This is a list of proposed state mergers, including both current and historical proposals originating from sovereign states or organizations. The entities listed below differ from
separatist movements in that they would form as a merger or union of two or more existing
states,
territories, colonies or other regions, becoming either a federation,
confederation
A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a political union of sovereign states united for purposes of common action. Usually created by a treaty, confederations of states tend to be established for dealing with critical issu ...
or other type of unified
sovereign state
A sovereign state is a State (polity), state that has the highest authority over a territory. It is commonly understood that Sovereignty#Sovereignty and independence, a sovereign state is independent. When referring to a specific polity, the ter ...
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Current proposals
Historical
Early modern period
19th century
20th century
21st century
See also
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Arab Union
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Atlantic Union
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Balkan Federation
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Celtic union
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Composite monarchy
A composite monarchy (or composite state) is a historical category, introduced by H. G. Koenigsberger in 1975 and popularised by Sir John H. Elliott, that describes early modern states consisting of several countries under one ruler, sometimes ...
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Confederation
A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a political union of sovereign states united for purposes of common action. Usually created by a treaty, confederations of states tend to be established for dealing with critical issu ...
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Dynastic union
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51st state#Canada
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Estonian–Finnish federation
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Alldutch Movement
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Union of Kėdainiai
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Fertile Crescent Plan
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Great Timor
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Greater Austria proposal
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Greater Mauritania
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Hellenoturkism
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Iberism
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Independence referendum
An independence referendum is a type of referendum in which the residents of a territory decide whether the territory should become an Independence, independent sovereign state. An independence referendum that results in a vote for independenc ...
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Indo-Pakistani Confederation
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Irredentism
Irredentism () is one State (polity), state's desire to Annexation, annex the territory of another state. This desire can be motivated by Ethnicity, ethnic reasons because the population of the territory is ethnically similar to or the same as the ...
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List of confederations
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List of irredentist claims or disputes
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Lists of active separatist movements
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North American Union
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Pan-Americanism
Pan-Americanism is a movement that seeks to create, encourage, and organize relationships, an association (a Union), and cooperation among the states of the Americas, through diplomatic, political, economic, and social means. The term Pan-Amer ...
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Pan-Hispanism
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Pan-Latinism
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Pan-nationalism
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Papuan unification
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Patria Grande
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Personal union
A personal union is a combination of two or more monarchical states that have the same monarch while their boundaries, laws, and interests remain distinct. A real union, by contrast, involves the constituent states being to some extent in ...
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Political union
A political union is a type of political entity which is composed of, or created from, smaller politics or the process which achieves this. These smaller polities are usually called federated states and federal territories in a federal gove ...
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Proposed United States acquisition of Greenland
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Samoan unification
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Supranational union
A supranational union is a type of international organization and political union that is empowered to directly exercise some of the powers and functions otherwise reserved to State (polity), states. A supranational organization involves a g ...
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Turanism
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Turkic Council
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URSAL
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United Ireland
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United States of Africa
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United States of China
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United States of Europe
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World government
References
Sources
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*{{Cite book , last=Welch , first=Claude E. Jr., title=Dream of Unity, Pan-Africanism and Political Unification in West Africa , publisher=Cornell University Press , year=1966 , location=Ithaca, NY
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state mergers
Confederations
Lists of organizations