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Chapter 17
| Country | UN member |
Capital | Chief of state | Legislative body | Government type |
| Jamaica | Yes | Kingston | Queen (represented by Governor General) | Parliament (bicameral) | Constitutional Parliamentary Democracy |
| Japan | do. | Tokyo | Emperor | Diet (bicameral) | Constitutional Monarchy with a Parliamentary Government |
| Jordan | do. | Amman | King | National Assembly (bicameral) | Constitutional Monarchy. |
| Kazakhstan | do. | Astana | President | Parliament (bicameral) | Republic. Authoritarian Presidential rule, with little power outside the Executive Branch. |
| Kenya | do. | Nairobi | do. | National Assembly (unicameral) | Republic. |
| Kiribati | do. | Tarawa | do. | House of Parliament (unicameral) | do. |
| Korea, North | do. | Pyongyang | Premier | Supreme People’s Assembly (unicameral) | Communist State one-man dictatorship. |
| Korea, South | do. | Seoul | President | National Assembly (unicameral) | Republic. |
| Kosovo | No. | Pristina (Prishtine) | do. | Kosovo Assembly of the Provisional Government (unicameral) | do. |
| Kuwait | Yes | Kuwait | Amir | National Assembly (unicameral) | Constitutional Emirate. |
| Kyrgyzstan | do. | Bishkek | President | Supreme Council (unicameral) | Republic. |
| Laos | do. | Vientiane | do. | National Assembly (unicameral) | Communist State |
| Latvia | do. | Riga | do. | Parliament (unicameral) | Parliamentary Democracy. |
| Lebanon | do. | Beirut | do. | National Assembly (unicameral) | Republic. |
| Lesotho | do. | Maseru | President | Parliament (bicameral) | Constitutional Monarchy |
| Liberia | do. | Monrovia | President | National Assembly (bicameral) | Republic. |
| Libya | do. | Tripoli | Revolutionary Leader[1] | General People’s Congress (unicameral) | Jamahiriya.[2] |
| Liechtenstein | do. | Vaduz | Prince | Parliament or Landtag (unicameral) | Constitutional Monarchy |
| Lithuania | do. | Vilnius | President | Parliament or Seimas (unicameral) | Parliamentary Democracy. |
| Luxembourg | do. | Luxembourg | Grand Duke | Chamber of Deputies (unicameral) | Constitutional Monarchy |
| Macedonia, former Yugoslav Republic. | do. | Skopje | President | Assembly or Sobranie (unicameral) | Parliamentary Democracy. |
| Madagascar | do. | Antananarivo | do. | Legislature (bicameral) | Republic. |
| Malawi | do. | Lilongwe | do. | National Assembly (unicameral) | Multiparty Democracy. |
| Malaysia | do. | Kuala Lumpur | Paramount Leader | Parliament (bicameral) | Constitutional Monarchy |
| Maldives | do. | Male | President | People’s Council (unicameral) | Republic. |
| Mali | do. | Bamako | do. | National Assembly (unicameral) | do. |
| Malta | do. | Valletta | do. | House of Representatives (unicameral) | do. |
| Marshal Islands | do. | Majuro | do. | Legislature (unicameral) | Constitutional Government in free association with the U.S.|- |
