The Soviet zone of occupation became a self-declared socialist state, the German Democratic Republic (commonly known as East Germany), on 7 October 1949.

The Croats claim Mostar as the capital of their self-declared state in Bosnia, the Republic of Herzeg-Bosna.

It is also the name of an administrative region defined by the self-declared autonomous state of Puntland.

This is a territory in a self-declared state of war with Israel.

Yet Israel is the self-declared state of the Jewish people.

The Caliphate State - a self-declared Islamic state within the German state opposed to Turkey's secular government - is small, with only 2,000 or so members.

The Anglo-Corsican Kingdom was a short-lived self-declared independent state on the island of Corsica during the mid-1790s.

This, they claimed, was not the same as the self-declared Bosnian Serb state, it was just a temporary wartime measure.

The Empire of Austenasia is a micronation and self-declared sovereign state based in the United Kingdom.

The Croats claim Mostar as the capital of their self-declared state.