List of sovereign states in 1500

== Sovereign states == === A === Abazinia – Abazinia Aceh – Aceh Sultanate Capital: Kutaraja Adal – Adal Sultanate Capital: Dakkar Ahmadnagar – Ahmadnagar Sultanate Capital: Ahmadnagar Ahom – Ahom Kingdom Airgíalla Ailech Aïr – Terene Sultanate of Aïr (to 1500) Capital: Agadez Ajuran – Ajuran Sultanate Capital: Mareeg Ağ Qoyunlu – Ağ Qoyunlu Confederation Capital: Tabriz Alodia – Alodia Capital: Soba Andorra – Principality of Andorra Capital: Andorra la Vella Astrakhan – Khanate of Astrakhan Capital: Xacitarxan Ava – Kingdom of Ava Capital: Ava Avar – Avar Khanate Capital: Khunzah Ayutthaya – Ayutthaya Kingdom Capital: Ayutthaya (city) Aztec – Aztec Empire Capital: Tenochtitlan Tenochtitlan Texcoco Tlacopan === B === Bamum – Kingdom of Bamum Capital: Fumban Banu Sulaym Bahmani – Bahmani Sultanate (undergoing breakup) Capital: Bidar Bastar – Bastar State Capital: Jagdalpur Benin – Benin Empire Capital: Edo Bengal – Sultanate of Bengal Capital: Gaur Berar – Berar Sultanate Capital: Ellichpur Bidar – Bidar Sultanate Capital: Bidar Bijapur – Adil Shahi dynasty of the Bijapur Sultanate Capital: Bijapur Bikaner Capital: Bikaner Bonoman Capital: Begho Borgu – Kingdom of Borgu Capital: New Bussa Bornu – Bornu Empire Capital: Ngazargamu Brunei – Bruneian Sultanate Capital: Bandar Seri Begawan Buganda – Kingdom of Buganda Capital: Mengo Bundi – Bundi State Butua – Kingdom of Butua Capital: Khami Butuan – Rajahnate of Butuan Capital: Butuan Bunyoro – Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara === C === Caboloan Capital: Binalatongan Cambodia Capital: Chaktomuk Chamba – Chamba State Capital: Chamba Champa – Chăm Pa Capital: Panduranga China – Empire of the Great Ming Capital: Nanjing Capital: Jingshi Chutiya – Chutiya Kingdom Capital: Sadiya Circassia Capital: Sochi Clandeboye Cospaia - Republic of Cospaia Capital: Cospaia Cutch – Cutch State Capital: Lakhiarviro === D === Damot – Kingdom of Damot Đại ViệtCapital: Dong Kinh Dawro – Kingdom of Dawro Delhi – Delhi Sultanate Capital: Delhi Demak – Sultanate of Demak Capital: Bintara Denkyira Capital: Dunkwa-on-Offin Desmond – Kingdom of Desmond Capital: Cahersiveen Denmark – Kingdom of Denmark Capital: Copenhagen Dizak – Principality of Dizak Dulkadirids – Beylik of Dulkadir Capital: Maraş === E === England – Kingdom of England Capital: London Ethiopia – Ethiopian Empire === F === Fermanagh Capital: Lisnaskea France – Kingdom of France Capital: Paris === G === Gajapati – Gajapati dynasty, Odisha Capital: Cuttack Garhwal – Kingdom of Garhwal Capital: Devalgarh Genoa – Republic of Genoa Capital: Genoa Gowa – Sultanate of Gowa Capital: Sungguminasa Great Fulo – Empire of Great Fulo Capital: Anyam-Godo Golden Horde – Golden HordeCapital: Sarai Batu Gujarat – Gujarat Sultanate Capital: Muhammadabad === H === Hanthawaddy – Hanthawaddy Kingdom Capital: Hanthawaddy Hausa Kingdoms Hawwara Holy Roman Empire (high decentralized limited elective monarchy) Hungary – Kingdom of Hungary Capital: Buda === I === Igala – Kingdom of Igala Capital: Idah Imereti – Kingdom of Imereti Capital: Kutaisi Inca – Inca Empire Capital: Cusco Iroquois – Iroquois Confederacy Capital: Onondaga === J === Jaffna – Kingdom of Jaffna Capital: Nallur Jailolo – Sultanate of Jailolo Capital: Jailolo Jaintia – Kingdom of Jaintia Capital: Jaintia Rajbari Jaisalmer – Kingdom of Jaisalmer Capital: Jaisalmer Janjero – Kingdom of Janjero Capital: Fofa Japan – Ashikaga Shogunate Capital: Kyoto Jolof – Jolof Empire Capital: Linguère Joseon – Kingdom of Great Joseon Capital: Hanseong Jumla – Kingdom of Jumla === K === Kabardia – Princedom of Kabardia Capital: Nalchik Kachari – Kingdom of Kachari Capital: Maibang Kaffa – Kingdom of Kaffa Capital: Anderaccha Kakheti – Kingdom of Kakheti Capital: Gremi Kakongo – Kingdom of Kakongo Capital: Kinguele Kalahandi – Kalahandi State Capital: Bhawanipatna Kamata – Kingdom of Kamata Kandy – Kingdom of Kandy Capital: Kandy Kangleipak – Kangleipak State Kangra – Kingdom of Kangra Kanker – Kanker State Capital: Kanker Kartli – Kingdom of Kartli Capital: Tbilisi Kashmir – Shah Mir Dynasty of Kashmir Kazakh – Kazakh Khanate Capital: Turkistan Kazan – Khanate of Kazan Capital: Kazan Khachen – Principality of Khachen Capital: Haterk Kilwa – Kilwa Sultanate Knights Hospitaller – Order of Saint John Capital: Rhodes Kongo – Kingdom of Kongo Capital: M'banza-Kongo Kotte – Kingdom of Kotte Capital: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte Kumaon – Kingdom of Kumaon Capital: Champawat Kutai – Kutai Kartanegara Sultanate Capital: Pemarangan Kwararafa – Kwararafa Confederacy Capital: Wukari === L === Ladakh – Namgyal dynasty of Ladakh Lan Na – Lanna Kingdom Capital: Chiang Mai Lan XangCapital: Luang Prabang Lithuania – Grand Duchy of Lithuania Capital: Vilnius Luwu – Kingdom of Luwu Capital: Wara === M === Madja-as – Confederation of Madja-as Capital: Irong-Irong Magh Luirg Majapahit – Majapahit Empire Capital: Majapahit Malacca – The Malay Sultanate of Malacca Capital: Malacca Maldives – Sultanate of the Maldives Capital: Malé Mali – Mali Empire Capital: Niani village Malwa – Malwa Sultanate Capital: Mandu Mamluk – Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo Capital: Cairo Mandara – Kingdom of Mandara Mankessim – Kingdom of Mankessim Capital: Mankessim Maravi – Kingdom of Maravi Capital: Manthimba Marwar – Kingdom of Marwar Capital: Jodhpur Mayas – Maya civilization Maynila – Kingdom of Maynila Medri Bahri – Land of the Sea Capital: Debarwa Mewar – Mewar Kingdom Capital: Chittor Mewat – Mewat State Capital: Alwar MoghulistanCapital: Almaliq Morocco – Wattasid dynasty of Morocco Capital: Fes Mossi Kingdoms Mrauk U – Kingdom of Mrauk U Capital: Mrauk U Muisca Confederation Muscovy – Grand Duchy of Muscovy Capital: Moscow Mustang – Kingdom of Mustang Capital: Lo Manthang Mutapa – Kingdom of Mutapa Capital: Zvongombe === N === Namayan - Kingdom of Namayan Capital: Sapa Naples – Kingdom of Naples Capital: Naples Navarre – Kingdom of Navarre Capital: Pamplona Nepal – Malla dynasty of Nepal (divided into three kingdoms since 1482) Nogai – Nogai Horde Capital: Saray-Jük Noli – Republic of Noli Capital: Noli Nri – Kingdom of Nri Capital: Igbo-Ukwu Nupe – Kingdom of Nupe Capital: Bida === O === Oirat – Four Oirat Oman – Imamate of Oman Capital: Nizwa Osraige Capital: Kilkenny Ottoman Empire Capital: Constantinople Oyo – Oyo Empire Capital: Oyo-Ile === P === Pagaruyung – Kingdom of Pagaruyung Capital: Pagaruyung Papal States - State of the ChurchCapital: Rome Patna – Patna State Capital: Balangir Poland – Kingdom of Poland Capital: Kraków Portugal – Kingdom of Portugal Capital: Lisbon Prome – Kingdom of Prome Capital: Pyay Pskov – Republic of Pskov Capital: Pskov === R === Ragusa – Republic of Ragusa Capital: Ragusa Ramazanids – Emirate of Ramadan Capital: Adana Rapa Nui – Kingdom of Rapa Nui Capital: Te Peu Rwanda – Kingdom of Rwanda Capital: Nyanza Ryazan – Principality of Ryazan Capital: Ryazan Ryukyu – Ryukyu Kingdom Capital: Shuri === S === Saloum – Kingdom of Saloum Capital: Kahone Samtskhe – Samtskhe Atabegate Capital: Akhaltsikhe Samudera Pasai – Samudera Pasai Sultanate Capital: Pasai San Marino – Republic of San Marino Capital: City of San Marino Saudeleur – Saudeleur dynasty Capital: Nan Madol Scotland – Kingdom of Scotland Capital: Edinburgh Senarica – Senarica Republic Capital: Senarica Shan States (minor kingdoms of Burma) Shewa – Sultanate of Shewa Capital: Tegulat Shaybanid Uzbek State (Khanate of Bukhara)Capital: Samarkand Shilluk – Shilluk Kingdom Sibir – Khanate of Sibir Capital: Qashliq Sindh – Samma dynasty of Sindh Capital: Thatta Songhai – Songhai Empire Capital: Gao Suket – Suket State Capital: Sundar Nagar Sunda – Kingdom of Sunda Capital: Pakuan Pajajaran Sweden – Kingdom of Sweden Capital: Stockholm === T === Tarascan state Capital: Tzintzuntzan (Mesoamerican site) Ternate – Sultanate of Ternate Capital: Ternate Teutonic Knights – State of the Teutonic Order Capital: Königsberg Thomond – Kingdom of Thomond Tibet, Phagmodrupa – Phagmodrupa dynasty of Tibet Capital: Nêdong Tibet, Rinpungpa – Rinpungpa dynasty of Tibet Capital: Shigatse Tidore – Sultanate of Tidore Capital: Tidore Timurid Empire Capital: Herat Tlaxcala – Confederacy of Tlaxcala Capital: Tlaxcala Tlemcen – Zayyanid Kingdom of Tlemcen Capital: Tlemcen Tondo – Tundun Capital: Tondo Tonga – Tu'i Tonga Empire Capital: Mu'a (Tongatapu) Tunjurs – Tunjur Kingdom Capital: Uri Tunis – Sultanate of Tunis Capital: Tunis Tyrconnell Capital: Kilmacrennan Capital: Donegal Castle Tyrone Twipra – Kingdom of Twipra Capital: Khorongma === U === Uí Maine Usfurids – Usfurid dynasty === V === Venice – Most Serene Republic of Venice Capital: Venice Vijayanagara – Vijayanagara Empire Capital: Vijayanagara === W === Warsangali – Warsangali Sultanate Capital: Las Khorey Wehali – Sultanate of Wehali Welayta – Kingdom of Welayta === Y === Yemen – Tahirid dynasty of Yemen Capital: Zabid Yuan – Northern Yuan === Z === Zapotec – Zapotec Empire Capital: Mitla == Holy Roman Empire == The Holy Roman Empire was a highly decentralized collection of polities. A comprehensive list of all of its anachronistic components has been made at List of states in the Holy Roman Empire, and would be much too large to fit here.

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List of sovereign states in 1500

== Sovereign states == === A === Abazinia – Abazinia Aceh – Aceh Sultanate Capital: Kutaraja Adal – Adal Sultanate Capital: Dakkar Ahmadnagar – Ahmadnagar Sultanate Capital: Ahmadnagar Ahom – Ahom Kingdom Airgíalla Ailech Aïr – Terene Sultanate of Aïr (to 1500) Capital: Agadez Ajuran – Ajuran Sultanate Capital: Mareeg Ağ Qoyunlu – Ağ Qoyunlu Confederation Capital: Tabriz Alodia – Alodia Capital: Soba Andorra – Principality of Andorra Capital: Andorra la Vella Astrakhan – Khanate of Astrakhan Capital: Xacitarxan Ava – Kingdom of Ava Capital: Ava Avar – Avar Khanate Capital: Khunzah Ayutthaya – Ayutthaya Kingdom Capital: Ayutthaya (city) Aztec – Aztec Empire Capital: Tenochtitlan Tenochtitlan Texcoco Tlacopan === B === Bamum – Kingdom of Bamum Capital: Fumban Banu Sulaym Bahmani – Bahmani Sultanate (undergoing breakup) Capital: Bidar Bastar – Bastar State Capital: Jagdalpur Benin – Benin Empire Capital: Edo Bengal – Sultanate of Bengal Capital: Gaur Berar – Berar Sultanate Capital: Ellichpur Bidar – Bidar Sultanate Capital: Bidar Bijapur – Adil Shahi dynasty of the Bijapur Sultanate Capital: Bijapur Bikaner Capital: Bikaner Bonoman Capital: Begho Borgu – Kingdom of Borgu Capital: New Bussa Bornu – Bornu Empire Capital: Ngazargamu Brunei – Bruneian Sultanate Capital: Bandar Seri Begawan Buganda – Kingdom of Buganda Capital: Mengo Bundi – Bundi State Butua – Kingdom of Butua Capital: Khami Butuan – Rajahnate of Butuan Capital: Butuan Bunyoro – Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara === C === Caboloan Capital: Binalatongan Cambodia Capital: Chaktomuk Chamba – Chamba State Capital: Chamba Champa – Chăm Pa Capital: Panduranga China – Empire of the Great Ming Capital: Nanjing Capital: Jingshi Chutiya – Chutiya Kingdom Capital: Sadiya Circassia Capital: Sochi Clandeboye Cospaia - Republic of Cospaia Capital: Cospaia Cutch – Cutch State Capital: Lakhiarviro === D === Damot – Kingdom of Damot Đại ViệtCapital: Dong Kinh Dawro – Kingdom of Dawro Delhi – Delhi Sultanate Capital: Delhi Demak – Sultanate of Demak Capital: Bintara Denkyira Capital: Dunkwa-on-Offin Desmond – Kingdom of Desmond Capital: Cahersiveen Denmark – Kingdom of Denmark Capital: Copenhagen Dizak – Principality of Dizak Dulkadirids – Beylik of Dulkadir Capital: Maraş === E === England – Kingdom of England Capital: London Ethiopia – Ethiopian Empire === F === Fermanagh Capital: Lisnaskea France – Kingdom of France Capital: Paris === G === Gajapati – Gajapati dynasty, Odisha Capital: Cuttack Garhwal – Kingdom of Garhwal Capital: Devalgarh Genoa – Republic of Genoa Capital: Genoa Gowa – Sultanate of Gowa Capital: Sungguminasa Great Fulo – Empire of Great Fulo Capital: Anyam-Godo Golden Horde – Golden HordeCapital: Sarai Batu Gujarat – Gujarat Sultanate Capital: Muhammadabad === H === Hanthawaddy – Hanthawaddy Kingdom Capital: Hanthawaddy Hausa Kingdoms Hawwara Holy Roman Empire (high decentralized limited elective monarchy) Hungary – Kingdom of Hungary Capital: Buda === I === Igala – Kingdom of Igala Capital: Idah Imereti – Kingdom of Imereti Capital: Kutaisi Inca – Inca Empire Capital: Cusco Iroquois – Iroquois Confederacy Capital: Onondaga === J === Jaffna – Kingdom of Jaffna Capital: Nallur Jailolo – Sultanate of Jailolo Capital: Jailolo Jaintia – Kingdom of Jaintia Capital: Jaintia Rajbari Jaisalmer – Kingdom of Jaisalmer Capital: Jaisalmer Janjero – Kingdom of Janjero Capital: Fofa Japan – Ashikaga Shogunate Capital: Kyoto Jolof – Jolof Empire Capital: Linguère Joseon – Kingdom of Great Joseon Capital: Hanseong Jumla – Kingdom of Jumla === K === Kabardia – Princedom of Kabardia Capital: Nalchik Kachari – Kingdom of Kachari Capital: Maibang Kaffa – Kingdom of Kaffa Capital: Anderaccha Kakheti – Kingdom of Kakheti Capital: Gremi Kakongo – Kingdom of Kakongo Capital: Kinguele Kalahandi – Kalahandi State Capital: Bhawanipatna Kamata – Kingdom of Kamata Kandy – Kingdom of Kandy Capital: Kandy Kangleipak – Kangleipak State Kangra – Kingdom of Kangra Kanker – Kanker State Capital: Kanker Kartli – Kingdom of Kartli Capital: Tbilisi Kashmir – Shah Mir Dynasty of Kashmir Kazakh – Kazakh Khanate Capital: Turkistan Kazan – Khanate of Kazan Capital: Kazan Khachen – Principality of Khachen Capital: Haterk Kilwa – Kilwa Sultanate Knights Hospitaller – Order of Saint John Capital: Rhodes Kongo – Kingdom of Kongo Capital: M'banza-Kongo Kotte – Kingdom of Kotte Capital: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte Kumaon – Kingdom of Kumaon Capital: Champawat Kutai – Kutai Kartanegara Sultanate Capital: Pemarangan Kwararafa – Kwararafa Confederacy Capital: Wukari === L === Ladakh – Namgyal dynasty of Ladakh Lan Na – Lanna Kingdom Capital: Chiang Mai Lan XangCapital: Luang Prabang Lithuania – Grand Duchy of Lithuania Capital: Vilnius Luwu – Kingdom of Luwu Capital: Wara === M === Madja-as – Confederation of Madja-as Capital: Irong-Irong Magh Luirg Majapahit – Majapahit Empire Capital: Majapahit Malacca – The Malay Sultanate of Malacca Capital: Malacca Maldives – Sultanate of the Maldives Capital: Malé Mali – Mali Empire Capital: Niani village Malwa – Malwa Sultanate Capital: Mandu Mamluk – Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo Capital: Cairo Mandara – Kingdom of Mandara Mankessim – Kingdom of Mankessim Capital: Mankessim Maravi – Kingdom of Maravi Capital: Manthimba Marwar – Kingdom of Marwar Capital: Jodhpur Mayas – Maya civilization Maynila – Kingdom of Maynila Medri Bahri – Land of the Sea Capital: Debarwa Mewar – Mewar Kingdom Capital: Chittor Mewat – Mewat State Capital: Alwar MoghulistanCapital: Almaliq Morocco – Wattasid dynasty of Morocco Capital: Fes Mossi Kingdoms Mrauk U – Kingdom of Mrauk U Capital: Mrauk U Muisca Confederation Muscovy – Grand Duchy of Muscovy Capital: Moscow Mustang – Kingdom of Mustang Capital: Lo Manthang Mutapa – Kingdom of Mutapa Capital: Zvongombe === N === Namayan - Kingdom of Namayan Capital: Sapa Naples – Kingdom of Naples Capital: Naples Navarre – Kingdom of Navarre Capital: Pamplona Nepal – Malla dynasty of Nepal (divided into three kingdoms since 1482) Nogai – Nogai Horde Capital: Saray-Jük Noli – Republic of Noli Capital: Noli Nri – Kingdom of Nri Capital: Igbo-Ukwu Nupe – Kingdom of Nupe Capital: Bida === O === Oirat – Four Oirat Oman – Imamate of Oman Capital: Nizwa Osraige Capital: Kilkenny Ottoman Empire Capital: Constantinople Oyo – Oyo Empire Capital: Oyo-Ile === P === Pagaruyung – Kingdom of Pagaruyung Capital: Pagaruyung Papal States - State of the ChurchCapital: Rome Patna – Patna State Capital: Balangir Poland – Kingdom of Poland Capital: Kraków Portugal – Kingdom of Portugal Capital: Lisbon Prome – Kingdom of Prome Capital: Pyay Pskov – Republic of Pskov Capital: Pskov === R === Ragusa – Republic of Ragusa Capital: Ragusa Ramazanids – Emirate of Ramadan Capital: Adana Rapa Nui – Kingdom of Rapa Nui Capital: Te Peu Rwanda – Kingdom of Rwanda Capital: Nyanza Ryazan – Principality of Ryazan Capital: Ryazan Ryukyu – Ryukyu Kingdom Capital: Shuri === S === Saloum – Kingdom of Saloum Capital: Kahone Samtskhe – Samtskhe Atabegate Capital: Akhaltsikhe Samudera Pasai – Samudera Pasai Sultanate Capital: Pasai San Marino – Republic of San Marino Capital: City of San Marino Saudeleur – Saudeleur dynasty Capital: Nan Madol Scotland – Kingdom of Scotland Capital: Edinburgh Senarica – Senarica Republic Capital: Senarica Shan States (minor kingdoms of Burma) Shewa – Sultanate of Shewa Capital: Tegulat Shaybanid Uzbek State (Khanate of Bukhara)Capital: Samarkand Shilluk – Shilluk Kingdom Sibir – Khanate of Sibir Capital: Qashliq Sindh – Samma dynasty of Sindh Capital: Thatta Songhai – Songhai Empire Capital: Gao Suket – Suket State Capital: Sundar Nagar Sunda – Kingdom of Sunda Capital: Pakuan Pajajaran Sweden – Kingdom of Sweden Capital: Stockholm === T === Tarascan state Capital: Tzintzuntzan (Mesoamerican site) Ternate – Sultanate of Ternate Capital: Ternate Teutonic Knights – State of the Teutonic Order Capital: Königsberg Thomond – Kingdom of Thomond Tibet, Phagmodrupa – Phagmodrupa dynasty of Tibet Capital: Nêdong Tibet, Rinpungpa – Rinpungpa dynasty of Tibet Capital: Shigatse Tidore – Sultanate of Tidore Capital: Tidore Timurid Empire Capital: Herat Tlaxcala – Confederacy of Tlaxcala Capital: Tlaxcala Tlemcen – Zayyanid Kingdom of Tlemcen Capital: Tlemcen Tondo – Tundun Capital: Tondo Tonga – Tu'i Tonga Empire Capital: Mu'a (Tongatapu) Tunjurs – Tunjur Kingdom Capital: Uri Tunis – Sultanate of Tunis Capital: Tunis Tyrconnell Capital: Kilmacrennan Capital: Donegal Castle Tyrone Twipra – Kingdom of Twipra Capital: Khorongma === U === Uí Maine Usfurids – Usfurid dynasty === V === Venice – Most Serene Republic of Venice Capital: Venice Vijayanagara – Vijayanagara Empire Capital: Vijayanagara === W === Warsangali – Warsangali Sultanate Capital: Las Khorey Wehali – Sultanate of Wehali Welayta – Kingdom of Welayta === Y === Yemen – Tahirid dynasty of Yemen Capital: Zabid Yuan – Northern Yuan === Z === Zapotec – Zapotec Empire Capital: Mitla == Holy Roman Empire == The Holy Roman Empire was a highly decentralized collection of polities. A comprehensive list of all of its anachronistic components has been made at List of states in the Holy Roman Empire, and would be much too large to fit here.

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