List of current heads of state of fully or partially unrecognized states

This is the list of current heads of state of fully or partially unrecognized states. This list also includes their predecessors, and also their political ideologies. For Cook Islands and Niue, this list not only adds the head of state which the Queen of United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Realms but also the representative heads of state.

List

  • Italics denotes an acting head of state

No.

Name

Image

Country

Office

Mandate start

Term length

Predecessor

1

Raul Khajimba

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President

Valeri Bganba

2

Elizabeth II

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Queen

position established

George VI

3

Tom Marsters

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Queen's Representative

Sir Frederick Tutu Goodwin

4

Alexander Zakharchenko

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Head

position established

5

Atifete Jahjaga

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President

Jakup Krasniqi

6

Igor Plotnitsky

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Head

Valery Bolotov

7

Bako Sahakyan

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President

Arkadi Ghukasyan

8

Sir Jerry Mateparae

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Governor-General

Sir Anand Satyanand

9

Derviş Eroğlu

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President

Mehmet Ali Talat

10

Mahmoud Abbas

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President

Himself (disputed)

Aziz Duwaik (disputed)

11

Mohamed Abdelaziz

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President

Mahfoud Ali Beiba

12

Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud

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President

Dahir Riyale Kahin

13

Leonid Tibilov

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President

Vadim Brovtsev

14

Khaled Khoja

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Syrian National Coalition

President

Hadi al-Bahra

15

Ma Ying-jeou

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President

Chen Shui-bian

16

Yevgeny Shevchuk

President

Igor Smirnov

See also

  • List of current state leaders by date of assumption of office