Federation

:This article is about federal states. For alternative meanings, see Federation (disambiguation).

List of federations

Contemporary

Long form titles

• Federal Republic: Brazil, Germany, Nigeria.
• Federation: Malaysia, Russia.
• Republic: Austria, India.
• Others::
• Bolivarian Republic (Venezuela)
• Confederation (Switzerland)
• Commonwealth (Australia)
• Federal Democratic Republic (Ethiopia)
• Federated States (FS Micronesia)
• Federative Republic (Brazil)
• Kingdom (Belgium)
• Union (Comoros)
• United Mexican States (Mexico)
• United Arab Emirates (United Arab Emirates)
• United States of America (United States)
• None: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada (formerly Dominion), Serbia and Montenegro.

Defunct

• Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795)
• United Provinces of Central America (1823–1840)
• Confederate States of America, (1861–1865)
• French West Africa (1904–1958)
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics² (1922–1991)
• Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia³ (1945–1992)
• Federation of Malaya (1948–1963)
• Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1953–1963)
• West Indies Federation (1958–1962)
• Mali Federation (1959–1960)
• Federal Republic of Cameroon (1961–1972)
• Federation of South Arabia (1962–1967)
• Czechoslovakia (1969–1992)
• Federation of Arab Republics (1972–1977)
• Imperial Federation (1884 –1919)

Notable Fictional Federations

• United Federation of Planets, the protagonist organization of Star Trek.
• Galactic Federation of Free Alliances, the main governing power in Star Wars after the Old Republic and the Galactic Empire.