Member States of The League of Nations - 1919: Founding Members

1919: Founding Members

  • Argentina (left in 1921 on rejection of an Argentine resolution that all sovereign states be admitted to the League. It resumed full membership in 1933 )
  • Belgium
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil (withdrew 14 June 1926)
  • British Empire separate membership for:
    • United Kingdom
    • Australia
    • Canada
    • India (then under British rule and including the region of present-day India, Bangladesh, Burma, and Pakistan).
    • New Zealand
    • South Africa
  • Chile (withdrew 14 May 1938)
  • China
  • Colombia
  • Cuba
  • Czechoslovakia (left 15 March 1939)
  • Denmark
  • El Salvador (withdrew 11 August 1937)
  • France (Vichy France withdrew 18 April 1941; withdrawal not recognised by Free French forces)
  • Greece
  • Guatemala (withdrew 26 May 1936)
  • Haiti (withdrew April 1942)
  • Honduras (withdrew 10 July 1936)
  • Italy (withdrew 11 December 1937)
  • Japan (withdrew 27 March 1933)
  • Liberia
  • Netherlands
  • Nicaragua (withdrew 27 June 1936)
  • Norway
  • Panama
  • Paraguay (withdrew 23 February 1935)
  • Persia (known as Iran from 1934)
  • Peru (withdrew 8 April 1939)
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania (withdrew July 1940)
  • Siam (known as Thailand from 1939)
  • Spain (withdrew May 1939)
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Uruguay
  • Venezuela (withdrew 12 July 1938)
  • Yugoslavia

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