Section II: Countries whose Monarchies have been Abolished

A. Former Monarchies with generally acknowledged claimants

Country	Monarchy Established	Monarchy Abolished	Pretender(s) to the Throne	Born	Reigned or Inherited Claim
Afghanistan	1919	1973	Prince Ahmed Shah Khan, son of King Zahir Shah	September 23, 1934	July 23, 2007
Albania	1928	1946	Prince Leka, grandson of King Zog I	March 26, 1982	November 30, 2011
Austria	1804	1918	Archduke Karl, grandson of Emperor Karl I	January 11, 1961	July 4, 2011
Brazil	1822	1889	Dom Bertrand, great-great-grandson of Emperor Pedro II	February 2, 1941	July 15, 2022
Bulgaria	1879	1946	King (Tsar) Simeon II	June 16, 1937	August 28, 1943 - September 15, 1946; Prime Minister (as Simeon Saxe-Coburg) 2001-05
Burma (Myanmar)		1885	Prince (Richard) Taw Phaya, great-grandson of King Thibaw Min	May 14, 1945	January 12, 2019
Burundi	c. 1530	1966	Princess Rosa Paula Iribagiza	March 20, 1934	May 1, 1977
Central Africa	1976	1979	Crown Prince Jean-Bedel Bokassa II	November 2, 1975	November 3, 1996
China	1523 B.C.	1912	?
Czech Republic (Bohemia)	1198	1918	(see Austria)
Egypt	1922	1953	King Ahmad Fuad II	January 16, 1952	July 26, 1952 - June 18, 1953
Ethiopia	c. 1000 B.C.	1975	Prince Zera Yacob	August 15, 1953	February 17, 1997
France	843 1804 1852	1792 1848 1870	Louis Alphonse de Bourbon, Duke of Anjou Prince Jean, Count of Paris Prince Jean-Christophe Bonaparte, Prince Napoléon	April 23, 1974 May 19, 1965 July 11, 1986	January 30, 1989 January 21, 2019 May 4, 1997
Georgia	1008	1801 (annexed by Russia)	Prince David Bagration-Mukhrani Prince Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky	June 24, 1976 August 25, 1950	January 16, 2008 August 13, 1984
Germany	1871	1918	Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia Also see German Ruling Families	June 10, 1976	September 25, 1994
Greece	1832 1935	1924 1974	Crown Prince Pavlos (II)	May 20, 1967	January 10, 2023
Hungary	1000	1918	(see Austria)
Iran	550 B.C.	1979	Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, son of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Mohammed Hassan Mirza II [Qajar]	October 31, 1960 July 18, 1949	July 27, 1980 May 5, 1988
Iraq	1932	1958	Prince Ra'ad	February 18, 1936	October 18, 1970
Italy	1861	1946	Crown Prince Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, son of King Umberto II Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Duke of Savoy, great-great-great-grandson of King Vittorio Emanuele II Also see Italian Ruling Families	February 12, 1937 October 13, 1967	March 18, 1983 June 1, 2021
Korea, North and Korea, South	918	1910 (annexed by Japan)	Prince Yi Won	September 23, 1962	July 16, 2005
Laos	1949	1975	Prince Soulivong Savang, grandson of King Savang Vathana	May 8, 1963	c. March 1980
Libya	1951	1969	Prince Muhammed al-Hasan ar-Rida al-Senussi, grandnephew of King Idris I	October 20, 1962	April 28, 1992
Lithuania	1918	1918	Prince Inigo von Urach, grandson of Wilhelm, Duke of Urach (1864-1928) who was elected King Mindaugas II in 1918 but never assumed the crown.	April 12, 1962
Maldives	1153	1968	Prince Muhammad Nur ud-din, son of Sultan al-Hasan Nur ud-din Iskander II		May 1969
Mexico	1822 1864	1823 1867	Archduke Carlos Felipe de Habsburgo, great-great-grandnephew of Emperor Maximilian I	October 18, 1954
Montenegro	1077	1918 (annexed by Serbia)	Prince Nikola	July 7, 1944	March 24, 1986
Nepal	1769	2008	King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev	July 7, 1947	November 7, 1950 - January 8, 1951; June 4, 2001 - May 28, 2008
Portugal	1139	1910	Prince Duarte, Duke of Braganza	May 15, 1945	December 24, 1976
Romania	1878	1947	Crown Princess Margareta, daughter of King Michael	March 26, 1949	December 5, 2017
Russia	862	1917	Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, great-great-granddaughter of Tsar Alexander II	December 23, 1953	April 21, 1992
Rwanda	c. 1350	1961	(King Kigeli V, who reigned 1959-61, died October 16, 2016 at 80.)
Serbia	1878	1945	Crown Prince Alexander II, son of King Peter II of Yugoslavia	July 17, 1945	November 3, 1970
Tunisia	1705	1957	Prince Muhammed Bey	1928	1996
Turkey	1299	1922	Prince Harun Osman	January 22, 1932	January 18, 2021
Vietnam	939	1945	Prince Nguyễn Phúc Bảo Ngọc, son of Emperor Duy Tan	January 31, 1933	March 15, 2017
Yemen	1918	1962	Prince Ageel bin Muhammad al-Badr	1973	August 6, 1996

B. Former Associate Monarchies (were associated with the British crown unless otherwise indicated)

Country	Date of Independence	Date of Break with Crown	Local Monarchies
Barbados	1966	2021
Fiji	1970	1987	Queen Elizabeth II remains "Paramount Chief."
Gambia	1965	1970
Ghana	1957	1960	King of the Ashanti: Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II (born May 6, 1950; acceded April 26, 1999)
Iceland	1918	1941 (Denmark)
India	1947	1950	Sikkim: British Protectorate 1816, Indian Protectorate 1950, annexed by India 1975. Claimant: Chogyal Wangchuk Namgyal, 13th Maharaja (born April 1, 1953, inherited claim January 29, 1982).
Ireland	1922	1949
Malawi	1964	1966
Malta	1964	1974
Mauritius	1968	1992
Nigeria	1960	1963	Emir of Kano: Ado Bayero (born July 25, 1930; acceded 1963)
Pakistan	1947	1956
Sierra Leone	1961	1971
South Africa	1910	1961	King of the Zulus: King Misuzulu Sinqobile kaZwelithini (born September 23, 1974; acceded May 7, 2021)
Sri Lanka (Ceylon)	1948	1972
Trinidad and Tobago	1962	1976
Uganda	1962	1963	Traditional kingdoms abolished 1966; restored 1993 for ceremonial purposes. Kingdom Sovereign Born Acceded Ankole King Ntare VI January 10, 1940 November 20, 1993 (coronation subsequently "nullified" by Ugandan government) Buganda King Muwenda Mutebi II April 13, 1955 1993 Bunyoro King Iguru 1993 Busoga (Vacant since death of King Henry Wako Muloki) (September 1, 2008) Toro King Rukidi IV April 16, 1992 September 12, 1995

Section III: Countries Republican since Independence or Lacking Claimants