List of state leaders in 1204

This is a list of heads of state, government leaders, and other rulers in the year 1204.

Asia

• China (Jin dynasty) - Emperor Zhangzong (1190–1208)
• China (Southern Song dynasty) - Emperor Ningzong (1194–1224)
• Japan (Kamakura period)
  • Monarch – Emperor Tsuchimikado (1198–1210)
  • Kamakura shogunate - Minamoto no Sanetomo (1203–1219)
  • Shikken - Hōjō Tokimasa, Regent (1203–1205)
• Kara-Khitan Khanate (Western Liao) - Yeluu Zhilugu (1178–1211)
• Khmer Empire – Jayavarman VII (Mahaparamasangata?) (1181–1220?)
• Korea (Goryeo Kingdom)
  • Monarch -
    1. Sinjong (1197–1204)
    2. Huijong (1204–1211)
  • de facto - Choe Chung-heon (1196–1219)
• Western Xia – Emperor Huanzong (1193–1206)

Europe

• Kingdom of Aragon – Peter II (1196–1213)
• Bulgarian Empire – Kaloyan, Tsar of Bulgaria (1197–1207)
• Kingdom of Castile – Alfonso VIII (1158–1214)
• Kingdom of Denmark – Valdemar II (1202–1241)
• Kingdom of England – John (1199–1216)
• Kingdom of France – Philip II (1180–1223)
• Holy Roman Empire – Philip of Swabia, King of Germany (1198–1208)
  • Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen – Hartwig of Uthlede (Hartwig II) (1185–1190 and 1192–1207)
  • County of Holland – William I (1203–1222)
• Kingdom of Hungary –
  1. Emeric (1196–1204)
  2. Ladislaus III (1204–1205)
• Kingdom of the Isles – Rǫgnvaldr Guðrøðarson (1187–1226)
• Kingdom of Norway –
  1. Håkon Sverreson (1202–1204)
  2. Guttorm Sigurdsson (1204)
  3. Inge II (1204–1217)
• Kingdom of Portugal – Sancho I (1185–1211)
• Kingdom of Scotland – William the Lion (1165–1214)
• Kingdom of Sweden – Sverker II (1196–1208)
• Kingdom of Thessalonica – Boniface (1204–1207)

Middle East and North Africa

• Abbasid Caliphate – An-Nasir, Caliph of Baghdad (1180–1225)
• Almohad Caliphate – Muhammad al-Nasir (1199–1213)
• Ayyubid Sultanate – Al-Adil I, Sultan of Egypt (1200–1218)
• Kingdom of Cyprus – Amalric I (1194–1205)
• Sultanate of Rûm

1. Süleyman II (1196–1204)
2. Kılıç Arslan III (1204–1205)

• Empire of Trebizond – Alexios I (1204–1222)