List of former European colonies
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This is a list of former European colonies.
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[edit] North America
France
- Canada (most of eastern and central Canada)
- Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
- United States (entire basin of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, Great Lakes)
Britain
- American territories east of the Mississippi (in modern USA)
- Oregon Country
- Canada
- Bermuda
- Belize
Netherlands
- New Netherlands (Nieuw-Amsterdam / New York)
Spain
- Nootka (Vancouver Island, Canada)
- Southwestern United States - Texas, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Louisiana, Colorado, Utah, Florida
- Mexico
- Costa Rica
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Nicaragua
[edit] Caribbean
Britain
Spain
- Cuba
- Island of Hispanola (Dominican Republic and Haiti)
- Jamaica
- Puerto Rico
France
- Anguilla (briefly)
- Antigua and Barbuda (briefly)
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Haiti
- Martinique
- Montserrat (briefly)
- Saint Martin (northern half only)
- Saint-Barthélemy
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Sint Eustatius (briefly)
- St Kitts
- Tobago
- Saint Croix
Netherlands
- Aruba
- Curaçao
- Bonaire
- Sint Maarten / St. Martin (partially French)
- St. Eustatius
- Saba
- Tobago
- Saint Croix
- Tortola
- Anegada
- Virgin Gorda
Denmark
Sweden
- Guadeloupe (briefly)
- Saint-Barthélemy
Knights of Malta
[edit] South America
Britain
France
- Brazil (Rio de Janeiro briefly, and São Luís briefly)
(see France Antarctique and France Équinoxiale)
Netherlands
Spain
- Argentina
- Chile
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Paraguay
- Panama (formerly a part of Colombia)
- Peru
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
Portugal
[edit] Africa
Belgium
- Congo
- Ruanda-Urundi (present-day Rwanda and Burundi)
Britain
- Egypt
- Sudan
- British East Africa (Kenya)
- Uganda
- British Somaliland (now northern Somalia)
- Tanganyika (Tanzania)
- Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)
- Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
- Nyasaland (Malawi)
- Bechuanaland (Botswana)
- South-West Africa (Namibia)
- South Africa
- Lesotho
- Swaziland
- Mauritius
- Seychelles
- Nigeria
- Gold Coast (Ghana)
- Sierra Leone
- Gambia
- Cameroons (now split between Nigeria and Cameroon)
- British Togoland (now part of Ghana)
Denmark
France
- Morocco (89% of Morocco)
- Algeria
- Tunisia
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon (91% of Cameroon)
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Republic of the Congo
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Gabon
- Guinea
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Niger
- Senegal
- Togo
Germany
- German East Africa
- German South West Africa
- Namibia (present-day)
- Cameroons (Kamerun)
- Togo (until 1918)
Italy
Netherlands
- South Africa. The Dutch Cape Colony (Kaapstad / Cape Town)
- Ghana(El Mina)
- Mauritius
- Senegal (Goree island)
- Sao Tomé
- Angola (Luanda, Sonyo and Cabinda)
Portugal
Spain
[edit] Indian Ocean
France
- Comoros
- Madagascar
- Mauritius
- Mayotte
- Réunion
- Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean
- Seychelles
- Tanzania (Zanzibar, briefly)
Netherlands
- Mauritius
- Moçambique(Delagoa Bay)
[edit] Middle East
France
- Lebanon
- Syria
- Turkey (Sanjak of Alexandretta, now called Hatay province)
- Djibouti
- Yemen (Cheik-Saïd peninsula)
Netherlands
- Persia(Iran) (Esfahan/Ispahan,Bandar-e Abbas/Gamron,Kharg,Band-e Kong.
- Mesopotamia(Iraq),Al Basrah, Basra.
- Jemen, Al Mukha (Mocca)
Britain
[edit] Indian Subcontinent
- France
- India
- Pondicherry, Karikal, Yanaon, Mahé, and Chandernagore
- India
- Britain
- Netherlands
- Ceylon
- India- (Suratte, Malabar, Coromandel)
- Bengalen (Bangladesh)
- Birma(Myanmar)(Mrohaung(Arakan),Siriangh,Syriam,Ava,Martaban)
- Portugal
[edit] Asia-Pacific
- Britain
- Australia
- Brunei
- China
- Fiji
- Hawaii(briefly)
- Indonesia (briefly)
- Kiribati
- Malaysia
- Nauru
- New Zealand
- New Guinea
- Philippines (mainly Manila) (briefly)
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Germany
- Jiaozhou Bay (Kiautschou)
- Marshall Islands
- Northern Marianas Islands
- Palau
- Papua
- Portugal
- Spain
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