Proposed country

The term "proposed country" or "aspirant nation" refers to countries or states that have been or still are considered (by scholars, politicians, or various social or separatist movements) to be potentially viable entities but do not currently exist as independent states.

List of proposed states

This is a list of various proposed countries and states.

Africa

*Adal
*Ambazonia
*Anjouan (Nzwani)
*Ankole
*Azawad
*Barotseland
*Batwa (Pygmies)
*Biafra (defunct)
*Bioko
*Bophuthatswana (defunct)
*Republic of Bukavu
*Buganda
*Bunyoro
*Cabinda
*Caprivi Strip (Itenge)
*Casamance
*Ciskei (defunct)
*Darfur
*Democratic Republic of Azania (South Africa)
*East African Federation
*Kabylia
*Kanowra
*Katanga

*Kongo
*Maasai
*Matabeleland
*Mwali (defunct)
*Nile State
*Ogaden
*Ogoni
*Oodua
*Oromo
*Rif
*Somaliland
*South Kasai
*Southern Cameroons (former Ambazonia)
*Tenere
*Tigre
*Toro
*Transkei (defunct)
*Vhavenda
*Volkstaat
*Western Sahara
*Zanzibar

Asia

*Aceh "see also Free Aceh Movement"
*Ahwazi
*Arakan
*Asom
*Assyria
*Badakhshan
*Bangabhumi
*Bangsamoro
*Bodoland
*Buryatia; "see also Buryat"
*Champa
*Chin
*Chittagong Hill Tracts
*Chukotka
*Cordillera
*Dhofar
*Dravidistan
*East Turkestan
*Far East Republic
*Gilan (Guilan)
*Gorkhaland
*Great Timor
*Hawar Islands
*Inner Mongolia
*Iraqi Turkmen
*Israstine
*Jebel ed Druze
*Jharkhand [Wyatt, Andrew and John Zavos (2003). "Decentring the Indian Nation". Routledge, 2003. ISBN 071465387X, p. 56.] [Saha, Santosh C. (2008). "Ethnicity and Socio-Political Change in Africa and Other Developing Countries". Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. ISBN 0739123327, pp. 186-187.]
*Kachinland
*Karakalpakstan
*Karenni State (Kayah State)
*Kashmir "see also Kashmir dispute"
*Kawthoolei
*Khalistan
*Khmer Krom
*Koryakia
*Kurdistan
*Latakia
*Manchuria
*Manipur
*Maphilindo
*Mon
*Montagnards
*Nagalim
*Nan Chao
*Ningxia
*Northern Cyprus
*Palestine
*Pattani
*Ryukyu Islands
*Sabah
*Sakha
*Sarawak
*Shan
*Sikkim
*South Moluccas
*Suvadives
*Taiwan
*Talysh-Mughan
*Tamil Eelam
*Tibet; "see also Central Tibetan Administration"
*Tripura
*Tuva
*Wa
*Yunan
*Zogam

Europe

*Abkhazia
*Ajaristan
*Åland
*Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia
*Alsace
*Ausonia
*Balkania
*Bashkortostan
*Bavaria
*Brittany
*Canary Islands
*Catalonia; "see also Països Catalans"
*Cem Romengo
*Chuvashia
*Circassia
*Cornwall
*Corsica
*Crimea
*Dagestan
*England
*Europe
*Euskadi
*Faroe Islands
*Flanders
*Fryslân
*Gagauzia
*Galiza
*Greeks in Albania
*Grischun
*Herceg Bosna
*Hungarians in Romania
*Ichkeria
*Illyrida
*Ingria
*Ingushetia
*Ireland
*Kalmykia
*Karelia
*Komi
*Kumyk
*León
*Lusatia
*Mannin
*Mari; "see also Mari El"
*Międzymorze
*Mordvinia
*Nagorno-Karabakh
*Occitania
*Ossetia
*Padania
*Romande
*Romastan
*Rusyns
*Sanjak
*Sapmi (Lapland)
*Sardinia
*Savoy
*Serbian Krajina
*Scania (Skåneland) [ [http://www.unpo.org/content/view/7904/139/ Scania] . Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, 25 March 2008. Retrieved 24 September 2008.] [Minahan, James (1996). "Nations Without States". Greenwood Press, 1996. ISBN 0-313-28354-0, p. 499.]
*Scotland
*Sicily
*Silesia
*Srpska
*Székelyföld
*Tatarstan
*Transnistria
*Tyrol
*Udmurtia
*Veneto
*Waldensia
*Wales
*Wallonia
*Zetland

North America

*Alaska
*Anguilla
*Aruba
*Aztlán
*Bermuda
*Buffalo River Dene Nation
*Dinetah
*California
*Cascadia
*Conch Republic
*Confederate States of America
*Greenland
*Guadeloupe
*Haida Gwaii
*Haudenosaunee
*Lakota (Dakota or Sioux Indians)
*Martinique
*Mosquitia
*Nevis
*Newfoundland
*North American Technate
*Nunavut
*Nuxálk
*Puerto Rico
*Quebec
*San Francisco
*Texas
*Tri-Insula
*Vermont
*Yucatan

Oceania

*Aborigines of Australia
*Banaba
*Bougainville
*Cook Islands
*EnenKio
*Hawai'i
*Kanaky
*Maohi
*Ngāi Tūhoe
*Rotuma
*Tahiti
*West Papua
*Zealandia

outh America

*Acre
*Antioquia
*Santa Cruz
*Guiana
*Mapuche
*Pampas
*Zulia

See also

*List of active autonomist and secessionist movements
*List of unrecognized countries
*Micronations
*United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories
*Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
*Wars of national liberation

References

*Minahan, James, "Nations Without States", Greenwood Press, 1996, ISBN 0-313-28354-0