colony
territory under the political control of an overseas state, generally with its own subordinate colonial government
New Courland
Couronian colony on Tobago
Upper Senegal and Middle Niger
former territory of French West Africa
British Raj
British colonial rule on the Indian subcontinent (1858–1947)
French Indochina
Federal state in Southeast Asia
Austrian colonies
colonial attempts by the Austrian and later Austrian-Hungarian Empires
Portuguese India
Portuguese colonies in South Asia (1505–1961)
Portuguese Mozambique
1498–1975 Portuguese possession in East Africa
Dutch Malacca
Historical state under Dutch
Spanish West Africa
Spanish colony from 1946 to 1958
Essequibo
Dutch colony in Guiana, South America
cleruchy
type of colony established by Athens
Company rule in India
rule of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent (1757–1858)
Colonial Nigeria
former British colony and protectorate in West Africa
Saybrook Colony
English possession in North America between 1635 and 1644
British Windward Islands
former British colony (1833–1959)
Captaincy General of the Philippines
1565–1898 territory of the Spanish Empire in Asia
Portuguese Angola
1575-1975 Portuguese possession in West Africa
British Cape Colony
British colony in Southern Africa, 1795–1802 and 1806–1910
North Greenland
former Danish colony
Portuguese Nagasaki
Nagasaki between 1580 and 1587
Free French Africa
African territories within Free France
Colony of Liberia
private US colony in West Africa
Spanish Formosa
Spanish colony from 1626 to 1642
New Sweden
former Swedish possession in North America between 1638–1655
Korea under Japanese rule
Japanese colonial period in Chōsen (Korea), 1910–1945
Gold Coast Colony
former British colony (1867-1957), now Ghana
Scottish colonization of the Americas
failed attempts of the Kingdom of Scotland to colonize the Americas, and ethnically Scottish settlements in British colonies
English overseas possession
overseas territories that were colonised, conquered, or otherwise acquired by the former Kingdom of England
Upper Peru
historical and geographical region of South America in the 19th century, referring to the five Andean departments of present-day Bolivia
Saint-Domingue
French colony on the isle of Hispaniola
Gilbert and Ellice Islands
British colony in the Pacific
Colony of Natal
British colony from 1843 to 1910
Equinoctial France
colonization efforts of France in the 17th century in South America
Province of New Hampshire
former colony in North America, part of Great Britain
British Borneo
1840s–1984 British territories in northern Borneo
Province of New Jersey
former colony in North America, part of Great Britain
Basutoland
British Crown colony
Canada
French colony in New France between 1534 and 1763
Portuguese Cape Verde
former colony of the Portuguese Empire in the Cape Verde Islands
Portuguese Macau
former Portuguese possession in East Asia between 1557 and 1999
Dutch Cape Colony
Dutch colony in Southern Africa, 1652–1795 and 1802–1806
Company rule in the Dutch East Indies
section of the Dutch East India Company in Indonesia
French Madagascar
former French colony in Southeast Africa
Spanish West Indies
Spanish possession in the Caribbean between 1492-1898
Yellow Russia
unsuccessful colonial project of the Russian Empire, which aimed to annex northern China
British Guinea
former British colony