Useful Tables
325
Country | UN member |
Capital | Chief of state | Legislative body | Government type |
Afghanistan | Yes | Kabul | President | National Assembly of House of People, House of Elders | Islamic Republic |
Albania | do. | Tirana (Tirane) | do. | Assembly (unicameral) | Emerging Democracy. |
Algeria | do. | Algers | do. | National People’s Assembly, Council of Nations | Republic. |
Andorra | do. | Andorra la Vella | Executive Council President | General Council of the Valleys (unicameral) | Parliamentary Democracy. |
Angola | do. | Luanda | President | National Assembly (unicameral) | Republic: multiparty presidential regime. |
Antigua and Burbuda | do. | Saint John’s | Queen (represented by Governor General) | Parliament (bicameral) | Constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system of government. |
Argentina | do. | Buenos Aires | President | National Congress (bicameral) | Republic. |
Armenia | do. | Yerevan | do. | National Assembly (Parliament) | do. |
Australia | do. | Canberra | Queen (represented by Governor General) | Federal Parliament (bicameral) | Federal Parliamentary Democracy. |
Austria | do. | Vienna | President | Federal Assembly (bicameral) | Federal Republic. |
Azerbaijan | do. | Baku (Baki, Baky) | do. | National Assembly (unicameral) | Republic. |
Bahamas, The | do. | Nassau | Queen (represented by Governor General) | Parliament (bicameral) | Constitutional Parliamentary Democracy. |
Bahrain | do. | Manama | King | Legislature (bicameral) | Constitutional Monarchy. |
Bangladesh | do. | Dhaka | President | National Parliament (unicameral) | Parliamentary Democracy. |
Barbados | do. | Bridgetown | Queen (represented by Governor General) | Parliament (bicameral) | do. |
Belarus | do. | Minsk | President | National Assembly(bicameral) | Republic in name, although in fact a dictatorship. |
Belgium | do. | Brussels | King | Parliament (bicameral) | Federal Parliamentary Democracy under a Constitutional Monarchy |
Belize | do. | Belmopan | Queen (represented by Governor General) | National Assembly (bicameral) | Parliamentary Democracy. |
Benin | do. | Porto-Novo | President | National Assembly (unicameral) | Republic. |
Bhutan | do. | Thimphu | King | Parliament (bicameral) | In transition to Constitutional Monarchy; spcial treaty relationship with India. |
Bolivia | do. | La Paz | President | National Congress (bicameral) | Republic. |
Bosnia and Hertzegovina | do. | Sarajevo | Chairman of the Presidency | Assembly (bicameral) | Emerging Federal Democratic Republic. |
Botswana | do. | Gaborone | President | Parliament (bicameral) | Parliamentary Republic. |
Brazil | do. | Brasilia | do. | National Congress (bicameral) | Federal Republic. |
Brunei | do. | Bandar Seri | Sultan and Prime Minister | Legislative Council | Constitutional Sultanate. |