List of state leaders in the 20th century (1901–1950) explained

Lists of state leaders by century
See also:
  • List of political entities in the 20th century
This is a list of state leaders in the 20th century (1901–1950) AD, such as the heads of state, heads of government, and the general secretaries of single-party states.

These polities are generally sovereign states, but excludes minor dependent territories, whose leaders can be found listed under territorial governors in the 20th century. For completeness, these lists can include colonies, protectorates, or other dependent territories that have since gained sovereignty.

Leaders of constituent states within the British south Asia, are excluded, and found on this list of leaders in the 20th-century British south Asia.

Africa

Africa: Central

Angola

vassal to Portugal: 1888–1914

Colony, 1575–1951

For details see the Kingdom of Portugal under Southwest Europe

Cameroon

German colony, 1884–1916

For details see the German Empire under central Europe

League of Nations mandate, 1918–1946; United Nations trust territory, 1946–1960

For details see France under western Europe

League of Nations mandate, 1922–1946; United Nations trust territory, 1946–1961

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Central African Republic

French colony, 1903–1958

For details see France under western Europe

Chad

vassal to France: from 1912

Colony, 1900–1960

For details see France under western Europe

Congo: Belgian

Colony, 1908–1960

For details see the Belgium under Western Europe

Congo: French

Colony, 1882–1910

For details see France under western Europe

Federation of colonies, 1910–1934; Colony, 1934–1958

For details see France under western Europe

Equatorial Guinea

Colony, 1778–1968

For details see Spain in southwest Europe

Gabon

Colony, 1882–1910

For details see France under western Europe

São Tomé and Príncipe

Colony, 1470–1951

For details see the Kingdom of Portugal under Southwest Europe

Africa: East

Great Lakes area

Burundi

League of Nations mandate of Belgium, 1922–1946; United Nations trust territory, 1946–1962

For details see Belgium under western Europe

Kenya

British protectorate, 1895–1920

British colony and protectorate, 1920–1963

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Rwanda

Tanzania

Colony, 1885–1919

For details see the German Empire under central Europe

League of Nations mandate of Britain, 1922–1946; United Nations trust territory, 1946–1961

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Uganda

British protectorate, 1894–1962

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Horn of Africa area

Djibouti

Colony, 1896–1946; Overseas territory, 1946–1967

For details see France under western Europe

Eritrea

Colony, 1890–1936

For details see Italy under southcentral Europe

Ethiopia

Colony, 1936–1941

For details see Italy under southcentral Europe

Somalia

Colony, 1890–1936

For details see Italy under southcentral Europe

British Occupied territory, 1941–1949

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Protectorate, 1884–1940, 1941–1960

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

United Nations trust territory of Italy, 1950–1960

For details see Italy under southcentral Europe

Indian Ocean

Comoros

French protectorate, 1887–1908; colony under French Madagascar, 1908–1946; Overseas territory, 1946–1961

For details see France under western Europe

Madagascar

Colony, 1897–1958

For details see France under western Europe

Mauritius

Colony, 1810–1968

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Seychelles

Part of British Mauritius, 1811–1903; British colony, 1903–1976

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Africa: Northcentral

Libya

Protectorate, 1912–1934; Colony, 1934–1943

For details see Italy under southcentral Europe

Allied military administration, 1942–1951

Tunisia

Protectorate, 1881–1956

For details see France under western Europe

Africa: Northeast

Egypt

Under British occupation since 1882

British protectorate, 1914–1922

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Sudan

Condominium of the United Kingdom and Egypt, 1899–1956

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Africa: Northwest

Algeria

French Départements, 1830–1962

For details see France under western Europe

Morocco and Western Sahara

French protectorate, 1912–1956; Spanish protectorate, 1912–1956; Tangier International Zone, 1924–1956

Overseas territory, 1884–1958; Overseas province, 1958–1975

For details see Spain in southwest Europe

Africa: South

Botswana

British protectorate, 1885–1966

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Eswatini/ Swaziland

British protectorate, 1906–1968

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Lesotho

British colony, 1884–1966

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Malawi

British protectorate, 1893–1907

British protectorate, 1907–1964

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Mozambique

Colony, 1498–1972; Territory, 1972–1975

For details see the Kingdom of Portugal under Southwest Europe

Namibia

Colony, 1884–1915

For details see the German Empire under central Europe

League of Nations mandate of South Africa, 1915–1946; United Nations trust territory, 1946–1990

For details see the South African Republic under southern Africa

South Africa

Protectorate, 1893–1907

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

British colony, 1795–1910

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

British colony, 1843–1910

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

British colony, 1902–1910

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

British colony, 1877–1881, 1902–1910

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Zambia

Company rule, 1890–1924

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

British protectorate, 1924–1964

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Zimbabwe

British protectorate, 1924–1964

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Africa: West

Benin

French Protectorate, 1894–1904

For details see France under western Europe

Colony, 1904–1958

For details see France under western Europe

Burkina Faso

Buricimba dynasty

Colony, 1919–1932, 1947–1958

For details see France under western Europe

Cape Verde

Colony, 1462–1951

For details see the Kingdom of Portugal under Southwest Europe

Gambia

British colony and protectorate, 1821–1965

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Ghana

British colony, 1821–1957

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Guinea

Colony, 1894–1958

For details see France under western Europe

Guinea-Bissau

Colony, 1474–1951

For details see the Kingdom of Portugal under Southwest Europe

Ivory Coast

Colony, 1893–1960

For details see France under western Europe

Liberia

Mali

Colony, 1880–1958

For details see France under western Europe

Mauritania

French colony, 1903–1960

For details see France under western Europe

Niger

Askiya dynasty (complete list) –

French colony, 1904–1921

French colony, 1921–1960

For details see France under western Europe

Nigeria

British protectorate, 1884–1893/ 1893–1900

British colony, 1821–1957

British protectorate, 1900–1914

British protectorate, 1900–1914

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Senegal

French colony, 1902–1904

French colony, 1904–1921

French colony, 1848–1960

For details see France under western Europe

Federation of colonies, 1895–1958

For details see France under western Europe

Sierra Leone

British colony and protectorate, 1808–1961

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Togo

Protectorate, 1884–1916

For details see the German Empire under central Europe

League of Nations Mandate Territory, 1916–1946; United Nations Trust Territory, 1946–1956

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

League of Nations Mandate Territory, 1916–1946; United Nations Trust Territory, 1946–1960

For details see France under western Europe

Americas

Americas: Caribbean

Antigua

British colony, 1632–1981

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

The Bahamas

British colony, 1648–1973

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Barbados

British colony, 1625–1966

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Cuba

Dominica

British Colony, 1763–1978

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Dominican Republic

Haiti

Netherlands

Dutch colony 1634–1828, 1845–1954

For details see the Netherlands under western Europe

Saint Kitts and Nevis

British colony, 1882–1983

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Saint Lucia

British colony, 1802–1979

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

British Colony, 1763–1979

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Trinidad and Tobago

British colony, 1797–1962

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Americas: Central

Belize

British colony, 1862–1981

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Costa Rica

El Salvador

Guatemala

Honduras

Nicaragua

Panama

Americas: North

Canada

British colony, 1610–1907

Mexico

United States

Americas: South

Argentina

Bolivia

Brazil

Augusto Fragoso, Isaías de Noronha, Mena Barreto, President (1930)

Chile

Colombia

Ecuador

Guyana

British colony, 1814–1966

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Paraguay

Peru

Suriname

Dutch colony 1667–1954

For details see the Netherlands under western Europe

Uruguay

Venezuela

Asia

Asia: Central

Kazakhstan

Tibet

Manchu overlordship, 1720-1912

For details see the Qing dynasty under Eastern Asia

Uzbekistan

Russian protectorate, 1873–1917

Russian Krai, 1867–1918

For details see the Russian Empire under Eastern Europe

Asia: East

China: Qing dynasty

China: Since 1912

Puppet state of Japan

Japan

Korea

Colony, 1910–1945

For details see the Japan under Eastern Asia

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Republic of Korea

Mongolia

Russia

Asia: Southeast

Brunei

British protectorate, 1888–1984

Cambodia

Protectorate, 1863–1984, part of French Indochina 1887–1953

Japanese occupation of Cambodia 1941–1945

Indonesia

Dutch colony 1800–1811, 1816–1949

For details see the Netherlands under western Europe

Indonesia: Java

Indonesia: Sumatra

Thaha Safiuddin, Sultan (1855–1858, 1900–1904)

Indonesia: Kalimantan (Borneo)

Indonesia: Sulawesi

Indonesia: Lesser Sunda Islands

Indonesia: West Timor

Indonesia: Maluku Islands

Dutch protectorate 1657–1905

Dutch protectorate 1683–1915

Indonesia: All

Laos

Protectorate and constituent of French Indochina (1893–1953)

Malaysia

Peninsular Malaysia

Patani dynasty (complete list) –

Siak dynasty (complete list) –

British protectorate, 1895–1942, 1945–1946

British protectorate, 1826–1942, 1945–1946

British protectorate, 1826–1942, 1945–1946

British colony, 1946–1948

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Malaysian Borneo

British colony, 1946–1963

British colony, 1848–1890, 1904–1906, 1907–1941, 1945–1946

British colony, 1888–1941, 1945–1946; Crown colony, 1946–1963

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Myanmar / Burma

British colony, 1824–1948

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Puppet state of Japan

Philippines

Colony, 1565–1901

For details see Spain in southwest Europe

United States territory, 1901–1935

For details see the United States in North America

First Philippine Republic

Commonwealth of the Philippines

Second Philippine Republic

Japanese puppet state

Third Philippine Republic

Commonwealth of the Philippines

Singapore

British crown colony as part of the Straits Settlements, 1867–1963

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Thailand

Rattanakosin Kingdom (complete list) –

Second Kelantanese dynasty (complete list) –

Timor

Colony, 1702–1975

For details see the Kingdom of Portugal under Southwest Europe

Vietnam

French Protectorate, 1883–1945, 1945–1948

Colony, 1887–1946

Vietnamese constituents are below; for details see France under western Europe

French Colony, 1862–1949

French Protectorate, 1883–1945, 1945–1948

French Protectorate, 1884–1949

For details see France under western Europe

Puppet state of Japan, 1945

Asia: South

See also: List of state leaders in 20th-century British South Asia.

Afghanistan

Barakzai dynasty (complete list) –

Asia: West

Bahrain

Protectorate of the United Kingdom, 1861–1971

Cyprus

Colony, 1878–1960

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Iran

Qajar dynasty

Pahlavi dynasty

Iraq

Kingdom of Iraq under British Administration

Israel

Jordan

Kuwait

Lebanon

Oman

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

Syria

Turkey

United Arab Emirates: Trucial States

Yemen: North

Yemen: South

British Colony, 1937–1963

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Europe

Europe: Balkans

Albania

Bulgaria

Greece

Autonomous state of the Ottoman Empire, establishment by the Great Powers, 1898–1913

4th of August Regime

Yugoslavia

Serbia & Yugoslavia

Democratic Federal Yugoslavia

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Croatia

part of the Habsburg monarchy, also part of the Lands of the Hungarian Crown

part of the Austrian Empire

Puppet state of Nazi Germany and Italy within occupied Yugoslavia

Kosovo

administrative division of the Ottoman Empire, under Austro-Hungarian occupation 1878–1913

Montenegro

Europe: Baltic states

Estonia

Latvia

Lithuania

Puppet state of the Second Polish Republic

Europe: British Isles

Ireland

United Kingdom

Europe: Central

Austria

Austrian Empire and Kingdom of Hungary

Habsburg-Lorraine monarchs ruled under numerous simultaneous titles

Czechoslovakia

First Republic

Second Republic

Nazi German Protectorate, 1939–1945

Third Republic

Germany: Small states

Bavarian

Prussia

Upper Rhenish

Lower Saxon

Upper Saxon

Swabian

Germany: Unified states

Hungary

Puppet government of Nazi Germany, 1944–1945

Liechtenstein

Poland

Free City under League of Nations protection, 1920–1939

Switzerland

Europe: East

Moldova

Romania

Russia

Ukraine

1804–1918, crownland of the Austrian Empire

Europe: Nordic

Denmark

Finland

Puppet state of the Soviet Union

Iceland

Sweden and Norway

Norway

Puppet state of Germany

Sweden

Europe: Southcentral

Italy

Puppet state of Germany

UN Security Council-controlled temporary military government, 1947–1954

Malta

British colony, 1813–1964

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

San Marino

Vatican

Europe: Southwest

Andorra

Portugal

Spain

Europe: West

Belgium

France

Luxembourg

Monaco

Netherlands

Eurasia: Caucasus

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Oceania

Australia and Papua New Guinea

Australia

Papua New Guinea

German colony, 1884–1919

For details see the German Empire under central Europe

League of Nations Mandate of Australia, 1920–1946

United Nations Trust Territory of Australia, 1946–1975

For details see Australia

British colony, 1888–1902

League of Nations Mandate of Australia, 1920–1946

United Nations Trust Territory of Australia, 1946–1975

For details see Australia or the United Kingdom under the British Isles, Europe

New Guinea: United Nations Trust Territory of Australia, 1949–1975

Papua: Australian external territory (1949–1975)

For details see Australia

Pacific

Chile

Fiji

British colony, 1874–1970

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

French Polynesia

Protectorate of France, 1887/1888–1959

New Zealand

British colony, 1891–1901

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

British colony, 1841–1907

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

British protectorate, 1900–1907

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

New Zealand protectorate, 1907–present

For details see the New Zealand under Oceania

British protectorate, 1888–1901

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Samoa and American Samoa

German colony, 1900–1914

For details see the German Empire under central Europe

Solomon Islands

British protectorate, 1893–1978

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Tuvalu

British colony, 1892–1976

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe

Tonga

United States

United Nations Trust Territory under the administration of the United States, 1947–1994

Vanuatu

British-French Protectorate, 1887–1889, 1890–1906

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles and France under western Europe

British-French Condominium, 1906–1980

For details see the United Kingdom under British Isles and France under western Europe

See also

Notes and References

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