States recognised by the United Nations

State   Head of state   Head of government  

 Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai
Prime Minister Sali
 Albania President Bamir Topi
Berisha
Prime Minister Ahmed
 Algeria President Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Ouyahia
Co-Prince Joan Enric Vives Sicília
Representative Nemesi Marqués Oste Head of Government
 Andorra
Co-Prince Nicolas Sarkozy Albert Pintat
Representative Philippe Massoni
Prime Minister Paulo
 Angola President José Eduardo dos Santos
Kassoma
 Antigua and Queen Elizabeth II [1]
Prime Minister Baldwin
Barbuda Governor General Louise Lake-Tack Spencer
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
 Argentina
Prime Minister Tigran
 Armenia President Serzh Sargsyan
Sargsyan
Queen Elizabeth II[1] Prime Minister Kevin
 Australia
Governor General Quentin Bryce Rudd
Chancellor Alfred
 Austria President Heinz Fischer
Gusenbauer
Prime Minister Artur
 Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev
Rasizade
Queen Elizabeth II[1] Prime Minister Hubert
Bahamas
Governor General Arthur Dion Hanna Ingraham
Prime Minister Khalifah
 Bahrain King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah
ibn Sulman Al Khalifah
Chief Adviser Fakhruddin
 Bangladesh President Iajuddin Ahmed Ahmed
Queen Elizabeth II[1] Prime Minister David
 Barbados
Governor General Clifford Husbands Thompson
Prime Minister Sergey
 Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko
Sidorsky
Prime Minister Yves
 Belgium King Albert II
Leterme
Queen Elizabeth II[1] Prime Minister Dean
 Belize
Governor General Colville Young Barrow
 Benin President Yayi Boni
Prime Minister Jigme
 Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck
Thinley
 Bolivia President Evo Morales
 Chairman of the Presidency Nebojša
 Bosnia and Radmanović[2] Prime Minister Nikola
Herzegovina Presidency Member Željko Komšić Špirić
Presidency Member Haris Silajdžić
 Botswana President Ian Khama
 Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
 Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
Prime Minister Sergey
 Bulgaria President Georgi Parvanov
Stanishev
Prime Minister Tertius
 Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaoré
Zongo
Chairman of the State Peace and Development
 Burma Prime Minister Thein Sein
Council Than Shwe
 Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza
 Cambodia King Norodom Sihamoni Prime Minister Hun Sen
Prime Minister Ephraïm
 Cameroon President Paul Biya
Inoni
Queen Elizabeth II [1]
Prime Minister Stephen
 Canada
Governor General Michaëlle Jean Harper
Prime Minister José Maria
 Cape Verde President Pedro Pires
Neves
 Central
Prime Minister Faustin-
African President François Bozizé
Archange Touadéra
Republic
Prime Minister Youssouf
 Chad President Idriss Déby
Saleh Abbas
 Chile President Michelle Bachelet
China President Hu Jintao Premier Wen Jiabao
 Colombia President Álvaro Uribe
 Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi
Congo-
President Denis Sassou-Nguesso
Brazzaville
Congo- Prime Minister Adolphe
President Joseph Kabila
Kinshasa Muzito
 Costa Rica President Óscar Arias
Prime Minister Ivo
 Croatia President Stjepan Mesić
Sanader
 Cuba President of the Council of State Raúl Castro
 Cyprus President Dimitris Christofias
 Czech Prime Minister Mirek
President Václav Klaus
Republic Topolánek
Prime Minister Anders
 Denmark Queen Margrethe II
Fogh Rasmussen
 Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh Prime Minister Dileita
 Mohamed Dileita
Prime Minister Roosevelt
 Dominica President Nicholas Liverpool
Skerrit
 Dominican
President Leonel Fernández
Republic
Prime Minister Xanana
East Timor President José Ramos-Horta
Gusmão
 Ecuador President Rafael Correa
Prime Minister Ahmed
 Egypt President Hosni Mubarak
Nazif
 El Salvador President Antonio Saca
 Equatorial Prime Minister Ignacio
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
Guinea Milam Tang
 Eritrea President Isaias Afewerki
Prime Minister Andrus
 Estonia President Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Ansip
Prime Minister Meles
 Ethiopia President Girma Wolde-Giorgis
Zenawi
Acting Prime Minister Frank
 Fiji President Josefa Iloilo Bainimarama
Prime Minister Matti
 Finland President Tarja Halonen
Vanhanen
Prime Minister François
 France President Nicolas Sarkozy
Fillon
Prime Minister Jean
 Gabon President Omar Bongo
Eyeghe Ndong
Gambia President Yahya Jammeh
Prime Minister Grigol
 Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili
Mgaloblishvili
 Germany President Horst Köhler Chancellor Angela Merkel
 Ghana President John Kufuor
Prime Minister Kostas
 Greece President Karolos Papoulias
Karamanlis
Queen Elizabeth II [1]
Prime Minister Tillman
 Grenada
Governor General Daniel Williams Thomas
 Guatemala President Álvaro Colom
 Guinea- Prime Minister Carlos
President João Bernardo Vieira
Bissau Correia
Prime Minister Ahmed
Guinea President Lansana Conté
Tidiane Souaré
 Guyana President Bharrat Jagdeo Prime Minister Sam Hinds
Prime Minister Michèle
 Haiti President René Préval
Pierre-Louis
 Honduras President Manuel Zelaya
 Prime Minister Ferenc
 Hungary President László Sólyom
Gyurcsány
Prime Minister Geir
 Iceland President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
Haarde
Prime Minister Manmohan
 India President Pratibha Patil
Singh
 Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
 Iran
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Jalal Talabani (Pres.),[3] Adil Abdul Mahdi Prime Minister Nouri al-
 Iraq
(VP), Tariq al-Hashimi (VP) Maliki
Ireland President Mary McAleese Taoiseach Brian Cowen
Prime Minister Ehud
 Israel President Shimon Peres
Olmert
Prime Minister Silvio
 Italy President Giorgio Napolitano
Berlusconi
Prime Minister Guillaume
Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo
Soro
Queen Elizabeth II [1]
Prime Minister Bruce
 Jamaica
Governor General Kenneth Hall Golding
 Japan Emperor Akihito Prime Minister Taro Aso
Prime Minister Nader al-
 Jordan King Abdullah II
Dahabi
Prime Minister Karim
 Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev
Massimov
Prime Minister Raila
 Kenya President Mwai Kibaki
Odinga
 Kiribati President Anote Tong
Prime Minister Nasser Al-
 Kuwait Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Mohammed Al-Ahmed
Al-Sabah
Prime Minister Igor
 Kyrgyzstan President Kurmanbek Bakiyev
Chudinov
Prime Minister Bouasone
 Laos President Choummaly Sayasone
Bouphavanh
Prime Minister Ivars
 Latvia President Valdis Zatlers
Godmanis
Prime Minister Fouad
 Lebanon President Michel Sleiman
Siniora
Prime Minister Pakalitha
 Lesotho King Letsie III
Mosisili
 Liberia President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
 Libya Guide of the Revolution Muammar al-Gaddafi
Secretary General of the General People's Prime Minister Baghdadi
 Congress Miftah Muhammed K'eba Mahmudi
Head of Government
 Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II
Prince-Regent Alois Otmar Hasler
Prime Minister Gediminas
 Lithuania President Valdas Adamkus
Kirkilas
Prime Minister Jean-
 Luxembourg Grand Duke Henri
Claude Juncker
Prime Minister Nikola
Macedonia President Branko Crvenkovski
Gruevski
Prime Minister Charles
 Madagascar President Marc Ravalomanana
Rabemananjara
 Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika
Prime Minister Abdullah
 Malaysia Yang di-Pertuan Agong Mizan Zainal Abidin
Ahmad Badawi
 Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed
Prime Minister Modibo
 Mali President Amadou Toumani Touré
Sidibé
Prime Minister Lawrence
 Malta President Edward Fenech Adami
Gonzi
 Marshall
President Litokwa Tomeing
Islands
President of the High Council of State Prime Minister Moulaye
 Mauritania
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz Ould Mohamed Laghdaf
Prime Minister Navin
 Mauritius President Anerood Jugnauth
Ramgoolam
 Mexico President Felipe Calderón
Micronesia President Manny Mori
Prime Minister Zinaida
 Moldova President Vladimir Voronin
Greceanîi
Minister of State Jean-Paul
 Monaco Prince Albert II
Proust
Prime Minister Sanjaagiin
 Mongolia President Nambaryn Enkhbayar
Bayar
Prime Minister Milo
 Montenegro President Filip Vujanović
Đukanović
Prime Minister Abbas El
 Morocco King Muhammad VI
Fassi
Prime Minister Luisa
 Mozambique President Armando Guebuza
Diogo
Prime Minister Nahas
 Namibia President Hifikepunye Pohamba
Angula
 Nauru President Marcus Stephen
Prime Minister Pushpa
 Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav
Kamal Dahal
 Prime Minister Jan Peter
 Netherlands Queen Beatrix
Balkenende
Prime Minister Helen
[1]
Clark
 New Zealand Queen Elizabeth II
Governor General Anand Satyanand Prime Minister-elect John
Key
 Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega
Prime Minister Seyni
 Niger President Tandja Mamadou
Oumarou
 Nigeria President Umaru Yar'Adua
Chairman of the National Defence Commission Kim Jong-il
 North Korea Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme
People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam Premier Kim Yong-il
Eternal President Kim Il-sung[4]
Prime Minister Jens
 Norway King Harald V
Stoltenberg
 Oman Sultan Qaboos
Prime Minister Yousaf
 Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari
Raza Gillani
President Tommy Remengesau
 Palau
President-elect Johnson Toribiong
 Panama President Martín Torrijos
 Papua New Queen Elizabeth II [1]
Prime Minister Michael
Guinea Governor General Paulias Matane Somare
 Paraguay President Fernando Lugo
Prime Minister Yehude
 Peru President Alan García
Simon
 Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Prime Minister Donald
 Poland President Lech Kaczyński
Tusk
Prime Minister José
 Portugal President Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Sócrates
Prime Minister Hamad ibn
 Qatar Emir Hamad bin Khalifa
Jaber Al Thani
Prime Minister Călin
 Romania President Traian Băsescu
Popescu-Tăriceanu
Prime Minister Vladimir
 Russia President Dmitry Medvedev
Putin
Prime Minister Bernard
 Rwanda President Paul Kagame
Makuza
 Saint Kitts Queen Elizabeth II [1]
Prime Minister Denzil
and Nevis Governor General Cuthbert Sebastian Douglas
Queen Elizabeth II [1]
Prime Minister Stephenson
 Saint Lucia
Governor General Pearlette Louisy King
 Saint Vincent
Queen Elizabeth II[1] Prime Minister Ralph
and the
Governor General Frederick Ballantyne Gonsalves
Grenadines
Prime Minister Tuilaepa
 Samoa O le Ao o le Malo Tufuga Efi
Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi
Captain Regent Ernesto Benedettini
 San Marino
Captain Regent Assunta Meloni
 São Tomé and Prime Minister Joaquim
President Fradique de Menezes
Príncipe Rafael Branco
 Saudi Arabia King Abdullah
Prime Minister Cheikh
 Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade
Hadjibou Soumaré
Prime Minister Mirko
 Serbia President Boris Tadić
Cvetković
 Seychelles President James Michel
 Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma
Prime Minister Lee Hsien
 Singapore President Sellapan Ramanathan
Loong
Prime Minister Robert
 Slovakia President Ivan Gašparovič
Fico
Prime Minister Borut
 Slovenia President Danilo Türk
Pahor
 Solomon Queen Elizabeth II [1]
Prime Minister Derek
Islands Governor General Nathaniel Waena Sikua
Prime Minister Nur
 Somalia President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed
Hassan Hussein
 South Africa President Kgalema Motlanthe
Prime Minister Han
 South Korea President Lee Myung-bak
Seung-soo
Prime Minister José Luis
 Spain King Juan Carlos
Rodríguez Zapatero
Prime Minister Ratnasiri
 Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa
Wickremanayake
 Sudan President Omar al-Bashir
 Suriname President Ronald Venetiaan
Prime Minister Barnabas
 Swaziland King Mswati III
Sibusiso Dlamini
Prime Minister Fredrik
 Sweden King Carl XVI Gustaf
Reinfeldt
[5]
Pascal Couchepin (Pres.), Hans-Rudolf Merz (VP), Moritz Leuenberger,
 Switzerland Samuel Schmid, Micheline Calmy-Rey, Doris Leuthard, Eveline Widmer-
Schlumpf
Prime Minister
 Syria President Bashar al-Assad
Muhammad Naji al-Otari
 Prime Minister Oqil
 Tajikistan President Emomalii Rahmon
Oqilov
Prime Minister Mizengo
 Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete
Pinda
Prime Minister Somchai
 Thailand King Bhumibol Adulyadej
Wongsawat
Prime Minister Gilbert
 Togo President Faure Gnassingbé
Houngbo
Prime Minister Feleti
 Tonga King George Tupou V
Sevele
 Trinidad and Prime Minister Patrick
President George Maxwell Richards
Tobago Manning
Prime Minister Mohamed
 Tunisia President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Ghannouchi
Prime Minister Recep
 Turkey President Abdullah Gül
Tayyip Erdoğan
 Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow
Queen Elizabeth II[1] Prime Minister Apisai
 Tuvalu
Governor General Filoimea Telito Ielemia
Prime Minister Apolo
 Uganda President Yoweri Museveni
Nsibambi
Prime Minister Yulia
 Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko
Tymoshenko
Prime Minister
 United Arab
President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Mohammed bin Rashid Al
Emirates
Maktoum
 United Prime Minister Gordon
Queen Elizabeth II
Kingdom Brown
President George W. Bush
 United States
President-elect Barack Obama
 Uruguay President Tabaré Vázquez
Prime Minister Shavkat
 Uzbekistan President Islom Karimov
Mirziyoyev
Prime Minister Edward
 Vanuatu President Kalkot Mataskelekele
Natapei
President of the
Vatican City Pope Benedict XVI Governorate Giovanni
Lajolo
 Venezuela President Hugo Chávez
Prime Minister Nguyễn
 Vietnam President Nguyễn Minh Triết
Tấn Dũng
Prime Minister Ali
 Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh
Muhammad Mujawar
 Zambia President Rupiah Banda
 Prime Minister-designate
 Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe
Morgan Tsvangirai

[edit] States recognised by United Nations member

states
State   Head of state   Head of government  
Abkhazia President Sergei Bagapsh Prime Minister Alexander Ankvab
Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi
Northern
President Mehmet Ali Talat Prime Minister Ferdi Sabit Soyer
Cyprus
Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas Prime Minister Salam Fayyad
 South
President Eduard Kokoyty[6] Prime Minister Aslanbek Bulatsev
Ossetia
Republic
President Ma Ying-jeou Premier Liu Chao-shiuan
of China
Western Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb
President Mohamed Abdelaziz
Sahara Oumar

[edit] States not recognised by the United Nations

This list encompass the leaders of geo-political entities that lack significant international
recognition. The degree of control these entities exert over their claimed territories may
vary.

State   Head of state   Head of government  

Nagorno- Prime Minister Arayik
President Bako Sahakyan
Karabakh Harutyunyan
 Somaliland President Dahir Riyale Kahin
Transnistria President Igor Smirnov

[edit] Notes