List of active autonomist & secessionist movements

Entries on this list meet two criteria; they are active movements with living, active members, and they are seeking greater autonomy or freedom for a geographical region (as opposed to personal autonomy).

For defunct movements, please see: List of historical autonomist and secessionist movements

Africa

Algeria

• Kabyles
• Proposed state: Kabylia
• Political: Front des Forces Socialistes, le Mouvement pour l'Autonomie de la Kabylie
  

  Angola

• Cabinda
• * Government-in-exile: Frente para a Libertação do Enclave de Cabinda
• * Political: FLEC/FAC
• * Violent: Forças Armadas de Cabinda
• Proposed state: Republic of Cabinda
  

  Benin

• Yoruba

  Cameroon

• Bakassi Peninsula
• Southern Cameroon
• * Proposed state: Federal Republic of Southern Cameroon, Ambazonia
• * Political: Southern Cameroon National Council
  

  Chad

• Southern Chad
• * Violent: Forces Armées Tchadiennes
• * Proposed state: Logone Republic
  

  Comoros

• Anjouan
• * Political: Anjouan People's Movement, Mouvement Populaire Anjouanais, Mawana
• Moheli
• * Proposed state: Democratic Republic of Mwali
  

  Congo-Kinshasa

• Bas-Congo
• * Proposed state: Bundu dia Kongo (Kingdom of Kongo)
• South Kasai
• * Proposed state: Mining State
• Katanga
• * Political: Confédération des Associations de Katanga Tribales, Union of Independent Federalists and Republicans
• Kwili, Kivu
• * Proposed state: Republic of Bukavu
  

  Côte d'Ivoire

• Northern Regions
• * Violent: Patriotic Movement of Côte d'Ivoire
  

  Equatorial Guinea

• Bioko
• * Political: Movement for the Self-Determination of Bioko Island

  Ethiopia

• Gambela
• * Violent: Gambella People Liberation Movement
• Ogaden
• Oromia
• * Violent: Oromo Independence Movement, Oromo Liberation Front, Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromia
• Tigray
• * Violent: Tigray People's Liberation Front
• Western Somalia

  France (Africa)

• Mayotte

  Maldives

• Suvadives
• * Proposed state: United Suvadivian Republic
  

  Mauritius

• Rodrigues Island
  

  Morocco

• Western Sahara
• * De facto state: Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
• * Violent: Polisario Front

  Namibia

• Caprivi Strip
• * Political: Caprivi African National Union
• * Proposed state: Free State of Caprivi Strip/Itenge
  

  Nigeria

• Bakassi Peninsula
• Hausa
• * Proposed state: Biafra (defunct)
• Ogoni
• * Political: Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
• Yoruba
• * Political: Oodua Republic Front
  

  Rwanda

• Batwa
• * Political: Association for the Promotion of Batwa
  

  Somalia

• Gedo
• * Violent: Rahanwein Resistance Army
• * Proposed state: State of Southwestern Somalia
• Hiranland
• * Proposed state: States of the Central Somalia
• Jubaland
• * Violent: Somali Patriotic Movement
• * Proposed state: Republic of Jubaland
• Puntland
• * Political: Somali Salvation Democratic Front
• * De facto state: Republic of Puntland State of Somalia
• Somaliland
• * Political: Somali National Movement
• * De facto state: Republic of Somaliland

  Senegal

• Casamance
• * Violent: Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance
  

  South Africa

• Afrikaner
• * Political: Volksfront, Vryheidsfront
• * Violent: Afrikaner Resistance Movement
• * Proposed state: Orania
• Bophuthatswana
• Kwazulu
• * Political: Inkatha Freedom Party
• Western Cape

  Sudan

• Beja
• * Violent: Beja Congress
• Darfur
• * Violent: Darfur Liberation Front
• Kassala
• Lado
• Southern Sudan
• * Proposed state: Nile State
  

  Tanzania

• Zanzibar
• * Political: Civic United Front

  Zambia

• Barotse
• * Proposed state: Barotseland
• * Violent: Barotse Patriotic Front
  

  Zimbabwe

• Matabele

  Asia

  Armenia

• Kurds
• * Political: Kurdistan Democratic Party
• * Violent: Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
• * Proposed state: Kurdistan

  Azerbaijan

• Nagorno-Karabakh
• * De facto state: Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
• Nakhichevan
• * Proposed state: Republic of Nakhichevan
• Talysh-Mughan (Talyshstan)
• * Proposed state: Talysh-Mughan Republic
  

  Bahrain

• Hawar Islands

  Bangladesh

• Chakma, Chittagong Hill
• * Political: Parbattya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti, or Chittagong Hill Tribal People's Coordination Association
• * Proposed state: Confederacy of Chittagong

  China

  People's Republic of China
• Hong Kong
• *Political: Pro-democracy camp (Democratic Party, The Frontier, Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, Neighbourhood and Workers Service Centre, Basic Law Article 45 Concern Group and other pro-democracy independents)
• Inner Mongolia
• * Political: Inner Mongolian People's Party, Southern Mongolian Freedom Federation
• Macau
• *Political: New Macau Association
• Tibet
• * Government-in-exile: Tibetan Government in Exile
• * Political: International Tibet Independence Movement, National Democratic Party of Tibet,United Liberation Front of Tibet
• Xinjiang
• * Violent: East Turkestan Islamic Movement
• *Political: East Turkestan Government in Exile (newly founded, and not widely known or recognized yet)
  Republic of China (Taiwan)
• Taiwan (Main article: Taiwan independence, Political status of Taiwan)
• * Political: Pan-Green Coalition (Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan Solidarity Union, Taiwan Independence Party)
• * Proposed state: Republic of Taiwan

  Georgia

• Abkhazia
• * De facto state: Republic of Abkahzia
• Ajaria
• Mingrelia
• Ossetians
• * De facto state: Republic of South Ossetia

  India

  See also: Insurgent groups in Northeast India
• Andhra Pradesh
• * Political: Jai Andhra
• Arunachal Pradesh
• * Violent: Arunachal Dragon Force
• * Proposed state: Teola country
• Assam
• * Violent: United Liberation Front of Assam, United People’s Democratic Solidarity, Koch-Rajbongshi Liberation Organisation, Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam
• Bodoland
• * Political: National Democratic Front of Bodoland, Bodo Liberation Tiger Force
• Dimaland
• * Political: Dima Halim Daogah
• Garo
• * Violent: People's Liberation Front of Meghalaya, Achik National Volunteer Council
• * Proposed state: Achikland
• Goa
• Gondwana
• * Political: Gondwana Ganatantra Party, seeking to create a Gondi state from parts of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Maharashtra.
• Kangleipak
• * Violent: People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak
• Kamtapur
• * Political: Kamtapur Peoples Party (political wing of KLO)
• * Violent: Kamtapur Liberation Organisation, Koch-Rajbongshi Liberation Organisation
• Karbi
• * Violent: Karbi National Volunteers
• * Proposed state: Karbi-Anglong
• Kashmir
• * Violent: Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front
• * Political: Kashmir Independence Organization
• * Proposed state: Azad Kashmir
• Khasi
• * Violent: Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council
• Kuki
• * Violent: Kuki National Army
• Nagaland
• * Violent: National Socialist Council of Nagalim
• * Government-in-exile: Government of the People’s Republic of Nagaland
• * Proposed state: Nagalim, or Peoples Republic of Nagaland
• Manipur
• * Violent: Hmar People's Convention–Democrat, Manipur People’s Liberation Front, United National Liberation Front, Revolutionary People's Front of Manipur
• Mizoram
• * Violent: Zomi Revolutionary Organization, Mizoram Farmers Liberation Force
• * Proposed state: Zozam
• Punjab
• * Proposed state: Khalistan
• * Violent: Khalistan Commando Force–Panjwar, Babbar Khalsa International, Khalistan Zindabad Force, International Sikh Youth Federation
• Rabha
• * Proposed state: Rhabaland
• * Violent: Rabha National Security Force
• Reang
• * Violent: Bru National Liberation Front
• Tamil Nadu
• * Violent: Tamil National Retrieval Troops, Tamil Nadu Liberation Army
• Telangana
• * Political: Telangana Rashtra Samithi, seeking to separate Telangana from Andhra Pradesh state. Various other minor parties such as Jai Telangana Party, Telangana Communist Party, Telangana Janata Party, Telangana Praja Samithi, Telangana Rashtra Party, Telangana Rashtra Sadhana Front, Telangana Rashtra Samithi and Telangana Sadhana Samithi.
• Tripura
• * Violent: National Liberation Front of Tripura (two factions operating), All Tripura Tiger Force
• Vidarbha
• *Political: Vidarbha Rajya Party, Vidarbha Vikas Party, seeking to separate Vidarbha from Maharashtra.
  

  Indonesia

• Aceh
• * Violent: Free Aceh Movement
• Maluku
• *Government-in-exile: Republik Maluku Selatan
• Riau
• West Papua
• * Political: Free Papua Movement, Organisasi Papua Merdeka, West Papua Niugini
• * Proposed state: Republic of West Papua
• West Timor

  Iran

• Ahwaz
• * Political: Democratic Solidarity Party of Ahwaz
• Assyria
• * Political: Assyrian Universal Alliance
• South Azerbaijan
• Kurds
• * Political: Kurdistan Democratic Party
• * Violent: Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
• * Proposed state: Kurdistan

  Iraq

• Kurds
• * Political: Kurdistan Democratic Party
• * Violent: Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
• * Proposed state: Kurdistan
• Shias
• Assyria
• * Political: Assyrian Universal Alliance
  

  Israel

• Palestine (Main article: Proposals for a Palestinian state)
• * Political/Violent: Palestine Liberation Front, Palestine Liberation Organisation
• * Violent: Hamas, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
• * De facto state: Palestinian National Authority

  Japan

• Ainu
• Hokkaido
• Ryukyus
• * Proposed state: Republic of the Ryukyus
• * Political: Okinawa Independence Movement, Okinawa Independence Party
  

  Laos

• Hmong

  Lebanon

• Mount Lebanon

  Malaysia

• Sabah
• * Political: Angkatan Gaya Baru, United National Kadazan Organisation, United Pasok Momogun Kadazan Organisation
• Sarawak
• * Political: Sarawak United Peoples' Party
  

  Myanmar

• Arakan
• * Political/Violent: Arakan Independence Alliance
• Chin
• * Violent: Chin National Front
• * Proposed state: Chinland
• Kachin
• * Political: Kachin National Organization
• * Proposed state: Kachinland
• Karen
• * Political/Violent: Karen National Union
• * Violent: Karen National Liberation Army
• * Proposed state: Republic of Kawthoolei
• Karenni
• * Political/Violent: Karenni National Progressive Party
• * Violent: Karenni Army
• * Government-in-exile: Karenni Provisional Government
• * Proposed state: United Karenni Independent States
• Kuki
• * Political/Violent: Kuki National Organisation
• * Violent: Kuki National Army
• * Proposed state: Kukiland
• Mon
• * Political: New Mon State Party
• Nagaland
• * Violent: National Socialist Council of Nagaland
• * Government-in-exile: Government of the People's Republic of Nagaland
• * Proposed state: Nagalim, or Peoples Republic of Nagaland
• Rakhine
• * Political/Violent: Arakan Rohingya National Organization
• Shan
• * Political: Shan Democratic Union
• * Political/Violent: Restoration Council of Shan State
• * Violent: Shan State Army
• * Proposed state: United Shan States
• Wa
• * Political: United Wa State Party
• * Violent: United Wa State Army
• * Proposed state: Wa State
• Zomi
• * Political: Zomi National Congress, Zomi Reunification Organization
• * Violent: Zomi National Front/Army, Zomi Revolutionary Army
• * Proposed state: Zogam, or Federated State of Zomi
  

  Oman

• Muscat

  Pakistan

• Balawaristan
• Balochistan
• Hunza-Brooshal
• Pakhtoonistan
• Sindh
• Waziristan

  Philippines

• Bangsamoro
• * Political: Moro National Liberation Front
• * Violent: Moro Islamic Liberation Front
• * Proposed state: Federal Republic of Mindanao
• Cordillera
• * Political: Cordillera Bodong Association
• * Violent: Cordillera People's Liberation Army
  

  Russia

• Buryatia
• * Political: All Buryat Association for the Development of Culture
• Eastern Siberia
• * Proposed state: United States of Northern Asia
• Sakha
• * Political: Sakha-Amuk
• Tuva
• * Political: People's Party of Sovereign Tuva, People's Front "Free Tuva
  

  Sri Lanka

• Tamil
• *De facto state: Tamil Eelam
• *Violent: Tamil Tigers
• *Political: Tamil United Liberation Front

  Syria

• Kurds
• * Political: Kurdistan Democratic Party
• * Violent: Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
• * Proposed state: Kurdistan
• Assyria
• * Political: Assyrian Universal Alliance
  

  Tajikistan

• Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region
• * Political: Lali Badakhshon
  

  Thailand

• Hmong
• South Muslim Thailand
• * Violent: Pattani United Liberation Organization (PULO)
• * Proposed state: Greater Patani State (Negara Patani Raya)
  

  Turkey

• Assyria
• * Political: Assyrian Universal Alliance
• Kurds
• * Political: Kurdistan Democratic Party
• * Proposed state: Kurdistan
• * Violent: Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Kurdistan Workers Party

  United Arab Emirates

• Dubai
• Sharjah

  Uzbekistan

• Karakalpakstan

  Vietnam

• Hmong
• South Vietnam

  Yemen

• South Yemen

  Europe

  Albania

• Northern Epirus
• Ilyria
• * Proposed state: Ilyria Republic
  

  Belgium

• Flanders
• * Political: Vlaams Blok, Volksunie, Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie
• Wallonia
• * Political: Front National (Belgium)

  Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Proposed State: Republika Srpska
• Proposed State: Herceg Bosna
• Proposed State: Islamic Republic of Bosnia
  

  Croatia

• Active regional autonomy movements present in all parts of the country, but notably in:
• * Istria (Istrian Democratic Assembly)
• * Dalmatia

  Cyprus

• Northern Cyprus
• * De facto state: Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

  Denmark

• Faroe Islands
• * Political: Independence Party
• Free State of Christiania
• Greenland
• * Political: Inuit Ataqatigiit

  Finland

• Aland
• * Political: List for Alands Future
• Sami
• * Proposed state: Samiland

  France (Europe)

• Alsace-Lorraine
• * Political: Forum Nationaliste d'Alsace-Lorraine, Union du Peuple Alsacien
• Basque Country
• * Political: Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, Batasuna
• Brittany
• * Political: Parti pour l'Organisation d'une Bretagne Libre, Union Démocratique Bretonne, Emgann, Front de Libération de la Bretagne
• * Violent: Armee Revolutionnaire Bretonne
• * Proposed state: Breizh
• Corsica
• * Political: Corsica Nazione
• * Violent: National Front for the Liberation of Corsica
• Normandy
• * Political: Le Mouvement Normand
• Savoy
• * Political: La Ligue Savoisienne
• Occitania
• * Political: Parti Nacional Occitan
  

  Germany

• Bavaria
• * Political: Bavaria Party

Italy

• Aosta Valley
• * Political: Lega Nord Valle d'Aosta
• Northern Italy
• * Political: Lega Nord
• * Proposed state: Padania
• Sardinia
• * Political: Sardigna Natzione
• Sicily
• South Tyrol
• Southern Italy
• * Political: Lega Sud, Due Sicilie
• * Proposed state: Ausonia
• Venice
• * Serenissima
  

  Republic of Macedonia

• Ilyria
• * Proposed state: Ilyria Republic
  

  Moldova

• Gagauz Yeri
• Transnistria
• * De facto state: Transdniestrian Moldovan Republic

  Netherlands (Europe)

• Fryslan

  Norway

• Sami
• * Proposed state: Samiland

  Poland

• Kashubia
• Silesia
• * Political: Ruch Autonomii Śląska
  

  Portugal

• Azores
• *Political: Azores Liberation Front
• Madeira

  Romania

• Szekler
• * Proposed land division: Szekler Autonomous Region
  

  Russia

• Chechnya
• Dagestan
• Ingushetia
• Kabardino-Balkaria
• Kaliningrad
• Karelia
• Northern Ossetia
• Sami
• * Proposed state: Samiland
• Tatarstan
• Ural
• * Political: Ural Transformation Movement
  

  Serbia and Montenegro

• Montenegro
• * Political: Liberal Alliance, Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro
• Kosovo and Metohia
• * Political: Democratic League of Kosovo
• * Violent: Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, Democratic Party of Kosovo, National Movement for the Liberation of Kosovo, The People's Movement for Kosovo
• Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja
• * Violent: UCPMB (defunct)
• * Political: Political Council for Presevo, Meveda and Bujanovac
• Sandzak
• Vojvodina

  Spain

• Andalusia
• * Political: Nación Andaluza
• Aragon
• * Political: Aragonese Party
• Asturias
• * Political: Andecha Astur
• Basque Country
• * Political: Partido Nacionalista Vasco, Eusko Alkartasuna, Euskal Herritarrok (previously Herri Batasuna and Batasuna), Euskadi Ta Askatasuna
• * Violent: ETA
• Canary Islands
• * Political: Coalición Canaria, Movimiento Pro-Independencia de Canarias, Canarias Nación, Movimiento por la Autodeterminación y la Independencia del Archipielago Canario, Canarias Libre, Congreso Nacional Canario
• Cantabria
• Castile
• * Political: Izquierda Castellana, Movimiento Popular Castellano, Castilla Nación, Tierra Comunera
• Catalonia
• * Political: Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (Catalan Republican Left), Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (Catalan Democratic Convergence), Unió Democràtica de Catalunya (Catalan Democratic Union)
• * Violent: Terra Lliure (defunct)
• Galicia
• * Political: Bloque Nacionalista Galego (Galician Nationalist Block)
• León
• * Political: Conceyu Xoven
• Navarra

Sweden

• Sami
• * Proposed state: Samiland
• Scania
• Terra Scania

  Ukraine

• Crimea

  United Kingdom and associated islands (Europe)

• Cornwall: Cornish nationalism Constitutional status of Cornwall
• * Political: Mebyon Kernow Cornish Nationalist Party
• ** Cultural and Constitutional: Cornish Stannary Parliament, Cornwall 2000, Cornish Solidarity, Tyr Gwyr Gweryn
• England:
• * Political: English Democrats, English Independence Party, England First Party
• Gibraltar
• Northern Ireland
• * Political: Sinn Féin, Social Democratic and Labour Party, Republican Sinn Féin, Irish Republican Socialist Party, Ulster Nation
• * Violent: Provisional Irish Republican Army, Real IRA, Irish National Liberation Army
• Isle of Man
• * Political: Mec Vannin
• Scotland: Scottish independence
• * Civil: Scottish Patriotic Alliance, Scots for Independence
• * Cultural: Siol nan Gaidheal
• * Political: Scottish Green Party,Scottish Independence Party, Scottish National Party, Scottish Socialist Party, Free Scotland Party
• * Violent: Scottish National Liberation Army/Scottish Separatist Group
• Wales
• * Political: Plaid Cymru, Forward Wales, Cymru Goch, Cymru Annibynnol

  North America

  Canada

  Secessionist movements

• Alberta
• * Political: Separation Party of Alberta
• British Columbia
• * Political: British Columbia Separatist Movement
• Quebec (Main article: Quebec sovereigntism)
• * Civil: Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society, Mouvement national des Québécois et des Québécoises (MNQ), Rassemblement pour l'indépendance du Québec (RIQ), Les Intellectuels pour la souveraineté (IPSO), Mouvement de libération nationale du Québec (MLNQ) (and the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN), Centrale des syndicats du Québec (CSQ), Fédération des travailleurs du Québec (FTQ) & Centrale des syndicats démocratiques (CSD) labour unions)
• * Cultural: Les Artistes pour la Souveraineté, Union des Artistes
• * Political: Parti Québécois, Bloc Québécois, Union des Forces Progressistes
• Western Canada
• * Political: Western Canada Concept, Western Independence Party, Western Block Party

  Autonomist movements

• Newfoundland
• Nunatsiavut

United States