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• Add from Federation, Confederation
• Define sovereign (eg. Canada) vs not (eg. French Indochina)
• Define devolved (powers can be retracted?; eg. RSA), federation (can’t be but can’t leave?; eg. Canada), confederation (can’t be and can leave?; eg. EU)
• South Africa? E Germany until 1952

Pointers!!:

• Determine which are sovereign (and when/from whom) with List of sovereign states by date of formation
• Determine which are federations according to Forum of Federations’s online country profiles
• Subdivisions from List of administrative divisions by country

Current sovereign federations

Federated to aid colonial governance

Fed.	Sov.	Name	Reason
1901	1931	Australia
1867	1931	Canada	Three British colonies joined to counter American influence.
1957	1963	Malaysia
1882	1983	Saint Kitts and Nevis

Federated upon colonial independence

Fed.	Sov.	Name	Reason
1947	1947	India
1947	1947	Pakistan

Federated upon revolution

Fed.	Sov.	Common name	Reason
1917	1991	Russia	Former parts of the Russian Empire joined under "socialist federalism".
1789	1776	United States	Thirteen British colonies joined in revolt against the United Kingdom.

Unsorted

wiki says	Fed.	Sov.	Common name	Previously	Reason
	1853	1816	Argentina	Spanish…
	1949	1955	Germany
	1824	1821	Mexico	Spanish…
	1848	1815	Switzerland
1863			Venezuela	Spanish…
1889			Brazil	Portuguese…
1960			Nigeria	British…
1971			United Arab Emirates	British…
1975			Comoros	French…
1979			Micronesia	American…
1920			Austria
1993			Belgium
1995			Bosnia and Herzegovina
1995			Ethiopia
2005			Iraq
2011			South Sudan
2012			Somalia
2015			Nepal

Notable former sovereign federations

  Also a federation

As compromise to internal division

From	Until	Common name	Previously	Fate
2005	2011	Sudan		Became a unitary state after the independence of South Sudan

Superseded another federation

From	Until	Common name	Previously	Fate
1871	1918	German Empire	North German Confederation	Superseded by the Weimar Republic
1919	1933	Weimar Republic	German Empire	Superseded by Nazi Germany
1934	1938	Federal State of Austria	Republic of Austria	Superseded by Nazi Germany

Upon colonial independence

From	Until	Common name	Previously	Fate
1951	1963	United Kingdom of Libya	Italian…	Became a unitary state
1957	1963	Malaya	British…	Superseded by Malaysia
1960	1964	Congo-Léopoldville	Belgian…	Became a unitary state
1961	1972	Cameroon	French…	Became a unitary state

Unsorted

From	Until	Name	Previously	Fate
1867	1871	North German Confederation		Superseded by the German Empire
1867	1918	Austria-Hungary		Dissolved
1919	1934	Republic of Austria	German-Austria	Superseded by the Federal State of Austria
1922	1991	Soviet Union		Superseded by Russia

Yet to go through

Some of the proclaimed Arab federations were confederations de facto.

American states

• Inca Empire (1197–1572)
• Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederation) (15th/16th century-1799)
• United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves (1815–1825)
• Hispaniola (1822–1844)
• United Provinces of Central America (1823 – c. 1838)
• Peru–Bolivian Confederation (1836–1839)
• Confederation of New Granada (1858–1863)
• Confederate States of America (1861–1865)
• United States of Colombia (1863–1886)
• Gran Colombia

Eastern European states

• Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795)
• Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic (1918)
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1918–1992)
• Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1969–1992)
• Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2003)