Proposed country

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The term "proposed country" or "aspirant nation" refers to countries or states that have been or still are considered (by scholars, politicians, or various social or separatist movements) to be potentially viable entities but do not currently exist as independent states.

Contents 1 List of proposed states 1.1 Africa 1.2 Asia 1.3 Europe 1.4 North America 1.5 Oceania 1.6 South America 2 See also 3 References

[edit] List of proposed states

This is a list of various proposed countries and states.

[edit] Africa

Adal Ambazonia Anjouan (Nzwani) Ankole Azawad Barotseland Batwa (Pygmies) Biafra (defunct) Bioko Bophuthatswana (defunct) Republic of Bukavu Buganda Bunyoro Cabinda

Caprivi Strip (Itenge) Casamance Ciskei (defunct) Darfur Kabylia Kanowra Katanga Kongo Maasai Matabeleland Mwali (defunct) Nile State Ogaden Ogoni

Oodua Oromo Rif Somaliland South Kasai Southern Cameroons (former Ambazonia) Tenere Tigre Toro Transkei (defunct) Vhavenda Volkstaat Western Sahara Zanzibar

[edit] Asia

Aceh see also Free Aceh Movement Ahwazi Arakan Asom Assyria Badakhshan Balawaristan Balochistan Bangabhumi Bangsamoro Bodoland Buryatia; see also Buryat Champa Chin Chittagong Hill Tracts Chukotka Cordillera Dhofar Dravidistan East Turkestan Far East Republic Gilan (Guilan) Gorkhaland Great Timor Hawar Islands

Hejaz Inner Mongolia Iraqi Turkmen Israstine Jebel ed Druze Jharkhand[citation needed] Kachinland Karakalpakstan Karenni State (Kayah State) Kashmir see also Kashmir dispute Kawthoolei Khalistan Khmer Krom Koryakia Kurdistan Ladakh[citation needed] Latakia Manchuria Manipur Maphilindo Mon Montagnards Nagalim Nan Chao

Ningxia Northern Cyprus Palestine Pashtunistan Pattani Ryukyu Islands Sabah Sakha Sarawak Shan Sikkim[citation needed] Sindh South Moluccas Suvadives Taiwan Talysh-Mughan Tamil Eelam Tibet; see also Central Tibetan Administration Tripura Tuva Wa Waziristan West Balochistan Zogam

[edit] Europe

Abkhazia Ajaristan Åland Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia Alsace Ausonia Azores Balkania Bashkortostan Bavaria Brittany Canary Islands Catalonia; see also Catalan Countries Cem Romengo Chuvashia Circassia Cornwall Corsica Crimea Dagestan England Europe Euskadi Faroe Islands Flanders Fryslân

Gagauzia Galiza Greeks in Albania Grischun Herceg Bosna Hungarians in Romania Ichkeria Illyrida Ingria Ingushetia Ireland Kalmykia Karelia Komi Kumyk León Lusatia Madeira Mannin Mari; see also Mari El Międzymorze Mordvinia Nagorno-Karabakh Occitania Ossetia

Padania Romande Romastan Rusyns Sanjak Sapmi (Lapland) Sardinia Savoy Serbian Krajina Scania (Skåneland) Scotland Sicily Silesia Srpska Székelyföld Tatarstan Transnistria Tyrol Udmurtia Veneto Waldensia Wales Wallonia Zetland

[edit] North America

Alaska Anguilla Aruba Aztlán Bermuda Buffalo River Dene Nation Dinetah California Cascadia Conch Republic Confederate States of America

Greenland Guadeloupe Haida Gwaii Haudenosaunee Lakota (Dakota or Sioux Indians) Martinique Mosquitia Nevis Newfoundland North American Technate

Nunavut Nuxálk Puerto Rico Quebec San Francisco Texas Tri-Insula Vermont Yucatan

[edit] Oceania

Aborigines of Australia Banaba Bougainville Cook Islands EnenKio

Hawai'i Kanaky Maohi Rotuma

Tahiti Tūhoe West Papua Zealandia

[edit] South America

Acre Antioquia

Guiana Mapuche

Pampas Zulia

[edit] See also

• List of active autonomist and secessionist movements
• List of unrecognized countries
• Micronations
• United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories
• Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
• Wars of national liberation

[edit] References

• Minahan, James, Nations Without States, Greenwood Press, 1996, ISBN 0-313-28354-0