duchy of Tuscany
U
- United Colonies (from July 4, 1776, to September 9, 1776)[1][2][3]
- United States (from September 9, 1776)[1][4][5][6][3]
V
W
- Waalo – Kingdom of Waalo
Wallachia – Principality of Wallachia
Württemberg – Duchy of Württemberg- Würzburg – Bishopric of Würzburg
Y
Yemen – Kingdom of Yemen
Non-sovereign territories
Great Britain
British America – British America and the British West Indies
Netherlands
Dutch Cape Colony – Cape Colony
States claiming sovereignty
- Goust – Republic of Goust
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