People's Republic

People's Republic is a title that is often used by Marxist or Communist governments to describe their state. Examples include:

• Hungarian People's Republic (1918-1919, 1949-1989)\n*Mongolian People's Republic (1924-1992)\n*People's Republic of Albania (1946-1976)\n*People's Republic of Bulgaria (1946-1990)\n*People's Republic of Romania (1947-1965)\n*People's Republic of China (1949- )\n*People's Republic of Poland (1952-1989)\n*People's Republic of South Yemen (1967-1970)\n*People's Republic of the Congo (1970-1992)\n*People's Republic of Mozambique (1975-1990)\n*People's Republic of Angola (1975-1992)\n*People's Republic of Kampuchea (1979-1989)

Other Communist Party-led states are/were sometimes referred to as democratic republics, or democratic people's republics (for example, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.) There is also a usage in political conservative sarcasm using People's Republic to refer to any predominantly left or liberal area, especially those cities with a large liberal arts university population.