State
Declaration
Date
Year
Association
Signatories
First recognizing state
Albania
Albanian Declaration of Independence
November 28
1912
Ottoman Empire
Assembly of Vlorë
Austria-Hungary
Provinces of the Rio de la Plata (present-day Argentina Uruguay Bolivia )
Argentine Declaration of Independence
July 9
1816
Spain
Congress of Tucumán
Hawaii
Armenia
Declaration of Independence of Armenia
May 28
1918
Russia
Armenian National Congress (1917) Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF Dashnak)
Russia
Azerbaijan
Declaration of Independence of Azerbaijan
May 28
1918
Russia
Azerbaijani National Council (Hasan bey Aghayev , Fatali Khan Khoyski , Nasib Yusifbeyli , Jamo bey Hajinski , Şefi bey Rustambeyli, Nariman bey Narimanbeyov , Javad Malik-Yeganov , Mustafa Mahmudov )
Ottoman Empire
Azawad
Azawadi declaration of independence
April 6
2012
Mali
National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad
Bangladesh
Proclamation of Bangladeshi Independence
March 26
1971
Pakistan
Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh
Bhutan
Belarus
Third Constituent Charter
March 25
1918
Russia
Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic
Belarus
Announcement of the Declaration of Independence of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Byelorussia
July 31
1920
Poland
Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Byelorussia, trade unions
Russia
Belarus
Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic
July 27
1990
Soviet Union
Supreme Soviet of the BSSR
Turkey
Belgium
Belgian Declaration of Independence
October 4
1830
Netherlands
Provisional Government of Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnian Declaration of Independence
March 1
1992
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Brazil
Independence of Brazil
September 7
1822
Portugal
Pedro I of Brazil
United States
Bougainville
Bougainville Declaration of Independence
May
1990
Papua New Guinea
Bougainville Interim Government
Bulgaria
Bulgarian Declaration of Independence
September 22
1908
Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand of Bulgaria and the Government of Bulgaria
Russia (5 February 1909)
Burma
Burmese Declaration of Independence
January 4
1948
United Kingdom
Catalonia
Declaration of the Catalan Republic as a state of the Iberian Federation
April 14
1931
Spain
Francesc Macià , Generalitat Government of Catalonia
Catalonia
Declaration of the Catalan state within the Federal Republic of Spain
October 6
1934
Spain
Lluís Companys , Generalitat Government of Catalonia
Catalonia
Declaration from the representatives of Catalonia as the Catalan Republic
October 27
2017
Spain
Central America
Act of Independence of Central America
September 15
1821
Spain
Chile
Chilean Declaration of Independence
February 12
1818
Spain
National Congress
Portugal
Colombia
Colombian Declaration of Independence
July 20
1810
Spain
Comoros
Comorian Declaration of Independence
July 6
1975
France
-
Guinea
Croatia
Declaration of the Establishment of the Sovereign and Independent Republic of Croatia
June 25
1991
Yugoslavia
Iceland
Crimea
Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Crimea
March 11
2014
Ukraine
Supreme Council of Crimea
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovak Declaration of Independence
October 18
1918
Austria-Hungary
Czechoslovak National Council
United States
Dominican Republic
Dominican Declaration of Independence
February 27
1844
Haiti
United Kingdom
East Timor
East Timorese declaration of independence
November 28
1975
Portugal
Morocco
Egypt
Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence
February 28
1922
United Kingdom
Unilateral grant of independence by the British government
United Kingdom
Estonia
Estonian Declaration of Independence
February 24
1918
Russia
Salvation Committee
Russia
Estonia
Estonian Reconfirmation of Independence
August 20
1991
Soviet Union
Congress of Estonia
Iceland (reconfirmed earlier recognition)
Finland
Finnish Declaration of Independence
December 6
1917
Russia
Parliament of Finland
Russia
Florida
Florida's Constitution of 1861
January 10
1861
United States
Florida State Legislature
Galicia
Declaration of the Republic of Galicia
June 27
1931
Spain
Georgia, Democratic Republic of
Democratic Republic of Georgia
May 26
1918
Russia
Germany
Georgia, Republic of
Act of Restoration of State Independence of Georgia
April 9
1991[2]
Soviet Union
Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia
Switzerland
Georgia, State of
Georgia's secession declaration
January 29
1861
United States
Greece
Greek Declaration of Independence
January 1 OS
1822
Ottoman Empire
First National Assembly
Haiti (1822)
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau Declaration of Independence
September 24
1973
Portugal
Haiti
Haitian Declaration of Independence
January 1
1804
France
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
France (April 17, 1825) [3] Hungary
Hungarian Declaration of Independence
April 14
1849
Habsburgs
Iceland
Icelandic Declaration of Independence
June 17
1944
Denmark
United States
Iraq
Iraq Declaration of Independence
October 3
1932
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
India
Declaration of the Independence of India
January 26
1930
United Kingdom
Indonesia
Proclamation of Indonesian Independence
August 17
1945
Netherlands
Sukarno & Mohammad Hatta
Egypt Vatican City [4] Ireland
Proclamation of the Irish Republic
April 24 (Easter Monday)
1916
United Kingdom
Provisional Government of the Irish Republic
Irish Republic
Irish Declaration of Independence
January 21
1919
United Kingdom
Dáil Éireann
Russia
Israel
Israeli Declaration of Independence
May 14
1948
United Kingdom
Jewish People's Council
United States
Northern Epirus
Northern Epirote Declaration of Independence
February 28
1914
Albania
Provisional Government of Northern Epirus
Katanga
Katangan Declaration of Independence
1960
Congo-Léopoldville
Korea
Korean Declaration of Independence
March 1
1919
Japan
Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea
China (1933)
North Solomons
Declaration of Independence of the Republic of the North Solomons
September 1
1975
Territory of Papua and New Guinea (Australia )
Unknown
Vatican City
Kosovo
Kosovo declaration of independence
February 17
2008
Serbia UN Administration
Democratically elected leaders of our people[5]
Afghanistan Albania Costa Rica
Kosova
Proclamation of the Republic of Kosova
September 22
1992
FR Yugoslavia
Assembly of Kosovo
Albania
Latvia
Latvian Declaration of Independence
November 18
1918
Germany Russia
People's Council of Latvia
Russia
Latvia
On the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia
May 4
1990
Soviet Union
Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR
Iceland
Liberia
Liberian Declaration of Independence
July 16
1847
American Colonization Society
Liberian Constitutional Convention
United Kingdom
Lithuania
Act of Independence of Lithuania
February 16
1918
Germany Russia
Council of Lithuania
Germany
Lithuania
Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
March 11
1990
Soviet Union
Supreme Council of Lithuania
Iceland
Macedonia
Independence of the Republic of Macedonia
September 8
1991
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Malaya (present day Malaysia )
Federation of Malaya Independence Act 1957
August 31
1957
United Kingdom
Tunku Abdul Rahman , Prime Minister of Malaysia
United Kingdom [6] Mississippi
A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union
January 9
1861
United States
First Mexican Empire (present day Mexico )
Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire (real independence) [clarification needed ]
September 28
1821
Spain
Supreme Provisional Governmental Board
United Kingdom (January 4, 1825) [7] Moldova
Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Moldova
August 27
1991
Soviet Union
Parliament of the Republic of Moldova
Romania
Morocco
Moroccan Declaration of Independence
January 11
1944
France
Istiqlal Party
Montenegro
Montenegro declaration of independence
June 3
2006
Serbia and Montenegro
Assembly of the Republic of Montenegro
Iceland
Netherlands
Act of Abjuration
July 26
1581
Spain
Union of Utrecht
United Tribes of New Zealand
Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand
October 28
1835
—
Māori chiefs
United Kingdom [8] Northern America (present day Mexico
Solemn Act of the Declaration of Independence of Northern America
November 6
1813
Spain
Congress of Anáhuac
Northern Cyprus
Declaration of Independence of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
November 15
1983
Cyprus
Turkey
Norway (Kingdom of Norway )
Declaration of Independence of Norway (short after[clarification needed ] , sovereign under the Swedish monarchy ) , and the Constitution of Norway
May 17
1814
Denmark-Norway (As of Treaty of Kiel )
Norwegian Constituent Assembly
Padania
Padanian Declaration of Independence
September 15
1996
Italy
Pakistan
Pakistan Resolution
March 24
1940
United Kingdom
Muslim League (Pakistan)
Palestine
Palestinian Declaration of Independence
November 15
1988
Palestinian territories
Jordan (claimed the West Bank until 1988)
Palestinian National Council
Arab League
Peru
Act of the Declaration of Independence of Peru
July 28
1821
Spain
José de San Martín
Argentina
Philippines
Philippine Declaration of Independence
June 12
1898
Spain
98 representatives of Dictatorial Government of the Philippines [9] (ratified on September 29, 1898 by the Malolos Congress [10] )
Rhodesia
Rhodesian Unilateral Declaration of Independence
November 11
1965
United Kingdom
Ian Smith and the rest of the Cabinet
none
Romania
Romanian Declaration of Independence
May 22
1877
Ottoman Empire
King Carol I
Russia
Belavezha Accords
December 12
1991
Soviet Union
Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR
Western Sahara
Bir Lehlou declaration
February 27
1976
Spanish Sahara
Polisario Front
Madagascar
Scotland
Declaration of Arbroath
April 6
1320
England
Scottish leaders
Serbia
The Proclamation (Proglašenije/Проглашеније)
February
1809
Ottoman Empire
Karađorđe Petrović and Serbian MPs
Singapore
Proclamation of Singapore [11]
August 9
1965
Malaysia [12] [13]
Lee Kuan Yew , Prime Minister of Singapore
United Kingdom (confirmed earlier recognition)[14] Slovakia
Slovak National Council's Declaration of Independence of the Slovak Nation
July 17
1992
Czechoslovakia
Slovak National Council
Slovenia
Slovenian Declaration of Independence
June 25
1991
Yugoslavia
Croatia
Somaliland
Somaliland Declaration of Independence
May 18
1991
Somalia
none
South Carolina
Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union
December 24
1860
United States
South Carolinians in Charleston
Sri Lanka
Declaration of Independence of Sri Lanka (Then known as "Ceylon")
February 4
1948
United Kingdom
Texas, Republic of
Texas Declaration of Independence
March 2
1836
Mexico
France
Texas, State of
A Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union
February 1
1861
United States
Texas Legislature
Tibet
Tibet's Declaration of Independence
February 13
1913
China
13th Dalai Lama
none
Turkmenistan
Declaration of independence
1991
Soviet Union
none
Turkey
Ukraine
IV Universal
January 22
1918
Russia
Central Council of Ukraine
Ukraine
Declaration of Independence of Ukraine
August 24
1991
Soviet Union
Verkhovna Rada
Poland Canada [15] United States
United States Declaration of Independence
July 2[a]
1776
Great Britain
Second Continental Congress
Morocco [18] [19] Uzbekistan
Declaration of Independence
August 31
1991
Soviet Union
Supreme Council of Uzbekistan
Turkey
Venezuela
Venezuelan Declaration of Independence
July 5
1811
Spain
National Congress
Vermont
Vermont Declaration of Independence
January 15
1777
United States British Quebec
United States
Vietnam
Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
September 2
1945
France
Hồ Chí Minh
Soviet Union
Lower Canada
Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada
February 22
1838
United Kingdom
Robert Nelson
none