State
|
Declaration
|
Date
|
Year
|
Association
|
Signatories |
First recognizing state
|
Albania |
Albanian Declaration of Independence |
November 28 |
1912 |
Ottoman Empire |
Assembly of Vlorë |
Austria-Hungary
|
Armenia |
Declaration of Independence of Armenia |
May 28 |
1918 |
Russia |
Armenian National Congress (1917) Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF Dashnak) |
Ottoman Empire
|
Armenia
|
Declaration of State Sovereignty of Armenia
|
August 23
|
1990
|
Soviet Union
|
Levon Ter-Petrosyan and Supreme Council of Armenia secretary Ara Sahakian
|
Lithuania
|
Republic of Artsakh
|
Proclamation of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic
|
September 2
|
1991
|
Soviet Union
|
Nagorno-Karabakh Regional and Shahumyan District Councils of People's Deputies of the Azerbaijan SSR
|
|
Azawad |
Azawadi declaration of independence |
April 6 |
2012 |
Mali |
National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad |
|
Azerbaijan |
Declaration of Independence of Azerbaijan |
May 28 |
1918 |
Russia |
Azerbaijani National Council (Hasan bey Aghayev, Fatali Khan Khoyski, Nasib Yusifbeyli, Jamo bey Hajinski, Şefi bey Rustambeyli, Nariman bey Narimanbeyov, Javad Malik-Yeganov, Mustafa Mahmudov) |
Ottoman Empire
|
Azerbaijan
|
Act on Restoration of State Independence of Azerbaijan
|
October 18
|
1991
|
Soviet Union
|
Supreme Council of Azerbaijan
|
Turkey
|
Bangladesh |
Proclamation of Bangladeshi Independence |
March 26 |
1971 |
Pakistan |
Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh
|
Bhutan
|
Belarus |
Third Constituent Charter |
March 25 |
1918 |
Russia |
Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic |
|
Belarus |
Announcement of the Declaration of Independence of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Byelorussia |
July 31 |
1920 |
Poland |
Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Byelorussia, trade unions |
Russia
|
Belarus |
Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic |
July 27 |
1990 |
Soviet Union |
Supreme Soviet of the BSSR |
Turkey
|
Belgium |
Belgian Declaration of Independence |
October 4 |
1830 |
Netherlands |
Provisional Government of Belgium |
|
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Bosnian Declaration of Independence |
March 1 |
1992 |
Yugoslavia |
|
Bulgaria
|
Bougainville |
Bougainville Declaration of Independence |
May |
1990 |
Papua New Guinea |
Bougainville Interim Government |
|
Brazil |
Declaration of the Independence of Brazil |
September 7 |
1822 |
Portugal |
Pedro I of Brazil |
United States
|
Bulgaria |
Bulgarian Declaration of Independence |
September 22 |
1908 |
Ottoman Empire |
Ferdinand of Bulgaria and the Government of Bulgaria |
Russia (5 February 1909)
|
Burma |
Burmese Declaration of Independence |
January 4 |
1948 |
United Kingdom |
|
|
Catalonia |
Declaration of the Catalan Republic as a state of the Iberian Federation |
April 14 |
1931 |
Spain |
Francesc Macià, Generalitat Government of Catalonia |
|
Catalonia |
Declaration of the Catalan state within the Federal Republic of Spain |
October 6 |
1934 |
Spain |
Lluís Companys, Generalitat Government of Catalonia |
|
Catalonia |
Declaration from the representatives of Catalonia as the Catalan Republic |
October 27 |
2017 |
Spain |
|
|
Central America |
Act of Independence of Central America |
September 15 |
1821 |
Spain |
|
|
Chile |
Chilean Declaration of Independence |
February 12 |
1818 |
Spain |
National Congress |
Portugal
|
Colombia |
Colombian Declaration of Independence |
July 20 |
1810 |
Spain |
|
|
Comoros |
Comorian Declaration of Independence |
July 6 |
1975 |
France |
- |
Guinea
|
Crimea |
Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Crimea |
March 11 |
2014 |
Ukraine |
Supreme Council of Crimea |
Russia
|
Croatia |
Declaration of the Establishment of the Sovereign and Independent Republic of Croatia |
June 25 |
1991 |
Yugoslavia |
|
Iceland
|
Czechoslovakia |
Czechoslovak Declaration of Independence |
October 18 |
1918 |
Austria-Hungary |
Czechoslovak National Council |
United States
|
Dominican Republic |
Dominican Declaration of Independence |
February 27 |
1844 |
Haiti |
|
United Kingdom
|
East Timor |
East Timorese declaration of independence |
November 28 |
1975 |
Portugal |
|
Morocco
|
Egypt |
Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence |
February 28 |
1922 |
United Kingdom |
Unilateral grant of independence by the British government |
United Kingdom
|
Estonia |
Estonian Declaration of Independence |
February 24 |
1918 |
Russia |
Salvation Committee |
Russia
|
Estonia |
Estonian Reconfirmation of Independence |
August 20 |
1991 |
Soviet Union |
Congress of Estonia |
Iceland (reconfirmed earlier recognition)
|
Finland |
Finnish Declaration of Independence |
December 6 |
1917 |
Russia |
Parliament of Finland |
Russia
|
First Mexican Empire (present day Mexico) |
Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire (real independence)[clarification needed] |
September 28 |
1821 |
Spain |
Supreme Provisional Governmental Board |
United Kingdom (January 4, 1825)[2]
|
Florida |
Florida's Constitution of 1861 |
January 10 |
1861 |
United States |
Florida State Legislature |
|
Galicia |
Declaration of the Republic of Galicia |
June 27 |
1931 |
Spain |
|
|
Georgia, Democratic Republic of |
Georgian Declaration of Independence, 1918 |
May 26 |
1918 |
Russia |
Georgian National Council |
Germany
|
Georgia, Republic of |
Act of Restoration of State Independence of Georgia |
April 9 |
1991[3] |
Soviet Union |
Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia |
Switzerland
|
Georgia, State of |
Georgia's secession declaration |
January 29 |
1861 |
United States |
|
|
Greece |
Greek Declaration of Independence |
January 1 OS |
1822 |
Ottoman Empire |
First National Assembly |
Haiti (1822)
|
Guinea-Bissau |
Guinea-Bissau Declaration of Independence |
September 24 |
1973 |
Portugal |
|
|
Haiti |
Haitian Declaration of Independence |
January 1 |
1804 |
France |
Jean-Jacques Dessalines |
France (April 17, 1825)[4]
|
Hungary |
Hungarian Declaration of Independence |
April 14 |
1849 |
Habsburgs |
|
|
Iceland |
Icelandic Declaration of Independence |
June 17 |
1944 |
Denmark |
|
United States
|
India |
Declaration of the Independence of India |
January 26 |
1930 |
United Kingdom |
|
|
Indonesia |
Proclamation of Indonesian Independence |
August 17 |
1945 |
Netherlands |
Sukarno & Mohammad Hatta |
Kingdom of Egypt[5]
|
Iraq |
Iraq Declaration of Independence |
October 3 |
1932 |
United Kingdom |
|
United Kingdom
|
Ireland |
Proclamation of the Irish Republic |
April 24 (Easter Monday) |
1916 |
United Kingdom |
Provisional Government of the Irish Republic |
|
Irish Republic |
Irish Declaration of Independence |
January 21 |
1919 |
United Kingdom |
Dáil Éireann |
Russia
|
Israel |
Israeli Declaration of Independence |
May 14 |
1948 |
United Kingdom |
Jewish People's Council |
United States
|
Katanga |
Katangan Declaration of Independence |
|
1960 |
Congo-Léopoldville |
|
|
Korea |
Korean Declaration of Independence |
March 1 |
1919 |
Japan |
Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea |
China (1933)
|
Kosova |
Proclamation of the Republic of Kosova |
September 22 |
1992 |
FR Yugoslavia |
Assembly of Kosovo |
Albania
|
Kosovo |
Kosovo declaration of independence |
February 17 |
2008 |
Serbia
UN Administration |
Democratically elected leaders of our people[a] |
Costa Rica
|
Latvia |
Latvian Declaration of Independence |
November 18 |
1918 |
Germany
Russia
|
People's Council of Latvia |
Russia
|
Latvia |
On the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia |
May 4 |
1990 |
Soviet Union |
Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR |
Iceland
|
Liberia |
Liberian Declaration of Independence |
July 16 |
1847 |
American Colonization Society |
Liberian Constitutional Convention |
United Kingdom
|
Lithuania |
Act of Independence of Lithuania |
February 16 |
1918 |
Germany
Russia
|
Council of Lithuania |
Germany
|
Lithuania |
Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania |
March 11 |
1990 |
Soviet Union |
Supreme Council of Lithuania |
Iceland
|
Lower Canada |
Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada |
February 22 |
1838 |
United Kingdom |
Robert Nelson |
none
|
Macedonia |
Independence of the Republic of Macedonia |
September 8 |
1991 |
Yugoslavia |
|
Bulgaria
|
Malaya (present day Malaysia) |
Federation of Malaya Independence Act 1957 |
August 31 |
1957 |
United Kingdom |
Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia |
United Kingdom[6]
|
Mississippi |
A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union |
January 9 |
1861 |
United States |
|
|
Moldova |
Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Moldova |
August 27 |
1991 |
Soviet Union |
Parliament of the Republic of Moldova |
Romania
|
Montenegro |
Montenegro declaration of independence |
June 3 |
2006 |
Serbia and Montenegro |
Assembly of the Republic of Montenegro |
Iceland
|
Morocco |
Moroccan Declaration of Independence |
January 11 |
1944 |
France |
Istiqlal Party |
|
Netherlands |
Act of Abjuration |
July 26 |
1581 |
Spain |
Union of Utrecht |
|
Northern America (present day) Mexico |
Solemn Act of the Declaration of Independence of Northern America |
November 6 |
1813 |
Spain |
Congress of Anáhuac |
|
Northern Cyprus |
Declaration of Independence of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus |
November 15 |
1983 |
Cyprus |
|
Turkey
|
Northern Epirus |
Northern Epirote Declaration of Independence |
February 28 |
1914 |
Albania |
Provisional Government of Northern Epirus |
|
North Solomons |
Declaration of Independence of the Republic of the North Solomons |
September 1 |
1975 |
Territory of Papua and New Guinea (Australia) |
Unknown |
Vatican City
|
Norway (Kingdom of Norway) |
Declaration of Independence of Norway (short after[clarification needed], sovereign under the Swedish monarchy), and the Constitution of Norway |
May 17 |
1814 |
Denmark-Norway (As of Treaty of Kiel) |
Norwegian Constituent Assembly |
|
Padania |
Padanian Declaration of Independence |
September 15 |
1996 |
Italy |
|
|
Pakistan |
Pakistan Resolution |
March 24 |
1940 |
United Kingdom |
Muslim League (Pakistan) |
|
Palestine |
Palestinian Declaration of Independence |
November 15 |
1988 |
Palestinian territories
Jordan (claimed the West Bank until 1988)
|
Palestinian National Council |
Arab League
|
Peru |
Act of the Declaration of Independence of Peru |
July 28 |
1821 |
Spain |
José de San Martín |
Argentina
|
Philippines |
Philippine Declaration of Independence |
June 12 |
1898 |
Spain
United States
|
98 representatives of Dictatorial Government of the Philippines[7] (ratified on September 29, 1898 by the Malolos Congress[8]) |
|
Provinces of the Río de la Plata (present-day
Argentina Bolivia Uruguay) |
Argentine Declaration of Independence |
July 9 |
1816 |
Spain |
Congress of Tucumán |
Hawaii
|
Rhodesia |
Rhodesian Unilateral Declaration of Independence |
November 11 |
1965 |
United Kingdom |
Ian Smith and the rest of the Cabinet |
none
|
Romania |
Romanian Declaration of Independence |
May 22 |
1877 |
Ottoman Empire |
King Carol I |
|
Russia |
Belavezha Accords |
December 12 |
1991 |
Soviet Union |
Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR |
|
Scotland |
Declaration of Arbroath |
April 6 |
1320 |
England |
Scottish leaders |
|
Serbia |
The Proclamation (Proglašenije/Проглашеније) |
February |
1809 |
Ottoman Empire |
Karađorđe Petrović and Serbian MPs |
|
Singapore |
Proclamation of Singapore[9] |
August 9 |
1965 |
Malaysia[10][11] |
Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore |
United Kingdom (confirmed earlier recognition)[12]
|
Slovakia |
Slovak National Council's Declaration of Independence of the Slovak Nation |
July 17 |
1992 |
Czechoslovakia |
Slovak National Council |
|
Slovenia |
Slovenian Declaration of Independence |
June 25 |
1991 |
Yugoslavia |
|
Croatia
|
Somaliland |
Somaliland Declaration of Independence |
May 18 |
1991 |
Somalia |
|
none
|
South Carolina |
Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union |
December 24 |
1860 |
United States |
South Carolinians in Charleston |
|
Sri Lanka |
Declaration of Independence of Sri Lanka (Then known as "Ceylon") |
February 4 |
1948 |
United Kingdom |
|
|
Texas, Republic of |
Texas Declaration of Independence |
March 2 |
1836 |
Mexico |
|
France
|
Texas, State of |
A Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union |
February 1 |
1861 |
United States |
Texas Legislature |
|
Tibet |
Tibet's Declaration of Independence |
February 13 |
1913 |
China |
13th Dalai Lama |
none
|
Turkmenistan |
Declaration of independence |
|
1991 |
Soviet Union |
none |
Turkey
|
Ukraine |
IV Universal |
January 22 |
1918 |
Russia |
Central Council of Ukraine |
|
Ukraine |
Declaration of Independence of Ukraine |
August 24 |
1991 |
Soviet Union |
Verkhovna Rada |
Canada
Poland[13]
|
United States |
United States Declaration of Independence |
July 2[b] |
1776 |
Great Britain |
Second Continental Congress |
Morocco[16][17]
|
United Tribes of New Zealand |
Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand |
October 28 |
1835 |
— |
Māori chiefs |
United Kingdom[18]
|
Uzbekistan |
Declaration of Independence |
August 31 |
1991 |
Soviet Union |
Supreme Council of Uzbekistan |
Turkey
|
Venezuela |
Venezuelan Declaration of Independence |
July 5 |
1811 |
Spain |
National Congress |
|
Vermont |
Vermont Declaration of Independence |
January 15 |
1777 |
United States
British Quebec
|
Vietnam |
Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam |
September 2 |
1945 |
France |
Hồ Chí Minh |
China
|
Western Sahara |
Bir Lehlou declaration |
February 27 |
1976 |
Spanish Sahara |
Polisario Front |
Madagascar
|