15 kings and 3 queens. Europe 1.Belgium-king 2.Denmark-queen 3.Netherlands-queen 4.Norway-king 5.Spain-king 6.Sweden-king 7.United Kingdom-queen Asia 1.Bahrain-king 2.Bhutan-king 3.Cambodia-king 5.Jordan-king 6.Malaysia-king 7.Saudi Arabia-king 8.Thailand-king Africa 1.Lesotho-king 2.Morocco-king 3.Swaziland-king courtesy of yhoo

Actually, there are 44 monarchies in the world right now. If you take out the one Empire (Japan), the one country with a Paramount Chief as monarch (Fiji), the three principalities (Andorra, Lichtenstein, and Monaco), and the one Grand Duchy (Luxembourg) that leaves you with 35 countries with either a reigning Queen or King. Of those 35 countries, 20 have reigning Queens and 15 have reigning Kings. That’s different than the count of people who are reigning Queens or Kings, though. (Nancy had those numbers right on the money.) Three reigning Queens hold 20 countries between them: Queen Elizabeth II has 16 (one in Europe, nine in North America and the Caribbean, one in South America, and five in Oceania), Queen Margrethe II has 3 (two in Europe and one in North America), and Queen Beatrix I has one (in Europe). (The Faroe Islands and Greenland are hard to count here, though, as they are both self-governing territories of the Kingdom of Denmark. Greenland, though, recently took a step further along the road to complete independence than the Faroes have.) EUROPE Belgium (King Albert II) Denmark (Queen Margrethe II) Faroe Islands – (Queen Margrethe II) Netherlands (Queen Beatrix I) Norway (King Harald V) Spain (King Juan Carlos I) Sweden (King Carl XVI Gustav) United Kingdom (Queen Elizabeth II) NORTH AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN Antigua and Barbuda (Queen Elizabeth II) Bahamas (Queen Elizabeth II) Bermuda (Queen Elizabeth II) Canada (Queen Elizabeth II) Greenland (Queen Margrethe II) Grenada (Queen Elizabeth II) Jamaica (Queen Elizabeth II) St. Kitts & Nevis (Queen Elizabeth II) St. Lucia (Queen Elizabeth II) St. Vincent & the Grenadines (Queen Elizabeth II) SOUTH & CENTRAL AMERICA Belize (Queen Elizabeth II) OCEANIA & THE PACIFIC Australia (Queen Elizabeth II) New Zealand (Queen Elizabeth II) Papua New Guinea (Queen Elizabeth II) Solomon Islands (Queen Elizabeth II) Tonga (King George Tupau V) Tuvalu (Queen Elizabeth II) ASIA Bahrain (King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah) Bhutan (King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck) Cambodia (King Norodom) Jordan (King Abdullah II) Malaysia (Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) Mizan Zainal Abidin) Saudi Arabia (King Abdullah) Thailand (King Bhumibol) AFRICA Lesotho (King Letsie III) Morocco (King Mohammed VI) Swaziland (King Mswati III)