This is a list of every sovereign state

Sovereign state

A sovereign state, or simply, state, is a state with a defined territory on which it exercises internal and external sovereignty, a permanent population, a government, and the capacity to enter into relations with other sovereign states. It is also normally understood to be a state which is neither...

 that existed in the year AD 1914 and their capitals. It includes not only those states which had widespread international recognition, but also those states which were generally unrecognized. In addition, it includes all non-sovereign territories which were not integral parts of sovereign states.

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A

•  Albania
  • Provisional Government of Albania (to March 7)
  • Principality of Albania (from March 7)
•  Andorra - Principality of Andorra
•  Argentina - Argentine Republic
• ' - Austro-Hungarian Empire
  Capital: Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
  
  , Budapest
  Budapest
  Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
  
  

B

•  Belgium - Kingdom of Belgium
•  Bolivia - Republic of Bolivia
•  Brazil - Republic of the United States of Brazil
•  Kingdom of Bulgaria - Kingdom of Bulgaria

C

•  Chile - Republic of Chile
• ' - Republic of China
•  Colombia - Republic of Colombia
•  Costa Rica - Republic of Costa Rica
•  Cuba - Republic of Cuba

D

•  Denmark - Kingdom of Denmark
•  Dominican Republic

E

•  Ecuador - Republic of Ecuador
•  El Salvador - Republic of El Salvador
•  Ethiopian Empire - Ethiopian Empire

F

•   France
  French Third Republic
  The French Third Republic was the republican government of France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed due to the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, to 1940, when France was overrun by Nazi Germany during World War II, resulting in the German and Italian occupations of France...
  
   - French Republic

G

• ' - German Empire
•  Kingdom of Greece - Kingdom of Greece
•  Guatemala - Republic of Guatemala

H

• Ha'il - Emirate of Ha'il
•  Haiti - Republic of Haiti
•  Honduras - Republic of Honduras

L

•  Liberia - Republic of Liberia
•  Liechtenstein - Principality of Liechtenstein
•  Luxembourg - Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

M

•  Mexico - United Mexican States
•  Monaco - Principality of Monaco
•  Kingdom of Montenegro - Kingdom of Montenegro

N

• Nejd - Emirate of Nejd
•  Netherlands - Kingdom of the Netherlands
•  Nicaragua - Republic of Nicaragua
•  Norway - Kingdom of Norway

P

•  Panama - Republic of Panama
•  Paraguay - Republic of Paraguay
• Persia
  Qajar dynasty
  The Qajar dynasty was an Iranian royal family of Turkic descent who ruled Persia from 1785 to 1925....
  
   - Persian Empire
•  Peru - Peruvian Republic
•   Portugal
  Portuguese First Republic
  The Portuguese First Republic spans a complex 16 year period in the history of Portugal, between the end of the period of constitutional monarchy marked by the 5 October 1910 revolution and the 28 May coup d'état of 1926...
  
   - Portuguese Republic

R

• ' - Kingdom of Romania
•  Russian Empire - Russian Empire

S

•  San Marino - Most Serene Republic of San Marino
•  Kingdom of Serbia - Kingdom of Serbia
• ' - Kingdom of Siam
•   Spain
  Spain under the Restoration
  The Restoration was the name given to the period that began on December 29, 1874 after the First Spanish Republic ended with the restoration of Alfonso XII to the throne after a coup d'état by Martinez Campos, and ended on April 14, 1931 with the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic.After...
  
   - Kingdom of Spain
• Sulu - Sultanate of Sulu
•  Sweden - Kingdom of Sweden
•  Switzerland - Swiss Confederation

T

• ' - Sublime Ottoman State

U

•  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
•  United States - United States of America
•  Uruguay - Eastern Republic of Uruguay

Other states

Autonomous but still dependent from Britain

•  Australia - Commonwealth of Australia
•  Canada - Dominion of Canada
•  Dominion of Newfoundland - Dominion of Newfoundland
•   New Zealand
  Dominion of New Zealand
  The Dominion of New Zealand is the former name of the Realm of New Zealand.Originally administered from New South Wales, New Zealand became a direct British colony in 1841 and received a large measure of self-government following the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852...
  
   - Dominion of New Zealand
•  Union of South Africa - Union of South Africa

Autonomous but still dependent from China

• Mongolia - Boghda Khaanate of Mongolia
•  Tibet

Under provisional government

• Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus
  Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus
  The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus was a short-lived, self-governing entity founded on February 28, 1914, in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars, by the Greeks living in southern Albania ....
  
  
  • self declared independence (from February 28)
  • recognized autonomous inside the Principality of Albania (from March 17)

Australia

•   Norfolk Island
  Norfolk Island
  Norfolk Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. The island is part of the Commonwealth of Australia, but it enjoys a large degree of self-governance...
  
   - Territory of Norfolk Island (External territory)
• Papua - Territory of Papua (External territory)

Austria-Hungary

• Tientsin (Concession)

Belgium

•  Belgian Congo (Colony)
•   Tientsin (Concession)

Condominiums

• Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
  Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
  Anglo-Egyptian Sudan referred to the manner by which Sudan was administered between 1899 and 1956, when it was a condominium of Egypt and the United Kingdom.-Union with Egypt:...
  
   (Anglo-Egyptian condominium)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Bosnia and Herzegovina (Austro-Hungarian condominium)
  The Austro-Hungarian condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina was a condominium established after the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary in 1908, following its occupation in 1878 under the terms of the Treaty of Berlin.-History:...
  
   (Austro-Hungarian condominium)
•     New Hebrides
  New Hebrides
  New Hebrides was the colonial name for an island group in the South Pacific that now forms the nation of Vanuatu. The New Hebrides were colonized by both the British and French in the 18th century shortly after Captain James Cook visited the islands...
  
   (Anglo-French condominium)

Denmark

•   Danish West Indies
  Danish West Indies
  The Danish West Indies or "Danish Antilles", were a colony of Denmark-Norway and later Denmark in the Caribbean. They were sold to the United States in 1916 in the Treaty of the Danish West Indies and became the United States Virgin Islands in 1917...
  
   (Colony)
•   Greenland
  Greenland
  Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...
  
   (Colony)
•  Iceland (Dependency)

France

•   Comoros
  Comoros
  The Comoros , officially the Union of the Comoros is an archipelago island nation in the Indian Ocean, located off the eastern coast of Africa, on the northern end of the Mozambique Channel, between northeastern Mozambique and northwestern Madagascar...
  
   (to February 23) (Protectorate)
•   French Equatorial Africa
  French Equatorial Africa
  French Equatorial Africa or the AEF was the federation of French colonial possessions in Middle Africa, extending northwards from the Congo River to the Sahara Desert.-History:...
  
   (Federation of colonies)
•  French Guiana (Colony)
•   French India
  French India
  French India is a general name for the former French possessions in India These included Pondichéry , Karikal and Yanaon on the Coromandel Coast, Mahé on the Malabar Coast, and Chandannagar in Bengal...
  
   - French Establishments in India (Colony)
•  French Indochina (Federation of colonies)
•   French Oceania
  French Polynesia
  French Polynesia is an overseas country of the French Republic . It is made up of several groups of Polynesian islands, the most famous island being Tahiti in the Society Islands group, which is also the most populous island and the seat of the capital of the territory...
  
   - Settlements in Oceania (Colony)
•   French Somaliland
  French Somaliland
  French Somaliland was a French colony in the Horn of Africa. Established after the French signed various treaties between 1883 and 1887 with the then ruling Somali Sultans, the colony lasted from 1896 until 1946, when it became an overseas territory of France....
  
   (Colony)
•   French West Africa
  French West Africa
  French West Africa was a federation of eight French colonial territories in Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan , French Guinea , Côte d'Ivoire , Upper Volta , Dahomey and Niger...
  
   (Federation of colonies)
•  Guadeloupe (Colony)
• Madagascar
  Madagascar
  The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...
  
   (includes Comoros from February 23) (Colony)
•  Martinique (Colony)
• Morocco - Kingdom of Morocco (Protectorate)
•  New Caledonia (Colony)
•  Réunion (Colony)
• ' (Colony)
•   Shanghai
  Shanghai French Concession
  The Shanghai French Concession was a foreign concession in Shanghai, China from 1849 until 1946, and it was progressively expanded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The concession came to an end in practice in 1943 when the Vichy French government signed it over to the pro-Japanese puppet...
  
   (Concession)
•   Tientsin (Concession)
• Tunisia
  Beylik of Tunis
  -Ottoman beylik:The Beylik of Tunis was founded on July 15, 1705, after the Husainid Dynasty led by Al-Husayn I ibn Ali at-Turki defeated the Turkish Deys....
  
   - Tunisian Realm (Protectorate)
• Wallis and Futuna
  Wallis and Futuna
  Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands , is a Polynesian French island territory in the South Pacific between Tuvalu to the northwest, Rotuma of Fiji to the west, the main part of Fiji to the southwest, Tonga to the southeast,...
  
   - Protectorate of the Wallis and Futuna Islands (Protectorate)

Germany

•   German East Africa
  German East Africa
  German East Africa was a German colony in East Africa, which included what are now :Burundi, :Rwanda and Tanganyika . Its area was , nearly three times the size of Germany today....
  
   (Colony)
•   German Kiautschou
  Jiaozhou Bay concession
  The Kiautschou Bay concession was a German colonial concession in Imperial China which existed from 1898 to 1914. It had an area of 552 km², it was located around Jiaozhou Bay on the southern coast of the Shandong Peninsula, which lay in the imperial province of Shandong in northern China.Jiaozhou...
  
   (Concession, to November 7)
• German New Guinea
  German New Guinea
  German New Guinea was the first part of the German colonial empire. It was a protectorate from 1884 until 1914 when it fell to Australia following the outbreak of the First World War. It consisted of the northeastern part of New Guinea and several nearby island groups...
  
   (Protectorate)
•   German Samoa
  German Samoa
  German Samoa was a German protectorate from 1900 to 1914, consisting of the islands of Upolu, Savai'i, Apolima and Manono, now wholly within the independent state Samoa, formerly Western Samoa...
  
   (Protectorate)
•   German South-West Africa
  German South-West Africa
  German South West Africa was a colony of Germany from 1884 until 1915, when it was taken over by South Africa and administered as South West Africa, finally becoming Namibia in 1990...
  
   (Colony)
•   Kamerun
  Kamerun
  German Cameroon was a West African colony of the German Empire from 1884 to 1916 in the region of today's Republic of Cameroon.-History:-1800s:...
  
   (Colony)
•   Tientsin (Concession)
•   Togoland
  Togoland
  Togoland was a German protectorate in West Africa from 1884 to 1914, encompassing what is now the nation of Togo and most of what is now the Volta Region of Ghana. The colony was established during the period generally known as the "Scramble for Africa"...
  
   (Protectorate, to August 26)

International

• Shanghai
  Shanghai International Settlement
  The Shanghai International Settlement began originally as a purely British settlement. It was one of the original five treaty ports which were established under the terms of the Treaty of Nanking at the end of the first opium war in the year 1842...
  
   - Shanghai International Settlement (International concession)

Italy

•   Eritrea
  Eritrea
  Eritrea , officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa. Eritrea derives it's name from the Greek word Erethria, meaning 'red land'. The capital is Asmara. It is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast...
  
   (Colony)
•   Italian North Africa
  Italian North Africa
  Italian North Africa was the aggregate of territories and colonies controlled by Italy in North Africa from 1911 until World War II...
  
   (Colony)
•   Italian Somaliland
  Italian Somaliland
  Italian Somaliland , also known as Italian Somalia, was a colony of the Kingdom of Italy from the 1880s until 1936 in the region of modern-day Somalia. Ruled in the 19th century by the Somali Sultanate of Hobyo and the Majeerteen Sultanate, the territory was later acquired by Italy through various...
  
   (Colony)
•   Tientsin (Concession)

Japan

•   Chōsen
  Korea under Japanese rule
  Korea was under Japanese rule as part of Japan's 35-year imperialist expansion . Japanese rule ended in 1945 shortly after the Japanese defeat in World War II....
  
   (Dependency)
•   Karafuto
  Karafuto Prefecture
  , commonly called South Sakhalin, was the Japanese administrative division corresponding to Japanese territory on Sakhalin from 1905 to 1945. Through the Treaty of Portsmouth, the portion of Sakhalin south of 50°N became a colony of Japan in 1905...
  
   - Karafuto Prefecture (Dependency)
•   Kwantung
  Kwantung Leased Territory
  The Kwantung Leased Territory was a territory in the southern part of the Liaodong Peninsula in Inner Manchuria that existed from 1898 to 1945. It was one of the numerous territorial concessions that the Empire of China was compelled to award to foreign countries at the end of the 19th century...
  
   - Kwantung Leased Territory (Concession)
•   Taiwan
  Taiwan under Japanese rule
  Between 1895 and 1945, Taiwan was a dependency of the Empire of Japan. The expansion into Taiwan was a part of Imperial Japan's general policy of southward expansion during the late 19th century....
  
   (Dependency)
•   Tientsin (Concession)

Mexico

•   Isla de la Pasión
  Clipperton Island
  Clipperton Island is an uninhabited nine-square-kilometre coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean, southwest of Mexico and west of Central America, at...
  
    (Uninhabited territory)

Nejd

• Asir - Emirate of Asir (Protectorate, from 1914)

Netherlands

•   Curaçao
  Netherlands Antilles
  The Netherlands Antilles , also referred to informally as the Dutch Antilles, was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting of two groups of islands in the Lesser Antilles: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao , in Leeward Antilles just off the Venezuelan coast; and Sint...
  
   - Curaçao and Dependencies (Possession)
• ' (Colony)
•   Netherlands Guiana
  Suriname
  Suriname , officially the Republic of Suriname , is a country in northern South America. It borders French Guiana to the east, Guyana to the west, Brazil to the south, and on the north by the Atlantic Ocean. Suriname was a former colony of the British and of the Dutch, and was previously known as...
  
   (Colony)

New Zealand

•   Cook Islands
  Cook Islands
  The Cook Islands is a self-governing parliamentary democracy in the South Pacific Ocean in free association with New Zealand...
  
   (Dependent territory)
•   Niue Island (Dependent territory)
•   Ross Dependency
  Ross Dependency
  The Ross Dependency is a region of Antarctica defined by a sector originating at the South Pole, passing along longitudes 160° east to 150° west, and terminating at latitude 60° south...
  
   (Uninhabited dependent territory)
•   Union Islands
  Tokelau
  Tokelau is a territory of New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean that consists of three tropical coral atolls with a combined land area of 10 km2 and a population of approximately 1,400...
  
   (Dependent territory)

Norway

•   Bouvet Island
  Bouvet Island
  Bouvet Island is an uninhabited Antarctic volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, 2,525 km south-southwest of South Africa. It is a dependent territory of Norway and, lying north of 60°S latitude, is not subject to the Antarctic Treaty. The centre of the island is an ice-filled crater of an...
  
   (Uninhabited possession)
•   Peter I Island
  Peter I Island
  Peter I Island is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Bellingshausen Sea, from Antarctica. It is claimed as a dependency of Norway, and along with Queen Maud Land and Bouvet Island comprises one of the three Norwegian dependent territories in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic. Peter I Island is ...
  
   (Uninhabited possession)
•   Sverdrup Islands
  Sverdrup Islands
  The Sverdrup Islands is an archipelago of the northern Queen Elizabeth Islands, in Nunavut, Canada. The islands are situated in the Arctic Ocean, west of Ellesmere Island from 77° to 81° North and 85° to 106° West.- History :...
  
   (Uninhabited possession)

Portugal

•   Cape Verde Islands (Colony)
• Kongo
  Kingdom of Kongo
  The Kingdom of Kongo was an African kingdom located in west central Africa in what are now northern Angola, Cabinda, the Republic of the Congo, and the western portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
  
   - Kingdom of Kongo (Vassal, to 1914)
•   Macau
  Macau
  Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...
  
   (Colony)
•   Portuguese East Africa
  Portuguese East Africa
  Mozambique or Portuguese East Africa was the common name by which the Portuguese Empire's territorial expansion in East Africa was known across different periods of time...
  
   (Colony)
•   Portuguese Guinea
  Portuguese Guinea
  Portuguese Guinea was the name for what is today Guinea-Bissau from 1446 to September 10, 1974.-History:...
  
   (Colony)
•   Portuguese India
  Portuguese India
  The Portuguese Viceroyalty of India , later the Portuguese State of India , was the aggregate of Portugal's colonial holdings in India.The government started in 1505, six years after the discovery of a sea route to India by Vasco da Gama, with the nomination of the first Viceroy Francisco de...
  
   - Portuguese State of India (Colony)
•   Portuguese Timor
  Portuguese Timor
  Portuguese Timor was the name of East Timor when it was under Portuguese control. During this period, Portugal shared the island of Timor with the Netherlands East Indies, and later with Indonesia....
  
   (Colony)
•   Portuguese West Africa (Colony)
•   São João Baptista de Ajudá - Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá (Possession)
•   São Tomé and Príncipe
  São Tomé and Príncipe
  São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is a Portuguese-speaking island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two islands: São Tomé and Príncipe, located about apart and about , respectively, off...
  
   (Colony)

Russia

• Bukhara
  Emirate of Bukhara
  The Emirate of Bukhara was a Central Asian state that existed from 1785 to 1920. It occupied the land between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, known formerly as Transoxiana. Its core territory was the land along the lower Zarafshan River, and its urban centres were the ancient cities of...
  
   - Emirate of Bukhara (Protectorate)
•   Finland
  Grand Duchy of Finland
  The Grand Duchy of Finland was the predecessor state of modern Finland. It existed 1809–1917 as part of the Russian Empire and was ruled by the Russian czar as Grand Prince.- History :...
  
   - Grand Duchy of Finland (Autonomous grand duchy)
• Khiva
  Khanate of Khiva
  The Khanate of Khiva was the name of a Uzbek state that existed in the historical region of Khwarezm from 1511 to 1920, except for a period of Persian occupation by Nadir Shah between 1740–1746. It was the patrilineal descendants of Shayban , the fifth son of Jochi and grandson of Genghis Khan...
  
   - Khanate of Khiva (Protectorate)
•   Poland
  Congress Poland
  The Kingdom of Poland , informally known as Congress Poland , created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna, was a personal union of the Russian parcel of Poland with the Russian Empire...
  
   - Kingdom of Poland (Vassal and puppet state)
•   Tientsin (Concession)

Spain

•   Annobón
  Annobón Province
  Annobón , also known as Pagalu or Pigalu, is an island of Equatorial Guinea. It is located in the South Atlantic Ocean at , about 220 miles west of Gabon and south west of São Tomé Island...
  
   (Colony)
•   Fernando Pó
  Bioko
  Bioko is an island 32 km off the west coast of Africa, specifically Cameroon, in the Gulf of Guinea. It is the northernmost part of Equatorial Guinea with a population of 124,000 and an area of . It is volcanic with its highest peak the Pico Basile at .-Geography:Bioko has a total area of...
  
   (Colony)
•   Río Muni
  Río Muni
  Río Muni is the Continental Region of Equatorial Guinea, and comprises the mainland geographical region, covering 26,017 km².-History:Río Muni was ceded by Portugal to Spain in 1778 in the Treaty of El Pardo...
  
   (Colony)
• Spanish Morocco
  Spanish Morocco
  The Spanish protectorate of Morocco was the area of Morocco under colonial rule by the Spanish Empire, established by the Treaty of Fez in 1912 and ending in 1956, when both France and Spain recognized Moroccan independence.-Territorial borders:...
  
   (Protectorate)
•   Spanish North Africa
  Plazas de soberanía
  The plazas de soberanía or sovereign territories, referred to in English as Spanish North Africa or simply Spanish Africa, are the current Spanish territories in continental North Africa bordering Morocco, except the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.After the Reconquista, forces of the...
  
   (Possession)
•   Spanish Sahara
  Spanish Sahara
  Spanish Sahara was the name used for the modern territory of Western Sahara when it was ruled as a territory by Spain between 1884 and 1975...
  
   (Possession)
•   Spanish West Africa (Possession)

United Kingdom

• Aden
  Aden Protectorate
  The Aden Protectorate was a British protectorate in southern Arabia which evolved in the hinterland of Aden following the acquisition of that port by Britain in 1839 as an anti-piracy station, and it continued until the 1960s. For administrative purposes it was divided into the Western...
  
   - Aden Protectorate (Protectorate)
• Afghanistan
  Emirate of Afghanistan
  The Emirate of Afghanistan began with the end of the Durrani Empire and the reign of Dost Mohammad Khan in 1823 and ended when Amir Amanullah Khan became Shah in 1926. This period was characterized by the expansion of European colonial interests in Central Asia...
  
   - Emirate of Afghanistan (Protectorate)
• Ascension Island
  Ascension Island
  Ascension Island is an isolated volcanic island in the equatorial waters of the South Atlantic Ocean, around from the coast of Africa and from the coast of South America, which is roughly midway between the horn of South America and Africa...
  
   (Possession)
• Bahama Islands
  The Bahamas
  The Bahamas , officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is a nation consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets . It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola , northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and southeast of the United States...
  
   (Crown colony)
• Bahrain
  Bahrain
  ' , officially the Kingdom of Bahrain , is a small island state near the western shores of the Persian Gulf. It is ruled by the Al Khalifa royal family. The population in 2010 stood at 1,214,705, including 235,108 non-nationals. Formerly an emirate, Bahrain was declared a kingdom in 2002.Bahrain is...
  
   (Protectorate)
• Baker Island
  Baker Island
  Baker Island is an uninhabited atoll located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean about southwest of Honolulu. The island lies almost halfway between Hawaii and Australia, and is a possession of the United States. Its nearest neighbor is Howland Island, to the north.Located at...
  
   (Uninhabited possession)
•  Barbados (Crown colony)
• Basutoland
  Basutoland
  Basutoland or officially the Territory of Basutoland, was a British Crown colony established in 1884 after the Cape Colony's inability to control the territory...
  
   - Territory of Basutoland (Crown colony)
• Bechuanaland - Bechuanaland Protectorate (Protectorate)
• Bermuda
  Bermuda
  Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...
  
   (Crown colony)
• Bhutan
  Bhutan
  Bhutan , officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked state in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalayas and bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by the People's Republic of China...
  
   - Kingdom of Bhutan (Protectorate)
• British East Africa - British East Africa Protectorate (Protectorate)
• British Guiana
  British Guiana
  British Guiana was the name of the British colony on the northern coast of South America, now the independent nation of Guyana.The area was originally settled by the Dutch at the start of the 17th century as the colonies of Essequibo, Demerara, and Berbice...
  
   (Colony)
•  British Honduras (Crown colony)
• British Leeward Islands
  British Leeward Islands
  The British Leeward Islands was a British colony existing between 1833 and 1960, and consisting of Antigua, Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla and Dominica....
  
   - Federal Colony of the Leeward Islands (Crown colony)
• British Somaliland
  British Somaliland
  British Somaliland was a British protectorate in the northern part of present-day Somalia. For much of its existence, British Somaliland was bordered by French Somaliland, Ethiopia, and Italian Somaliland. From 1940 to 1941, it was occupied by the Italians and was part of Italian East Africa...
  
   (Crown colony)
• British Western Pacific Territories
  British Western Pacific Territories
  The British Western Pacific Territories was the name of a colonial entity, created in 1877, for the administration, under a single representative of the British Crown, styled High Commissioner, of a series of relatively minor Pacific islands in and around Oceania...
  
   (Crown colony)
• British Windward Islands
  British Windward Islands
  The British Windward Islands was a British colony existing between 1833 and 1960 and consisting of the islands of Grenada, St Lucia, Saint Vincent, the Grenadines, Barbados , Tobago , and Dominica, previously included in the...
  
   - Federal Colony of the Windward Islands (Crown colony)
• Brunei
  Brunei
  Brunei , officially the State of Brunei Darussalam or the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace , is a sovereign state located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia...
  
   - State of Brunei Darussalam (Protectorate)
• ' (Crown colony)
• Cyprus
  Cyprus
  Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...
  
   (Crown colony)
• Egypt
  Sultanate of Egypt
  The Sultanate of Egypt is the name of the short-lived protectorate that the United Kingdom imposed over Egypt between 1914 and 1922.-History:...
  
   - Sultanate of Egypt (Protectorate)
• Falkland Islands
  Falkland Islands
  The Falkland Islands are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located about from the coast of mainland South America. The archipelago consists of East Falkland, West Falkland and 776 lesser islands. The capital, Stanley, is on East Falkland...
  
   (Crown colony)
• Federated Malay States
  Federated Malay States
  The Federated Malay States was a federation of four protected states in the Malay Peninsula—Selangor, Perak, Negeri Sembilan and Pahang—established by the British government in 1895, which lasted until 1946, when they, together with the Straits Settlements and the Unfederated Malay...
  
   (Protectorate)
• Gambia
  The Gambia
  The Republic of The Gambia, commonly referred to as The Gambia, or Gambia , is a country in West Africa. Gambia is the smallest country on mainland Africa, surrounded by Senegal except for a short coastline on the Atlantic Ocean in the west....
  
   - Gambia Colony and Protectorate (Crown colony and protectorate)
• Gibraltar
  Gibraltar
  Gibraltar is a British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean. A peninsula with an area of , it has a northern border with Andalusia, Spain. The Rock of Gibraltar is the major landmark of the region...
  
   (Crown colony)
•  Gold Coast (British colony) (Crown colony)
• Graham Land
  Graham Land
  Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...
  
   (Uninhabited possession)
• Guernsey
  Guernsey
  Guernsey, officially the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.The Bailiwick, as a governing entity, embraces not only all 10 parishes on the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm, Jethou, Burhou, and Lihou and their islet...
  
   - Bailiwick of Guernsey (Crown dependency)
• Heard Island and McDonald Islands
  Heard Island and McDonald Islands
  The Heard Island and McDonald Islands are an Australian external territory and volcanic group of barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. The group's overall size is in area and it has of coastline...
  
   (Uninhabited possession)
•  Hong Kong (Crown colony)
•  British Raj - Indian Empire (Crown colony)
•  Isle of Man (Crown dependency)
•  Jamaica (Crown colony)
• Jarvis Island
  Jarvis Island
  Jarvis Island is an uninhabited 4.5 square kilometer coral island located in the South Pacific Ocean at , about halfway between Hawaii and the Cook Islands...
  
   (Uninhabited possession)
•  Jersey - Bailiwick of Jersey (Crown dependency)
•  Johor - State of Johor Darul Ta'zim (Protectorate, from 1914)
  Capital: Johor Bahru
  Johor Bahru
  Johor Bahru is the capital city of Johor in southern Malaysia. Johor Bahru is the southernmost city of the Eurasian mainland...
  
  (administrative), Pasir Pelangi
  Pasir Pelangi
  Pasir Pelangi is the royal village of Johor, Malaysia. It is situated near Stulang and Johor Bahru. This royal village was established in the early 1900s during the reign of Sultan Ibrahim of Johor...
  
  (royal)
•  Kedah - State of Kedah Darul Aman (Protectorate)
•  Kelantan - State of Kelantan Darul Naim (Protectorate)
• Kuwait
  Kuwait
  The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab state situated in the north-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south at Khafji, and Iraq to the north at Basra. It lies on the north-western shore of the Persian Gulf. The name Kuwait is derived from the...
  
   - Sheikdom of Kuwait (Protectorate)
• Lagos Colony
  Lagos Colony
  Lagos Colony was a British colonial possession centered on the port of Lagos in what is now southern Nigeria. Lagos was annexed on 6 August 1861 and declared a colony on 5 March 1862....
  
   (Colony, to January 1)
• Maldive Islands - Sultanate of the Maldive Islands (Protectorate)
• Malta
  Malta
  Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...
  
   (Crown colony)
• Mauritius
  Mauritius
  Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...
  
   (Crown colony)
• Muscat and Oman
  Muscat and Oman
  Muscat and Oman was a country that encompassed the present day Sultanate of Oman and parts of the United Arab Emirates. The country is not to be confused with either the Trucial States or Trucial Oman, which were sheikhdoms under British protection since 1820....
  
   - Sultanate of Muscat and Oman (Protectorate)
• Nepal
  Nepal
  Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
  
   - Kingdom of Nepal (Protectorate)
•   Nigeria
  Nigeria Protectorate
  The Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria was created as a merger of Protectorate of Northern Nigeria and Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria on 1 January 1914, partly because of uneven economy in the two territories, and also due to growing tension with the German colonies.As one of the...
  
   - Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria (Crown colony and protectorate)
•  North Borneo (Crown colony)
• Northern Nigeria
  Northern Nigeria Protectorate
  Northern Nigeria was a British protectorate formed in 1900. The basis of the protectorate was the 1885 Treaty of Berlin which broadly granted Northern Nigeria to Britain, on the basis of their protectorates in Southern Nigeria...
  
   - British Northern Nigeria Protectorate (Protectorate, to January 1)
• Northern Rhodesia
  Northern Rhodesia
  Northern Rhodesia was a territory in south central Africa, formed in 1911. It became independent in 1964 as Zambia.It was initially administered under charter by the British South Africa Company and formed by it in 1911 by amalgamating North-Western Rhodesia and North-Eastern Rhodesia...
  
   - Protectorate of Northern Rhodesia (Colony)
•  Nyasaland - Nyasaland Protectorate (Protectorate)
•  Perlis - State of Perlis Indera Kayangan (Protectorate)
  Capital: Kangar
  Kangar
  Kangar is the state capital of Perlis, Malaysia. It has a population of 48,898 and an area of 2,619.4 ha. It is located in the northern most point of Peninsular Malaysia and is situated by the Perlis River. The center of Kangar is Sena Province, which is referred to by few locals as 'Uptown Sena'...
  
  (administrative), Arau
  Arau
  Arau is the royal capital of Perlis in Malaysia. It is located in Peninsular Malaysia, 14 kilometers southeast of the official state capital of Kangar. The red-roofed Istana is a mixture of colonial and pseudo-Moorish architectural styles...
  
  (royal)
• Phoenix Islands
  Phoenix Islands
  The Phoenix Islands are a group of eight atolls and two submerged coral reefs, lying in the central Pacific Ocean east of the Gilbert Islands and west of the Line Islands. They are a part of the Republic of Kiribati. During the late 1930s they became the site of the last attempted colonial...
  
   (Colony)
• Pitcairn Islands
  Pitcairn Islands
  The Pitcairn Islands , officially named the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, form a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. The islands are a British Overseas Territory and overseas territory of the European Union in the Pacific...
  
   (Colony)
• Saint Helena
  Saint Helena
  Saint Helena , named after St Helena of Constantinople, is an island of volcanic origin in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which also includes Ascension Island and the islands of Tristan da Cunha...
  
   (Crown colony)
•  Kingdom of Sarawak - Kingdom of Sarawak (Protectorate)
• Seychelles
  Seychelles
  Seychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles , is an island country spanning an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar....
  
   (Crown colony)
• Sierra Leone
  Sierra Leone
  Sierra Leone , officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north and east, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of and has an estimated population between 5.4 and 6.4...
  
   - Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate (Crown colony and protectorate)
• South Orkney Islands
  South Orkney Islands
  The South Orkney Islands are a group of islands in the Southern Ocean, about north-east of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. They have a total area of about ....
  
   (Uninhabited possession)
• South Shetland Islands
  South Shetland Islands
  The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands, lying about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of . By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories and they are free for use by any signatory for...
  
   (Uninhabited possession)
• Southern Nigeria
  Southern Nigeria Protectorate
  Southern Nigeria was a British protectorate in the coastal areas of modern-day Nigeria, formed in 1900 from union of the Niger Coast Protectorate with territories chartered by the Royal Niger Company below Lokoja on the Niger River....
  
   - British Southern Nigeria Protectorate (Protectorate, to January 1)
• Southern Rhodesia
  Southern Rhodesia
  Southern Rhodesia was the name of the British colony situated north of the Limpopo River and the Union of South Africa. From its independence in 1965 until its extinction in 1980, it was known as Rhodesia...
  
   - Colony of Southern Rhodesia (Colony)
•  Straits Settlements (Crown colony)
• Suez Canal Zone
  Suez Canal
  The Suez Canal , also known by the nickname "The Highway to India", is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Opened in November 1869 after 10 years of construction work, it allows water transportation between Europe and Asia without navigation...
  
   (Crown colony)
• Swaziland
  Swaziland
  Swaziland, officially the Kingdom of Swaziland , and sometimes called Ngwane or Swatini, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, bordered to the north, south and west by South Africa, and to the east by Mozambique...
  
   - Swaziland Protectorate (Protectorate)
  Capital: Mbabane
  Mbabane
  -References:...
  
  (administrative), Lobamba
  Lobamba
  Lobamba is the traditional and legislative capital of Swaziland, seat of the Parliament and residence of the Queen Mother. It is located in the west of the country, in the Ezulwini valley, 16 km from Mbabane, in the district of Hhohho...
  
  (legislative)
• Terengganu
  Terengganu
  Terengganu is a sultanate and constitutive state of federal Malaysia. The state is also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Iman...
  
   - State of Terengganu Darul Iman (Protectorate)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (Crown colony)
• Tristan da Cunha
  Tristan da Cunha
  Tristan da Cunha is a remote volcanic group of islands in the south Atlantic Ocean and the main island of that group. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying from the nearest land, South Africa, and from South America...
  
   (Crown colony)
• Trucial States
  Trucial States
  The Trucial States were a group of sheikhdoms in the Persian Gulf.-General aspects:The sheikdoms included:*Abu Dhabi *Ajman...
  
   (Protectorate)
•   Uganda (Crown colony)
• Victoria Land
  Victoria Land
  Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...
  
   (Uninhabited possession)
• Weihai
  Weihai
  Weihai is a city in eastern Shandong Province, People's Republic of China. It is the easternmost prefecture-level city of the province and a major seaport. Between 1898 and 1930, the town was a British colony known as Weihaiwei or the Weihai Garrison , and sometimes as Port Edward...
  
  wei (Concession)
• Zanzibar
  Zanzibar
  Zanzibar ,Persian: زنگبار, from suffix bār: "coast" and Zangi: "bruin" ; is a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania, in East Africa. It comprises the Zanzibar Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the mainland, and consists of numerous small islands and two large ones: Unguja , and Pemba...
  
   - Sultanate of Zanzibar (Protectorate)

United States

•   Alaska
  Alaska Territory
  The Territory of Alaska was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 24, 1912, until January 3, 1959, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Alaska...
  
   - Alaska Territory (Territory)
•   American Samoa
  American Samoa
  American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa...
  
   - Territory of American Samoa (Territory)
•   Bajo Nuevo Bank
  Bajo Nuevo Bank
  Bajo Nuevo Bank, also known as the Petrel Islands , is a small, uninhabited reef with some small islets, covered with grass, located in the western Caribbean Sea at , with a lighthouse on Low Cay at . The closest neighbouring land feature is Serranilla Bank, located to the west.The reef was first...
  
   (Uninhabited territory)
•   Cuba
  Cuba
  The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
  
   Protectorate
•   Guam
  Guam
  Guam is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States located in the western Pacific Ocean. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government. Guam is listed as one of 16 Non-Self-Governing Territories by the Special Committee on Decolonization of the United...
  
   - Territory of Guam (Territory)
•   Hawaii
  Territory of Hawaii
  The Territory of Hawaii or Hawaii Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 7, 1898, until August 21, 1959, when its territory, with the exception of Johnston Atoll, was admitted to the Union as the fiftieth U.S. state, the State of Hawaii.The U.S...
  
   - Territory of Hawaii (Territory)
•   Howland Island
  Howland Island
  Howland Island is an uninhabited coral island located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, about southwest of Honolulu. The island lies almost halfway between Hawaii and Australia and is an unincorporated, unorganized territory of the United States. Geographically, it is part...
  
   (Uninhabited territory)
•   Johnston Atoll
  Johnston Atoll
  Johnston Atoll is a atoll in the North Pacific Ocean about west of Hawaii. There are four islands located on the coral reef platform, two natural islands, Johnston Island and Sand Island, which have been expanded by coral dredging, as well as North Island and East Island , an additional two...
  
   (Uninhabited territory)
•   Kingman Reef
  Kingman Reef
  Kingman Reef is a largely submerged, uninhabited triangular shaped reef, east-west and north-south, located in the North Pacific Ocean, roughly half way between the Hawaiian Islands and American Samoa at...
  
   (Uninhabited territory)
•   Middlebrook Island (Uninhabited territory)
•   Midway Atoll
  Midway Atoll
  Midway Atoll is a atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, near the northwestern end of the Hawaiian archipelago, about one-third of the way between Honolulu, Hawaii, and Tokyo, Japan. Unique among the Hawaiian islands, Midway observes UTC-11 , eleven hours behind Coordinated Universal Time and one hour...
  
   (Uninhabited territory)
•   Nicaragua
  Nicaragua
  Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...
  
    Occupied by U.S. Marines
•   Navassa Island
  Navassa Island
  Navassa Island is a small, uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea, claimed as an unorganized unincorporated territory of the United States, which administers it through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Haiti, which claims to have had sovereignty over Navassa since 1801, also claims the island...
  
   (Uninhabited territory)
•  Panama Canal Zone (Territory)
•   Philippine Islands (Territory)
•  Puerto Rico (Territory)
•   Quita Sueño Bank
  Quita Sueño Bank
  Quita Sueño Bank is a reef formation of Colombia which was once claimed by the United States, located 110 km North-northeast of Providencia Island.-History:...
  
   (Uninhabited territory)
•   Roncador Bank
  Roncador Bank
  Roncador Bank is a mostly-submerged atoll with several sandy cays. It lies in the west Caribbean Sea off the coast of Central America. Originally claimed by the United States under the Guano Islands Act of 1856, the atoll was returned by the United States to Colombia on September 17, 1981, as the...
  
   (Uninhabited territory)
•   Serrana Bank
  Serrana Bank
  The Serrana Bank is one of the few atolls in the Atlantic Ocean. Its mostly underwater reef of about 50 km long and 13 km wide has six cays or islets, the most prominent of which is Southwest Cay.The cays from south to north are:...
  
   (Uninhabited territory)
•   Serranilla Bank
  Serranilla Bank
  Serranilla Bank is a partially submerged reef, with small uninhabited islets, in the western Caribbean Sea. It is situated about northeast of Punta Gorda, Nicaragua, and roughly southwest of Jamaica. The closest neighbouring land feature is Bajo Nuevo Bank, located 110 km to the east.Serranilla...
  
   (Uninhabited territory)
•   Swan Islands
  Swan Islands, Honduras
  The Swan Islands, or Islas Santanilla, are a chain of three islands located in the northwestern Caribbean Sea, approximately ninety miles off the coastline of Honduras, with a land area of .-Detailed location and features:...
  
   (Uninhabited territory)
•   Wake Island
  Wake Island
  Wake Island is a coral atoll having a coastline of in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu west to Guam east. It is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior...
  
  (Uninhabited territory)

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