State Declaration Date Association Signatories First recognizing state(s) Albania Albanian Declaration of Independence November 28, 1912 Ottoman Empire Assembly of Vlorë Austria-Hungary Armenia Declaration of Independence of Armenia May 28, 1918 Soviet Russia Armenian National Congress (1917) , Armenian Revolutionary Federation Ottoman Empire Armenia Declaration of State Sovereignty of Armenia August 23, 1990 Soviet Union Levon Ter-Petrosyan and Supreme Council of Armenia secretary Ara SahakianLithuania Artsakh Proclamation of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic September 2, 1991 Soviet Union Nagorno-Karabakh Regional and Shahumyan District Councils of People's Deputies of the Azerbaijan SSR Azawad Azawadi Declaration of Independence April 6, 2012 Mali National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad Azerbaijan Declaration of Independence of Azerbaijan May 28, 1918 Soviet Russia Azerbaijani National Council Ottoman Empire Azerbaijan Act on Restoration of State Independence of Azerbaijan October 18, 1991 Soviet Union Supreme Council of Azerbaijan Turkey Bangladesh Proclamation of Bangladeshi Independence March 26, 1971 Pakistan Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh Bhutan Belarus Third Constituent Charter March 25, 1918 Soviet Russia Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic Belarus Announcement of the Declaration of Independence of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Byelorussia July 31, 1920 Poland Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Byelorussia, trade unions Soviet Russia Belarus Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic July 27, 1990 Soviet Union Supreme Soviet of the BSSR Turkey Belgium Belgian Declaration of Independence October 4, 1830 Netherlands Provisional Government of Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian Declaration of Independence March 1, 1992 Yugoslavia Bulgaria Bougainville Bougainville Declaration of Independence May 1990 Papua New Guinea Bougainville Interim Government Brazil Declaration of the Independence of Brazil September 7, 1822 Portugal Pedro I of Brazil United States Bulgaria Bulgarian Declaration of Independence September 22, 1908 Ottoman Empire Ferdinand of Bulgaria and the Government of Bulgaria Russia Burma Burmese Declaration of Independence January 4, 1948 United Kingdom Catalonia Declaration of the Catalan Republic as a state of the Iberian Federation April 14, 1931 Spain Francesc Macià , Generalitat Government of CataloniaCatalonia Declaration of the Catalan state within the Federal Republic of Spain October 6, 1934 Spain Lluís Companys , Generalitat Government of CataloniaCatalonia Declaration from the representatives of Catalonia as the Catalan RepublicOctober 27, 2017 Spain Central America (present day Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Act of Independence of Central America September 15, 1821 Spain Chile Chilean Declaration of Independence February 12, 1818 Spain National Congress Portugal Colombia Colombian Declaration of Independence July 20, 1810 Spain Comoros Comorian Declaration of Independence July 6, 1975 France Guinea Crimea Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Crimea March 11, 2014 Ukraine Supreme Council of Crimea Russia Croatia Declaration of the Establishment of the Sovereign and Independent Republic of Croatia June 25, 1991 Yugoslavia Iceland Czechoslovakia Czechoslovak Declaration of Independence October 18, 1918 Austria-Hungary Czechoslovak National Council United States Dominican Republic Dominican Declaration of Independence February 27, 1844 Haiti United Kingdom East Timor East Timorese declaration of independence November 28, 1975 Portugal Morocco Egypt Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence February 28, 1922 United Kingdom Unilateral grant of independence by the British government United Kingdom Estonia Estonian Declaration of Independence February 24, 1918 Germany Russia Estonian Salvation Committee Finland Finland Finnish Declaration of Independence December 6, 1917 Russia Parliament of Finland Soviet Russia First Mexican Empire (present day Mexico Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire (real independence) [clarification needed September 28, 1821 Spain Supreme Provisional Governmental Board United Kingdom [2] Florida Florida's Constitution of 1861 January 10, 1861 United States Florida State Legislature Galicia Declaration of the Republic of Galicia June 27, 1931 Spain Georgia, Democratic Republic of Georgian Declaration of Independence, 1918 May 26, 1918 Soviet Russia Georgian National Council Germany Georgia, Republic of Act of Restoration of State Independence of Georgia April 9, 1991 [3] Soviet Union Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia Switzerland Georgia, State of Georgia's secession declaration January 29, 1861 United States Greece Greek Declaration of Independence January 15, 1822 Ottoman Empire First National Assembly Haiti Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau Declaration of Independence September 24, 1973 Portugal Haiti Haitian Declaration of Independence January 1, 1804 France Jean-Jacques Dessalines France [4] Hungary Hungarian Declaration of Independence April 14, 1849 Habsburgs Iceland Icelandic Declaration of Independence June 17, 1944 Denmark United States India Declaration of the Independence of India January 26, 1930 United Kingdom Indonesia Proclamation of Indonesian Independence August 17, 1945 Netherlands Sukarno & Mohammad Hatta Kingdom of Egypt [5] Iraq Iraq Declaration of Independence October 3, 1932 United Kingdom United Kingdom Ireland Proclamation of the Irish Republic April 24, 1916 United Kingdom Provisional Government of the Irish Republic Irish Republic Irish Declaration of Independence January 21, 1919 United Kingdom Dáil Éireann Soviet Russia Israel Israeli Declaration of Independence May 14, 1948 United Kingdom Jewish People's Council United States Katanga Katangan Declaration of Independence[citation needed July 11, 1960 Congo-Léopoldville Korea Korean Declaration of Independence March 1, 1919 Japan Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea China Kosova Proclamation of the Republic of Kosova September 22, 1992 FR Yugoslavia Assembly of Kosovo Albania Kosovo Kosovo declaration of independence February 17, 2008 Serbia UN Administration "Democratically elected leaders of our people"[a] Costa Rica Latvia Latvian Declaration of Independence November 18, 1918 Germany Soviet Russia People's Council of Latvia Soviet Russia Latvia On the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia May 4, 1990 Soviet Union Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR Iceland Liberia Liberian Declaration of Independence July 16, 1847 American Colonization Society Liberian Constitutional Convention United Kingdom Lithuania Act of Independence of Lithuania February 16, 1918 Germany Soviet Russia Council of Lithuania Germany Lithuania Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania March 11, 1990 Soviet Union Supreme Council of Lithuania Iceland Lower Canada Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada February 22, 1838 United Kingdom Robert Nelson Macedonia Independence of the Republic of Macedonia September 8, 1991 Yugoslavia Bulgaria Malaya (present day Malaysia ) Federation of Malaya Independence Act 1957 August 31, 1957 United Kingdom Tunku Abdul Rahman , Prime Minister of Malaysia United Kingdom [6] Mississippi A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union January 9, 1861 United States Moldova Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Moldova August 27, 1991 Soviet Union Parliament of the Republic of Moldova Romania Montenegro Montenegro declaration of independence June 3, 2006 Serbia and Montenegro Assembly of the Republic of Montenegro Iceland Morocco Moroccan Declaration of Independence January 11, 1944 France Istiqlal Party Netherlands Act of Abjuration July 26, 1581 Spain Union of Utrecht Northern America (present day) Mexico Solemn Act of the Declaration of Independence of Northern America November 6, 1813 Spain Congress of Anáhuac Northern Cyprus Declaration of Independence of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus November 15, 1983 Cyprus Turkey Northern Epirus Northern Epirote Declaration of Independence February 28, 1914 Albania Provisional Government of Northern Epirus North Solomons Declaration of Independence of the Republic of the North Solomons September 1, 1975 Territory of Papua and New Guinea (Australia )Unknown Vatican City Norway (Kingdom of Norway ) Declaration of Independence of Norway (short after[clarification needed , sovereign under the Swedish monarchy ) , and the Constitution of Norway May 17, 1814 Denmark-Norway (As of Treaty of Kiel ) Norwegian Constituent Assembly Padania Padanian Declaration of Independence September 15, 1996 Italy Pakistan Lahore Resolution March 24, 1940 United Kingdom Muslim League (Pakistan) Palestine Palestinian Declaration of Independence November 15, 1988 Palestinian territories Jordan (claimed the West Bank until 1988)
Palestinian National Council Arab League Peru Act of the Declaration of Independence of Peru July 28, 1821 Spain José de San Martín Argentina Philippines Philippine Declaration of Independence June 12, 1898 Spain United States
98 representatives of Dictatorial Government of the Philippines [7] Malolos Congress [8] Provinces of the Río de la Plata (present-day Argentina Bolivia Uruguay ) Argentine Declaration of Independence July 9, 1816 Spain Congress of Tucumán Hawaii Rhodesia Rhodesian Unilateral Declaration of Independence November 11, 1965 United Kingdom Ian Smith and the rest of the CabinetRomania Romanian Declaration of Independence May 22, 1877 Ottoman Empire King Carol I Russia Belovezha Accords December 12, 1991 Soviet Union Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Bir Lehlou Declaration February 27, 1976 Spanish Sahara Polisario Front Madagascar Scotland Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320 England Scottish leaders Serbia The Proclamation (Proglašenije/Проглашеније) February 1809 Ottoman Empire Karađorđe Petrović and Serbian MPs Singapore Proclamation of Singapore [9] August 9, 1965 Malaysia [10] [11] Lee Kuan Yew , Prime Minister of Singapore United Kingdom [12] Czechoslovakia Martin Declaration October 30, 1918 Austria-Hungary Slovak National Council France Slovakia Slovak National Council's Declaration of Independence of the Slovak Nation July 17, 1992 Czechoslovakia Slovak National Council Slovenia Slovenian Declaration of Independence June 25, 1991 Yugoslavia Croatia Somaliland Somaliland Declaration of Independence May 18, 1991 Somalia South Carolina Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union December 24, 1860 United States South Carolinians in Charleston Sri Lanka Declaration of Independence of Sri Lanka (Then known as "Ceylon") February 4, 1948 United Kingdom Texas, Republic of Texas Declaration of Independence March 2, 1836 Mexico France Texas, State of A Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union February 1, 1861 United States Texas Legislature Tibet Tibet's Declaration of Independence February 13, 1913 China 13th Dalai Lama Mongolia Turkmenistan About Independence and Bases of a State System of Turkmenistan October 27, 1991 Soviet Union none Turkey Ukraine IV Universal January 22, 1918 Soviet Russia Central Council of Ukraine Ukraine Declaration of Independence of Ukraine August 24, 1991 Soviet Union Verkhovna Rada Canada Poland [13] United States United States Declaration of Independence July 2, 1776 [b] Great Britain Second Continental Congress Morocco [16] [17] United Tribes of New Zealand Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand October 28, 1835 — Māori chiefsUnited Kingdom [18] Uzbekistan Declaration of Independence August 31, 1991 Soviet Union Supreme Council of Uzbekistan Turkey Venezuela Venezuelan Declaration of Independence July 5, 1811 Spain National Congress Vermont Vermont Declaration of Independence January 15, 1777 United States British Quebec
Vietnam Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam September 2, 1945 France Hồ Chí Minh China 
