List of successful coups d'état
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These coups d'état succeeded in suddenly replacing a country's government. The list does not include sustained military or political campaigns, nor secession movements.
- Afghanistan in 1973 under Mohammed Daoud Khan
- Afghanistan in 1978 under Nur Muhammad Taraki
- Algeria in 1965 under Houari Boumedienne
- Algeria in 1992 under Khaled Nezzar
- Argentina in 1930 under José Félix Uriburu
- Argentina in 1943 under Arturo Rawson Corvalán
- Argentina in 1955 under Eduardo Lonardi
- Argentina in 1962
- Argentina in 1966 under Juan Carlos Onganía
- Argentina in 1976 under Jorge Rafael Videla
- Azerbaijan in 1993 under Suret Huseynov
- Bangladesh in 1975
- Bangladesh in 1982 under Hossain Mohammad Ershad
- Bolivia in 1964 under René Barrientos
- Bolivia in 1971 under Hugo Banzer Suárez
- Bolivia in 1980 under Luis García Meza Tejada
- Brazil in 1964 under Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco
- Bulgaria in 1944 under Kimon Georgiev
- Burkina Faso in 1987 under Blaise Compaoré
- Burma in 1962 under Ne Win
- Burma in 1988 under Saw Maung
- Burundi in 1966 under Michel Micombero
- Burundi in 1996 under Pierre Buyoya
- Cambodia in 1970 under Lon Nol
- Central African Republic in 1966 under Jean-Bédel Bokassa
- Central African Republic in 1981 under André Kolingba
- Central African Republic in 2003 under François Bozizé
- Chad in 1975 under Noël Milarew Odingar
- Chile in 1924 under Luis Altamirano Talavera
- Chile in 1973 under Augusto Pinochet
- Ciskei in 1990 under Oupa Gqozo
- Colombia in 1953 under Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
- Comoros in 1999 under Azali Assoumani
- Congo-Brazzaville in 1968 under Marien Ngouabi
- Congo-Léopoldville in 1960 under Joseph Mobutu
- Costa Rica in 1870 under Bruno Carranza Ramírez
- Costa Rica in 1876 under Vicente Herrera Zeledón
- Costa Rica in 1917 under Federico Tinoco Granados
- Côte d'Ivoire in 1999 under Robert Guéi
- Cuba in 1952 under Fulgencio Batista
- Cyprus in 1974 under Nikos Sampson
- Dahomey in 1963 under Christophe Soglo
- Dahomey in 1972 under Mathieu Kérékou
- Dominican Republic in 1963 under Emilio de los Santos
- Ecuador in 1925 under Luis Telmo Paz y Miño
- Ecuador in 1935 under Federico Páez
- Ecuador in 1963 under Ramón Castro Jijón
- Ecuador in 1972 under Guillermo Rodríguez
- Ecuador in 2000 under Lucio Gutiérrez
- Egypt in 1952 under Gamal Abdel Nasser
- El Salvador in 1931 under Maximiliano Hernández Martínez
- El Salvador in 1948 under Manuel de Jesús Córdova
- El Salvador in 1960
- El Salvador in 1979
- Equatorial Guinea in 1979 under Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
- Estonia in 1934 under Konstantin Päts
- Fiji in 1987 under Sitiveni Rabuka
- Fiji in 2000 under Frank Bainimarama
- Fiji in 2006 under Frank Bainimarama
- France in 1799 under Napoleon I
- France in 1851 under Napoleon III
- Ethiopia in 1974 under the Derg
- Gambia in 1994 under Yahya Jammeh
- Georgia in 1992 under Eduard Shevardnadze
- Ghana in 1966 under Joseph Arthur Ankrah
- Ghana in 1972 under Ignatius Kutu Acheampong
- Ghana in 1981 under Jerry John Rawlings
- Greece in 1967 under Georgios Papadopoulos
- Grenada in 1979 under Maurice Bishop
- Grenada in 1983 under Bernard Coard
- Guatemala in 1963 under Enrique Peralta Azurdia
- Guatemala in 1982 under Efraín Ríos Montt
- Guinea in 1984 under Lansana Conté
- Guinea-Bissau in 1980 under João Bernardo Vieira
- Guinea-Bissau in 1999 under Ansumane Mané
- Guinea-Bissau in 2003 under Veríssimo Correia Seabra
- Haiti in 1946 under Dumarsais Estimé
- Haiti in 1956 under Paul Eugène Magloire
- Haiti 1991 September 30 and 2004 February 29 democratically-elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide forced to flee.
- Honduras in 1956
- Honduras in 1963 under Oswaldo López Arellano
- Honduras in 1972 under Oswaldo López Arellano
- Honduras in 1975 under Juan Alberto Melgar Castro
- Honduras in 1978 under Policarpo Paz García
- Indonesia in 1966 under Haji Mohammad Suharto
- Iran in 1921 under Reza Pahlavi
- Iran in 1953 under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- Iraq in 1958 under Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i and Abdul Karim Qassim
- Iraq in 1963 under Abdul Salam Arif
- Iraq in 1968 under Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr
- South Korea in 1961 under Park Chung Hee
- South Korea in 1979 under Chun Doo-hwan
- Laos in 1960 under Kong Le
- Latvia in 1934 under Kārlis Ulmanis
- Lesotho in 1986 under Justin Metsing Lekhanya
- Liberia in 1980 under Samuel K. Doe
- Libya in 1969 under Muammar al-Qaddafi
- Lithuania in 1926 under Antanas Smetona
- Madagascar in 1972 under Gabriel Ramanantsoa
- Mali in 1968 under Moussa Traoré
- Mali in 1991 under Amadou Toumani Touré
- Mauritania in 1978 under Mustafa Ould Salek
- Mauritania in 2005 under Ely Ould Mohamed Vall
- Muscat and Oman in 1970 under Qaboos bin Said
- Niger in 1974 under Seyni Kountché
- Niger in 1996 under Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara
- Nigeria in 1966 under Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu
- Nigeria in 1983 under Muhammadu Buhari
- Nigeria in 1985 under Ibrahim Babangida
- Panama in 1968 under Omar Torrijos
- Pakistan in 1958 under Ayub Khan
- Pakistan in 1977 under Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
- Pakistan in 1999 under Pervez Musharraf
- Paraguay in 1989 under Andrés Rodríguez
- Peru in 1914 under Óscar Benavides
- Peru in 1919 under Augusto B. Leguía y Salcedo
- Peru in 1930 under Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro
- Peru in 1948 under Manuel A. Odría
- Peru in 1962 under Ricardo Pérez Godoy
- Peru in 1968 under Juan Velasco Alvarado
- Poland in 1926 under Józef Piłsudski
- Portugal in 1926 under Gomes da Costa
- Portugal in 1974 under António de Spínola
- Romania in 1944
- Russia in 1917 under Vladimir Lenin
- Rwanda in 1973 under Juvénal Habyarimana
- São Tomé and Príncipe in 1995 under Manuel Quintas de Almeida
- São Tomé and Príncipe in 2003 under Fernando Pereira
- Seychelles in 1977 under France-Albert René
- Sierra Leone in 1967 under David Lansana
- Sierra Leone in 1992 under Valentine Strasser
- Sierra Leone in 1997 under Johnny Paul Koroma
- Solomon Islands in 2000 by the Malaitan Eagle Force
- Somalia in 1969 under Muhammad Siad Barre
- Spain in 1936 under Francisco Franco
- Sudan in 1958 under Ibrahim Abboud
- Sudan in 1969 under Gaafar al-Nimeiry
- Sudan in 1985 under Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab
- Sudan in 1989 under Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir
- Suriname in 1980 under Dési Bouterse
- Suriname in 1990 under Ivan Graanoogst
- Syria in 1966 under Salah Jadid
- Syria in 1970 under Hafez al-Assad
- Thailand in 2006 under Sonthi Boonyaratglin
- Togo in 1963 under Étienne Eyadéma
- Transkei in 1987 under Bantu Holomisa
- Tunisia in 1987 under Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
- Uganda in 1966 under Milton Obote
- Uganda in 1971 under Idi Amin
- Upper Volta in 1966 under Sangoulé Lamizana
- Upper Volta in 1980 under Saye Zerbo
- Upper Volta in 1982 under Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo
- Upper Volta in 1983 under Thomas Sankara
- Uruguay in 1933 under Gabriel Terra
- Uruguay] in 1973
- Venda in 1990 under Gabriel Ramushwana
- Venezuela in 1948 under Carlos Delgado Chalbaud
- Venezuela in 2002 under Pedro Carmona (success often disputed; Carmona occupied the presidential office for roughly a day)
- South Vietnam in 1963 under Duong Van Minh
- Yemen in 1962 under Abdullah as-Sallal
- Yemen Arab Republic in 1974 under Ibrahim al-Hamadi
- Zanzibar in 1964 under John Okello
