A list of currently minimal or totally unrecognised nations

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Overview

Here are a list of de jure the states of the world don't politically recognize or are recognised by less than 50 nations.

A nation theoreticly must have

• A defined territory, of which at least some must be under the state's control.
• A permanent resident population.
• A functioning government of any form.
• A capacity to enter into relations with other states.
• A declaration of independence from their former colonial or parent nation.

The list

1. Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (Transnistria)
2. Republic of South Ossetia
3. Republic of China (Taiwan)
4. Republic of Somaliland
5. Republic of Abkhazia
6. Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
7. Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh)

Exclusions

1. The Sovereign Military Order of Malta is a non-state sovereign entity.
2. Uncontacted peoples, those recently discovered people in the Amazon, or communities who either live in societies that cannot be defined as states or whose statuses as such are not definitively known.
3. Micronations, weather they be:
   1. Seriose micro-state like: Republic of Minerva, Principality of Seborga and Republic of Rose Island.
   2. Jokes like: Aerican Empire.
   3. Political stunts like  Glacier Republic and Conch Republic.
   4. Bizzar hyper-parochial egotrips like: Principality of Sealand.
   5. Atempts to rip-off the taxman by local land owners and\or business like: Forewick Holm and  Principality of Hutt River.
   6. Art projects like: Elgaland-Vargaland.
   7. Local hippies not wanting to co-operate with national laws like:  Freetown Christiania.
   8. Bizarr idiocy like: Austenasia
4. Those who are a uncertain remnant of a current civil war.
5. Rebel groups that have set up interim nations like: Donetsk People's Republic, Luhansk People's Republic, Kachin Independence Army, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
6. Current nationalist, irredentist, revanchist parties and governments in exile that don't have a de jure state.

Also see

• Republic of Minerva
• Turkish North Cyprus

Sources

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_limited_recognition
2. https://www.thoughtco.com/number-of-countries-in-the-world-1433445
3. https://web.archive.org/web/20101120013643/http://www.udiregelverk.no/~/media/Images/Rettskilder/Visa%20Code/Visa%20Code%20vedlegg%2010%20a.ashx
4. https://web.archive.org/web/20100807091949/http://www.orderofmalta.org/diplomatic-relations/862/bilateral-relations-with-countries/?lang=en
5. http://www.heraldica.org/topics/orders/malta/maltasov.htm
6. http://www.analitica.com/opinion/opinion-nacional/la-orden-de-malta-y-su-naturaleza-juridica/
7. https://qz.com/1092006/cameroon-anglophone-crisis-police-kill-15-southern-cameroons-independence-protestors/?utm_source=YPL&yptr=yahoo
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan
9. http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/king-felipe-catalan-authorities-have-scorned-all-spaniards-with-referendum/ar-AAsRN6O?li=AA59G2&ocid=spartandhp
10. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4PwmeRG9QsUC&redir_esc=y
11. https://web.archive.org/web/20091221144730/http://video.acasa.ro/documentare/transnistria---europe-s-black-hole-2-4--1cbc0583298a23831612.html
12. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18270325
13. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0552701
14. http://www.antiwar.com/hadar/?articleid=8042
15. http://www.c-r.org/downloads/Abkhazia_TenYearsOn_2001_ENG.pdf
16. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7582181.stm
17. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8223443.stm
18. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8233544.stm
19. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8281990.stm
20. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8170683.stm
21. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8172126.stm
22. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12274023
23. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41493014
24. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oYosCAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=zh-TW&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
25. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan
26. http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/king-felipe-catalan-authorities-have-scorned-all-spaniards-with-referendum/ar-AAsRN6O?li=AA59G2&ocid=spartandhp
27. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria
28. http://abhazia.info
29. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conch_Republic
30. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forewick_Holm#Declaration_of_Dependence
31. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Seborga
32. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Rose_Island
33. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand
34. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerican_Empire
35. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austenasia
36. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania
37. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Hutt_River
38. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_Republic
39. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgaland-Vargaland