Europa Universalis 5 players will be naturally curious about which nations can be formed after conquering the required land via war or diplomacy. Thankfully, they are spoiled for choice, as there are 114 formable nations in EU5 at the game's launch, and more could be added in the future.

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All Formable Nations In Europa Universalis 5

To form each of these nations in EU5, certain requirements must be met, such as having the right culture, controlling specific territories, or owning important cities.

These formable nations are also categorized as Historical, Plausible, or Fantasy. However, to be considered Historical, the nation must have been formed during the timeline of Europa Universalis 5. Plausible nations, on the other hand, are those that formed after 1837. For example, the Roman Empire is considered fantasy, as it did not exist during this time, nor after it, even though it is a historical empire.

Nation

Requirements

Type

Air

  • Tuareg Culture
  • Own 75% of Air Area

Historical

Albania

  • Albanian Culture
  • Own 75% of Albania, North Epirus, Illyria Provinces

Historical

Andalusia

  • Maghrebi or Iberian Culture
  • Muslim
  • Own 75% of Iberia Region
  • No independent non-Muslims in Iberia

Plausible

Aotearoa

  • Maori Culture
  • Own 50% New Zealand
  • He Whakaputanga Advance

Plausible

Arabia

  • Arabian group Culture
  • Own 75% of Arabia Region

Plausible

Armenia

  • Armenian Culture
  • Own 75% of Armenia and Kars, Malazgirt Provinces

Historical

Austria

  • Danube Bavarian or Southern Bavarian Culture
  • Own 60% of Austria, Styria, Carinthia as well as the Traungau and Muhlviertel Provinces
  • Own Vienna, St. Georgen, Linz, and Braunau

Historical

Ayutthaya

  • Can only be enabled via events or scripts

Historical

Aztec

  • Nahua Culture
  • Nahuatl Religion
  • Own 75% of Mesoamerica
  • Own Tenochtitlan

Historical

Banten

  • Sudanese Culture
  • Own 50% of Banten, Ogan, Tulangbawang, Lampung
  • Own Banten

Historical

Bavaria

  • Danube Bavarian Culture
  • Own 75% of Bavaria, Braunau, Ried, Scharding
  • Own Munich
  • Not have the Bavarian Share of Land Estate Privilege

Historical

Beja

  • Beja Culture
  • Own 75% of Deraheib, Agordat, Tesenei, Massawa, Zulu

Historical

Belgium

  • Walloon or Low Franconia Culture
  • Age of Revolutions
  • Own 75% of Wallonia and Flanders

Historical

Bengal

  • Bengali Culture
  • Own 80% of Bengal

Historical

Bohemia

  • Czech of Moravia Culture
  • Own 75% of Bohemia and Moravia
  • Own Prague

Historical

Borneo

  • Own 90% of North and South Borneo

Plausible

Bulgaria

  • Bulgarian Culture
  • Own 90% Bulgaria

Historical

Burgundy

  • Arpitan, Vivaro-Alpine, Franc-Comtois, or Provencal Culture
  • Own 50% of Provence, Savoy, Lyonnais, Franche-Comte, Western and Central Switzerland

Plausible

Byzantium

  • Greek group Culture
  • Orthodox Religion
  • Own 50% of Balkan and Anatolia Regions
  • Own Constantinople

Historical

Canada

  • Non-native Culture
  • British or French Culture groups
  • Own 35% of Canada Region

Plausible

Carthage

  • Own 70% of Tunis, Tripolitania, Sicily, Algiers
  • Own Tunis

Fantasy

Celtica

  • Celtic group Culture
  • Celtic Traditions Reform
  • Brythonic or Gaelic Court Language
  • Own 90% Ireland, Wales, Scottish Highlands/Lowlands, Herbrides, Brittany, and Cornwall

Fantasy

China

  • Chinese group Culture
  • Middle Kingdom not active
  • Own 70% of North/East/South/West China

Historical

Circassia

  • Own 60% of Matrega

Historical

Connacht

  • Celtic or Hibernian Culture group
  • Own 75% of Connaught

Historical

Croatia

  • Croatian Culture
  • Own 50% of Croatia and Slavonia
  • Own Zagreb

Plausible

Dahomey

  • Can only be enabled via events or scripts

Historical

Dalmatia

  • Dalmatian or Croatian Culture
  • Own 75% of Croatia
  • Own Dubrovnik

Historical

Dalriada

  • Scottish or Hibernian group Culture
  • Gaelic Language
  • Own 75% of Ulster, Hebrides, Scottish Highlands

Fantasy

Deccan

  • Marathi, Kannada, or Telugu Language
  • Sunni Religion
  • Own 70% of Deccan

Historical

Delhi

  • Indian, Iranian, Mongolian or Turkic Cultural groups
  • Muslim Religion
  • Own 70% Hindustan
  • Own Delhi

Historical

Denmark

  • Danish Culture
  • Own 75% of Denmark and Skaneland

Historical

Egypt

  • Not Mamluk
  • Own 75% of Egypt

Historical

England

  • English Culture or Language
  • Own 75% of Home Counties, East Anglia, West Country, Midlands, Wales, Northumbria, Scottish Lowlands

Historical

Ethiopia

  • Agaw, Amhara, Tigre, Tigrinya, or Miaphysite Culture
  • Own 60% of Ethiopia
  • Own Axum, Lalibela, or Gonder

Historical

Europe

  • Must be past the year 1500
  • Own 50% of Europe

Fantasy

Finland

  • Finnish Culture
  • Own 50% of Finland

Historical

France

  • French Culture group
  • Own 75% of France
  • Own Paris

Historical

Franconia

  • East Franconian Culture
  • Own 60% of Franconia

Plausible

Georgia

  • Georgian Culture
  • Own 75% of Georgia

Historical

Germany

  • German Culture group
  • Own 75% of North and South Germany

Plausible

Great Britain

  • Any British Culture
  • Own 75% of Great Britain
  • Hundred Years' War must be over
  • If countries such as England exist, they must be you or your subjects.

Historical

Greece

  • Greek Culture group
  • Byzantium must not exist
  • Don't be Turkey
  • Own 50% of Thrace, Northern Greece, Macedonia, Morea, Aegean Archipelago
  • Own Athens

Historical

Gujarat

  • Gujarati Language
  • Muslim Religion
  • Own 60% of Gujarat and Saurashtra

Historical

Hanover

  • Lower Saxon Culture
  • Own 60% of Lower Saxony
  • Own Hanover

Historical

Hausa

  • Hausa Culture
  • Own 50% of North and South Hausa

Historical

Hen Ogledd

  • Brythonic Language
  • Own 50% of Northumbria and Scottish Lowlands

Fantasy

Hindustan

  • Own 70& of the Indian sub-continent

Plausible

Holy Roman Empire

  • Must already exist with you as a member
  • Own 75% of North and South Germany

Plausible

Hungary

  • Hungarian Culture group
  • Own 75% of North Alfold, South Alfold, and Transdanubia
  • Own Pest & Buda

Historical

Iceland

  • Icelandic Culture
  • Own 75% of Iceland

Historical

Ilkhanate

  • Be a member of the Ilkhanate organization
  • Not be Iran
  • Own 75% of Persia, plus Iraq-Arabi, Jazira, Shirvan, Armenia, Armenian Highlands, Georgia, Pontus, Cappadocia
  • The Ilkhanate must have no active claimants

Historical

Inca

  • Quechuan Language
  • Andean Religion
  • Own 80% of Acamama and Puna

Historical

Ireland

  • Hibernian Culture group
  • Lead the Irish High Kingship
  • Own 75% of Ireland
  • Not be a part of the Lordship of Ireland

Historical

Iroquois

  • Haudenosaunee Culture group
  • Own 80% of Iroquois

Historical

Italy

  • Italian Culture Group
  • Own 75% of Italy
  • Own Milano, Florence, Naples

Plausible

Kingdom of Africa

  • Catholic Religion
  • Own 75% of Tunis & Tripolitania
  • Own Tunis & Tripoli

Plausible

Kingdom of Jerusalem

  • Catholic Religion
  • Military Order Reform
  • Own 75% if Filastin
  • Own Jerusalem

Plausible

Kongo

  • Bantu Religion
  • Own 50% of West Kongo & Kongo

Historical

Latin Empire

  • Catholic Religion
  • Own 50% of Thrace & Thessaly
  • Own Constantinople

Plausible

Livonia

  • German Culture group
  • Own 75% of Baltic

Plausible

Lotharingia

  • Rhine-Alemannic, Burgundian, Franc-Comtois, Lorrain, or Walloon cultures
  • Own 50% of Lorraine, Wallonia, Brabant, Friesland, Rhineland, Alsace, Palatinate, Rhine Valley

Plausible

Malaysia

  • Malay Culture
  • Muslim Religion
  • Own 90% of Malay Peninsula

Historical

Mali

  • Mande Language
  • Own 75% of Mali & Ghana
  • Own Niani

Plausible

Manchu

  • Jurchen Culture
  • Own 50% of Liaodong, Lower/Middle Amur, Songhua, Songnen, Ussuri

Historical

Maratha

  • Marathi Language
  • Not Sunni Religion
  • Own 50% of Deccan

Historical

Mazovia

  • Mazovian Culture
  • Own 90% of Mazovia
  • Own Warsaw

Historical

Mecklenburg

  • Western Pomeranian Culture
  • Own 75% of Mecklenburg

Historical

Mexico

  • Iberian Culture path or Native Culture
  • Christian Religion
  • Own 50% of Mesoamerica

Historical

Moldavia

  • Moldovan Culture
  • Own 90% of Moldavia

Historical

Mongolia

  • Mongolian or Turkic Culture group
  • Own 85% of Mongolia, Persia, China, Steppe
  • Own lots of named cities
  • Can't be in a civil war

Historical

Mossi

  • Mossi Culture
  • Own 75% of East & West Mossi

Historical

Mughal Empire

  • Muslim Religion
  • Iranian, Turkic or Afghani Culture
  • Own 80% of Hindustan
  • Own Delhi, Agra, Lahore

Historical

Nassau

  • Rhine or Moselle-Franconian Culture
  • Control Dillenburg, Hadamar, Siegen, Usingen, Wiesbaden

Historical

Navarre

  • Basque Culture
  • Own 80% of Navarre and Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port

Historical

Nepal

  • Nepali Culture group
  • Own 70% of Nepal

Historical

Netherlands

  • Netherlandish Culture group
  • Own 30% of Brabant, Flanders, Friesland, Holland, Wallonia

Historical

Northumbria

  • English Language
  • Own 50% of Northumbria, Scottish Lowlands

Plausible

Nubia

  • Nubian Culture
  • Own 75% of Nubia Proper & Butana

Plausible

Nusantara

  • Javanese, Dudanese, or Madurese Culture
  • Own 50% of Indonesia
  • Own Trowulan, Palembang

Plausible

Persia

  • Iranian Culture group
  • Own 50% of Persia

Historical

Poland

  • Polish Culture group
  • Own 75% of Central, Greater, Lesser Poland, Mazovia
  • Own Krakow, Warsaw

Historical

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

  • Polish or Lithuanian Culture group
  • Own 50% of Polish/Lithuanian areas
  • Own Krakow, Vilnius, Warsaw
  • If either nation exists, they must be you or a subject

Historical

Pomerania

  • Eastern or Western Pomeranian Culture
  • Own Pomerania

Historical

Prussia

  • German Culture group
  • Own 75% of Prussia
  • Can't be a military order
  • Not at war
  • Clergy Power under 20%
  • Noble Power above 20%

Historical

Pueblo

  • Keres, Zuni, Hopi, Hualapai, Tanoan, or Hohokam Culture
  • Control one of the Pueblo settlements

Historical

Punjab

  • Punjabi Culture
  • Own 80% of Punjab

Historical

Rajputana

  • Rajasthani Language
  • Own 80% of Rajputana

Historical

Roman Empire

  • Be Byzantine or own Rome
  • If you aren't Byzantine, it must not exist
  • Christian of Hellenism Religion
  • Own 75% across much of Europe & the Mediterranean
  • Own Rome & Constantinople

Fantasy

Romania

  • Romanian Culture group
  • Own 50% of Wallachia, Transylvania, Moldavia
  • Own Bucharest

Plausible

Rum

  • Turkic Culture group
  • Muslim Religion
  • Own 85% of Anatolia

Historical

Russia

  • Russian Culture group
  • Own 50% of Russia, Ural, Steppe
  • Own Moscow & Novgorod

Historical

Ruthenia

  • Ruthenian Culture group
  • Own 60% of Ruthenia
  • Own Kyiv

Plausible

Sardinia

  • Italian Culture group
  • Own 85% of Sardinia

Historical

Saxony

  • Saxon or Lower Saxon Culture
  • Own 25% of Lower & Upper Saxony, plus Flaming

Historical

Scandinavia

  • Scandinavia Culture group
  • Own 75% of Scandinavia & Iceland

Plausible

Scotland

  • Scottish Culture group
  • Own 75% of Scottish Highlands, Lowlands, Herbrides

Historical

Serbia

  • Serbian Culture
  • Own 80% of Serbia

Historical

Shan

  • Shan Culture group
  • Own 90% of Shan Highland

Historical

Siam

  • Thai Culture
  • Own 75% of Chao Phraya & Northern Tai Highland

Historical

Silesia

  • Silesian or German Silesian Culture
  • Own 75% of Silesia

Historical

Sokoto

  • Hausa Culture
  • Sunni Religion
  • Own 75% of North & South Hausa
  • Own Sokoto

Historical

Spain

  • Iberian Culture group
  • Christian Religion
  • Own 75% of Iberia
  • No independent non-Christian rulers in Iberia

Historical

Swabia

  • Swabian Culture
  • Own 80% of Swabia

Plausible

Sweden

  • Swedish Culture
  • Own 75% of Svealand, Gotaland, Norrland, Finland

Historical

Switzerland

  • Swiss Culture group
  • Own 75% of Central, Eastern, Western Switzerland
  • Swiss Confederation must not exist.

Historical

Tibet

  • Tibet Culture group
  • Own 60% of Tibet

Historical

Timurids

  • Uzbek Culture
  • Own 80% of Persia

Historical

Transylvania

  • Hungarian, Transylvanian, German-Transylvanian, or Szekely Culture
  • Own 75% of Transylvania

Plausible

Two Sicilies

  • Sicilian or Neapolitan Culture
  • Italy must not exist
  • Own 80% of Basilicata, Apulia, Abruzzo, Campania, Sicily
  • Own Naples, Palermo

Historical

Ulster

  • Celtic or Hibernian Culture group
  • Own 75% of Ulster

Historical

USA

  • British Culture group and non-native
  • Own 35% of East Coast

Historical

Wales

  • Welsh Culture or Brythonic Language
  • Own 75% of Wales

Historical

Westphalia

  • Westphalian Culture
  • Not a theocracy
  • Own 75% of Westphalia

Historical

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