List of former European colonies

This is a list of former European colonies.

North America

France
*Canada (most of eastern and central Canada)
*United States (entire basin of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, Great Lakes) Britain
*American territories east of the Mississippi (in modern USA)
**Thirteen colonies
***roughly the area of Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia
**Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Wisconsin
**Louisiana and Minnesota east of the Mississippi River
*Belize
*Canada
**Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon
*Mosquito Coast
*Oregon Country Netherlands
*New Netherlands (Nieuw-Amsterdam / New York)
*Acadia

Portugal
*Labrador
*Nova Scotia
*Terra Nova (Newfoundland)

Russia
*Alaska
*Canadian and U.S. Pacific coasts down to Fort Ross, California Spain
*Costa Rica
*El Salvador
*East Florida and West Florida
*Guatemala
*Honduras
*Mexico
*Nicaragua
*Nootka (Vancouver Island, Canada)
*Southwestern United States - Arizona, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah

Sweden
*New Sweden (Nya Sverige)

Caribbean

Brandenburg
*St Thomas

Britain
*Bahamas
*Barbados
*Jamaica
*Leeward Islands
**Antigua and Barbuda
**Dominica
**Saint Christopher (St Kitts)-Nevis
*Windward Islands
**Grenada
**Saint Lucia
**Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Courland
*New Courland (Tobago)

Denmark
*Danish West Indies

France
*Anguilla
*Antigua and Barbuda
*Dominica
*Dominican Republic
*Grenada
*Montserrat
*Nevis
*Saint Christophe (St Kitts)
*Saint Croix
*Saint-Dominique (Haiti)
*Sainte-Lucia (St Lucia)
*Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
*Sint Eustatius
*Tobago

Knights of Malta
*Saint-Barthélemy
*Saint Christopher (St Kitts)
*Saint Croix
*Tortuga (off coast of Haiti)

Netherlands
*Anegada
*New Walcheren (Tobago)
*Saint Croix
*Tortola
*Virgin Gorda

Portugal
*Barbados

Spain
*Bahamas
*Cuba
*Island of Hispanola (Dominican Republic and Haiti)
*Jamaica
*Puerto Rico

Sweden
*Guadeloupe
*Saint-Barthélemy

outh America

Britain
*British Guyana
**Berbice, Essequibo, Demerara

France
*Brazil (Rio de Janeiro briefly, and São Luís briefly) (see France Antarctique and France Équinoxiale)
*Iles Malouines (Falkland Islands)

Netherlands
*Berbice (Guyana)
*Demerara
*Dutch Guiana (Suriname)
*Essequibo
*New Holland (Brazil - Half the capitanas)

Spain
*Argentina
*Bolivia
*Chile
*Colombia
*Ecuador
*Islas Malvinas (Falkland Islands)
*Paraguay
*Panama (formerly a part of Colombia)
*Peru
*Uruguay
*Venezuela

Portugal
*Brazil
*Cisplatina (Uruguay)
*French Guiana

Africa

Belgium
*Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
*Lado enclave
*Ruanda-Urundi (Rwanda and Burundi)

Brandenburg
*Arguin (in Mauritania)
*Brandenburger Gold Coast (coastal settlements in Ghana)

Britain
*Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Sudan)
*Basutoland (Lesotho)
*Bechuanaland (Botswana)
*British East Africa (Kenya)
*British Somaliland (northern Somalia)
*British Togoland (eastern Ghana)
*Cameroons (split between Nigeria and Cameroon)
*Egypt
*Gambia
*Gold Coast (Ghana)
*Nigeria
*Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)
*Nyasaland (Malawi)
*Sierra Leone
*South Africa
**Cape Colony
**Natal
**Orange Free State
**Transvaal
**Zululand
*South-West Africa (Namibia)
**Walvis Bay
*Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
*Swaziland
*Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania)
*Uganda
*Zanzibar (insular Tanzania)

Courland
*St. Andrews Island (in Gambia)

Denmark
*Danish Gold Coast (coastal settlements in Ghana)

France
*Albreda (in Gambia)
*Algeria
*Cameroon (91% of Cameroon)
*Dahomey (Benin)
*French Congo (Republic of Congo)
*French Guinea (Guinea)
*French Somaliland (Djibouti)
*French Sudan (Mali)
*French Togoland (Togo)
*Gabon
*Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)
*Mauritania
*Morocco (89% of Morocco)
*Niger
*Oubangui-Chari (Central African Republic)
*Senegal
*Chad
*Tunisia
*French Upper Volta (Republic of Upper Volta, Burkina Faso)

Germany
*German East Africa (Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania)
*German South West Africa (Namibia)
*Kamerun (split between Cameroon and Nigeria)
*Togoland (split between Togo and Ghana)
*Wituland

Italy
*Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
*Eritrea
*Italian Somaliland
*Libya

Netherlands
*Angola (Luanda, Sonyo and Cabinda)
*Arguin Island (in Mauritania)
*Dutch Gold Coast (settlements along coast of Ghana, including El Mina)
*Goree (in Senegal)
*Moçambique (Delagoa Bay)
*Sao Tomé
*South Africa. The Dutch Cape Colony (Kaapstad / Cape Town)

Portugal
*Ajuda (Whydah, in Benin)
*Angola
*Annobon
*Cabinda
*Ceuta
*Fernando Poo
*Goree (in Senegal)
*Malindi
*Mombasa
*Morocco enclaves
**Agadir
**Alcacer Ceguer
**Arzila
**Azamor
**Mazagan
**Mogador
**Safim
*Mozambique
*Portuguese Gold Coast (settlements along coast of Ghana)
*Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau)
*Quíloa
*São Tomé e Príncipe
*Tangier
*Zanzibar
*Ziguinchor

Spain
*Bona
*Bougie
*Fernando Poo and Annobon (insular Equatorial Guinea)
*Jerba
*Oran
*Port Guinea
*Rio Muni (mainland Equatorial Guinea)
*Spanish Morocco
**Ifni
*Spanish Sahara
**Río de Oro
**Saguia el-Hamra
**Tarfaya Strip

Sweden
*Swedish Gold Coast (coastal settlements in Ghana)

Indian Ocean

Britain
*Laccadive Islands
*Maldive Islands
*Mauritius
*Seychelles

France
*Comoros
*Ile de France (Mauritius)
*Madagascar
*Seychelles
*Tanzania (Zanzibar)

Netherlands
*Mauritius

Portugal
*Laccadive Islands
*Maldive Islands
*Socotra

Middle East

France
*Lebanon
*Syria
*Turkey (Sanjak of Alexandretta, now called Hatay province)
*Yemen (Cheik-Saïd peninsula) Netherlands
*Mesopotamia (Iraq, Al Basrah)
*Jemen, Al Mukha (Mocca)

Britain
*Aden Protectorate
*Bahrain
*Iraq
*Kuwait
*Oman
*Palestine
*Qatar
*South Arabia
*Transjordan
*Trucial Coast (United Arab Emirates)

Portugal
*Bandar Abbas
*Hormuz
*Manama
*Muharraq Island
*Muscat
*Qeshm

Indian Subcontinent

Austria
*Nicobar Islands

Britain
*Bhutan
*British India
**Bangladesh
**India
**Pakistan
*Burma (Myanmar)
*Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
*Nepal

Denmark
*Frederik Oerne Islands (Nicobar Islands)
*Serampore
*Tranquebar

France
*India
**Pondicherry, Karikal, Yanaon, Mahé, and Chandernagore

Netherlands
*Bengalen (Bangladesh)
*Burma (Myanmar) (Mrohaung (Arakan), Siriangh, Syriam, Ava, Martaban)
*Ceylon
*India (Suratte, Malabar, Coromandel)

Portugal
*Bombay
*Calicut
*Cambay
*Cannanore
*Ceylon (Cilão)
*Chaul
*Chittagong
*Cochin
*Dadra and Nagar Haveli
*Daman and Diu
*Goa
*Hughli
*Masulipatnam
*Mangalore
*Surat
*Syriam

Asia-Pacific

Britain
*Australia
*Brunei
*China
**Hong Kong
**Weihaiwei (now known as Weihai)
*Ellice Islands (Tuvalu)
*Fiji
*Gilbert Islands (main island group of Kiribati)
*Hawaii
*Indonesia
*most of the Line Islands
*Malaysia
**Malaya
***Federated Malay States
****Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Pahang,
****Straits Settlements
*****Malacca, Penang, Singapore
***Unfederated Malay States
****Perlis, Kedah, Kelantan, Terengganu, Johor
**North Borneo
***Sabah
***Labuan
**Sarawak
*Nauru
*New Hebrides (Vanuatu, condominium with France)
*New Zealand
**Cook Islands
**Niue
**Tokelau
**Western Samoa
*Ocean island
*Papua New Guinea
*Philippines (mainly Manila)
*Phoenix Islands (part of Kiribati)
*Solomon Islands

France
*China
**Kwang-Chou-Wan (廣州灣) leased territory, now the city of Zhanjiang (Guangdong province)
**French settlements (concessions) in Shanghai, Guangdong, Tianjin, and Hankou
**French zone of influence officially recognized by China over the provinces of Yunnan, Guangxi, Hainan, and Guangdong
*Indochina
**Cambodia
**Laos
**Vietnam
***Annam
***Cochin China
***Tongking
*New Hebrides (Vanuatu, condominium with Britain)

Germany
*Bismarck Archipelago
*Caroline Islands (Karolinen)
*German Samoa
*Jiaozhou Bay (Kiautschou)
*Kaiser-Wilhelmsland
*Marshall Islands
*Nauru
*North Solomon Islands
*Northern Marianas Islands (Marianen)
*Palau

Netherlands
*Deshima (near Nagasaki)
*Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)
*Malacca
*Taiwan (Tayowan)
*Tonkin/Annam (Vietnam) (Tonkin, Hoi An)

Portugal
*Ayutthaya
*Flores
*Macau
*Malacca
*Moluccas
**Ambon
**Ternate
**Tidore
*Nagasaki
*Portuguese Timor (Timor-Leste)

Spain
*Spanish East Indies
**Marianas Islands (Ladrones)
***Guam
***Northern Marianas Islands
**Marshall Islands
**Micronesia
**Palau
**Philippines
**Tidore
*Wake Island

Europe

Britain
*Corsica (puppet state of Republic of Corsican)
*Cyprus
*Heligoland
*Ionian islands
*Ireland
*Malta
*Minorca

Danmark
*Danish Estonia
*Iceland

Greece
*Magna Graecia

Italy
*Dodecanese
*Albania

Sweden
*Swedish Estonia

ee also

*Evolution of the Portuguese Empire
*Belgian colonial empire
*Danish colonial empire
*Swedish colonial empire
*http://www.answers.com/topic/portuguese-empire