List of sovereign states in 1928
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Sovereign states
A
Afghanistan - Kingdom of Afghanistan
Capital: Kabul
Albania
Capital: Tirana- Albanian Republic (to September 1)
- Albanian Kingdom (from September 1)
Andorra - Principality of Andorra
Argentina - Argentine Republic
Australia - Commonwealth of Australia
Austria - Federal State of Austria
B
Belgium - Kingdom of Belgium
Bolivia - Republic of Bolivia
Brazil - Republic of the United States of Brazil
Bulgaria - Kingdom of Bulgaria
C
Canada - Dominion of Canada
Chile - Republic of Chile
China - Republic of China
Colombia - Republic of Colombia
Costa Rica - Republic of Costa Rica
Cuba - Republic of Cuba
Czechoslovakia - Czechoslovak Republic
D
Danzig - Free City of Danzig
Denmark - Kingdom of Denmark
Dominican Republic
E
Ecuador - Republic of Ecuador
Egypt - Kingdom of Egypt
El Salvador - Republic of El Salvador
Estonia - Republic of Estonia
Ethiopia - Ethiopian Empire
F
G
H
I
J
Japan - Empire of Japan
L
Latvia - Republic of Latvia
Liberia - Republic of Liberia
Liechtenstein - Principality of Liechtenstein
Lithuania - Republic of Lithuania
Luxembourg - Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
M
Mexico - United Mexican States
Monaco - Principality of Monaco
Mongolia - Mongolian People's Republic
N
Nejd and Hejaz - Kingdom of Nejd and Hejaz (Personal Union)
Nepal - Kingdom of Nepal
Netherlands - Kingdom of the Netherlands
Newfoundland - Dominion of Newfoundland
New Zealand - Dominion of New Zealand
Nicaragua - Republic of Nicaragua
Norway - Kingdom of Norway
P
Panama - Republic of Panama
Paraguay - Republic of Paraguay
Persia - Imperial State of Persia
Peru - Peruvian Republic
Poland - Republic of Poland
Portugal - Portuguese Republic
R
Romania - Kingdom of Romania
S
San Marino - Most Serene Republic of San Marino
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes - Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes
Siam - Kingdom of Siam
South Africa - Union of South Africa
Soviet Union - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Spain - Kingdom of Spain
Sweden - Kingdom of Sweden
Switzerland - Swiss Confederation
T
Turkey - Republic of Turkey
U
United Kingdom - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
United States - United States of America
Uruguay - Eastern Republic of Uruguay
V
Venezuela - United States of Venezuela
Y
Yemen - Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen
Other states
Non-Sovereign Territories
Australia
- Norfolk Island - Territory of Norfolk Island (External territory)
Papua - Territory of Papua (External territory)
Belgium
Belgian Congo (Colony)- Tientsin (Concession)
Condominiums
- Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Anglo-Egyptian condominium)
New Hebrides (Anglo-French condominium)
Denmark
- Greenland (Possession)
France
Adélie Land (Uninhabited possession)- French Equatorial Africa (Colony)
- French Guiana (Colony)
- French India - French Establishments in India (Colony)
French Indochina (Federation of protectorates)- French Oceania - French Establishments in Oceania (Colony)
- French Somaliland (Colony)
- French West Africa (Colony)
- Guadeloupe (Colony)
- Madagascar (Colony)
- Martinique (Colony)
Morocco - Sultanate of Morocco (de jure sovereign state under French and Spanish protectorate)[1][2]- New Caledonia - New Caledonia and Dependencies (Colony)
- Réunion (Colony)
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon (Colony)
- Shanghai (Concession)
- Tientsin (Concession)
Tunisia - Tunisian Realm (Protectorate)
International
Saar - Territory of the Saar Basin (International territory under League of Nations supervision)
Shanghai - Shanghai International Settlement (International concession)
Tangier - City of Tangier (de jure Moroccan city under international administration)
Italy
Eritrea (Colony)- Italian Cyrenaica (Colony)
- Italian Somaliland (Colony)
- Italian Tripolitania (Colony)
- Tientsin (Concession)
Japan
- Chōsen (Dependency)
- Karafuto - Karafuto Prefecture (Dependency)
- Kwantung - Kwantung Leased Territory (Concession)
- Taiwan (Dependency)
- Tientsin (Concession)
League of Nations Mandates
British Cameroons (administered by the United Kingdom)
British Togoland (Administered by the United Kingdom)- French Cameroons (administered by France)
- French Togoland (Administered by France)
- Nauru (Administered by Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom)
- New Guinea - Territory of New Guinea (Administered by Australia)
- Palestine (Administered by the United Kingdom)
Transjordan - Emirate of Transjordan (administered by the United Kingdom)
- Ruanda-Urundi (Administered by Belgium)
- South Pacific Mandate (Administered by Japan)
- South-West Africa (Administered by South Africa)
- Syria and Lebanon (Administered by France)
Alawite State - Alawite State (Administered by France)
Jabal ad-Druze - Jabal ad-Druze State (Administered by France)
Lebanon - Lebanese Republic (Administered by France)
Syria - State of Syria (Administered by France)
Tanganyika - Tanganyika Territory (Administered by the United Kingdom)
Western Samoa (Administered by New Zealand)
Not enacted
Mesopotamia - Kingdom of Iraq (Administered by the United Kingdom)
Mexico
- Isla de la Pasión (Uninhabited territory)
Nejd
Asir - Emirate of Asir (Protectorate)
Netherlands
- Curaçao and Dependencies (Colony)
- Dutch East Indies (Colony)
- Surinam (Colony)
New Zealand
- Cook Islands (Dependent territory)
- Niue Island (Dependent territory)
- Ross Dependency (Uninhabited dependent territory)
- Union Islands (Dependent territory)
Norway
- Bouvet Island (Uninhabited possession)
- Sverdrup Islands (Uninhabited possession)
Portugal
- Portuguese Cape Verde (Colony)
- Macau (Colony)
- Portuguese East Africa (Colony)
- Portuguese Guinea (Colony)
- Portuguese India - Portuguese State of India (Colony)
- Portuguese Timor (Colony)
- Portuguese West Africa (Colony)
- São João Baptista de Ajudá - Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá (Possession)
- São Tomé and Príncipe (Colony)
Spain
- Ifni (Colony)
- Spanish Guinea (Colony)
- Morocco - Sultanate of Morocco (de jure sovereign state under French and Spanish protectorate)[1][2]
- Spanish Sahara (Colony)
United Kingdom
Bahama Islands (Crown colony)
Bahrain - State of Bahrain (Protectorate)- Baker Island (Uninhabited possession)
Barbados (Crown colony)- Basutoland - Territory of Basutoland (Crown colony)
- Bechuanaland - Bechuanaland Protectorate (Protectorate)
Bermuda (Crown colony)- Bhutan - Kingdom of Bhutan (Independent state under Treaty of Punakha)
British Guiana (Crown colony)
British Honduras (Crown colony)
British Leeward Islands - Federal Colony of the Leeward Islands (Crown colony)- British Somaliland - British Somaliland Protectorate (Protectorate)
- British Western Pacific Territories (Crown colony)
British Windward Islands - Federal Colony of the Windward Islands (Crown colony)
Brunei - State of Brunei (Protectorate)
Ceylon (Crown colony)
Cyprus (Crown colony)- Falkland Islands (Crown colony)
Federated Malay States (Protectorate)
Gambia - Gambia Colony and Protectorate (Crown colony and protectorate)
Gibraltar (Crown colony)- Gold Coast (Crown colony)
Guernsey - Bailiwick of Guernsey (Crown dependency)- Heard Island and McDonald Islands (Uninhabited possession)
Hong Kong (Crown colony)
India - Indian Empire (Crown colony)
Isle of Man (Crown dependency)
Jamaica (Crown colony)- Jarvis Island (Uninhabited possession)
Jersey - Bailiwick of Jersey (Crown dependency)
Johor - State of Johor Darul Ta'zim (Protectorate)
Kedah - State of Kedah Darul Aman (Protectorate)
Kelantan - State of Kelantan Darul Naim (Protectorate)
Kenya - Kenya Colony and Protectorate (Crown colony and protectorate)
Kuwait - State of Kuwait (Protectorate)
Maldive Islands - Sultanate of the Maldive Islands (Protectorate)
Malta (Crown colony)
Mauritius (Crown colony)
Muscat and Oman - Sultanate of Muscat and Oman (State under the informal protection)
Nigeria - Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria (Crown colony and protectorate)
North Borneo (Protectorate)- Northern Rhodesia - Protectorate of Northern Rhodesia (Protectorate)
Nyasaland - Nyasaland Protectorate (Protectorate)
Perlis - State of Perlis Indera Kayangan (Protectorate)
Qatar - State of Qatar (Protectorate)
Saint Helena (Crown colony)
Sarawak - Kingdom of Sarawak (Protectorate)- Seychelles (Crown colony)
- Sierra Leone - Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate (Crown colony and protectorate)
Southern Rhodesia - Colony of Southern Rhodesia (Crown colony)
Straits Settlements (Crown colony)- Swaziland - Swaziland Protectorate (Protectorate)
Terengganu - State of Terengganu Darul Iman (Protectorate)
Trinidad and Tobago (Crown colony)- Tristan da Cunha (Crown colony)
Trucial States (Protectorate)
Uganda (Crown colony)- Victoria Land (Uninhabited possession)
Weihaiwei (Concession)
Zanzibar - Sultanate of Zanzibar (Protectorate)
United States
Alaska - Alaska Territory (Territory)- American Samoa - Territory of American Samoa (Territory)
- Corn Islands (Territory)
- Guam - Territory of Guam (Territory)
Hawaii - Territory of Hawaii (Territory)- Howland Island (Uninhabited territory)
- Johnston Atoll (Uninhabited territory)
- Kingman Reef (Uninhabited territory)
- Midway Atoll (Uninhabited territory)
- Navassa Island (Uninhabited territory)
Panama Canal Zone (Territory)- Petrel Islands (Uninhabited territory)
Philippine Islands (Territory)- Puerto Rico (Territory)
- Quita Sueno Bank (Uninhabited territory)
- Roncador Bank (Uninhabited territory)
- Serrana Bank (Uninhabited territory)
- Serranilla Bank (Uninhabited territory)
- Swan Islands (Uninhabited territory)
United States Virgin Islands (Territory)- Wake Island (Uninhabited territory)
