The Provisional Government of Free India was recognized by 9 nations. Its sovereignty was limited to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and parts of northeast India.
It is now "Kachin State Special Region #1", officially still a part of the Union of Myanmar but de facto controlled by Kachin Independence Organisation.
A unified Tibetan empire was created in the 8th century, but fell apart a century later. In the 13th century, Tibet was an autonomous state within the Mongol empire. In the 18th and 19th century, China's Manchu emperors were patrons and allies of the Dalai Lamas, Tibet's religious and political leaders. In 1913, Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet declared independence.[5]
Founded in September 1921, when the people of the Rif (the Riffians) revolted and declared their independence from Spanish Morocco. It was dissolved by Spanish and French forces on 27 May 1926.
At Gimli, Manitoba, Icelandic settlers established the republic, with the largest Icelandic population outside of Iceland and located on the shores of Lake Winnipeg.[6]
Its independence guaranteed by France, this community of Melanesian natives and European settlers experimented with universal suffrage until France and Britain intervened in the New Hebrides[7]
This Polynesian-inhabited island which is administered by (Melanesian) Fiji declared its independence from Fiji by separatists after the military coups in Fiji in 1987. It did not have any substantive support.
Central power of Vanuatu restored with assistance of army from Papua New Guinea
Historic unrecognized or partially recognized governments with de facto control over their territory
These regimes had control over the territory of a country for which most other states recognized a different government as being the legitimate government:
Set up by the Vietnamese after their invasion and rout of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Only a few Soviet-Bloc nations recognized this entity, while the UN, China, and most other nations recognized the Khmer Rouge's Democratic Kampuchea government.