The Federal Republic of Germany and its sixteen Bundesländer (federal states), since 1990

A federal republic is a federation of states with a republican form of government. A federation is the central government. The states in a federation also maintain the federation. Usage of the term republic is inconsistent but, as a minimum, it means a state or federation of states that does not have a monarchy.

In English, before the merger of the two German states in 1990, the phrase "Federal Republic" was often used to refer to West Germany (within its pre-1990 borders), in contrast with the German Democratic Republic, otherwise called East Germany.

[edit] List of federal republics

[edit] Contemporary

[edit] Historic

• Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (1581–1795)
• "Great Colombia" (1819-1831), later Colombia (federal republic until 1886; unitary republic after 1886)
• Paraguay (1813-1876)
• Weimar Republic (German Empire 1919-1933)
• Union of Burma (1948-1962)
• Federal Republic of Cameroon (République Fédérale du Cameroun) (1961-1972)
• Uganda (1962-1966)
• Czechoslovakia (1969-1992)
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991)
• Yugoslavia (1945-2003)

[edit] See also

• Form of government