| SRI | -- Lanka, republic in the Indian Ocean (3) |
| SRILANKA | Island republic in the Indian Ocean |
| MADAGASCAR | Island republic in the Indian Ocean (10) |
| SEYCHELLES | Republic in the Indian Ocean whose largest island is Mahe (10) |
| COMOROS | Island republic in the Indian Ocean whose capital is Moroni (7) |
| MALDIVES | Republic in the Indian Ocean, capital Male (8) |
| LANKA | Independent republic in the Indian Ocean whose capital is Colombo (5) |
| MAURITIUS | Island republic in the Indian Ocean whose capital is Port Louis (9) |
| USA | A federal republic in the Crusades |
| NAURU | Island in the Pacific Ocean; smallest republic in the world |
| OSTRAVA | Industrial city in the E. Czech Republic in the chief coalmining area of the country (7) |
| BRNO | Second-largest city of the Czech Republic, in the SE at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers (4) |
| SAMMARINO | Country claimed to be the oldest surviving sovereign state and oldest constitutional republic in the world, founded in 301 AD (3,6) |
| THRACIAN | Nationality of the gladiator Spartacus who led the slave uprising against the Roman Republic in the Third Servile War |
| SANMARINO | Republic in the Apennines forming an enclave in Italy (3,6) |
| KIRIBATI | Independent republic in the Pacific comprising 33 islands including Banaba , the Gilbert and Phoenix Islands, and eight of the Line Islands |
| CHECHNYA | Republic in the northern part of the Caucasus in SW Russia bordered by Dagestan, Georgia and Ingushetiya (8) |
| SAOTOME | --- --- and Principe, island republic in the Gulf of Guinea, off the west coast of Africa (3,4) |
| IRAQ | A republic in the Middle East in western Asia. |
| IRAK | A republic in the Middle East in western Asia. |
