Who ruled the world in 1914?
The world wars: 59 states on the map for 1914, 59 with a known leader. Open the interactive map and move the slider to 1914 to see their borders.
| State | Led by in 1914 |
|---|---|
| Argentina | Roque Sáenz Peña (President); Victorino de la Plaza (President) |
| Australia | George V (King); Joseph Cook (Prime minister); Andrew Fisher (Prime minister) |
| Austro-Hungarian Empire | Franz Joseph I (emperor); Karl von Stürgkh (Ministers-President); István Tisza (Prime Minister) |
| Basutoland | Nathaniel Griffith Lerotholi (Paramount Chief) |
| Belgium | Albert I (King); Charles de Broqueville (Prime minister) |
| Bogd Khanate of Mongolia | Bogd Khan (Khagan) |
| Bolivia | Ismael Montes (President) |
| Bourbon Restoration of Spain | Alfonso XIII (King); Eduardo Dato (Prime minister) |
| Brunei | Muhammad Jamalul Alam II (Sultan) |
| Canada | Robert Borden (Prime minister) |
| Colombia | Carlos Eugenio Restrepo Restrepo (President); José Vicente Concha Ferreira (President) |
| Denmark | Christian X (King); Carl Theodor Zahle (Council president) |
| Dominion of New Zealand | George V (King); William Massey (Prime minister) |
| Ecuador | Leónidas Plaza (President) |
| El Salvador | Carlos Meléndez Ramirez (Provisional President); Alfonso Quiñónez Molina (Provisional President) |
| Emirate of Afghanistan | Habibullah Khan (Emir) |
| Emirate of Nejd and Hasa | Ibn Saud (Emir) |
| Empire of Japan | Taishō (emperor); Yamamoto Gonnohyōe (Prime minister); Ōkuma Shigenobu (Prime minister) |
| Ethiopian Empire | Iyasu V (Emperor) |
| First Brazilian Republic | Hermes da Fonseca (President); Venceslau Brás (President) |
| First Costa Rican Republic | Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno (President); Alfredo González Flores (President) |
| First Portuguese Republic | Manuel de Arriaga (President); Afonso Costa (President of the Ministry); Bernardino Machado (President of the Ministry); Vítor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho (President of the Ministry) |
| France | Raymond Poincaré (president); Gaston Doumergue (President of the Council of ministers); Alexandre Ribot (President of the Council of ministers); René Viviani (President of the Council of ministers) |
| German Empire | Wilhelm II (emperor); Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg (Chancellor) |
| Grand Duchy of Finland | Nicholas II (Grand Prince) |
| Guatemala | Manuel Estrada Cabrera (President) |
| Honduras | Francisco Bertrand (President) |
| Kingdom of Bulgaria | Ferdinand I (Tsar); Vasil Radoslavov (Prime minister) |
| Kingdom of Greece | Constantine I (King); Eleftherios Venizelos (Prime minister) |
| Kingdom of Italy | Victor Emmanuel III (king); Giovanni Giolitti (Prime minister); Antonio Salandra (Prime minister) |
| Kingdom of Montenegro | Nikola I (King); Janko Vukotić (President) |
| Kingdom of Romania | Charles I (King); Ferdinand I (King); Titu Maiorescu (Prime minister); Ion I. C. Brătianu (Prime minister) |
| Kingdom of Serbia | Alexander (King); Peter I (King); Nikola Pašić (Prime minister) |
| Kingdom of Tonga (1900–70) | George Tupou II (King); Tevita Tuʻivakano (Prime minister) |
| Liberia | Daniel Edward Howard (President) |
| Luxembourg | Marie-Adélaïde (Grand Duchess); Paul Eyschen (Prime minister) |
| Mexico | Victoriano Huerta (President); Francisco S. Carvajal (President); Eulalio Gutiérrez (President); Venustiano Carranza (First Chief of the Constitutional Army) |
| Morocco | Yusef (Sultan) |
| Nicaragua | Adolfo Díaz (President) |
| Norway | Haakon VII (King); Gunnar Knudsen (Prime minister) |
| Ottoman Empire | Mehmed V (sultan); Said Halim Pasha (Grand Vizier) |
| Panama | Belisario Porras Barahona (President) |
| Peru | Guillermo Billinghurst (Constitutional President); Óscar R. Benavides (Interim President) |
| Qatar | Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani (Emir) |
| Republic of Cuba | Mario García Menocal (President) |
| Republic of Haiti (1859–1957) | Michel Oreste (President); Oreste Zamor (President); Joseph Davilmar Théodore (President) |
| Russian Empire | Nicholas II (emperor); Vladimir Kokovtsov (Chairman of council of ministers); Ivan Goremykin (Chairman of council of ministers) |
| Sheikhdom of Kuwait | Mubarak I (Sheikh) |
| Sublime State of Persia | Ahmad Shah Qajar (Shah) |
| Sweden | Gustaf V (King); Karl Staaff (Prime minister); Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (Prime minister) |
| Switzerland | Arthur Hoffmann (President of the Confederation) |
| Thailand | Vajiravudh (King) |
| The Netherlands | Wilhelmina (Queen); Pieter Cort van der Linden (Prime minister) |
| Tibet (1912–1951) | Thubten Gyatso (13th Dalai Lama) |
| Union of South Africa | George V (King); Louis Botha (Prime minister) |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | George V (king); H. H. Asquith (Prime minister) |
| United States | Woodrow Wilson (president) |
| United States of Venezuela | José Gil Fortoul (Interim President); Victorino Márquez Bustillos (President) |
| Uruguay | José Batlle y Ordóñez (President) |