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The presidential system is popular, so this is a long list of countries, nations, and states governed or ruled by presidents, sorted alphabetically. In most cases, nations have multiple ruling bodies or government types, such as a presidential democracy, meaning they're not exclusively countries that are governed by presidential system. All types of presidential governments are represented here. This list of countries that use presidential systems as their form of government contains relevant information about each individual nation, including the national language, currency, and other civic facts of note. If you need to know the names of countries with presidential systems all around the world, then this is exactly where you need to be.

The list you're viewing has a variety of sovereign countries such as Indonesia and Turkmenistan. Even nations as geographically and politically different as Afghanistan and the United States of America are both technically presidential democracies.

With this list, you can finally answer the burning question, "Which countries are ruled by presidential system?" You're about to be properly edified if you've ever found yourself wondering, "Which countries are governed by a presidential system?"

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Afghanistan is listed (or ranked) 1 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Afghanistan Kabul Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia. It has a population of approximately 31 million people, making it ...more

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Algeria is listed (or ranked) 2 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Algeria Algiers Algeria, officially People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in North Africa on the Mediterranean coast. Its capital and most populous city is Algiers. With a total area of ...more

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Angola is listed (or ranked) 3 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Angola Luanda Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country in Southern Africa. It is the seventh largest country in Africa, and is bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the ...more

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Argentina is listed (or ranked) 4 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Argentina Buenos Aires Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic is a federal republic located in southeastern South America. Sharing the Southern Cone with its smaller neighbour Chile, it is bordered by Bolivia ...more

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Armenia is listed (or ranked) 5 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Armenia Yerevan Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a mountainous country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located in the north of Western Asia, it is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia ...more

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Azerbaijan is listed (or ranked) 6 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Azerbaijan Baku Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a contiguous transcontinental presidential republic in the Caucasus region, situated at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. ...more

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Belarus is listed (or ranked) 7 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Belarus Minsk Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe bordered by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to ...more

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Bolivia is listed (or ranked) 8 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Bolivia Sucre Bolivia, officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. It is bordered by Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay and ...more

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Brazil is listed (or ranked) 9 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Brazil Brasília Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in both South America and the Latin American region. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical ...more

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Chile is listed (or ranked) 10 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Chile Santiago Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a American country in the south-west point of South America occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes mountains to the east and the ...more

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Colombia is listed (or ranked) 11 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Colombia Bogotá Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country situated in the northwest of South America, bordered to the northwest by Panama; to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by ...more

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Costa Rica is listed (or ranked) 12 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Costa Rica San José Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea ...more

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Cyprus is listed (or ranked) 13 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Cyprus Nicosia Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Cyprus is the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean, and a member ...more

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Dominican Republic is listed (or ranked) 14 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Dominican Republic Santo Domingo The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western three-eighths of the island is occupied by the ...more

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Ecuador is listed (or ranked) 15 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Ecuador Quito Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a representative democratic republic in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific ...more

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El Salvador is listed (or ranked) 16 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
El Salvador San Salvador El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador, with ...more

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Equatorial Guinea is listed (or ranked) 17 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Equatorial Guinea Malabo Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is a country located in Central Africa, with an area of 28,000 square kilometres. Formerly the colony of Spanish Guinea, its ...more

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Federated States of Micronesia is listed (or ranked) 18 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Federated States of Micronesia Palikir The Federated States of Micronesia is an independent sovereign island nation and a United States associated state consisting of four states – from west to east, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae – ...more

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Ghana is listed (or ranked) 19 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Ghana Accra Ghana, officially called the Republic of Ghana, is a sovereign multinational state and unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the ...more

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Guatemala is listed (or ranked) 20 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Guatemala Guatemala City Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the ...more

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Haiti is listed (or ranked) 21 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Haiti Port-au-Prince Haiti, officially the Republic of Haïti, is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares ...more

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Honduras is listed (or ranked) 22 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Honduras Tegucigalpa Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a republic in Central America. It was at times referred to as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the ...more

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Indonesia is listed (or ranked) 23 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Indonesia Jakarta Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising thousands of islands. With an estimated total population of over ...more

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Kazakhstan is listed (or ranked) 24 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Kazakhstan Astana Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country in Central Asia, with its smaller part west of the Ural River in Europe. Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked country by ...more

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Kyrgyzstan is listed (or ranked) 25 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Kyrgyzstan Bishkek Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, formerly known as Kirghizia, is a country located in Central Asia. Landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, ...more

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Liberia is listed (or ranked) 26 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Liberia Monrovia Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country in West Africa bordered by Sierra Leone to its west, Guinea to its north and Ivory Coast to its east. It covers an area of 111,369 ...more

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Maldives is listed (or ranked) 27 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Maldives Malé Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean–Arabian Sea area, consisting of a double chain of twenty-six atolls, oriented north-south, that lie between ...more

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Marshall Islands is listed (or ranked) 28 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Marshall Islands Majuro The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is an island country located near the equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of the International Date Line. ...more

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Mexico is listed (or ranked) 29 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Mexico Mexico City Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a federal republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the ...more

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Mozambique is listed (or ranked) 30 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Mozambique Maputo Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe ...more

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Nicaragua is listed (or ranked) 31 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Nicaragua Managua Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordering Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated ...more

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Niger is listed (or ranked) 32 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Niger Niamey Niger, officially the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. Niger covers a land area of almost 1,270,000 km², making it the largest ...more

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Nigeria is listed (or ranked) 33 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Nigeria Abuja Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Nigeria is located in West Africa and ...more

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Northern Mariana Islands is listed (or ranked) 34 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Northern Mariana Islands Saipan The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, is one of five inhabited American insular areas. It is one of two territories with ...more

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Palau is listed (or ranked) 35 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Palau Melekeok Palau, officially the Republic of Palau, is an island country located in the western Pacific Ocean. It is geographically part of the larger island group of Micronesia. The country's population ...more

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Paraguay is listed (or ranked) 36 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Paraguay Asunción Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in central South America, bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia ...more

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Peru is listed (or ranked) 37 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Peru Lima Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the ...more

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Philippines is listed (or ranked) 38 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Philippines Manila The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean. It consists of 7,107 islands that are ...more

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Russia is listed (or ranked) 39 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Russia Moscow Russia, also officially known as the Russian Federation, is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic. At 17,075,400 square kilometres, Russia is the largest ...more

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Somaliland is listed (or ranked) 40 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Somaliland Hargeisa Somaliland is a self-declared independent state that is internationally recognized as an autonomous region of Somalia. The government of Somaliland regards itself as the successor state to the ...more

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South Africa is listed (or ranked) 41 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
South Africa Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Pretoria South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa, is a country located in Southern Africa. It has 2,798 kilometres of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian oceans. To ...more

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South Korea is listed (or ranked) 42 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
South Korea Seoul South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, and commonly referred to as Korea, is a sovereign state in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. The name Korea is ...more

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Sudan is listed (or ranked) 43 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Sudan Khartoum Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is an Arab republic in the Nile Valley of North Africa, bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to ...more

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Syria is listed (or ranked) 44 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Syria Damascus Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and ...more

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Tajikistan is listed (or ranked) 45 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Tajikistan Dushanbe Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a mountainous landlocked sovereign country in Central Asia. With an estimated 8 million people in 2013, it is the 98th most populous country ...more

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Turkmenistan is listed (or ranked) 46 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Turkmenistan Ashgabat Turkmenistan, formerly known as Turkmenia, is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Turkmenistan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north and east, Afghanistan to ...more

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United States of America is listed (or ranked) 47 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
United States of America Washington, D.C. The United States of America, commonly referred to as the United States or America, is a federal republic consisting of 50 states and a federal district. The 48 contiguous states and Washington, ...more

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Uruguay is listed (or ranked) 48 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Uruguay Montevideo Uruguay, officially the República Oriental del Uruguay, is a country in the southeastern region of South America. It is bordered by Argentina to its west and Brazil to its north and east, ...more

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Uzbekistan is listed (or ranked) 49 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Uzbekistan Tashkent Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia. It is a unitary, constitutional, presidential republic, comprising 12 provinces, 1 autonomous ...more

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Venezuela is listed (or ranked) 50 on the list Countries Ruled by a Presidential System
Venezuela Caracas Venezuela, officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America. Venezuela's territory covers around 916,445 km² with an estimated ...more