Non-Marxist-Leninist People's Republics
There are two People's Republics which do not subscribe to communism:
- People's Republic of Bangladesh
- People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
Historical examples include:
- Ukraine is the only country which named itself "People's republic" twice, these being the Ukrainian People's Republic (founded in 1917, covering approximately the territory of the pre-1939 Ukrainian SSR) and the West Ukrainian People's Republic (founded in 1918, covering the lands of the later Austria-Hungary which were inhabited predominantly by Ukrainians). The UPR was the world's first People's Republic.
- Belarusian People's Republic (1918–1919)
- Libya was officially called Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya between 1977 and 2011.
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