Concept
Version 12
Created by Boundless
Forms of Government
Countries of the World, by Type of Government in 2011
This map shows all the countries of the word, colored according to their type of government. Blue represents full presidential republics, while green and yellow are presidential republics with less powerful presidents. Orange represents parliamentary republics. Red and pink are parliamentary constitutional monarchies, and purple represents absolute monarchies. Brown represents single-party republics, green shows countries where government has been suspended (e.g., military dictatorships), and grey countries do not fit any of the above categories.
Source
Boundless vets and curates high-quality, openly licensed content from around the Internet. This particular resource used the following sources:
"Forms of government."
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Forms_of_government.svg
Wikimedia
CC BY-SA 3.0.