• Unrecognized states
• State-like entities that strive for, or have achieved de facto independence.
• Abkhazia
• Cabinda
• Catalonia
• Kurdistan
• Northern Cyprus
• Puntland
• Somaliland
• South Ossetia
• Taiwan
• Transnistria
• Western Sahara

• Contested territories
• Curious borders, enclaves and territorial disputes.
• Antarctica
• Baarle
• Bajo Nueva Bank
• Bir Tawil
• Black Hills
• Bougainville
• Ceuta & Melilla
• Chagos Archipelago
• Conejo Island
• Corisco Bay
• Crimea
• Donetsk People’s Republic
• Durand Line
• Essequibo
• Falkland Islands
• Fergana Valley
• Gibraltar
• Glorioso Islands
• Greater and Lesser Tunbs
• Guantanamo Bay
• Hans Island
• Hong Kong
• Ilha Brasileira
• Jammu & Kashmir
• Kosovo
• Kuril Islands
• Liancourt Rocks
• Luhansk People’s Republic
• Machias Seal Island
• Migingo Island
• Mont Blanc
• Nagorno-Karabakh
• New Caledonia
• North Pole
• Paracel Islands
• Pheasant Island
• Pratas Islands
• Puerto Rico
• Senkaku Islands
• Spratly Islands
• Terrestrial Triangle
• Wake Island
• West Papua

• Micronations
• Wondrous entities founded in an attempt to claim autonomy.
• Aerican Empire
• Aeterna Lucina
• Akhzivland
• AVL-Ville
• Boon Island
• Calexit
• Celestia
• Christiania
• Conch Republic
• Coral Sea Islands
• Elgaland-Vargaland
• EnenKio
• Eurostaete
• Freedonia
• Glacier Republic
• Great Bitter Lake
• Hakkelaarsbrug
• Hutt River
• Icaria
• Kalakuta Republic
• Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia
• Kingdom of Lovely
• Ladonia
• Liberland
• Llhuros
• Minerva
• Molossia
• Moresnet
• M’Simbati
• Naminara
• New Atlantis
• New Utopia
• North Dumpling Island
• Nutopia
• Parva Domus
• Principality of Pontinha
• Rose Island
• Sabotage
• San Escobar
• Sealand
• Seborga
• Sedang
• State of Jefferson
• Talossa
• Užupis
• Westarctica
• Yidindji