List_of_state_leaders

This is a list of current heads of state and government, showing heads of state and heads of government where different, mainly in parliamentary systems; it should be noted that often a leader is both in presidential systems or dictatorships. Some states have semi-presidential systems where the head of government role is fulfilled by both the listed head of government and the head of state. This list includes both Taiwan and Kosovo, who have significant international recognition and control over much or all of their sovereign territory.

List of current heads of state and government of sovereign states

State	Head of state	Head of government
Afghanistan	President Hamid Karzai
Albania	President Bamir Topi	Prime Minister Sali Berisha
Algeria	President Abdelaziz Bouteflika	Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem
Andorra	Prince Joan Enric Vives Sicília Representative Nemesi Marqués Oste Prince Nicolas Sarkozy Representative Philippe Massoni	Prime Minister Albert Pintat
Angola	President José Eduardo dos Santos	Prime Minister Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos
Antigua and Barbuda	Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor)In the Commonwealth Realms (with the exception of the United Kingdom), the head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, is represented by a Governor-General. Governor-General Louise Lake-Tack	Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer
Argentina	President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Armenia	President Robert Kocharyan President-elect Serzh Sargsyan	Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan
Australia	Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) Governor-General Michael Jeffery	Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
Austria	President Heinz Fischer	Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer
Azerbaijan	President Ilham Aliyev	Prime Minister Artur Rasizade
Bahamas	Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) Governor-General Arthur Dion Hanna	Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham
Bahrain	King Hamad ibn Isa (Al Khalifah)	Prime Minister Khalifah ibn Sulman Al Khalifah
Bangladesh	President Iajuddin Ahmed	Prime Minister Fakhruddin Ahmed
Barbados	Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) Governor-General Clifford Husbands	Prime Minister David Thompson
Belarus	President Aleksandr Lukashenko	Prime Minister Sergey Sidorsky
Belgium	King Albert II (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha)	Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt Prime Minister-designate Yves Leterme
Belize	Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) Governor-General Colville Young	Prime Minister Dean Barrow
Benin	President Yayi Boni
Bhutan	King Jigme Khesar Namgyal (Wangchuck)	Prime Minister Kinzang Dorji
Bolivia	President Evo Morales
Bosnia and Herzegovina	President Željko KomšićThe presidents on a whole makes decisions. President Nebojša Radmanović President Haris Silajdžić	Prime Minister Nikola Špirić
Botswana	President Festus Mogae
Brazil	President Luiz Inácio da Silva
Brunei	Sultan Hassanal (Bolkiah)
Bulgaria	President Georgi Parvanov	Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev
Burkina Faso	President Blaise Compaoré	Prime Minister Tertius Zongo
Burma	Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Than Shwe	Prime Minister Thein Sein
Burundi	President Pierre Nkurunziza
Cambodia	King Sihamoni (Norodom)	Prime Minister Hun Sen
Cameroon	President Paul Biya	Prime Minister Ephraïm Inoni
Canada	Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) Governor General Michaëlle Jean	Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Cape Verde	President Pedro Pires	Prime Minister José Maria Neves
Central African Republic	President François Bozizé	Prime Minister Faustin-Archange Touadéra
Chad	President Idriss Déby	Prime Minister Delwa Kassiré Koumakoye
Chile	President Michelle Bachelet
China	President Hu Jintao	Premier Wen Jiabao
Colombia	President Álvaro Uribe
Comoros	President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi
Congo-Brazzaville	President Denis Sassou-Nguesso
Congo-Kinshasa	President Joseph Kabila	Prime Minister Antoine Gizenga
Costa Rica	President Óscar Arias
Croatia	President Stjepan Mesić	Prime Minister Ivo Sanader
Cuba	President Raúl Castro
Cyprus	President Dimitris Christofias
Czech Republic	President Václav Klaus	Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek
Denmark	Queen Margrethe II (Glücksburg)	Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Djibouti	President Ismail Omar Guelleh	Prime Minister Dileita Mohamed Dileita
Dominica	President Nicholas Liverpool	Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit
Dominican Republic	President Leonel Fernández
East Timor	President José Ramos-Horta Acting President Fernando de Araújo	Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão
Ecuador	President Rafael Correa
Egypt	President Hosni Mubarak	Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif
El Salvador	President Antonio Saca
Equatorial Guinea	President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo	Prime Minister Ricardo Mangue Obama Nfubea
Eritrea	President Isaias Afewerki
Estonia	President Toomas Hendrik Ilves	Prime Minister Andrus Ansip
Ethiopia	President Girma Wolde-Giorgis	Prime Minister Meles Zenawi
Fiji	President Josefa Iloilo	Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama
Finland	President Tarja Halonen	Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen
France	President Nicolas Sarkozy	Prime Minister François Fillon
Gabon	President Omar Bongo	Prime Minister Jean Eyeghe Ndong
Gambia	President Yahya Jammeh
Georgia	President Mikheil Saakashvili	Prime Minister Lado Gurgenidze
Germany	President Horst Köhler	Chancellor Angela Merkel
Ghana	President John Kufuor
Greece	President Karolos Papoulias	Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis
Grenada	Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) Governor-General Daniel Williams	Prime Minister Keith Mitchell
Guatemala	President Álvaro Colom
Guinea-Bissau	President João Bernardo Vieira	Prime Minister Martinho Ndafa Kabi
Guinea	President Lansana Conté	Prime Minister Lansana Kouyaté
Guyana	President Bharrat Jagdeo	Prime Minister Sam Hinds
Haiti	President René Préval	Prime Minister Jacques-Édouard Alexis
Honduras	President Manuel Zelaya
Hungary	President László Sólyom	Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány
Iceland	President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson	Prime Minister Geir Haarde
India	President Pratibha Patil	Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
Indonesia	President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Iran	Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Iraq	President Jalal Talabani	Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
Ireland	President Mary McAleese	Prime Minister Bertie Ahern
Israel	President Shimon Peres	Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
Italy	President Giorgio Napolitano	Prime Minister Romano Prodi
Ivory Coast	President Laurent Gbagbo	Prime Minister Guillaume Soro
Jamaica	Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) Governor-General Kenneth Hall	Prime Minister Bruce Golding
Japan	Emperor Heisei (Yamato)	Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda
Jordan	King Abdullah II (Hashemite)	Prime Minister Nader al-Dahabi
Kazakhstan	President Nursultan Nazarbayev	Prime Minister Karim Massimov
Kenya	President Mwai Kibaki	Prime Minister-designate Raila Odinga
Kiribati	President Anote Tong
Kosovo	President Fatmir Sejdiu	Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi
Kuwait	Emir Sabah IV Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber (Al-Sabah)	Prime Minister Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah
Kyrgyzstan	President Kurmanbek Bakiyev	Prime Minister Igor Chudinov
Laos	President Choummaly Sayasone	Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh
Latvia	President Valdis Zatlers	Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis
Lebanon	Acting President Fouad Siniora	Prime Minister Fouad Siniora
Lesotho	King Letsie III (Seeiso)	Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili
Liberia	President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Libya	Secretary-General of the General People\'s Congress Muhammad al-Zanati	Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmudi
Liechtenstein	Prince Hans-Adam II (Liechtenstein) Prince-Regent Alois (Liechtenstein)	Prime Minister Otmar Hasler
Lithuania	President Valdas Adamkus	Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas
Luxembourg	Grand Duke Henri (Bourbon-Parma)	Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker
Macedonia	President Branko Crvenkovski	Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski
Madagascar	President Marc Ravalomanana	Prime Minister Charles Rabemananjara
Malawi	President Bingu wa Mutharika
Malaysia	King Mizan Zainal Abidin	Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Maldives	President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
Mali	President Amadou Toumani Touré	Prime Minister Modibo Sidibé
Malta	President Edward Fenech Adami	Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi
Marshall Islands	President Litokwa Tomeing
Mauritania	President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi	Prime Minister Zeine Ould Zeidane
Mauritius	President Anerood Jugnauth	Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam
Mexico	President Felipe Calderón
Micronesia	President Manny Mori
Moldova	President Vladimir Voronin	Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev
Monaco	Prince Albert II (Grimaldi)	Prime Minister Jean-Paul Proust
Mongolia	President Nambaryn Enkhbayar	Prime Minister Sanjaagiin Bayar
Montenegro	President Filip Vujanović	Prime Minister Milo Đukanović
Morocco	King Muhammad VI (Alaouite)	Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi
Mozambique	President Armando Guebuza	Prime Minister Luisa Diogo
Namibia	President Hifikepunye Pohamba
Nauru	President Marcus Stephen
Nepal	King Gyanendra (Shah) Acting Head of State Girija Prasad Koirala	Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala
Netherlands	Queen Beatrix (Orange-Nassau)	Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende
New Zealand	Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) Governor-General Anand Satyanand	Prime Minister Helen Clark
Nicaragua	President Daniel Ortega
Niger	President Tandja Mamadou	Prime Minister Seyni Oumarou
Nigeria	President Umaru Yar\'Adua
North Korea	Chairman of the National Defense Commission Kim Jong-il
	Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People\'s Assembly Kim Yong-namThe Preface to the Constitution of the Democratic People\'s Republic of Korea states, "The DPRK and the entire Korean people will uphold the great leader Comrade Kim Il-sung as the eternal President of the Republic, defend and carry forward his ideas and exploits and complete the Juche revolution under the leadership of the Workers\' Party of Korea." Kim Il Sung died in 1994. Eternal President Kim Il-sung	Premier Kim Yong-il
Norway	King Harald V (Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg)	Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg
Oman	Sultan Qaboos (Sa\'id)
Pakistan	President Pervez Musharraf	Prime Minister Muhammad Mian Soomro
Palau	President Tommy Remengesau
Palestine	President Mahmoud Abbas	Prime Minister Salam Fayyad
Panama	President Martín Torrijos
Papua New Guinea	Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) Governor-General Paulias Matane	Prime Minister Michael Somare
Paraguay	President Nicanor Duarte
Peru	President Alan García	Prime Minister Jorge del Castillo
Philippines	President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Poland	President Lech Kaczyński	Prime Minister Donald Tusk
Portugal	President Aníbal Cavaco Silva	Prime Minister José Sócrates
Qatar	Emir Hamad ibn Khalifa (Al-Thani)	Prime Minister Hamad ibn Jaber Al Thani
Romania	President Traian Băsescu	Prime Minister Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu
Russia	President Vladimir Putin President-elect Dmitry Medvedev	Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov Prime Minister-designate Vladimir Putin
Rwanda	President Paul Kagame	Prime Minister Bernard Makuza
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) Governor-General Cuthbert Sebastian	Prime Minister Denzil Douglas
Saint Lucia	Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) Governor-General Pearlette Louisy	Prime Minister Stephenson King
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) Governor-General Frederick Ballantyne	Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves
Samoa	President Tufuga Efi	Prime Minister Tuila\'epa Sailele Malielegaoi
San Marino	Captain-Regent Mirko Tomassoni‎ Captain-Regent Alberto Selva‎
São Tomé and Príncipe	President Fradique de Menezes	Prime Minister Patrice Trovoada
Saudi Arabia	King Abdullah (Saud)
Senegal	President Abdoulaye Wade	Prime Minister Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré
Serbia	President Boris Tadić	Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica
Seychelles	President James Michel
Sierra Leone	President Ernest Bai Koroma
Singapore	President Sellapan Ramanathan	Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
Slovakia	President Ivan Gašparovič	Prime Minister Robert Fico
Slovenia	President Danilo Türk	Prime Minister Janez Janša
Solomon Islands	Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) Governor-General Nathaniel Waena	Prime Minister Derek Sikua
Somalia	President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed	Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein
South Africa	President Thabo Mbeki
South Korea	President Lee Myung-bak	Prime Minister Han Seung-soo
Spain	King Juan Carlos (Bourbon)	Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Sri Lanka	President Mahinda Rajapakse
Sudan	President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir
Suriname	President Ronald Venetiaan
Swaziland	King Mswati III (Dlamini)	Prime Minister Themba Dlamini
Sweden	King Carl XVI Gustaf (Bernadotte)	Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt
Switzerland	Moritz Leuenberger, Pascal Couchepin (President)The President of the Swiss Confederation serves solely in