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A government-in-exile (abbreviated as GiE) is a political group that claims to be the legitimate government of a sovereign state or semi-sovereign state, but is unable to exercise legal power and instead resides in a foreign country.^[1] Governments in exile usually plan to one day return to their native country and regain formal power. A government in exile differs from a rump state in the sense that the latter controls at least part of its former territory.^[2] For example, during World War I, nearly all of Belgium was occupied by Germany, but Belgium and its allies held on to a small slice in the country's west.^[3] A government in exile, in contrast, has lost all its territory. However, in practice the difference might be minor; in the above example, the Belgian government at Sainte-Adresse was located in French territory and acted as a government in exile for most practical purposes.^{[citation needed]}

The governments in exile tend to occur during wartime occupation or in the aftermath of a

The governments in exile may have little or no recognition from other states. The effectiveness of a government in exile depends primarily on the amount of support it receives, either from foreign governments or from the population of its own country. Some exiled governments come to develop into a formidable force, posing a serious challenge to the incumbent regime of the country, while others are maintained chiefly as a symbolic gesture.

The phenomenon of a government in exile predates the formal utilization of the term. In periods of

The capital of a government-in-exile is known as a capital-in-exile, located outside the government's proclaimed territory. This differs from a temporary capital, which is located somewhere inside the government's controlled territory.

Activities

International law recognizes that governments in exile may undertake many types of actions in the conduct of their daily affairs. These actions include:

• becoming a party to a bilateral or international treaty
• amending or revising its own constitution
• maintaining
  military forces
• retaining, or newly obtaining, diplomatic recognition from other states
• issuing identity cards
• allowing the formation of new political parties
• holding elections

In cases where a host country holds a large

military authorities.

Current governments in exile

Current governments regarded by some as a "government-in-exile"

These governments once controlled all or most of their claimed territory, but continue to control a smaller part of it while also continuing to claim legitimate authority of the entire territory they once fully controlled.

Name	Exile	Territory that the government still controls	Current control of claimed territory	Notes	References
Republic of China	1949	Taiwan and associated islands	People's Republic of China	See also: Theory of the Undetermined Status of Taiwan and Chinese Civil War The currently Taiwan was not legitimately handed to the Republic of China at the end of World War II,[6] and on that basis the Republic of China is located in foreign territory, therefore effectively making it a government in exile.[7] By contrast, this theory is not accepted by those who view the sovereignty of Taiwan as having been legitimately returned to the Republic of China at the end of the war.[8] Both the government of the People's Republic of China and the Pan-Blue Coalition (including the Kuomintang) in the Republic of China hold the latter view. However, there are also some who do not accept that the sovereignty of Taiwan was legitimately returned to the Republic of China at the end of the war nor that the Republic of China is a government-in-exile, and China's territory does not include Taiwan. The current Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan is inclined to this view.
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic	1976	Southeastern parts of Western Shahara	Morocco	Proclaimed on 27 February 1976, following the POLISARIO insurgency. It is not strictly a government in exile since it does control 20–25% of its claimed territory. Nevertheless, it is often referred to as such, especially since most day-to-day government business is conducted in the Tindouf refugee camps in Algeria, which house most of the Sahrawi exile community, rather than in the proclaimed temporary capital (first Bir Lehlou, moved to Tifariti in 2008).

Deposed governments of current states

These governments in exile were founded by

deposed

governments or rulers who continue to claim legitimate authority of the state they once controlled.

Name	Exile since	State controlling its claimed territory	Notes	References
Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic	1919	Republic of Belarus	See also: Belarusian Democratic Republic and Polish–Soviet War It is the oldest government in exile in the world, led by Ottawa, Ontario. Declared a "extremist formation" in Belarus.[9]	[10][11]
National Unity Government of Myanmar	2021	Republic of the Union of Myanmar (State Administration Council)	See also: 2021 Myanmar coup d'état This government was formed in response to the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état. The cabinet members of the National Unity Government are in hiding within Myanmar.	[12][13][14]
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Panjshir alliance)	2021	Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban )	See also: War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), 2021 Taliban offensive, and Republican insurgency in Afghanistan Following the fall of Kabul on 15 August 2021, many of the Afghan governing officials fled the country. A group of former members of the Northern Alliance, led by the de jure vice president Amrullah Saleh, formed an anti-Taliban alliance seeking to regain control of the country.	[15][16]

Deposed governments of subnational territories

These governments in exile claim legitimacy of autonomous territories of another state and have been founded by deposed governments or rulers, who do not claim independence as a separate state.

Name	Exile		Current control of claimed territory		Notes	References
	since	as	by	as
Fujian Provincial Government and Kinmen-Matsu Joint Services Center	1949	Province	People's Republic of China (Fujian)	Province	Chinese provincial government seat was exiled from its capital Taipei County, Taiwan Province in 1956 due to increased militarization. Seat relocated back to Jincheng in 1996. Despite the provincial government's de facto dissolution in 2019, this province continues to exist de jure without administrative function.
Sinkiang Provincial Government Office	1949	Province	People's Republic of China (Xinjiang)	Autonomous region	Relocated to Taipei, Taiwan in 1949 after Sinkiang fell to the communists. Despite the provincial government's de facto dissolution in 1992 after the Taiwan government accepted the "One China" Consensus, this province continues to exist de jure without administrative function.
Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia	1993	Autonomous republic	Republic of Abkhazia	de facto independent state	Abkhaz separatists; based in Tbilisi .
Provisional Administration of South Ossetia	2008	Provisional administration	Republic of South Ossetia		Georgian provincial administration, led by Dmitry Sanakoyev, whose territory is under the control of South Ossetian separatists; based in Tbilisi.
Autonomous Republic of Crimea	2014	Autonomous republic	Russia	Republic of Crimea	Ukrainian autonomous republic, whose territory was seized and annexed by Russia in March 2014, following a disputed status referendum; was based in Kherson until the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, now operating remotely in Ukraine.[17][18]
Sevastopol		Special city		Federal city	Ukrainian special city, whose territory was seized and annexed by Russia in March 2014, following a disputed status referendum; was based in Kherson until the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, now operating remotely in Ukraine.
Luhansk Oblast	2022	Oblast		Luhansk People's Republic	2022 Ukrainian eastern counteroffensive.[19]

Alternative governments of current states

These governments have been founded in exile by political organisations and opposition parties, aspire to become actual governing authorities or claim to be legal successors to previously deposed governments, and have been founded as alternatives to incumbent governments.

Name	Claimed exile	Exile proclamation	Government presently controlling claimed territory	Notes	References
Committee for the Five Northern Korean Provinces	1949		North Korea	Based in South Pyeongan .	[20]
National Council of Iran	1979	2013	Islamic Republic of Iran	Political umbrella coalition of forty Iranian opposition political organizations, led by Prince Reza Pahlavi; based in Potomac, Maryland.
National Council of Resistance of Iran	1981			Political umbrella coalition of five Iranian opposition political organizations, the largest organization being the People's Mujahedin of Iran led by Maryam and Massoud Rajavi ; based in Paris with the aim to establish the "Democratic Republic of Iran" to replace the current religious rule in Iran.	[21]
Third Republic of Vietnam	1990	1991	Socialist Republic of Vietnam	The Third Republic of Vietnam, previously named the Provisional National Government of Vietnam, was formed in Orange County, California, by former soldiers and refugees from South Vietnam. Declared a terrorist organization in Vietnam.[22]
Progress Party of Equatorial Guinea	2003		Republic of Equatorial Guinea	Proclaimed Severo Moto President of Equatorial Guinea; based in Madrid.	[23]
Syrian National Council	2011		Syrian Arab Republic	National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces; based in Istanbul .	[24]
Syrian Interim Government	2012			Opposes the government of the Syrian Arab Republic, has ties to some Free Syrian Army groups; based in Azaz.
Ukraine Salvation Committee	2014	2015	Ukraine	After the Revolution of Dignity, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, as well as pro-Russian and pro-Yanukovych members of the Second Azarov government fled to Russia and set up a government in exile. Aims to restore the Azarov government.[25][26] Widely seen as a pro-Russian puppet government.[27][28]
United Transitional Cabinet	2020		Republic of Belarus	Opposes nationwide protests in order for him to be removed from power. In 2020, Tsikhanouskaya was recognized as the legitimate president by the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic. Declared an "extremist organization" in Belarus.[30]
Congress of People's Deputies	2022		Russian Federation	The Congress of People's Deputies is a meeting of former deputies of different levels and convocations from Russia, claiming to be the transitional parliament of the Russian Federation or its possible successor. Former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev became the public initiator of the congress. Sessions of the 1st Congress were held on 5–7 November in Jabłonna, Poland. Does not recognize the results of the 2024 Russian presidential election. Declared an "Undesirable organization" in Russia.	[31]

Alternative separatist governments of current subnational territories

These governments have been founded in exile by political organisations, opposition parties, and separatist movements, and desire to become the governing authorities of their territories as independent states, or claim to be the successor to previously deposed governments, and have been founded as alternatives to incumbent governments.

Name	Claimed exile	Exile proclamation	Government presently controlling claimed territory	Notes	References
Free City of Danzig Government in Exile	1939	1947	Republic of Poland	Based in Berlin.	[32][33][34]
United Liberation Movement for West Papua	1963	1969	Republic of Indonesia	Campaigns for an independent Republic of West Papua; based in Vanuatu.	[35][36]
Republic of South Maluku	1966			The Republic of South Maluku was an unrecognized independent state that existed between 1950 and 1963. Between 1963 and 1966, the Head of government Chris Soumokil was imprisoned on Java. In 1966, after his execution by firing squad by order of President Suharto, Johan Manusama formed a government in exile; based in the Netherlands. John Wattilete is its president.	[37]
Biafran Government in Exile	1970	2007	Federal Republic of Nigeria	An arm of the Washington, DC .	[38]
Republic of Cabinda	1975		Republic of Angola	Based in Paris.
Tatar Government in Exile	1994		Russia	Based in London. Member of Free Idel-Ural.	[39]
Chechen Republic of Ichkeria	2000			Some members are fighting as rebels against the voted to recognized the GoE of Ichkeria as an independent nation .	[40][41][42][43]
East Turkistan Government-in-Exile	1949	2004	People's Republic of China	Campaigns for the restoration of an independent Washington, DC .	[44]
Central Tibetan Administration	1959	2011		See also: Tibetan sovereignty debate and Tibetan independence movement Founded by the Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru .	[45][46]
Republic of Ambazonia	1999		Republic of Cameroon	Former British mandate and trust territory of Southern Cameroons; declared independence on 31 December 1999.	[47]
Western Kurdistan Government in Exile	2004		Syrian Arab Republic	Aims to found a Kurdish state in Syria; based in London.	[48]
Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam	2009	2010	Sri Lanka	Aims to establish an independent state of Tamil Eelam.	[49]
Kabyle Provisional Government	2010		Algeria	Aims for an independent state of Kabylia; based in Paris.	[50]
Western Armenia Government in Exile [hy] [pt] [ru], [simple]	2011		Turkey	Aims to establish an independent Republic of Western Armenia; based on Yerevan	[51]
Council for the Republic	2017		Spain	Aims to establish an independent state of Catalonia; based in Brussels.
Patani government in exile	2014		Thailand

Exiled governments of non-self-governing or occupied territories

These governments in exile are governments of non-self-governing or occupied territories. They claim legitimate authority over a territory they once controlled, or claim legitimacy of a post-decolonization authority. The claim may stem from an exiled group's election as a legitimate government.

The

From the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in 1988 in exile in Algiers by the Palestine Liberation Organization, it has effectively functioned as the government in exile of the Palestinian State. In 1994, however the PLO established the Palestinian National Authority interim territorial administration as result of the Oslo Accords signed by the PLO, Israel, the United States, and Russia. Between 1994 and 2013, the PNA functioned as an autonomy, thus while the government was seated in the West Bank it was not sovereign. In 2013, Palestine was upgraded to a non-member state status in the UN. All of the above founded an ambiguous situation, in which there are two distinct entities: The Palestinian Authority, exercising a severely limited amount of control on the ground and the State of Palestine, recognized by the United Nations and by numerous countries as a sovereign and independent state, but not able to exercise such sovereignty on the ground. Both are headed by the same person—as of 2022^[update], President Mahmoud Abbas—but are judicially distinct.

Potential governments in exile

Following an Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, on the 28 September 2023 the Republic of Artsakh announced it would dissolve all state institutions by the 1st of January 2024.^[52] However, on the 22 December, just 10 days before the state was intended to cease its operation, Artsakhi President Samvel Shahramanyan claimed that the dissolution decree was invalid. He claimed that there was "no document...of the Republic of Artsakh stipulating the dissolution of government institutions". Furthermore, Vladimir Grigorian, the Presidents advisor, added that a decree on 19 October had cancelled the decree from September meaning that the government would "continue their activities after January 1". He also added that "the Republic of Artsakh is dissolved only by the people's referendum, and no person, not even the president, has such powers and rights to dissolve the republic".^[53]

As of 1 January, government activity is unknown. However, since Azerbaijan has taken control of the territory, the Government of Artsakh would effectively be rendered a government in exile if it is to continue operating.

Past governments in exile

Name	Exiled or founded (*) since	Defunct, reestablished (*) or integrated (°) since	State that controlled its claimed territory	Notes	References
Republican Government of Siena	1555	1559	Grand Duchy of Tuscany	After the Italian city-state of Siena was defeated in the Battle of Marciano and annexed to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, 700 Sienese families did not concede defeat, established themselves in Montalcino and declared themselves to be the legitimate Republican Government of Siena. This lasted until 1559, when Tuscan troops arrived and annexed Montalcino, too.
Exile government of the Electoral Palatinate	1622–1623*	1648°	Electorate of Bavaria	In the early stages of the Elector Palatine organised a Palatinate government-in-exile at The Hague. This Palatinate Council was headed by Ludwig Camerarius, replaced in 1627 by Johann Joachim Rusdorf. Frederick himself died in exile in 1632, but his son and heir Charles Louis was able to regain the Lower Palatinate following the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.
Privy Council of England	1649	1660°	Commonwealth of England (1649–1653) Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland (1653–1659) Commonwealth of England (1659–1660)	Based for most of the Interregnum in the Spanish Netherlands and headed by Charles II; actively supported Charles' claim to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland
East Tennessee	1861	1862	State of Tennessee
Confederate government of Missouri	1861	1865	State of Missouri	Missouri had both Union and Confederate governments, but the Confederate government was exiled, eventually governing out of Marshall, Texas.	[54]
Confederate government of Kentucky	1861	1865	Commonwealth of Kentucky	Kentucky had both Union and Confederate governments. The Confederate government was soon forced out of the state, and was an exiled government traveling with the Confederate Army of Tennessee, except for during a short return when the Confederate army briefly occupied Frankfort.
Restored Government of Virginia	1861	1865	Commonwealth of Virginia
Hanover exile court/Guelphic Legion	1866	1878	Prussia Germany	On 20 September 1866 Prussia annexed Hanover. Living in exile in Austria, at Hietzing and Gmunden, King George V of Hanover never abandoned his claim to the Hanoverian throne and from 1866 to 1870 maintained at his own expense an exile Hanoverian armed force, the Guelphic Legion.[55] George was forced to give up this Legion after the Prussian lower chamber passed in 1869 a law sequestering his funds.[56] George V died in 1878. Though his son and heir Prince Ernest Augustus retained a formal claim to be the legitimate King of Hanover until 1918 (when all German Royal Families were dethroned), he does not seem to have kept up a government-in-exile.
Hawaiian Kingdom	1893	1895	Republic of Hawaii	Royal government exiled following the Hawaiian Counter-revolution of 1895 .
Belgian government at Sainte-Adresse	1914	1918	German Empire	Formed in 1915 by the Armistice with Germany .
Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea	1919*	1948°	Korea	Based in First Republic of South Korea
Government of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in Exile	1921	1954	Soviet Union	Formed after the Soviet invasion of Georgia of 1921; based in Leuville-sur-Orge .
Government of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile	1921	1992		Formed after the Soviet invasion of Ukraine of 1921; disbanded following the Dissolution of the Soviet Union .
Sublime State of Persia	1923	1943	Imperial State of Iran	The Qajar dynasty went into exile in 1923 and continued to claim the Iranian throne until the death of Mohammad Hassan Mirza in 1943.
Spanish Republican government in exile	1939	1977°	Spanish State	Founded after Francisco Franco's coup d'état; first based in Paris from 1939 until 1940 when France fell to the Nazis. The exiled government was then moved to Mexico City and stayed there from 1940 to 1946, when it was moved back to Paris, where it lasted until Franco's death and democracy in Spain was restored in the transition.
Generalitat de Catalunya	1939	1977°	Spanish State	In 1939, as the Spanish Civil War ended with the defeat of the Republic, the Francoist dictatorship abolished the Generalitat de Catalunya, the autonomous government of Catalonia, and its president Lluís Companys was tortured and executed. However, the Generalitat maintained its official existence in exile from 1939 to 1977, led by presidents Josep Irla (1940–1954) and Josep Tarradellas (1954–1980). In 1977 Tarradellas returned to Catalonia and was recognized by the post-Franco Spanish government, ending the Generalitat's exile.
Polish government-in-exile	1939*	1990°	Occupied Poland People's Republic of Poland	Based in fall of communism in Poland .
Estonian government-in-exile (Tief)	1940*	1953	Soviet Union	Split into 2 factions in January 1953 following Otto Tief's removal by August Rei and the dispute over succession.	[57]
Estonian government-in-exile (Rei)	1940/1953*	1991		Established in Sweden by several members of Otto Tief's government loyal to August Rei; it did not achieve any international recognizion. In fact, it was not recognized even by Estonian diplomatic legations that were seen by western countries as legal representatives of the annexed state. However the government in exile was recognized by the restored Government of Estonia when the government in exile ceased its activity in 1992 and gave over its credentials to the restored Republic of Estonia. A rival electoral committee was founded by another group of Estonian exiles loyal to Alfred Maurer in the same year in Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, but it was short lived.	[57]
Latvian diplomatic service-in-exile	1940*	1991
Lithuanian diplomatic service-in-exile	1940*	1991
Philippine Commonwealth in exile	1942	1944°	Empire of Japan (1943)  Second Philippine Republic (1943–1945)	After Japanese forces took control over the Philippine islands, the Philippine commonwealth government led by Manuel Quezon fled first to Melbourne and later to Washington, D.C. It existed from May 1942 to October 1944 before returning to the Philippines along with U.S. forces during the Philippines campaign (1944–1945) .
Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia	1948*	1949°	Dutch East Indies	Based in Operatie Kraai in December 1948. Disbanded after Roem–Van Roijen Agreement .
All-Palestine Government	1948	1959	Israel  Egypt (Gaza Strip)  Jordan (West Bank)	The All-Palestine government was proclaimed in Gaza in September 1948, but was shortly relocated to Cairo in fear of Israeli offensive. Despite Egyptian ability to keep control of the Gaza Strip, the All-Palestine Government was forced to remain in exile in Cairo, gradually stripping it of its authority, until in 1959 it was dissolved by President Gamal Abdel Nasser's decree.
President of Ukraine (in exile)	1948	1992°	Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic	Founded on 10 July 1948, when was adopted a "Provisional law about the reorganisation of the State Center of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile" which was coordinated between various Ukrainian political organizations. It was disbanded on 22 August 1992, when after an extraordinary session of the Ukrainian National Council on 15 March 1992 adopted a resolution "About handing over authority of the State Center of UNR in exile to the state power in Kiev and termination of work of the State Center of UNR in exile".
Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic	1958*	1962*	French Algeria (France)	Established during the latter part of the post-independence government
Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland	1961	2024	South Korea	The CPRK was not a governmental body per se but rather an offshoot of the Korean Workers' Party's United Front Department; the distinction is intended to emphasise the North Korean government's position that the Southern government is illegitimate and should not be dealt with by official bodies.[58] Dissolved in 2024, when North Korea stated that it no longer seeks reunification.[59]
Revolutionary Government of Angola in Exile	1962*	1992°	People's Republic of Angola	Based in Angola's parliament
Namibian Government in Exile	1966*	1989°	South Africa	Formed after opposition to the South-West Africa, which had been ruled as illegal by the United Nations; in 1990, Namibia achieved independence after the South African Border War .	[60]
Provisional Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh	1971*	1972°	East Pakistan	Based in Calcutta; led by Tajuddin Ahmad, the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh, during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.
Crown Council of Ethiopia	1974	2004°	Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia	See also: Ethiopian Civil War Formerly opposed the Derg and the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, sought to restore the Monarchy of Ethiopia; based in the Washington D.C metropolitan area. On 28 July 2004, the Crown Council redefined its role by redirecting its mission from the political realm to a mission of cultural preservation, development and humanitarian efforts in Ethiopia.
Free Aceh Movement	1976*	2005	Republic of Indonesia	Headquartered in Turkey; surrendered its separatist intentions and dissolved its armed wing following the 2005 peace agreement with the Indonesian government
Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea	1982*	1993°	People's Republic of Kampuchea	Established with UN recognition in opposition to the Vietnamese-backed government. Elections in 1993 brought the reintegration of the exiled government into the newly reconstituted Kingdom of Cambodia.
National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma	1990	2012	Union of Myanmar (1988–2011)  Republic of the Union of Myanmar	Led by Sein Win and composed of members of parliament elected in 1990 but not allowed by the military to take office; based in Rockville, Maryland, and Montgomery County, Maryland .	[61][62]
Dubrovnik Republic (1991)	1991	1992	Republic of Croatia	Formed in Cavtat with the help of the Yugoslav People's Army after Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia. Claimed to be the historic successor of the Republic of Ragusa (1358–1808).	[63]
Azerbaijani Community of Nagorno-Karabakh	1994	2021°	Azerbaijan	Based in 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.[64][65]
Kurdish Parliament in Exile	1995	1999	Republic of Türkiye	Based in The Hague; founded in April 1995 and led by Yaşar Kaya. It was disbanded in 1999.
Government of Free Vietnam	1995*	2013°	Socialist Republic of Vietnam	The Government of Free Vietnam was an anti-communist political organization centered in Garden Grove, California and Missouri City, Texas. It was disbanded in 2013.
Bongo Doit Partir	1998	2009	Gabon	Founded by Daniel Mengara in opposition to president Omar Bongo; after Bongo's death in June 2009, Mengara returned to Gabon in order to participate in the country's elections	[66][67]
Quetta Shura	2001	2021	Islamic Republic of Afghanistan	See also: Taliban insurgency and United States invasion of Afghanistan Based in 2001 Afghan war, the veteran high-ranking leaders of the former government including Mullah Mohammed Omar, founder and spiritual leader of the Taliban, fled to Quetta, Balochistan Province, Pakistan where they set up Quetta Shura in exile to organize and direct the insurgency and retake Afghanistan which was achieved in August 2021 .	[68][69][70]
Royal Lao Government in Exile	2003	2023	Lao People's Democratic Republic	See also: Laotian Civil War Opposed communist government in Laos, sought to institute a constitutional monarchy until its self-proclaimed prime minister died; based in Gresham, Oregon.
Interim Government of Federated Shan States	2005	2006	Union of Myanmar	Aimed to establish an independent state for the Shan ethnic group; it became defunct within several months.	[71][72]

World War II

Many countries established a government in exile after loss of sovereignty in connection with World War II.

Governments in London

A large number of European governments-in-exile were set up in London.

Name	Leaders
Belgian government in exile	Prime Minister: Hubert Pierlot
Czechoslovak government-in-exile	President: Edvard Beneš Prime Minister: Jan Šrámek
Free France	Charles de Gaulle, Henri Giraud, French Committee of National Liberation (from 1943)
Greek government-in-exile	King George II Prime Minister: Emmanouil Tsouderos (1941–1944), Sofoklis Venizelos (1944), Georgios Papandreou (1944–1945)
Luxembourg government in exile	Grand Duchess Charlotte Prime Minister: Pierre Dupong
Dutch government-in-exile	Queen Wilhelmina Prime Minister: Dirk Jan de Geer (1940), Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy (1940–1945)
Norwegian government-in-exile	King Haakon VII Prime Minister: Johan Nygaardsvold
Polish government-in-exile	President: Władysław Raczkiewicz Prime Minister: Władysław Sikorski (1939–1943), Stanisław Mikołajczyk (1943–1944), Tomasz Arciszewski (1944–1945)
Yugoslav government-in-exile	King Peter II Prime Minister: Dušan Simović (1941–1942), Slobodan Jovanović (1942–1943), Miloš Trifunović (1943), Božidar Purić (1943–1944), Ivan Šubašić (1944–1945)
Austrian Democratic Union (Unrecognised)
Danish Freedom Council (Unrecognised)
Free Thai Movement (Unrecognised)

Other exiled leaders in Britain in this time included

Occupied

Governments-in-exile in Asia

The Philippine Commonwealth (invaded 9 December 1941) established a government in exile, initially located in Australia and later in the United States. Earlier, in 1897, the Hong Kong Junta was established as a government in exile by the Philippine revolutionary Republic of Biak-na-Bato.

While formed long before World War II, the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea continued in exile in China until the end of the war.

At the

In the later stages of World War II, with the German Army increasingly pushed back and expelled from various countries, Axis-aligned groups from some countries set up "governments-in-exile" under the auspices of the Axis powers, in the remaining Axis territory - even though internationally recognized governments were in place in their home countries. The main purpose of these was to recruit and organize military units composed of their nationals in the host country.

Name	Exiled or founded (*) since	Defunct, reestablished (*) or integrated (°) since	State that controlled its claimed territory	Notes	References
Azad Hind	21 October 1943*	18 August 1945	British Raj	The Provisional Government of Free India, or Azad Hind, was a state founded to oppose the Royal Indian Navy revolt in 1946, which hastened the end of British rule in India.
Montenegrin State Council	Summer of 1944	8 May 1945	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	After the Germans withdrew from Montenegro, the fascist leader Sekula Drljević founded a government-in-exile based in Zagreb, capital of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH). Drljević founded the Montenegrin National Army, a military force set up by him and the Croatian fascist leader Ante Pavelić. However, his government was dissolved after the fall of the NDH.
Legionary Romania	August 1944	8 May 1945	Kingdom of Romania	Germany had imprisoned King Michael's Coup brought a pro-Allied government to power in Romania. In response Germany released Sima to establish a pro-Axis government in exile in Vienna. It raised a Romanian National Army in the SS of 12.000 men that fought along Germany until the end of the war.[75]
Sigmaringen Governmental Commission	7 September 1944*	23 April 1945°	Provisional Government of the French Republic	Members of the collaborationist French cabinet at Vichy were relocated by the Germans to the Pétain having refused to take part in this, it was headed by Fernand de Brinon .	[76]
Kingdom of Bulgaria	16 September 1944*	10 May 1945	Kingdom of Bulgaria (Fatherland Front)	Formed after the 1944 Bulgarian coup d'état brought socialists to power in Bulgaria, the government was based in Vienna and headed by Aleksandar Tsankov. It raised the 1st Bulgarian Regiment of the SS.
Hellenic State	September 1944	April 1945	Kingdom of Greece	After the liberation of Greece, a new collaborationist government had been established at Vienna, during September 1944, formed by former collaborationist ministers. It was headed by the former collaborationist minister Ektor Tsironikos. In April 1945, Tsironikos was captured during the Vienna offensive along with his ministers.[77][78][79]
Hungarian Government of National Unity	28/29 March 1945	7 May 1945	Czechoslovak Republic Kingdom of Hungary Kingdom of Romania Kingdom of Yugoslavia	The Soviet advance through Hungary. It was first based in Vienna and then in Munich . Most of its leaders were arrested in the following months, in the aftermath of the final Allied victory in Europe.
Slovak Republic	4 April 1945	8 May 1945	Czechoslovak Republic	The government of the Slovak Republic, led by Jozef Tiso, went into exile on 4 April 1945 to the Austrian town of Kremsmünster when the Red Army captured Bratislava and occupied Slovakia. The exiled government capitulated to the American General Walton Walker on 8 May 1945 in Kremsmünster. In summer 1945, the captured members of the government were handed over to Czechoslovak authorities.
Second Philippine Republic	11 June 1945	17 August 1945	Philippine Commonwealth	After the Allied forces liberated the Philippines from Japanese occupiers and the reestablishment of the Philippine Commonwealth in the archipelago after a few years in exile in the United States, the Second Philippine Republic became a nominal government-in-exile[80] from 11 June 1945, based in Nara / Tokyo.[81] The government was later dissolved on 17 August 1945.[82]
Croatian Government in exile	10 April 1951	28 December 1959	Yugoslavia	Many former members of the Government of the Independent State of Croatia fled to Argentina. From there they founded a government in exile.	[83]

Persian Gulf War

Following the

Also in the Famagusta District of Cyprus, the administration of the part retained by the Republic of Cyprus considers itself as a "District administration in exile", since the district's capital Famagusta had been under Turkish control since 1974.

Fictional governments in exile

Works of alternate history as well as science fictional depictions of the future sometimes include fictional governments in exile.

• In Len Deighton's SS-GB, the UK is defeated in World War II and occupied by Germany. The story features a British government-in-exile in Washington, D.C.^[85]
• In If Israel Lost the War by Robert Littell, Richard Z. Chesnoff and Edward Klein, Israel is defeated in the 1967 Six-Day War and its territory occupied by Arab armies. Thereupon, David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir set up an Israeli government in exile in North America.^{[citation needed]}
• Algis Budrys' The Falling Torch is set in a future time when Earth was conquered and occupied by extraterrestrial humanoid invaders. Many years later, the Earth government in exile, located at a human colony planet orbiting Alpha Centauri, is holding a regular meeting in an atmosphere of dejection and futility – its hosts being indifferent to Earth's plight and unwilling to offer any real help. The exile prime minister is shown more involved with his successful career as the chef of a luxury hotel than with the seemingly non-existent hope of liberating Earth. This depiction might have drawn on the writer's actual experience as a member of the exile Lithuanian community in the 1950s US, at the time seeing little hope of shaking the Soviet hold of its homeland.^{[citation needed]}
• In the
  syndicalist revolutionaries assume control.^[86]