Wikipedia:WikiProject Former countries/Status
- in East Asia
- in Southeast Asia
- in South Asia
- in the Middle East
- in Central Asia
- in the British Isles
- in Iberia - there are numerous former states in Iberia, but these largely currently exist as "communities" in Spain, which makes it hard to say exactly what's going on. Also, these states were basically sovereign, in merely personal union, until the 18th century, and possibly even after then.
- in France - various former states of the Holy Roman Empire along the northeastern border and in the southeast, but also perhaps former quasi-independent feudal territories like Brittany?
- in the Low Countries
- in Switzerland - all of the cantons may be considered to have been sovereign entities, at least before the French Revolution. Also, independent allies like the Grisons or Geneva certainly were. The Grisons were actually divided into several separate leagues, additionally - the Grey League, the League of the Ten Jurisdictions, and the League of God's House, which were merely allied together, so each of those might be considered its own state.
- in Italy
- in Central Europe
- in Scandinavia
- in the Balkans
- in Eastern Europe
- Moresnet
- in North America
- in the Caribbean