Asia

Drafted during the American occupation after World War II, the Japanese Constitution was promulgated in November 1946 and took eff...

Drafted by a Constituent Assembly over nearly three years chaired by B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian Constitution came into force on Ja...

The current Chinese Constitution, adopted in December 1982, is the fourth of the Peoples Republic after 1954, 1975, and 1978. It e...

South Koreas ninth constitution since 1948, adopted in October 1987 after massive June democracy demonstrations, restored direct p...

Drafted in the rush toward independence proclaimed in August 1945, the Indonesian Constitution is short and once concentrated powe...

Ratified by referendum in February 1987 after the People Power Revolution toppled the Marcos dictatorship, the current Philippine ...

Adopted December 25, 1947 and effective a year later, the ROC Constitution created a five power government with an executive, legi...

Enacted for independence August 31, 1957 and recast for Malaysia in 1963, the Malaysian Constitution is supreme law establishing a...

Singapore inherited a constitutional order through the State of Singapore Act and independence on August 9, 1965, consolidating in...

Adopted April 10, 1973 by a consensus of parties under Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistans current constitution created a federal parli...

Adopted November 4, 1972, barely a year after independence, the Bangladesh Constitution set four founding principles, nationalism,...

Promulgated September 20, 2015 by the second constituent assembly, the Nepali Constitution completed a transformation begun in 200...

Effective February 12, 1992 after the peaceful 1990 revolution, the Mongolian Constitution created a semi presidential republic wi...

Approved by referendum in August 2016 and in force April 2017 after the 2014 coup, the twentieth Thai Constitution creates a mixed...

Adopted August 31, 1978 under J. R. Jayewardene, the Sri Lankan Constitution replaced Westminster parliamentarism with a directly ...

Adopted April 15, 1992 and amended in 2001 and 2013, the Vietnamese Constitution anchors the socialist republic under the absolute...

Approved by referendum in May 2008 in the chaos of Cyclone Nargis, the Myanmar Constitution created a military guaranteed order, r...

Kyrgyzstan adopted its independence constitution in 1993 and has amended or replaced it repeatedly, including wholly new texts in ...

Recorded in the Nihon Shoki chronicle of 720, the Seventeen Article Constitution is traditionally attributed to Prince Shotoku, re...

Promulgated on February 11, 1889 and in force from November 1890, the Meiji Constitution was drafted chiefly by Ito Hirobumi after...

Adopted by a Constitutional Loya Jirga in Kabul in January 2004 after the fall of the Taliban government, the constitution establi...