List of Former British Colonial Possessions |
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The Modern British Imperialist Empire with Dates of Independence and More |
Aden ↣ formerly governed as part of British India; independent in 1967 as part of Yemen |
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ↣ Sudan |
Bahrain ↣ independent in 1971 |
British Cameroon ↣ divided between Nigeria and the Republic of Cameroon in 1961 |
British Commonwealth of Nations |
Gold Coast ↣ Ghana, 1957 |
Nigeria, 1957 |
Sierra Leone, 1961 |
Tanganyika, 1961 |
Joined Zanzibar in 1964 to become Tanzania |
Further divided into Rwanda and Burundi |
Burma (a.k.a. Myanmar) ↣ independent in 1948 |
Egypt ↣ independent in 1922 |
Gambia ↣ joined the British Commonwealth in 1965 |
Iraq ↣ independent in 1932 |
Kenya ↣ independent in 1963 |
Kuwait ↣ independent in 1961 |
Northern Rhodesia ↣ Zambia (joined the British Commonwealth in 1964) |
Nyasaland ↣ Malawi (joined the British Commonwealth in 1964) |
Oman ↣ independent in 1971 |
Palestine ↣ largely became the independent country of Israel in 1948 |
Qatar ↣ independent in 1971 |
Somaliland ↣ joined Italian Somaliland as Republic of Somalia in 1960 |
Southern Rhodesia |
1965 ↣ declared independence as Rhodesia under the leadership of white leader Ian Smith |
1980 ↣ known as the Republic of Zimbabwe after blacks won the circa 15-year civil war |
Suez Canal ↣ control went to Egypt in 1956 |
Togoland ↣ joined Ghana |
Transjordan ↣ independent in 1946 as Jordan |
Uganda ↣ independent in 1962 |
United Arab Emirates (UAE) ↣ independent in 1971 |
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