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This is a list of legislatures by country. A "
legislature A legislature (, ) is a deliberative assembly with the legal authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country, nation or city on behalf of the people therein. They are often contrasted with the executive and judicial power ...
" is the generic name for the national
parliament In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: Representation (politics), representing the Election#Suffrage, electorate, making laws, and overseeing ...
s and
congress A congress is a formal meeting of the representatives of different countries, constituent states, organizations, trade unions, political parties, or other groups. The term originated in Late Middle English to denote an encounter (meeting of ...
es that act as a plenary general assembly of representatives and that have the power to legislate. All entities included in the
list of sovereign states The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 205 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership with ...
are included in this list.


Names of legislatures

The legislatures are listed with their names in English and the name in the (most-used) native language of the country (or the official name in the second-most used native language in cases where English is the
majority A majority is more than half of a total; however, the term is commonly used with other meanings, as explained in the "#Related terms, Related terms" section below. It is a subset of a Set (mathematics), set consisting of more than half of the se ...
"native" language).


List of legislatures


Supranational legislatures


Legislatures of sovereign states (Member and observer states of the United Nations)


Legislatures of autonomous regions, dependencies and other territories


Legislatures of non-UN states (including unrecognized and disputed territories)


See also

* Elections by country (legislatures elections) * List of national governments *
List of current heads of state and government This is a list of current heads of state and heads of government. In some cases, mainly in presidential systems, one leader is head of state and head of government. In other cases, mainly in semi-presidential and parliamentary systems, the hea ...
* List of supreme courts by country * List of United States state legislatures *
Legislative assemblies of Canadian provinces and territories This is a list of the legislative assemblies of Canada's provinces and territories. Each province's legislative assembly, along with the province's lieutenant governor, form the province's legislature (which is called a parliament or general ass ...
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Parliaments of the Australian states and territories The parliaments of the Australian states and territories are legislative bodies within the federal framework of the Commonwealth of Australia. All the parliaments are based on the Westminster system, and each is regulated by its own constituti ...
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National parliaments of the European Union The national parliaments of the European Union are those legislatures responsible for each member state of the European Union (EU). They have a certain degree of institutionalised influence which was expanded under the Treaty of Lisbon to incl ...
* List of legislatures by number of members *
List of legislative buildings A legislative building is referred to as a building in which a legislature sits and makes laws for its respective Polity, political entity. The term used for the building varies between the political entities, such as "building", "capitol", "hall ...
* List of legislatures by female members * List of current presidents of legislatures


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