This page shows a list of all Asian state leaders in 2021. Of the 43 countries in Asia, seven are ruled by monarchs. Bahrain, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are governed by a Sheikh. Saudi Arabia and Jordan have a king as their heads of state that controls either the legislative or executive branch of the country. The countries of Bhutan, Cambodia, Japan, Malysia and Thailand also have a monarch but with limited powers and not in the function of a state leader.
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List of Asian heads of government 2021
By default, the list shows all Asian countries alphabetically. You can also click on the table header to change the order. The list of all official presidents or state leaders in Asia was last updated in November 2020.
| Country | Head of State (November 2020) |
|---|---|
| Afghanistan | Ashraf Ghani |
| Bahrain | Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa |
| Bangladesh | Sheikh Hasina |
| Bhutan | Lotay Tshering |
| Brunei | Hassanal Bolkiah |
| Cambodia | Hun Sen |
| China | Xi Jinping |
| India | Narendra Modi |
| Indonesia | Joko Widodo |
| Iran | Ali Khamenei |
| Iraq | Mustafa Al-Kadhimi |
| Israel | Benjamin Netanyahu |
| Japan | Yoshihide Suga |
| Jordan | Abdullah II |
| Kazakhstan | Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev |
| Kuwait | Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah |
| Kyrgyzstan | Sadyr Japarov |
| Laos | Bounnhang Vorachith |
| Lebanon | Hassan Diab |
| Malaysia | Muhyiddin Yassin |
| Maldives | Ibrahim Mohamed Solih |
| Mongolia | Khaltmaagiin Battulga |
| Myanmar | Win Myint |
| Nepal | Khadga Prasad Oli |
| North Korea | Kim Jong-un |
| Oman | Haitham bin Tariq |
| Pakistan | Imran Khan |
| Philippines | Rodrigo Duterte |
| Qatar | Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani |
| Saudi Arabia | Salman |
| Singapore | Lee Hsien Loong |
| South Korea | Moon Jae-in |
| Sri Lanka | Gotabaya Rajapaksa |
| State of Palestine | Mahmoud Abbas |
| Syria | Bashar al-Assad |
| Taiwan | Tsai Ing-wen |
| Tajikistan | Emomali Rahmon |
| Thailand | Prayut Chan-o-cha |
| Turkmenistan | Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow |
| United Arab Emirates | Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan |
| Uzbekistan | Shavkat Mirziyoyev |
| Vietnam | Nguyễn Phú Trọng |
| Yemen | Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi |
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