States of North America and Oceania
166 kingdoms, principalities, republics, chiefdoms and other states, in order of their founding.
10th century
11th century
12th century
13th century
14th century
15th century
- Chiefdom of Kauai1400 CE – 1824 CEchiefdom · today United States
- Chiefdom of Oahu1400 CE – 1795 CEchiefdom · today United States
- Coosa chiefdom1400 CE – 1600 CEchiefdom · today United States
- Huron Confederacy1440 CE – 1650 CEtribal confederation · today Canada
- Cayuga Nation1450 CE – presentchiefdom · today United States, Canada
- Iroquois Confederacy1450 CE – presentprofile · today United States, Canada
- Kingdom of Uvea1450 CE – presentkingdom · today France
- Mohawk Nation1450 CE – presentchiefdom · today United States, Canada
- Oneida Nation1450 CE – presentchiefdom · today United States, Canada
- Onondaga Nation1450 CE – presentchiefdom · today United States
- Seneca Nation1450 CE – presentchiefdom · today United States
16th century
- Chiefdom of Hawaii Island1500 CE – 1795 CEchiefdom · today United States
- Chiefdom of Maui1500 CE – 1795 CEchiefdom · today United States
- Erie Nation1500 CE – 1656 CEchiefdom · today United States
- Hasinai Confederacy1500 CE – 1859 CEtribal confederation · today United States
- Neutral Confederacy1500 CE – 1651 CEtribal confederation · today Canada, United States
- Yapese chiefdoms1500 CE – 1886 CEchiefdom · today Micronesia
- New France1534 CE – 1763 CEprofile · today Canada, United States
- Susquehannock1550 CE – 1675 CEchiefdom · today United States
- French Florida1562 CE – 1565 CEcolony · today United States
- Spanish Florida1565 CE – 1821 CEcolony · today United States
- Powhatan Confederacy1570 CE – 1677 CEchiefdom · today United States
- Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico1598 CE – 1846 CEcolony · today United States
17th century
- Illinois Confederation1600 CE – 1832 CEtribal confederation · today United States
- Pequot Nation1600 CE – 1638 CEchiefdom · today United States
- Tuscarora Nation1600 CE – presentchiefdom · today United States, Canada
- Wampanoag Confederacy1600 CE – 1676 CEtribal confederation · today United States
- Acadia1604 CE – 1713 CEcolony · today Canada, United States
- Colony of Virginia1607 CE – 1776 CEcolony · today United States
- Colony of Newfoundland1610 CE – 1907 CEcolony · today Canada
- New Netherland1614 CE – 1667 CEcolony · today United States
- Plymouth Colony1620 CE – 1691 CEcolony · today United States
- Province of Maine1622 CE – 1658 CEcolony · today United States
- Massachusetts Bay Colony1628 CE – 1691 CEcolony · today United States
- Province of New Hampshire1629 CE – 1776 CEcolony · today United States
- Province of Maryland1632 CE – 1776 CEcolony · today United States
- Saybrook Colony1635 CE – 1644 CEcolony · today United States
- Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations1636 CE – 1776 CEcolony · today United States
- Connecticut Colony1636 CE – 1776 CEcolony · today United States
- New Haven Colony1638 CE – 1664 CEcolony · today United States
- Plaisance1662 CE – 1713 CEcolony · today Canada
- Province of Carolina1663 CE – 1712 CEcolony · today United States
- Delaware Colony1664 CE – 1776 CEcolony · today United States
- Province of New Jersey1664 CE – 1776 CEcolony · today United States
- Province of New York1664 CE – 1776 CEcolony · today United States
- Rupert's Land1670 CE – 1870 CEcolony · today Canada, United States
- East Jersey1674 CE – 1702 CEcolony · today United States
- West Jersey1674 CE – 1702 CEcolony · today United States
- Wabanaki Confederacy1680 CE – 1862 CEtribal confederation · today Canada, United States
- Province of Pennsylvania1681 CE – 1776 CEcolony · today United States
- French Louisiana1682 CE – 1762 CEcolony · today United States
- Dominion of New England1686 CE – 1689 CEcolony · today United States
- Spanish Texas1690 CE – 1821 CEcolony · today United States
- Province of Massachusetts Bay1691 CE – 1776 CEcolony · today United States
18th century
- Blackfoot Confederacy1700 CE – 1877 CEtribal confederation · today Canada, United States
- Chickasaw Nation1700 CE – 1907 CEchiefdom · today United States
- Choctaw Nation1700 CE – 1907 CEtribal confederation · today United States
- Great Sioux Nation1700 CE – 1877 CEtribal confederation · today United States
- Kingdom of Bora Bora1700 CE – 1888 CEkingdom · today France
- Kingdom of Huahine1700 CE – 1895 CEkingdom · today France
- Kingdom of Raiatea1700 CE – 1888 CEkingdom · today France
- Muscogee Confederacy1700 CE – 1907 CEtribal confederation · today United States
- Comancheria1706 CE – 1875 CEnomadic confederation · today United States, Mexico
- Province of North Carolina1712 CE – 1776 CEcolony · today United States
- Province of South Carolina1712 CE – 1776 CEcolony · today United States
- Colony of Nova Scotia1713 CE – 1867 CEcolony · today Canada
- Ile Royale1713 CE – 1763 CEcolony · today Canada
- Province of Georgia1732 CE – 1776 CEcolony · today United States
- Iron Confederacy1740 CE – 1885 CEtribal confederation · today Canada, United States
- Seminole Nation1750 CE – 1907 CEtribal confederation · today United States
- Kingdom of Bau1760 CE – 1871 CEkingdom · today Fiji
- Spanish Louisiana1762 CE – 1803 CEcolony · today United States
- Province of East Florida1763 CE – 1783 CEcolony · today United States
- Province of Quebec1763 CE – 1791 CEcolony · today Canada
- Province of West Florida1763 CE – 1783 CEcolony · today United States
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon1763 CE – presentcolony · today France
- Alta California1769 CE – 1848 CEcolony · today United States
- Colony of Prince Edward Island1769 CE – 1873 CEcolony · today Canada
- United States1776 CE – presentprofile · today United States
- Vermont Republic1777 CE – 1791 CErepublic · today United States
- Colony of Cape Breton Island1784 CE – 1820 CEcolony · today Canada
- Colony of New Brunswick1784 CE – 1867 CEcolony · today Canada
- State of Franklin1784 CE – 1788 CErepublic · today United States
- Western Confederacy1785 CE – 1795 CEtribal confederation · today United States
- Colony of New South Wales1788 CE – 1901 CEcolony · today Australia
- Kingdom of Tahiti1788 CE – 1880 CEkingdom · today France
- Lower Canada1791 CE – 1841 CEcolony · today Canada
- Upper Canada1791 CE – 1841 CEcolony · today Canada
- Cherokee Nation1794 CE – 1907 CErepublic · today United States
- Kingdom of Hawaii1795 CE – 1893 CEkingdom · today United States
- Russian America1799 CE – 1867 CEcolony · today United States
- State of Muskogee1799 CE – 1803 CEother · today United States
19th century
- Tecumseh's Confederacy1808 CE – 1813 CEtribal confederation · today United States
- Republic of West Florida1810 CE – 1810 CErepublic · today United States
- Red River Colony1812 CE – 1870 CEcolony · today Canada
- Colony of Tasmania1825 CE – 1901 CEcolony · today Australia
- Colony of Western Australia1829 CE – 1901 CEcolony · today Australia
- Republic of Indian Stream1832 CE – 1835 CErepublic · today United States
- United Tribes of New Zealand1835 CE – 1840 CEtribal confederation · today New Zealand
- Province of South Australia1836 CE – 1901 CEcolony · today Australia
- Republic of Texas1836 CE – 1845 CErepublic · today United States
- Pitcairn Islands1838 CE – presentcolony · today United Kingdom
- Kingdom of Abemama1840 CE – 1892 CEkingdom · today Kiribati
- Colony of New Zealand1841 CE – 1907 CEcolony · today New Zealand
- Province of Canada1841 CE – 1867 CEcolony · today Canada
- French Establishments in Oceania1842 CE – 1946 CEcolony · today France
- Provisional Government of Oregon1843 CE – 1849 CEother · today United States
- Kingdom of Tonga1845 CE – presentkingdom · today Tonga
- California Republic1846 CE – 1846 CErepublic · today United States
- Colony of Vancouver Island1849 CE – 1866 CEcolony · today Canada
- State of Deseret1849 CE – 1851 CEtheocracy · today United States
- Colony of Victoria1851 CE – 1901 CEcolony · today Australia
- New Caledonia1853 CE – presentcolony · today France
- Colony of British Columbia (1858-1866)1858 CE – 1866 CEcolony · today Canada
- Kingdom of Rarotonga1858 CE – 1893 CEkingdom · today Cook Islands
- Kingitanga1858 CE – 1883 CEkingdom · today New Zealand
- Colony of Queensland1859 CE – 1901 CEcolony · today Australia
- Confederate States of America1861 CE – 1865 CErepublic · today United States
- Colony of British Columbia (1866-1871)1866 CE – 1871 CEcolony · today Canada
- Canada1867 CE – presentprofile · today Canada
- Tovata Confederacy1867 CE – 1871 CEtribal confederation · today Fiji
- Navajo Nation1868 CE – presentother · today United States
- Provisional Government of Assiniboia1869 CE – 1870 CEother · today Canada
- Kingdom of Fiji1871 CE – 1874 CEkingdom · today Fiji
- Kingdom of Samoa1873 CE – 1899 CEkingdom · today Samoa, United States
- Colony of Fiji1874 CE – 1970 CEcolony · today Fiji
- British New Guinea1884 CE – 1906 CEcolony · today Papua New Guinea
- German New Guinea1884 CE – 1914 CEcolony · today Papua New Guinea, Palau, Micronesia
- Marshall Islands Protectorate1885 CE – 1906 CEprotectorate · today Marshall Islands, Nauru
- Provisional Government of Saskatchewan1885 CE – 1885 CEother · today Canada
- Wallis and Futuna1887 CE – presentprotectorate · today France
- Republic of Franceville1889 CE – 1890 CErepublic · today Vanuatu
- Gilbert and Ellice Islands1892 CE – 1976 CEcolony · today Kiribati, Tuvalu
- British Solomon Islands Protectorate1893 CE – 1978 CEprotectorate · today Solomon Islands
- Cook Islands Federation1893 CE – 1901 CEprotectorate · today Cook Islands
- Provisional Government of Hawaii1893 CE – 1894 CEother · today United States
- Republic of Hawaii1894 CE – 1898 CErepublic · today United States
- Guam1898 CE – presentcolony · today United States
- Territory of Hawaii1898 CE – 1959 CEother · today United States
20th century
- American Samoa1900 CE – presentcolony · today United States
- German Samoa1900 CE – 1914 CEcolony · today Samoa
- Commonwealth of Australia1901 CE – presentprofile · today Australia
- Cook Islands1901 CE – presentcolony · today Cook Islands
- New Hebrides Condominium1906 CE – 1980 CEcolony · today Vanuatu
- Territory of Papua1906 CE – 1949 CEcolony · today Papua New Guinea
- Dominion of New Zealand1907 CE – 1947 CEother · today New Zealand
- Dominion of Newfoundland1907 CE – 1949 CEother · today Canada
- Territory of Western Samoa1914 CE – 1962 CEcolony · today Samoa
- Territory of Nauru1920 CE – 1968 CEcolony · today Nauru
- Territory of New Guinea1920 CE – 1949 CEcolony · today Papua New Guinea
- French Polynesia1946 CE – presentcolony · today France
- New Zealand1947 CE – presentprofile · today New Zealand
- Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands1947 CE – 1994 CEcolony · today Palau, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands
- Territory of Papua and New Guinea1949 CE – 1975 CEcolony · today Papua New Guinea