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This is a list of current monarchies. As of 2022^[update], at that place are 43 sovereign states in the world with a monarch as head of land. There are thirteen in Asia, 12 in Europe, ix in Northward America, six in Oceania, and iii in Africa.

Types of monarchy [edit]

These are the approximate categories which present monarchies fall into:

• Commonwealth realms. Queen Elizabeth II is the monarch of fifteen Commonwealth realms (Antigua and Barbuda; the Commonwealth of Australia; Commonwealth of the bahamas; Belize; Canada; Grenada; Jamaica; New Zealand; the Contained Country of Papua New Guinea; the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Solomon Islands; Tuvalu; and the Great britain of Great Britain and Northern Ireland). They evolved out of the British Empire into fully independent states within the Commonwealth of Nations that retain the Queen every bit head of state, unlike other Commonwealth countries that are either dependencies, republics or have a different royal house. All xv realms are ramble monarchies and total democracies, where the Queen has express powers or a largely ceremonial part.
• Other European constitutional monarchies.
  • The Principality of Principality of andorra; the Kingdom of Belgium; the Kingdom of denmark; the M Duchy of Luxembourg; the Kingdom of the netherlands; the Norway; the Kingdom of Espana; and the Kingdom of Sweden are fully democratic states in which the monarch has a limited or largely ceremonial part.
  • Andorra is unique amongst all existing monarchies, as it is a diarchy, with the Co-Princeship being shared by the President of France and the Bishop of Urgell. This arrangement creates a unique state of affairs amongst monarchies, as
  • a) neither Co-Prince is of Andorran descent,
  • b) one is elected by common citizens of a foreign country (French republic), but non past Andorrans as they cannot vote in the French Presidential Elections,
  • c) the other, the bishop of Urgell, is appointed by a strange head of state, the Pope.
• European mixed monarchies.
• Liechtenstein and Monaco are constitutional monarchies in which the Prince retains many powers of an absolute monarch. For example, the 2003 Constitution referendum gives the Prince of Principality of liechtenstein the power to veto any constabulary that the Landtag (parliament) proposes and vice versa. The Prince tin hire or dismiss any elective fellow member or government employee from their post. However, unlike an absolute monarch, the people can call for a plebiscite to end the Prince'southward reign.
• The Prince of Monaco has like powers: he cannot hire or dismiss any elective fellow member or government employee from his or her postal service, but he tin select the minister of state, government council and judges.
• Muslim monarchies. These Muslim monarchs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan; the Kingdom of Bahrain; the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace; Malaysia; the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; the State of Kuwait; the Kingdom of Kingdom of morocco; the Sultanate of Oman; the State of Qatar; the Kingdom of Kingdom of saudi arabia and the United Arab Emirates by and large retain far more than powers than their European or Commonwealth counterparts.

Accented monarchs remain in the Nation of Negara brunei darussalam, the Abode of Peace; the Sultanate of Oman; the State of Qatar (de facto); and the Kingdom of saudi arabia. The Kingdom of Bahrain, and the State of Kuwait are classified as mixed, meaning there are representative bodies of some kind, only the monarch retains virtually of his powers. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Malaysia, the Kingdom of Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates are constitutional monarchies, but their monarchs even so retain more substantial powers than in European equivalents.

• East and Southeast Asian ramble monarchies.
• The Kingdom of Bhutan; the Kingdom of Cambodia; Nihon; and the Kingdom of Thailand have ramble monarchies where the monarch has a express or ceremonial role. Thailand changed from traditional accented monarchy into a ramble one in 1932, while the Kingdom of Bhutan changed in 2008. The Cambodia had its own monarchy afterward independence from the French Colonial Empire, which was deposed after the Khmer Rouge came into power. The monarchy was later on restored in the peace agreement of 1993.
• Other monarchies.
• 5 monarchies practise non fit into one of the above groups by virtue of geography or class of monarchy: the Kingdom of Tonga in Polynesia; the Kingdom of Eswatini and the Kingdom of Lesotho in Southern Africa; and the Sovereign Military Social club of Malta (S.M.O.M.), and the Vatican City Land in Europe. Of these, the Kingdom of Lesotho and the Kingdom of Tonga are constitutional monarchies, while the Kingdom of Eswatini and the The holy see Country are accented monarchies. The Kingdom of Eswatini is increasingly being considered a diarchy. The King, or Ngwenyama, rules alongside his female parent, the Ndlovukati, equally dual heads of state originally designed to be checks on political power. The Ngwenyama, yet, is considered the administrative head of land, while the Ndlovukati is considered the spiritual and national head of land, a position which has get largely symbolic in recent years. Due south.M.O.M. is governed by an elected Prince and Thousand Main. The Pope is the accented monarch of the Vatican by virtue of his position as head of the Roman Catholic Church and Bishop of Rome; he is an elected rather than hereditary ruler. The Pope demand non be a citizen of the territory prior to his election by the cardinals.

Lines of succession [edit]

Some of the extant sovereign monarchies take lines of succession that go dorsum to the medieval period or antiquity:

• The kings of Cambodia claim descent from Queen Soma (1st century), although the historiographical record is interrupted in the "Postal service-Angkor Catamenia" (15th/16th centuries). A real unified kingdom of cambodia commencement came to existence in 802. The monarchy in Cambodia was abolished between 1970 and 1993.
• In that location be several suggestions on a possible line of succession in the Danish monarchy from the late 7th century and until Gorm the Old, but none of these suggestions have so far won universal acceptance. Well-nigh monarchs in Denmark since the 940s have been descendants of Gorm the Sometime'southward father Harthacnut and all monarchs in Denmark since 1047 have been descendants of titular Queen Estrid Svendsdatter. A formal law of succession was not adopted in Denmark until 1665.
• Japan, considered a ramble monarchy under the Royal House of Japan, is traditionally said to accept originated with the mythical Emperor Jimmu. The kickoff verifiable historiographical evidence begins with Emperor Kinmei in the 6th century.
• The monarchs of the Kingdom of norway past virtue of descent from Harald I Fairhair, who united the realm in 872. Harald as a fellow member of the House of Yngling is given a partly legendary line of succession from earlier petty kings in historiographical tradition. Far from all monarchs of Norway since the 930s have been descendants of Harald Fairhair: at least vii or eight Norwegian kings from the period c. 970 – 1859 were non descendants of Harald Fairhair.
• The kings of Kingdom of spain by descent from the Catholic Monarchs (via the Firm of Habsburg), ultimately combining the lines of succession of Castile and León and Aragon, realms established in the tenth to 11th centuries in the class of the Reconquista, via the Kingdom of Asturias claiming descent from the Visigothic Kingdom (which, originally ruled by the Thervingi kings, had get elective in the sixth century). The monarchy of Spain was abolished twice in the 19th and 20th centuries (1873–1874 and 1931–1947) and replaced past republics.
• The monarchs of the United Kingdom and Republic realms inherit the throne by virtue of descent from Sophia of Hanover, according to the Act of Settlement 1701. Sophia was the granddaughter of James VI and I who inherited and held in union the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland (Matrimony of the Crowns) in 1603. Succession to the English throne originates with the House of Wessex, established in the 6th century; the Scottish throne with descent from Pictish kings who likewise enter the historical record around the 6th century.

Current monarchies [edit]

Monarchy	Official local name(due south)	Title of Head of State	Monarch	Championship of Head of Government	Type of monarchy	Succession	Current constitution
Principality of Principality of andorra[1]	In Catalan: Principat d'Andorra	Co-Princes	Joan-Enric Vives Emmanuel Macron	Prime Minister	Constitutional	Ex officio	1993
Antigua and Barbuda[2]	In English: Antigua and Barbuda	Queen	Elizabeth II			Hereditary	1981
Commonwealth of Australia[3]	In English language: Republic of Australia	Queen	Elizabeth Two				1901
Commonwealth of the Bahamas[4]	In English: Republic of the Bahamas	Queen	Elizabeth Ii				1973
Kingdom of Bahrain[5]	In Arabic: Mamlakat al- Baḥrayn	Rex	Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa		Mixed		2002
Kingdom of Belgium[6]	In Dutch: Koninkrijk België In French: Royaume de Belgique In German: Königreich Belgien	King 1	Philippe		Constitutional	Hereditary i	1831
Belize[seven]	In English: Belize	Queen	Elizabeth II			Hereditary	1981
Kingdom of Kingdom of bhutan[8]	In Dzongkha: Druk Gyal Khap	King	Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck				2007
Brunei Darussalam[nine]	In Malay: Negara Brunei Darussalam	Sultan	Hassanal Bolkiah	Sultan	Absolute		1959
Kingdom of Cambodia	In Khmer: Preăh Réachéanachâk Kâmpŭchéa	King	Norodom Sihamoni	Prime Government minister	Constitutional	Hereditary and elective	1993
Dominion of Canada	In English and French: Canada	Queen	Elizabeth Ii			Hereditary	1867
Kingdom of Denmark[10]	In Danish: Kongeriget Danmark In Faroese: Kongsríki Danmark In Greenlandic: Kunngeqarfik Danmarki	Queen	Margrethe Two				1953
Kingdom of Eswatini[eleven]	In Swazi: Umbuso weSwatini In English language: Kingdom of Eswatini	King	Mswati III		Accented	Hereditary and elective	1968
Grenada[12]	In English: Grenada	Queen	Elizabeth 2		Constitutional	Hereditary	1974
Jamaica[thirteen]	In English: Jamaica	Queen	Elizabeth Two				1962
State of Japan[14]	In Japanese: 日本国 (Nippon-koku/Nihon-koku)	Emperor	Naruhito				1947
Country of Kuwait[15]	In Standard arabic: Dawlat al-Kuwait	Emir	Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah		Mixed	Hereditary and elective	1962
Jordan[16]	In Standard arabic: al-Mamlakah al-Urdunīyah al-Hāshimīyah	Rex	Abdullah II				1952
Kingdom of Lesotho[17]	In Sotho: Muso oa Lesotho In English: Kingdom of Lesotho	King	Letsie III		Constitutional		1993
Principality of liechtenstein[xviii]	In High german: Fürstentum Principality of liechtenstein	Sovereign Prince	Hans-Adam II		Mixed	Hereditary	1862
Grand duchy of luxembourg[19]	In French: K-Duché de Luxembourg In German: Großherzogtum Luxemburg In Luxembourgish: Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg	Grand Duke	Henri		Constitutional		1868
Malaysia[20]	In Malay: Malaysia	Yang di-Pertuan Agong	Abdullah		Constitutional & Federal	Elective	1957
Principality of Monaco[21]	In French: Principauté de Monaco In Monégasque: Principatu de Múnegu	Sovereign Prince	Albert 2	Government minister of State	Mixed	Hereditary	1911
Kingdom of Morocco[22]	In Arabic: al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya In Berber: Tageldit due north Lmaɣrib	King	Mohammed VI	Prime Minister			1631
Kingdom of the Netherlands[23]	In Dutch: Koninkrijk der Nederlanden In West Frisian: Keninkryk fan de Nederlannen	King	Willem-Alexander		Constitutional		1815
Realm of New Zealand[24]	In English: New Zealand In Māori: Aotearoa	Queen	Elizabeth 2				1907
Kingdom of Kingdom of norway[25]	In Bokmål: Kongeriket Norge In Nynorsk: Kongeriket Noreg In Northern Sami: Norgga gonagasriika	Male monarch	Harald V				1814
Sultanate of oman[26]	In Arabic: Salṭanat 'Umān	Sultan	Haitham bin Tarik	Sultan	Absolute		1996
Contained Land of Papua New Guinea[27]	In English: Independent Land of Papua New Guinea In Tok Pisin: Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini In Hiri Motu: Papua Niu Gini	Queen	Elizabeth Ii	Prime Minister	Constitutional		1975
Country of Qatar[28]	In Standard arabic: Dawlat Qaṭar	Emir	Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani		Mixed (de jure) Absolute (de facto)		2004
Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis[29]	In English: Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis	Queen	Elizabeth II		Constitutional		1983
Saint Lucia[30]	In English: Saint Lucia	Queen	Elizabeth II				1979
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines[31]	In English: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Queen	Elizabeth 2				1979
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia[32]	In Standard arabic: Al-Mamlakah al-Arabiyah every bit-Sa'ūdiyah	King	Salman	Prime Government minister	Absolute	Hereditary and constituent	1992ii
Solomon Islands	In English: Solomon Islands	Queen	Elizabeth II	Prime Government minister	Ramble	Hereditary	1978
Kingdom of Spain	In Spanish: Reino de España	Rex	Felipe Half dozen	President of the Government			1978
Kingdom of Sweden[33]	In Swedish: Konungariket Sverige	King	Carl Xvi Gustaf	Prime Minister			1974
Kingdom of Thailand[34]	In Thai: Ratcha Anachak Thai	King	Rama X				2017
Kingdom of Tonga[35]	In Tonga: Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga In English: Kingdom of Tonga	King	Tupou Vi				1970
Tuvalu[36]	In English language: Tuvalu	Queen	Elizabeth 2				1986
United Arab Emirates[37]	In Standard arabic: Dawlat al-ʾImārāt al-ʿArabiyyah al-Muttaḥidah	President	Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan		Federal	Hereditary and elective	1971
U.k. of Great britain and Northern Ireland[38]	In English: U.k. of Great United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and Northern Ireland In Welsh: Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon In Irish: Ríocht Aontaithe na Breataine Móire agus Thuaisceart Éireann In Scots Gaelic: Rìoghachd Aonaichte Bhreatainn agus Èirinn a Tuath	Queen	Elizabeth 2		Ramble	Hereditary	No codified constitution
Vatican city Land[39]	In Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae In Italian: Stato della Città del Vaticano	Pope	Francisco	President of the Pontifical Commission	Absolute	Elective	2001

In Wallis and Futuna, an overseas territory of France in the Due south Pacific, in that location are three kingdoms, Uvea, Alo and Sigave, whose monarchs are chosen by local noble families.^[twoscore]

On September 28, 2021, Afghanistan revived the 1963 monarchical constitution on "temporary" basis.^[41]

Footnote [edit]

^one Kingdom of belgium is the only existing popular monarchy – a organization in which the monarch's title is linked to the people rather than a state. The championship of Belgian kings is not King of Belgium, but instead King of the Belgians. Another unique feature of the Belgian arrangement is that the new monarch does not automatically assume the throne at the death or abdication of his predecessor; he only becomes monarch upon taking a ramble oath.

^2 Basic Law of Kingdom of saudi arabia^{[42] [43] [44]}

See also [edit]

• List of oldest institutions in continuous operation

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