List of state leaders in the 17th century

Africa

Africa: Central

• Kingdom of Kongo –
• Kongo claimants of Kibangu –
• Kongo claimants of Lemba –
• Kongo claimants of Mbamba Lovata –
• Kingdom of Matamba –
• Portuguese Angola, –

• Kingdom of Bamum –

• Sultanate of Bagirmi –

• Kuba Kingdom –
• Kingdom of Lunda –

• Kingdom of Loango –

• Kingdom of Orungu –

• Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe –

  Africa: East

• Kingdom of Burundi –
• Sultanate of Mombasa –
• Sultanate of Mombasa –
• Kingdom of Rwanda –
• Buganda –
• Bunyoro –

• Ethiopian Empire: Solomonic dynasty –
• Kingdom of Garo –
• Kingdom of Garo –
• Kingdom of Kaffa –
• Ennarea –
• Welayta –
• Warsangali Sultanate –

• Sultanate of Ndzuwani –

• Merina Kingdom –

  Africa: Northcentral

• Eyalet of Tunis: Muradid dynasty –

  Africa: Northeast

• Sultanate of Darfur –
• Funj Sultanate of Sennar –

  Africa: Northwest

• Regency of Algiers –

• Saadi dynasty of Morocco –
• Morocco, Dila'i interlude –
• Alaouite dynasty of Morocco –

  Africa: South

• Portuguese Mozambique –

• Dutch Cape Colony –

• Rozwi Empire –

  Africa: West

• Abomey –
• Benin Empire –

• Mossi Kingdom of Nungu –

• Portuguese Cape Verde –

• Kingdom of Ashanti –

• Portuguese Guinea –

• Kénédougou Kingdom –

• Dendi Kingdom –

• Bornu Empire –
• Oyo Empire –
• Sultanate of Kano –
• Kingdom of Nri –

• Jolof / Wolof Empire –
• Cayor –

• Kingdom of Koya –

  Asia

Asia: Central

• Dzungar Khanate –
• Kazakh Khanate –

• Yarkent Khanate, Western Moghulistan –

• Guge
• Phagmodrupa dynasty –
• Tsangpa –
• Khoshut Khanate of Tibet

• Khanate of Bukhara –
• Khanate of Khiva –
• Kalmyk Khanate –

  Asia: East

• Ming dynasty –
• Southern Ming –
• Shun dynasty –
• Qing dynasty –

• Tokugawa shogunate of Japan
• Ryukyu Kingdom: Second Shō Dynasty –

• Joseon –

• Alliance of the Four Oirat –
• Northern Yuan dynasty –

  Asia: Southeast

• Bruneian Empire –

• Kingdom of Cambodia: Middle Period –

• Tuban –
• Giri –
• Duchy of Surabaya –
• Blambangan Kingdom –
• Pasuruan –
• Banten Sultanate –
• Sultanate of Cirebon –
• Cirebon, Keraton Kasepuhan –
• Cirebon, Kraton Kanoman –
• Cirebon, Panembahan line –
• Cirebon, Kraton Kacirebonan –
• Bangkalan –
• Sumenep –
• Pamekasan –
• Mataram Sultanate –
• Aceh Sultanate –
• Johor Sultanate –
• Sultanate of Deli –
• Sultanate of Langkat –
• Riau-Lingga Sultanate –
• Jambi Sultanate –
• :Hilir Jambi, Sultan
• :Sultan Sri Maharaja Batu, Sultan
• Kutai Kartanegara Sultanate –
• Sultanate of Banjar –
• Sultanate of Sambas –
• Bulungan –
• Bone state –
• Sultanate of Gowa –
• Luwu –
• Bali Kingdom: Gelgel –
• Kingdom of Larantuka –
• Bima Sultanate –
• Amanatun –
• Amarasi –
• Amabi –
• Sonbai Besar –
• Sonbai Kecil –
• Sultanate of Bacan –
• Sultanate of Jailolo –
• Sultanate of Tidore –
• Sultanate of Ternate –

• Lan Xang –
• Muang Phuan –

• Kedah Sultanate –
• Kelantan Sultanate: Champa dynasty –
• Pahang Sultanate –
• Johor Sultanate –
• Perak Sultanate –
• Sultanate of Sarawak –

• Kingdom of Mrauk U –
• Toungoo dynasty –

• Sultanate of Sulu –
• Sultanate of Maguindanao –
• Spanish East Indies, part of the Captaincy General of the Philippines –

• Lan Na: Burmese rule –
• Ayutthaya Kingdom –

• Mạc dynasty –
• Champa –
• Revival Lê dynasty –
• Nguyễn lords –
• Trịnh lords –

  Asia: South

• Mallabhum –
• Bhurshut –
• Jaintia Kingdom

• Bhutan –

• Sultanate of the Maldives –

• Gorkha Kingdom –

• Portuguese Ceylon –
• Dutch Ceylon –
• Kingdom of Kandy –
• Jaffna Kingdom –
• Kingdom of Kandy –

  Asia: West

• Ottoman Empire

• Kathiri State of Seiyun –
• Yemeni Zaidi State –
• Lower Yafa –

  Europe

Europe: Balkans

• Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro –

  Europe: British Isles

• Kingdom of Scotland –

• Leinster –

  Europe: Central

• Holy Roman Empire, Kingdom of Germany

• Kingdom of Bohemia, Kingdom of Hungary –
• Margraviate of Moravia –
• Duchy of Cieszyn –

• Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth: Kingdom of Poland –

• Duchy of Prussia –

  ''Small central states''

• Archduchy of Austria –
• Principality of Auersperg –
• Prince-Bishopric of Brixen –
• Duchy of Carinthia –
• Prince-Bishopric of Chur –
• Liechtenstein –
• Duchy of Styria –
• Tarasp –
• Prince-Bishopric of Trent –

• Duchy/ Electorate of Bavaria –
• Berchtesgaden Prince-Provostry –
• Prince-Bishopric of Freising –
• Imperial County of Ortenburg –
• Pappenheim –
• Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen –
• Prince-Bishopric of Regensburg –

• County of Burgundy –
• Duchy of Brabant –
• Duchy of Luxemburg –

• Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg –
• Brandenburg-Ansbach –
• Brandenburg-Bayreuth –
• Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst –
• Schönborn –
• Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg –

• Elector-Bishopric of Mainz –
• Nieder-Isenburg –
• Electoral Palatinate –
• Elector-Bishopric of Trier –

• Bentheim-Bentheim –
• Bentheim-Alpen –
• Bentheim-Limburg –
• Bentheim-Tecklenburg –
• Duchy of Cleves, County of Mark –
• Essen Abbey –
• Herford Abbey –
• Lippe-Biesterfeld –
• Prince-Bishopric of Münster –
• Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück –
• Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn –
• Salm-Reifferscheid –
• County of Sayn –
• County of Wied –
• Wied-Dierdorf –
• Wied-Neuwied –
• Wied-Runkel –

• Prince-Bishopric of Basel –
• Princely Abbey of Fulda –
• Hesse-Butzbach –
• Hesse-Braubach –
• Hesse-Darmstadt –
• Hesse-Eschwege –
• Hesse-Homburg –
• Hesse-Itter –
• Hesse-Kassel –
• Hesse-Marburg –
• Hesse-Philippsthal –
• Hesse-Rheinfels –
• Hesse-Rotenburg –
• Hesse-Wanfried-Rheinfels –
• Isenburg-Birstein –
• Isenburg-Meerholz –
• Isenburg-Wächtersbach –
• Westerburg-Leiningen-Leiningen –
• Leiningen-Oberbronn –
• Leiningen-Rixingen –
• Westerburg-Leiningen-Leiningen –
• Leiningen-Schaumburg –
• Leiningen-Westerburg-Altleiningen –
• Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen –
• Leiningen-Hardenburg –
• Duchy of Lorraine –
• Nassau-Usingen –
• Nassau-Weilburg –
• Salm-Grumbach –
• Salm-Leuze –
• Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck –
• Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg –
• Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein –
• Solms-Braunfels –
• Prince-Bishopric of Speyer –
• County of Waldeck-Eisenberg –
• County of Waldeck-Wildungen/ County of Waldeck and Pyrmont –
• Prince-Bishopric of Worms –

• Electorate of Saxony, Albertine –
• Saxe-Lauenburg –
• Saxe-Merseburg –
• Saxe-Weissenfels –
• Saxe-Zeitz –
• Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt –
• Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen –
• Bremen-Verden –
• Free City of Bremen –
• Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel/ Principality of Wolfenbüttel –
• Principality of Calenberg –
• Electorate of Hanover –
• Free City of Hamburg –
• Prince-Bishopric of Hildesheim –
• Prince-bishopric of Lübeck –
• Free City of Lübeck –
• Principality of Lüneburg –
• Prince-Archbishopric of Magdeburg and of Halberstadt –

• Principality of Anhalt –
• Anhalt-Bernburg –
• Anhalt-Dessau –
• Anhalt-Dornburg –
• Anhalt-Köthen –
• Anhalt-Plötzkau –
• Anhalt-Zerbst –
• Electorate of Brandenburg –
• Brandenburg-Prussia: Electorate of Brandenburg and Duchy of Prussia –
• Pomerania-Wolgast –
• Pomerania-Stettin, Duchy of Pomerania, Pomerania-Barth –
• Pomerania-Rügenwalde, Duchy of Pomerania –
• Reuss-Ebersdorf –
• Reuss-Schleiz –
• Saxe-Weimar –
• Saxe-Coburg –
• Saxe-Eisenach –
• Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach –
• Saxe-Altenburg –
• Saxe-Eisenach –
• Saxe-Jena –
• Saxe-Marksuhl –
• Saxe-Weimar –
• Saxe-Gotha, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg –
• Saxe-Coburg –
• Saxe-Meiningen –
• Saxe-Eisenberg –
• Saxe-Römhild –
• Saxe-Hildburghausen/ Saxe-Altenburg –
• Saxe-Saalfeld, Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld –
• Stolberg-Wernigerode –

• Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg –
• –
• / –
• –
• Prince-Bishopric of Constance –
• Prince-Provostry of Ellwangen –
• Hohenlohe-Bartenstein –
• Hohenlohe-Langenburg –
• Princely Abbey of Kempten –
• Königsegg-Aulendorf –
• Königsegg-Rothenfels –
• Stadion –
• Weingarten Abbey –
• Duchy of Württemberg –

  Europe: East

• Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth: Grand Duchy of Lithuania –
• Tsardom of Russia –

  Europe: Nordic

• Denmark–Norway –

  Europe: Southcentral

• Papal States –
• Duchy of Savoy –

• Kingdom of Naples –

  Europe: Southwest

• Andorra

• Catalan Republic

• Kingdom of Navarre –

• Kingdom of Portugal –

• Habsburg Spain

  Europe: West

• Anjou –
• Auvergne –
• County of Flanders –
• County of Maine –
• Monaco –

  Eurasia: Caucasus

• Principality of Abkhazia –
• Kingdom of Kartli –

  Oceania

• Uvea –

  South America