List of national legislatures

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This is a list of national legislatures, whether parliamentary or congressional, that act as a plenary general assembly of representatives with the power to legislate.

Country	Legislature
	Overall name	Lower house	Upper house
Afghanistan	n/a
Albania	People's Assembly
Algeria	Parliament	National People's Assembly	Council of the Nation
Andorra	General Council of the Valleys
Angola	National Assembly
Antigua and Barbuda	Parliament	House of Representatives	Senate
Argentina	National Congress	Chamber of Deputies	Senate
Armenia	National Assembly
Australia	Parliament	House of Representatives (list)	Senate (list)
Austria (note 2)	Parliament	National Council	Federal Council
Azerbaijan	National Assembly
Bahamas	Parliament	House of Assembly	Senate
Bahrain		House of Deputies	Shura Council
Bangladesh	House of the Nation
Barbados	Parliament	House of Assembly	Senate
Belarus	Parliament	Chamber of Representatives	Council of the Republic
Belgium (note 2)	Parliament	Chamber of Deputies	Senate
Belize	National Assembly	House of Representatives	Senate
Benin	National Assembly
Bhutan	National Assembly
Bolivia	National Congress	Chamber of Deputies	Senate
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Parliamentary Assembly	House of Representatives	House of Peoples
Botswana	Parliament	National Assembly	House of Chiefs
Brazil	National Congress	Chamber of Deputies	Federal Senate
Brunei	Legislative Council
Bulgaria	National Assembly
Burkina Faso	Parliament	National Assembly	Chamber of Representatives
Burma	People's Assembly
Burundi	National Assembly
Cambodia	Parliament	National Assembly	Senate
Cameroon	National Assembly
Canada	Parliament	House of Commons (list)	Senate (list)
Cape Verde	National Assembly
Central African Republic	n/a
Chad	National Assembly
Chile	National Congress	Chamber of Deputies	Senate
China, People's Republic of	National People's Congress
China, Republic of (Taiwan)	Legislative Yuan
Colombia	Congress	House of Representatives	Senate
Cook Islands	Parliament
Congo-Brazzaville	National Transitional Council
Congo-Kinshasa	n/a
Costa Rica	Legislative Assembly
Côte d'Ivoire	National Assembly
Croatia	Sabor
Cuba	National Assembly of People's Power
Cyprus (note 2)	House of Representatives
Czech Republic (note 2)	Parliament	Chamber of Deputies	Senate
Denmark (note 2)	Folketing
Djibouti	Chamber of Deputies
Dominica	House of Assembly
Dominican Republic (note 1)	Congress	Chamber of Deputies	Senate
East Timor	National Parliament
Ecuador	National Congress
Egypt	Parliament	People's Assembly	Shura Council
El Salvador (note 1)	Legislative Assembly
Equatorial Guinea	House of People's Representatives
Eritrea	National Assembly
Estonia (note 2)	Riigikogu
Ethiopia	Parliament	House of People's Representatives	House of Federation
Fiji	Parliament	House of Representatives	Senate
Finland (note 2)	Eduskunta, Riksdag
France (note 2)	Parliament	National Assembly	Senate
Gabon	Parliament	National Assembly	Senate
Gambia	National Assembly
Georgia	Supreme Council
Germany (note 2)		Bundestag (list)	Bundesrat
Ghana	Parliament
Greece (note 2)	Parliament
Grenada	Parliament	House of Representatives	Senate
Guatemala (note 1)	Congress of the Republic
Guernsey	States
Guinea	People's National Assembly
Guinea-Bissau	People's National Assembly
Guyana	National Assembly
Haiti	National Assembly	Chamber of Deputies	Senate
Honduras (note 1)	National Congress
Hong Kong, China	Legislative Council
Hungary (note 2)	National Assembly
Iceland	Althing
India	Parliament	Lok Sabha (list)	Rajya Sabha
Indonesia	People's Representative Council
Iran	Majlis of Iran
Iraq	n/a
Ireland, Republic of (note 2)	Oireachtas	Dáil Éireann (list)	Seanad Éireann (list)
Isle of Man	Tynwald	House of Keys	Legislative Council
Israel	Knesset (list)
Italy (note 2)	Parliament	Chamber of Deputies	Senate
Jamaica	Parliament	House of Representatives	Senate
Japan	Diet	House of Representatives	House of Councillors
Jersey	States
Jordan	National Assembly	Chamber of Deputies	Senate
Kazakstan	Parliament	Majilis	Senate
Kenya	National Assembly
Kiribati	Parliament
Korea (DPRK)	Supreme People's Assembly
Korea (ROK)	National Assembly
Kuwait	National Assembly
Kyrgyzstan	Supreme Council	Assembly of People's Representatives	Legisative Assembly
Laos	National Assembly
Latvia (note 2)	Saeima
Lebanon	Parliament
Lesotho	Parliament	Assembly	Senate
Liberia	National Assembly	House of Representatives	Senate
Libya	General People's Congress
Liechtenstein	Landtag
Lithuania (note 2)	Seimas
Luxembourg (note 2)	Chamber of Deputies
Macau, China	Legislative Assembly
FYRO Macedonia	Sobranje
Madagascar	Parliament	National Assembly	Senate
Malawi	National Assembly
Malaysia	Parliament	House of Representatives	Senate
Maldives	Majlis
Mali	National Assembly
Malta (note 2)	House of Representatives
Marshall Islands	Parliament
Mauritania	Parliament	National Assembly	Senate
Mauritius	National Assembly
Mexico	Congress of the Union	Chamber of Deputies	Senate
Federated States of Micronesia	Congress
Moldova	Parliament
Monaco	National Council
Mongolia	State Great Hural
Morocco	Parliament	Chamber of Representatives	Chamber of Councillors
Mozambique	Assembly of the Republic
Namibia	Parliament	National Assembly	National Council
Nauru	Parliament
Nepal	Parliament	House of Representatives	National Council
Netherlands (note 2)	States-General	Second Chamber	First Chamber
New Zealand	Parliament (list)	House of Representatives
Nicaragua (note 1)	National Assembly
Niger	National Assembly
Nigeria	National Assembly	House of Representatives	Senate
Niue	Assembly
Norway	Storting
Oman	Majlis Oman	Majlis ash-Shura	Majlis ad-Dawla
Pakistan	Parliament	National Assembly	Senate
Palau	National Congress	House of Delegates	Senate
Panama (note 1)	Legislative Assembly
Papua New Guinea	National Parliament
Paraguay	Congress	Chamber of Deputies	Senate
Peru	Congress
Philippines	Congress	House of Represenatatives	Senate
Poland (note 2)	Parliament	Sejm	Senat
Portugal (note 2)	Assembly of the Republic
Puerto Rico	Legislative Assembly	House of Representatives	Senate
Qatar	Majlis al-Shura
Romania	Parliament	Chamber of Deputies	Senate
Russia	Federal Assembly	Duma	Federation Council
Rwanda		Chamber of Deputies	Senate
Saint Kitts and Nevis	National Assembly
Saint Lucia	Parliament	House of Assembly	Senate
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	House of Assembly
Samoa	Fono
San Marino	Grand and General Council
São Tomé and Príncipe	National Assembly
Saudi Arabia	Consultative Council
Senegal	National Assembly
Seychelles	National Assembly
Sierra Leone	Parliament
Singapore	Parliament
Slovakia (note 2)	National Council
Slovenia (note 2)	Parliament	National Assembly (Državni zbor)	National Council (Državni svet)
Solomon Islands	Parliament
Somalia	n/a
South Africa	Parliament	National Assembly	National Council of Provinces
Spain (note 2)	Cortes Generales	Congress of Deputies	Senate
Sri Lanka	Parliament
Sudan	National Assembly
Suriname	National Assembly
Swaziland	Parliament	House of Assembly	Senate
Sweden (note 2)	Riksdag
Syria	People's Council
Switzerland	Federal Assembly	National Council (list)	Council of States (list)
Tajikistan	Supreme Assembly	Assembly of Representatives	National Assembly
Tanzania	National Assembly
Thailand	National Assembly	House of Representatives	Senate
Togo	National Assembly
Trinidad & Tobago	Parliament	House of Representatives	Senate
Tunisia	Chamber of Deputies
Turkey	Grand National Assembly
Turkmenistan		People's Council	Assembly
Tuvalu	Parliament
Uganda	National Assembly
Ukraine	Verkhovna Rada
United Arab Emirates	Federal National Council
United Kingdom (note 2)	Parliament	House of Commons (list)	House of Lords (list)
United States	Congress	House of Representatives (list)	Senate (list)
Uruguay	General Assembly	Chamber of Representatives	Senate
Uzbekistan	Supreme Assembly
Vanuatu	Parliament
Vatican City	n/a
Venezuela	National Assembly
Vietnam	National Assembly
Yemen		House of Representatives	Shura Council
Zambia	National Assembly
Zimbabwe	House of Assembly

Notes

1. In addition to their unicameral national parliaments, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama and also return directly elected deputies to the supranational Central American Parliament. They have since been joined by the Dominican Republic, following its accession to the Parliament in February 2004.
2. In addition to their national parliaments, the nations of the European Union also return directly elected members to the supranational European Parliament. The most recent elections were held in June 2004. See European Parliament election, 2004.

See also

• List of democracy and elections-related topics
• List of national governments
• List of national leaders
• List of state legislatures of the United States
• Legislative Assemblies of Canada's provinces and territories
• Parliaments of the Australian states and territories