List of the last monarchs in Asia

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This is a list of last monarchs of Asia.

Nation / territory		Title	Birth	Ruled from	Rule ceased	Reason	Death
Afghanistan	Mohammed Zahir Shah	King of Afghanistan	15 October 1914	8 November 1933	17 July 1973	Deposed	23 July 2007
Armenia	Levon V	King of Armenia	1342	1374	1375	Deposed	29 November 1393
Burma	Thibaw Min	King of Burma	1 January 1859	1 October 1878	29 November 1885	Deposed	19 December 1916
China	Aisin Gioro Puyi	Emperor of China	7 February 1906	2 December 1908	12 February 1912	Abdicated	17 October 1967
Ceylon	Elizabeth II	Queen of Ceylon	21 April 1926	6 February 1952	22 May 1972	Republican constitution adopted	8 September 2022
Egypt	Fuad II	King of Egypt and the Sudan	16 January 1952	26 July 1952	18 June 1953	Deposed	living
Hejaz	Hussein Bin Ali	King of Hejaz	1 May 1854	10 June 1916	3 October 1924	Deposed	4 June 1931
Hong Kong	Elizabeth II	Queen of the United Kingdom	21 April 1926	6 February 1952	1 July 1997	Handover of Hong Kong	8 September 2022
India	George VI	Emperor of India King of India	14 December 1895	11 December 1936	26 January 1950	Republican constitution adopted	6 February 1952
Indonesia	Juliana	Queen of the Netherlands	30 April 1909	4 September 1948	27 December 1949	Decolonization	20 March 2004
Iran	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Shahanshah of Iran	26 October 1919	16 September 1941	11 February 1979	Deposed	27 July 1980
Iraq	Faisal II	King of Iraq	2 May 1935	4 April 1939	14 July 1958	Executed	14 July 1958
Israel	George VI	King of the United Kingdom	14 December 1895	11 December 1936	14 May 1948	End of the British Mandate	6 February 1952
Kartli-Kakheti (Eastern Georgia)	George XII	King of all Georgia, King of all Kartli, Kakheti and all the other lands	10 November 1746	11 January 1798	28 December 1800	Death	28 December 1800
Korea	Sunjong	Emperor of Korea	25 March 1874	20 July 1907	29 August 1910	Abdicated	24 April 1926
Kurdistan	Mahmud Barzanji	King of Kurdistan	1878	1921	1924	Deposed	9 October 1956
Kyrgyzstan	Ormon Khan	Khan of the Kara-Kyrgyz Khanate	1792	1842	1854	Executed	1854
Laos	Sisavang Vatthana	King of Laos	13 November 1907	29 October 1959	2 December 1975	Deposed	13 May 1978
Maldives	Muhammad Fareed Didi	Sultan of the Maldives	11 January 1901	7 March 1954	11 November 1968	Republican constitution adopted	27 May 1969
Manchukuo	Aisin Gioro Puyi	Emperor of Manchukuo	7 February 1906	9 March 1932	15 August 1945	Abdicated	17 October 1967
Mongolia	Bogd Khan	Great Khan	1869	1911	20 May 1924	Death	20 May 1924
Nepal	Gyanendra	King of Nepal	7 July 1947	4 June 2001	28 May 2008	Republican constitution adopted	living
North Caucasia	Shamil	Imam of Chechnya and Dagestan	26 June 1797	12 September 1834	25 August 1859	Deposed	4 February 1871
Pakistan	Elizabeth II	Queen of Pakistan	21 April 1926	6 February 1952	23 March 1956	Republican constitution adopted	8 September 2022
Russia	Nicholas II	Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias	18 May 1868	1 November 1894	15 March 1917	Abdicated	17 July 1918
Ryukyu	Shō Tai	King of Ryūkyū	3 August 1843	8 June 1848	11 March 1879	Deposed	19 August 1901
Sikkim	Palden Thondup Namgyal	Chogyal of Sikkim	23 May 1923	2 December 1963	10 April 1975	Deposed	29 January 1982
Singapore	Putra	King of Malaysia	25 November 1920	21 September 1960	9 August 1965	Republican constitution adopted	16 April 2000
Syria	Faisal I	King of Syria	14 January 1861	26 November 1919	24 July 1920	Deposed	8 September 1933
Tibet	Tenzin Gyatso	Dalai Lama of Tibet	6 July 1935	22 February 1940	23 May 1951	Deposed	living
Turkey	Mehmed VI	Sultan of the Ottoman Empire	14 January 1861	3 July 1918	1 November 1922	Monarchy abolished	16 May 1926
Vietnam	Bảo Đại	Emperor of Vietnam	22 October 1913	8 January 1926	25 August 1945	Abdicated	30 July 1997
Kingdom of Yemen	Muhammad al-Badr	King of the Muttawakilite Kingdom of Yemen	15 February 1926	19 September 1962	1 December 1970	Deposed	6 August 1996

Africa	Eswatini Lesotho Morocco list
Asia	Bahrain Bhutan Brunei Cambodia Japan Jordan Kuwait Malaysia Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia Thailand United Arab Emirates list
Europe	Andorra Belgium Denmark Liechtenstein Luxembourg Monaco Netherlands Norway Spain Sweden Vatican City (Holy See)
Oceania	Tonga
Commonwealth realms	Antigua and Barbuda Australia Bahamas Belize Canada Grenada Jamaica New Zealand Cook Islands Niue Papua New Guinea Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Solomon Islands Tuvalu United Kingdom

Former

Africa	Adamawa Ankole Aussa Barotseland Bagirmi Bornu Burundi Central Africa Dahomey Egypt Ethiopia Ghana Gomma Gumma Kaffa Kongo Libya Luba Madagascar Mali Maore Maravi Mwali Ndzuwani Ngazidja Rwanda Shilluk Islands of Refreshment Tunisia Wituland Wassoulou Yeke Zanzibar Zimbabwe and other
Americas	Araucanía Aztec Brazil Haiti Inca Mexico Miskito Suriname Talamanca Trinidad Thirteen Colonies
Asia	Afghanistan Asir Bengal Bukhara Burma Cebu Chehab China Dapitan Hejaz Indonesia Iran (Qajar) Iraq Jabal Shammar Kathiri Khiva Korea Kumul Kurdistan Laos Maguindanao Mahra Maldives Manchukuo Mongolia Najran Nepal Qu'aiti Ryukyu Sarawak Shan Sikkim Sri Lanka Sip Song Chau Tai Sulu Syria Tibet Taiwan Upper Asir Upper Yafa Vietnam Yemen Emirates of South Arabia South Arabia
Europe	Albania Aragon Asturias Austria Austria-Hungary Bavaria Bosnia Brittany Bulgaria Catalonia Crimea Cilicia Corsica Cyprus Finland France Galicia Georgia Germany Greece Granada Hanover Hungary Iceland Imereti Ireland Italy Kartli-Kakheti Lithuania Majorca Man Moldavia Montenegro Navarre Neuchâtel Ottoman Empire Papal States Piedmont-Sardinia Poland–Lithuania Portugal Prussia Romania Russia Samos Saxony Savoy Scotland Serbia Tavolara Two Sicilies Tuscany United Baltic Duchy Yugoslavia Valencia Württemberg
Oceania	Abemama Bora Bora Easter Island Kingdom of Fiji Hawaii Huahine Mangareva Niuē-Fekai Nuku Hiva Raiatea Rapa Iti Rarotonga Rimatara Rurutu Tahuata Tahiti
Commonwealth realms	Barbados Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Fiji The Gambia Ghana Guyana India (British Raj, princely states) Irish Free State / Ireland Kenya Malawi Malta Mauritius Nigeria Pakistan Rhodesia Sierra Leone South Africa Tanganyika Trinidad and Tobago Uganda

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