Niger Coast Protectorate
The Niger Coast Protectorate was a British protectorate in the Oil Rivers area of present-day Nigeria, originally established as the Oil Rivers Protectorate in 1884 and confirmed at the Berlin Conference the following year, renamed on 12 May 1893, and merged with the chartered territories of the Royal Niger Company on 1 January 1900 to form the Southern Nigeria Protectorate.
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- 1. Occupied jointly with the United States.
- 2. In 1931, Canada and other British dominions obtained self-government through the Statute of Westminster. See Canada's name.
- 3. Gave up self-rule in 1934, but remained a de jure Dominion until it joined Canada in 1949.
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- 4. Now the San Andrés y Providencia Department of Colombia.
- 5. Occupied by Argentina during the Falklands War of April–June 1982.
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- 14. Since 2009 part of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha; Ascension Island (1922–) and Tristan da Cunha (1938–) were previously dependencies of Saint Helena.
- 15. Both claimed in 1908; territories formed in 1962 (British Antarctic Territory) and 1985 (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands).
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