swap_horiz Kong Kingdom Alternatives

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Kingdom of Abyssinia

The Kingdom of Abyssinia, centered in the Ethiopian highlands, was a historic East African empire that traced its origin...

Historical Africa East African Defunct

8.4 Great

2

Kingdom of Asante

The Kingdom of Asante (or Ashanti) was a powerful West African empire in modern-day Ghana, founded around 1701 under the...

Historical Africa Early Modern Akan

8.3 Great

3

Kingdom of Kanem-Bornu

The Kanem-Bornu Empire was a historical African state centered around the Lake Chad basin. Existing in various forms fro...

Historic Medieval Monarchy Africa

8.3 Great

4

Oyo Kingdom

The Oyo Kingdom, or Oyo Empire, was a major Yoruba state located in what is now southwestern Nigeria and southern Benin....

Historic Monarchy Africa Early Modern

8.1 Great

5

Kingdom of Denmark-Norway

The Kingdom of Denmark-Norway was an early modern composite state that existed from 1536 to 1814, encompassing the kingd...

Europe Historic Monarchy Nordic

8.0 Great

6

Kingdom of Tlemcen

The Kingdom of Tlemcen was a Berber state in northwestern Algeria ruled by the Zayyanid dynasty from 1235 to 1556. The k...

Historic Medieval North African Africa

7.8 Good

7

Kingdom of Denmark and Norway

Denmark–Norway was a composite state lasting from 1537 to 1814, in which the Kingdom of Norway was united under the Dani...

Europe Historic Nordic Early Modern

7.7 Good

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Kingdom of Merina

The Kingdom of Merina was a Malagasy state centered in the central highlands of Madagascar. During the nineteenth centur...

Historical Africa Early Modern Malagasy

7.5 Good

9

Kingdom of Kandy

The Kingdom of Kandy was a Sinhalese monarchy centered in the central highlands of Sri Lanka from the late fifteenth cen...

Historic Asia Monarchy Sri Lanka

7.4 Good

10

Kingdom of Bali

The Kingdom of Bali refers broadly to the succession of Hindu-Balinese courts and monarchies that governed parts of Bali...

Historic Asia Monarchy Indonesia

7.4 Good

11

Kingdom of Pattani

The Kingdom of Pattani was a historical Malay Muslim state located on the eastern coast of the Malay Peninsula, borderin...

Historic Asia Early Modern Southeast Asian

7.4 Good

12

Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara

The Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara is a traditional Bantu kingdom in western Uganda, historically one of the most powerful st...

Historic Africa Early Modern Nyoro

7.3 Good

13

Mossi Kingdoms

The Mossi Kingdoms were a collection of independent, long-lived states established in the inland region of present-day B...

Medieval Monarchy Africa West African

7.2 Good

14

Kingdom of Thonburi

The Thonburi Kingdom was a Siamese state from 1767 to 1782, founded by King Taksin after the Burmese destruction of Ayut...

Historic Asia Monarchy Thailand

7.1 Good

15

Kingdom of Ouagadougou

The Kingdom of Ouagadougou was a centralized Mossi state located in the western Sudan region, corresponding to present-d...

Traditional Africa West African Burkinabe

7.1 Good

16

Kenedougou Kingdom

The Kénédougou Kingdom was a pre-colonial West African monarchy that existed from about 1650 until the French conquest o...

Modern Historic Africa West African

6.8 Fair

17

Maravi Kingdom

The Maravi Kingdom was a federation of Chewa-speaking states established around 1480 in present-day Malawi, Mozambique,...

Historic Africa Early Modern Southern African

6.6 Fair

18

Kingdom of Ketu

The Kingdom of Ketu was a Yoruba state centered on Ketu in present-day Benin; founded by traditions linked to Ile-Ife, i...

Historic Africa Early Modern West African

6.4 Fair

19

Kingdom of Porto-Novo

The Kingdom of Porto-Novo was a Gun kingdom on the coast of present-day Benin; founded around 1730, it became a French p...

Historic Africa Early Modern West African

6.2 Fair

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Kingdom of Tio

The Kingdom of Tio, also called the Teke Kingdom, was a Congo Basin state of the Teke people that became a French protec...

Historic Monarchy Africa Early Modern

6.0 Fair