Useful Tables
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Country | UN member |
Capital | Chief of state | Legislative body | Government type |
Togo | Yes | Lome | President | National Assembly (unicameral) | Republic under transition to multiparty democratic rule. |
Tonga | do. | Nuku’alofa | King | Legislative Assembly (unicameral) | Constitutional Monarchy. |
Trinibad and Tobago | do. | Port-of-Spain | President. | Parliament (bicameral) | Parliamentary Democracy. |
Tunisia | do. | Tunis | do. | Chamber of Deputies and the Chamber of Advisors (bicameral) | Republic. |
Turkey | do. | Ankara | do. | Grand National Assembly of Turkey (unicameral) | Republican Parliamentary Democracy. |
Turkmenistan | do. | Ashgabat (Ashkhabad) | do. | Two Parliamentary Bodies: People’s Council and a National Assembly | Republic; Authoritarian Presidential rule, with little power outside the executive branch. |
Tuvalu | do. | Funafuti | Queen | Parliament (also called House of Assembly; unicameral) | Constitutional Monarchy with a Parliamentary Democracy. |
Uganda | do. | Kampala | President | (unicameral) | Republic. |
Ukraine | do. | Kyiv (Kiev) | do. | Council(unicameral) | Do. |
United Arab Emirates | do. | Abu Dhabi | do. | Federal National Council (FNC) (unicameral) | Federation with specified powers delegated to the UAE federal government and other powers reserved to member emirates. |
United Kingdom | do. | London | Queen | Parliament (bicameral) | Constitutional Monarchy. |
Uraguay | do. | Montevideo | President | General Assembly (bicameral) | Constitutional Republic. |
Uzbekistan | do. | Tashkent | do. | Supreme Assembly (bicameral) | Republic; authoritarian presidential rule with little power outside the executive branch. |
Vanuatu | do. | Port Vila (on Efate) | do. | Parliament (unicameral) | Parliamentary Republic. |
Venezuella | do. | Caracas | do. | National Assembly (unicameral) | Federal Republic. |
Vietnam | do. | Hanoi | do. | do. | Communist State. |
Yemen | do. | Sanaa | do. | Legislature (bicameral) | Republic. |
Zambia | do. | Lusaka | do. | National Assembly (unicameral) | Do. |
Zimbabwe | do. | Harare | Executive President | Parliament (bicameral) | Parliamentary Democracy. |
Source: World Factbook 2008, Central Intelligence Agency, http://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html.