List of sovereign states in the 1770s

Sovereign states

A

• Adal – Adal Sultanate
• Algiers – Sultanate of Algiers
•  Alipura – Alipura
• Andorra – Principality of Andorra
• Anhalt – Principality of Anhalt
•  Annam – Empire of Annam
•  Ansbach – Principality of Ansbach
• Arakan – Kingdom of Arakan
•  Ashanti – Asante Union
•  Assam – Kingdom of Assam
• Atjeh – Aceh Sultanate
• Austria – Archduchy of Austria

B

• Baden – Margraviate of Baden
•  Bailundo – Kingdom of Bailundo (to 1770)
• Bali – Kingdom of Bali
•  Bamana – Bamana Empire
• Banten – Sultanate of Banten
• Bavaria – Duchy of Bavaria
•  Benin – Benin Empire
• Bhonsle – Kingdom of Bhonsle
•  Bhutan – Kingdom of Bhutan
•  Bornu – Bornu Empire
• Brunei – Sultanate of Brunei
• Brunswick – Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
• Bukhara – Khanate of Bukhara
• Burma – Kingdom of Burma

C

•  Carnatic – Kingdom of Carnatic
•  Cayor – Kingdom of Cayor
•  Champa – Kingdom of Champa
•  Champasak – Kingdom of Champasak
•  China – Great Qing Empire
•  Cologne – Electorate of Cologne
•  Comancheria – Nʉmʉnʉʉ Sookobitʉ
• Cospaia – Republic of Cospaia
•  Crimea – Crimean Khanate

D

•  Dendi – Dendi Kingdom
• Denmark–Norway – United Kingdoms of Denmark and Norway
• Durrani – Durrani Empire

E

•  Ethiopia – Ethiopian Empire

F

•  France – Kingdom of France

G

•  Gakhar – Kingdom of Gakhar
•  Garo – Kingdom of Garo
•  Georgia – Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti
•  Genoa – Republic of Genoa

H

• Hamburg – Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
• Hanover – Electorate of Hanover
•  Hausa – Hausa Tribe
•  Hedjaz – Sultanate of Hedjaz
• Hesse – Landgraviate of Hesse
• Holstein – Duchy of Holstein
• Hungary – Kingdom of Hungary
• Hyderābād – Princely state of the British Raj

I

•  Ijebu – Kingdom of Ijebu
• Ireland – Kingdom of Ireland

J

•  Janjero – Kingdom of Janjero
• Japan – Tokugawa shogunate
• Johor – Johor Sultanate
•  Jolof – Jolof Empire

K

•  Kaffa – Kingdom of Kaffa
•  Kanem Bornu – Kanem Bornu Empire
•   Kazakh – Kazakh Khanate
• Khiva – Khanate of Khiva
•  Khmer – Srok Khmer
•  Kokand – Khanate of Kokand
• Knights Hospitaller – Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, Knights of Malta, Knights of Rhodes, and Chevaliers of Malta
• Kongo – Kingdom of Kongo
• Korea – Kingdom of Great Joseon
•  Koya – Kingdom of Koya
•  Kuba – Kuba Kingdom
• Kurland – Duchy of Kurland

L

•  Liège – Prince-Bishopric of Liège
•  Loango – Kingdom of Loango
•  Luang Prabang – Kingdom of Luang Prabang

M

•  Madurai – Kingdom of Madurai
•  Maharashtra – Kingdom of Maharashtra
•  Mainz – Archbishopric of Mainz
•  Malacca – Sultanate of Malacca
• Malta – Order of Saint John
•  Manipur – Kingdom of Manipur
• Maratha – Maratha Empire
•  Mataram – Mataram Sultanate
• Mecklenburg – Duchy of Mecklenburg
• Mindanao – Sultanate of Maguindanao
• Modena – Duchies of Modena and Reggio
• Moldavia – Principality of Moldavia
• Monaco – Principality of Monaco
• Montenegro – Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro
• Morocco – Sultanate of Morocco
•  Mrauk U – Kingdom of Mrauk U
•  Mughal Empire – Mughal Empire
•  Mutapa – Empire of Mutapa
• Mysore – Kingdom of Mysore

N

• Najd – Sultanate of Najd
• Nepal – Gorkha Kingdom of Nepal
• Netherlands – Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
•  Ngoyo – Kingdom of Ngoyo

O

• Ottoman Empire – Sublime Ottoman State
•  Oudh – Kingdom of Oudh
•  Oyo – Oyo Empire

P

•  Electorate of the Palatinate
• Papal States – States of the Church
• Parma – Duchy of Parma
• Persia – Persian Empire
• Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth – Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania
• Portugal
  • Kingdom of Portugal (to 1777)
  • Kingdom of Portugal (from 1777)
• Prussia – Kingdom of Prussia
•  Punjab – Punjabi Empire

R

• Ragusa – Republic of Ragusa
•  Rajputana – Kingdom of Rajputana
•  Rapa Nui – Kingdom of Rapa Nui
•  Rozwi – Rozwi Empire
• Russia – Russian Empire
• Ryūkyū – Kingdom of Ryūkyū

S

•  Salzburg – Archbishopric of Salzburg
•  Samoa – Kingdom of Samoa
• San Marino – Most Serene Republic of San Marino
•  Sardinia – Kingdom of Sardinia
•  Saxony – Electorate of Saxony
•  Sennar – Funj sultanate of Sennar
• Sharjah – Emirate of Sharjah
•  Shaybanid – Khanate of Shaybanid
• Sicily – Kingdom of Sicily
•  Sikh – Sikh Confederacy
•  Sind – Sultanate of Sind
• Spain – Kingdom of Spain
• Sulu – Sulu Sultanate
•  Swahili – Swahili Tribe
• Sweden
  • Sweden (to August 19, 1772)
  • Kingdom of Sweden (from August 17, 1772)
• Switzerland – Swiss Confederation

T

• Teutonic Knights – Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem
•  Taungu – Kingdom of Taungu
• Thonburi – Kingdom of Thonburi
•  Tirol – County of Tirol
•   Tonga – Tu'i Tonga
•  Tonkin – Empire of Tonkin
• Travancore – Kingdom of Travancore
•  Trier – Archbishopric of Trier
•  Tripoli – Sultanate of Tripoli
• Tuscany – Grand Duchy of Tuscany

U

→ United States

• United Colonies (from July 4, 1776, to September 9, 1776)^{[1][2][3][4][5]}
• United States (from September 9, 1776)^{[3][6][7][8][5]}

V

•  Venice – Most Serene Republic of Venice
•  Vientiane – Kingdom of Vientiane

W

•  Waalo – Kingdom of Waalo
• Wallachia – Principality of Wallachia
• Württemberg – Duchy of Württemberg
•  Würzburg – Bishopric of Würzburg

Y

• Yemen – Kingdom of Yemen

Non-sovereign territories

Great Britain

• British America – British America and the British West Indies

Netherlands

• Dutch Cape Colony – Cape Colony