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Modern Sovereign Republics

Present-day sovereign states governed as republics, currently in existence, spanning every inhabited continent and including states founded through independence, unification or revolution across the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. Belongs here: the great majority of the world's current sovereign states, from the United States, France and Germany to India, Brazil and Ivory Coast, and republics of East Asia and the Middle East such as China, Turkey and Iran. Does not belong here: a present-day monarchy, filed under Modern Monarchies, and a republic whose own polity has since ended, filed under Historical Republics.

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