List of countries in the 1850s
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Sovereign states
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- [[Image:|22x20px|border |]] Afghanistan – Emirate of Afghanistan
Capital: Kabul - 22x20px Andorra – Principality of Andorra
Capital: Andorra la Vella - Angoche – Angoche Sultanate
Capital: Angoche - File:Flag of Anhalt Duchies.png Anhalt-Bernburg – Duchy of Anhalt-Bernburg
Capital: Bernburg - File:Flagge Herzogtum Anhalt.svg Anhalt-Dessau – Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau
Capital: Dessau - File:Flag of Ankole.svg Ankole – Kingdom of Ankole
Capital: Mbarara - [[Image:|22x20px|border |]] Annam – Empire of Annam
Capital: Huế - Anziku – Anziku Kingdom
Capital: Monsol - 22x20px Argentina – Argentine Confederation
Capital: Paraná, Entre Ríos (from 1853) - Aro – Aro Confederacy
Capital: Arochukwu - 22x20px Ashanti – Asante Union
Capital: Kumasi - Aussa – Sultanate of Aussa
Capital: Asaita - File:Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy.svg Austrian Empire – Austrian Empire
Capital: Vienna
B
- 22x20px Baden – Grand Duchy of Baden
Capital: Karlsruhe - Baguirmi – Kingdom of Baguirmi
Capital: Massenya - Bamana – Bambara Empire
Capital: Ségou - Baol – Kingdom of Baol
Capital: Diourbel - File:Flag of Barotseland.svg Barotseland – Kingdom of Barotseland
- Basutoland – Kingdom of Basutoland
- Baté Empire – Baté Empire
Capital: Kankan - 22x20px Bavaria – Kingdom of Bavaria
Capital: Munich - 22x20px Belgium – Kingdom of Belgium
Capital: Brussels - 22x20px Benin – Benin Empire
Capital: Benin City - Bhutan – Kingdom of Bhutan
Capital: Thimphu - File:Flag of Bohemia.svg Bohemia – Kingdom of Bohemia
Capital: Prague - File:Flag of Bolivia (1826-1851).svg → 23x15px Bolivia – Bolivian Republic
Capital: La Paz - File:Flag of Bora Bora.svg Bora Bora – Kingdom of Bora Bora
Capital: Vaitape 
Bornu – Bornu Empire
Capital: Ngazargamu- Template:Country data Empire of Brazil – Empire of Brazil
Capital: Rio de Janeiro 
Bremen – Free City of Bremen- File:British Raj Red Ensign.svg British India - Indian Empire
Capital: Calcutta 
Brunei – Sultanate of Brunei- Template:Country data Brunswick – Duchy of Brunswick
Buganda – Kingdom of Buganda- File:Flag of the Emirate of Bukhara.svg Bukhara – Emirate of Bukhara
- Bundu - State of Bundu to 1858
- File:Flag of Bunyoro, Uganda.svg Bunyoro – Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara
- File:Flag of Burmese Empire (1853-1876).svg Burma – Kingdom of Burma
- Burundi – Kingdom of Burundi
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Cambodia – Kingdom of Cambodia- Cayor – Kingdom of Cayor
Central Italy – United Provinces of Central Italy (from December 8)- File:Flag of Chile.svg Chile – Republic of Chile
- China – Great Qing Empire
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- 22x20px Costa Rica – Republic of Costa Rica
- File:Flag of the Couto Misto.svg Couto Misto
- File:Flag of the Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg).svg Croatia – Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg) (In Personal union with Kingdom of Hungary)
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- 22x20px Ecuador – Republic of Ecuador
- File:Flag of the Federal Republic of Central America.svg El Salvador – El Salvador
- File:Ethiopian Pennants.svg Ethiopia – Ethiopian Empire
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- Fiji – Tui Viti
- Finland – Grand Duchy of Finland
- 23x15px France
- French Republic (to December 2, 1852)
- French Empire (from December 2, 1852)
- File:Flag of the Free City of Frankfurt.svg Frankfurt – Free City of Frankfurt
- Futa Jallon – Imamate of Futa Jallon
- Futa Toro – Imamate of Futa Toro
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- File:Flag of the Princely State of Tehri Garhwal.svg Garhwal – Garhwal Kingdom
- Garo – Kingdom of Garo
- Gaza – Gaza Empire
- Gera – Kingdom of Gera
- Gomma – Kingdom of Gomma
- File:Flag of New Granada.svg Granadine Confederation – Granadine Confederation (from May 22, 1858)
- File:Flag of Greece (1828-1978).svg Greece – Kingdom of Greece
- File:Flag of Guatemala (1843-1851).svg → File:Flag of Guatemala (1851-1858).svg → File:Flag of Guatemala (1858–1871).svg Guatemala – Republic of Guatemala
- Gumma – Kingdom of Gumma
- Gyaaman – State of Gyaaman
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- File:Flag of the Emirate of Ha'il.svg Ha'il – Emirate of Ha'il
- File:Flag of Haiti (1849-1859).png → File:Flag of Haiti (civil).svg Haiti
- Empire of Haiti (to January 15, 1859)
- Republic of Haiti (from January 15, 1859)
Hamburg – Free city of Hamburg- Template:Country data Kingdom of Hanover – Kingdom of Hanover
- File:Flag of Hawaii (1896).svg Hawaii – Kingdom of Hawaii
Hesse-Darmstadt – Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine
Hesse-Homburg – Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg- File:Flag of Hesse.svg Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) – Electorate of Hesse
- File:Flag of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Sigmaringen.png Hohenzollern-Hechingen – Principality of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (to April 8, 1850)
- File:Flag of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Sigmaringen.png Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen – Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (to April 6, 1850)
- File:Holstein Arms.svg Holstein – Duchy of Holstein
- 22x20px Honduras – Republic of Honduras
Huahine – Kingdom of Huahine
Hungary – Kingdom of Hungary- Huraa – Huraa dynasty
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K
- Kaabu – Kingdom of Kaabu
- Kabulistan – Kingdom of Kabul (from 1858)
- Kaffa – Kingdom of Kaffa
Kathiri – Kathiri Sultanate of Seiyun in Hadramaut- Kénédougou – Kénédougou Kingdom
- Khasso – Kingdom of Khasso
Khiva – Khanate of Khiva- Kokand – Khanate of Kokand
- Kong – Kong Empire
Kongo – Kingdom of Kongo- File:Flag of the king of Joseon.svg →
Korea – Kingdom of Great Joseon - Koya Temne – Kingdom of Koya
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Liberia – Republic of Liberia- 23x15px → 22x20px Liechtenstein – Principality of Liechtenstein
- File:Limburg provinciewapen oud.svg Limburg – Duchy of Limburg
- Limmu-Ennarea – Kingdom of Limmu-Ennarea
Lippe – Principality of Lippe-Detmoldt- Loango – Kingdom of Loango
- File:Flag of Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia.svg Lombardy-Venetia – Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia
- Luba – Luba Empire
- File:Flag of the Free City of Lübeck.svg Lubeck – Free City of Lubeck
- Lunda – Lunda Empire
- 22x20px Luxembourg – Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
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- Maldives – Sultanate of Maldives
- File:Flag of the Kingdom of Mangareva.svg Mangareva – Kingdom of Mangareva
- Manipur – Kingdom of Manipur
- File:Flag of the Republic of Maryland.svg Maryland – State of Maryland in Africa[1] (from 29 May 1854 to 18 March 1857)
- Massina – Massina Empire
- Matabeleland – Matabele Kingdom
- File:Flagge Großherzogtümer Mecklenburg.svg Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- File:Flagge Großherzogtümer Mecklenburg.svg Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- 22x20px Mexico – Republic of Mexico
- Mindanao – Sultanate of Maguindanao
- File:Flag of the Duchy of Modena.svg Modena – Duchies of Modena and Reggio
- File:Flag of Moldavia.svg Moldavia - Principality of Moldavia
- 22x20px Monaco – Principality of Monaco
- File:Flag of the Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro2.svg → File:Flag of the Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro.svg Montenegro
- Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro (to March 13, 1852)
- Principality of Montenegro (from March 13, 1852)
- 22x20px Morocco – Sultanate of Morocco
- File:Oman flag2.gif Muscat and Oman – Sultanate of Muscat and Oman (from 1856)
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- File:Flagge Herzogtum Nassau (1806-1866).svg Nassau – Duchy of Nassau
- File:Flag of Negeri Sembilan.svg Negeri Sembilan – Negeri Sembilan
- File:Flag of the Second Saudi State.svg Nejd – Emirate of Nejd
- File:Flag of Nepal (19th century-1962).svg Nepal - Kingdom of Nepal
- 22x20px Netherlands – Kingdom of the Netherlands
- File:Flag of New Granada.svg New Granada – Republic of New Granada (renamed Granadine Confederation on May 22, 1858)
- File:Flag of the Federal Republic of Central America.svg → File:Flag of Nicaragua (1839-1858).svg → File:Flag of Nicaragua (1858-1889 and 1893-1896).svg Nicaragua – Republic of Nicaragua
- 23x15px Norway – Kingdom of Norway (in personal union with Sweden)
- Nri – Kingdom of Nri
O
- File:Oldenburg Flagge.jpg Oldenburg – Grand Duchy of Oldenburg
- Template:Country data Orange Free State – Republic of Orange Free State (from February 17, 1854)
- 22x20px Ottoman Empire – Sublime Ottoman State
- Ouaddai – Ouaddai Empire
- Oyo – Oyo Empire
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- File:Flag of Pahang.svg Pahang – Sultanate of Pahang
- 22x20px Papal States – States of the Church
- 22x20px Paraguay – Republic of Paraguay
- 22x20px Parma – Duchy of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla (to December 8, 1859)
Perak – Sultanate of Perak- File:Amir Kabir Flag.svg Persia – Sublime State of Persia
Peru – Peruvian Republic
Portugal – Kingdom of Portugal
Prussia – Kingdom of Prussia
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Qu'aiti – Qu'aiti Sultanate of Shihr and Muqalla in Hadramaut
R
Raiatea – Kingdom of Raiatea- Rapa Nui – Kingdom of Rapa Nui
Rarotonga – Kingdom of Rarotonga (from 1858)
Reuss Elder Line – Principality of Reuss Elder Line
Reuss Junior Line – Principality of Reuss Junior Line- File:Standard of the Emperor of Russia (1858).svg → 22x20px Russia – Russian Empire
- Rwanda – Kingdom of Rwanda
- 22x20px Ryūkyū Kingdom – Kingdom of Ryūkyū
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- Samoa – Kingdom of Samoa
- File:Flag of San Marino (civil).svg San Marino – Most Serene Republic of San Marino
Sarawak – Kingdom of Sarawak- Sardinia – Kingdom of Sardinia
- File:Flagge Herzogtum Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha (1826-1911).svg Saxe-Altenburg – Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg
- File:Flagge Herzogtum Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha (1911-1920).svg Saxe-Coburg-Gotha – Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- File:Flagge Herzogtum Sachsen-Meiningen.svg Saxe-Meiningen – Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen
- File:Flagge Großherzogtum Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1813-1897).svg Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- 22x20px Saxony – Kingdom of Saxony
- File:Flagge Fürstentum Lippe.svg Schaumburg-Lippe – Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe
- File:Schleswig Arms.svg Schleswig – Duchy of Schleswig
- File:Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Flag 1815.png Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Selangor – Sultanate of Selangor
Serbia – Principality of Serbia
Siam – Kingdom of Siam- Sikkim – Chogyalate of Sikkim
- File:Flag of the Sokoto Caliphate.svg Sokoto – Sokoto Caliphate
T
- File:Flag of the Tahiti Protectorate 1843-1880.svg Tahiti – Kingdom of Tahiti
- Tonga – Tu'i Tonga
- File:Flag of Toro, Uganda.svg Toro – Toro Kingdom
- Toucouleur – Toucouleur Empire
- Template:Country data South African Republic – South African Republic (from June 27, 1856)
- File:Flag of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1848).gif Tuscany – Grand Duchy of Tuscany
- File:Flag of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1816).svg Two Sicilies – Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
U
- 22x20px United Kingdom – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- 23x15px → File:Flag of the United States (1851–1858).svg United States – United States of America
- File:Flag of the United States of the Ionian Islands.svg United States of the Ionian Islands – United States of the Ionian Islands
- 22x20px Uruguay – Eastern Republic of Uruguay
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- File:Flag of Germany (3-2).svg Waldeck-Pyrmont – Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont
- Welayta – Kingdom of Welayta
- Template:Country data Württemberg – Kingdom of Württemberg
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- File:CD YEKE KINGDOM.png Yeke – Yeke Kingdom (from 1856)
Z
- Zululand – Sublime State of Persia
Non-sovereign territories
Oldenburg
- Lordship of In- and Kniphausen, protectorate of Oldenburg to 1854.
United Kingdom
- 22x20px Cape Colony – Cape of Good Hope
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States claiming sovereignty
- File:Sultanate of Aceh Flag.png Aceh – Sultanate of Aceh
- File:Flag of Germany (3-2).svg Germany – German Empire (to November 29, 1850)
- Goust – Republic of Goust
- File:Flag of Argentina.svg State of Buenos Aires (from September 11, 1852)
- File:Flag of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.svg Taiping Heavenly Kingdom - Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace (from January 11, 1851)
- File:Flag of Tavolara.svg Tavolara – Kingdom of Tavolara
| Preceded by 1840s |
Political entities in the 1850s |
Succeeded by 1860s |
References
- ↑ official name in quotes near bottom of page "About Maryland". Archived from the original on 2010-01-11. Retrieved 2010-01-29.