List of colonies
This is a list of territories and polities that have been or are considered colonies.
Colonies of European countries
British
- Aden Protectorate
- Akrotiri and Dhekelia
- Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
- Ashanti
- Australia
- * Colony of New South Wales
- * Colony of Queensland
- * Colony of Tasmania
- * Colony of Victoria
- * Province of South Australia
- * Swan River Colony
- * Van Diemen's Land
- Basutoland
- British America
- * West Florida
- * Colony of Jamaica
- * Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
- * Colony of Virginia
- * Connecticut Colony
- * Delaware Colony
- * East Florida
- * Indian Reserve
- * Mosquito Coast
- * New Ireland
- * Newfoundland Colony
- * North-Western Territory
- * Province of Carolina
- * Province of Georgia
- * Province of Maryland
- * Province of Massachusetts Bay
- * Province of New Hampshire
- * Province of New Jersey
- * Province of New York
- * Province of North Carolina
- * Province of Pennsylvania
- * Province of Quebec
- * Province of South Carolina
- * Rupert's Land
- British Bahamas
- British Bechuanaland
- British Bencoolen
- British Borneo
- * Brunei
- * Crown Colony of Labuan
- * Crown Colony of North Borneo
- * Crown Colony of Sarawak
- * North Borneo
- * Raj of Sarawak
- British Cameroons
- British Ceylon
- British Cyprus
- British Guinea
- British Guiana
- British Honduras
- British Hong Kong
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- British Kaffraria
- British Leeward Islands
- * Antigua-Barbuda-Montserrat
- * Anguilla
- * British Virgin Islands
- * Montserrat
- * Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla
- British Malaya
- * Federated Malay States
- * Straits Settlements
- * Unfederated Malay States
- British Mauritius
- British North America
- * Colony of British Columbia
- * Colony of British Columbia
- * Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands
- * Colony of Vancouver Island
- * Lower Canada
- * Newfoundland Colony
- * Province of Canada
- * Stickeen Territories
- * Upper Canada
- British occupation of Manila
- British Raj
- * Aden Province
- * Ajmer-Merwara
- * Assam Province
- * Baluchistan Agency
- * Bengal Presidency
- * Bombay Presidency
- * Bihar and Orissa Province
- * Bihar Province
- * British rule in Burma
- * Central Provinces
- * Central Provinces and Berar
- * Coorg Province
- * Eastern Bengal and Assam
- * Madras Presidency
- * Nagpur Province
- * North-West Frontier Province
- * Orissa Province
- * Punjab Province
- * Panth Piploda Province
- * Sind Province
- * United Provinces
- * Princely States
- British rule in Ireland
- * Kingdom of Ireland
- * British IrelandFile:Procession1877.jpg|thumb|The Delhi Durbar of 1877: the proclamation of Queen Victoria as Empress of India
- British Somaliland
- British Togoland
- British Weihaiwei
- British Western Pacific Territories
- * British Solomon Islands
- * Cook Islands Federation
- * Canton and Enderbury Islands
- * Colony of Fiji
- * Gilbert and Ellice Islands
- * Kingdom of Tonga
- * Kingdom of Rarotonga
- * New Hebrides
- * Pitcairn Islands
- British Windward Islands
- Aden Colony
- Cape Colony
- Colonial Nigeria
- * Federation of Nigeria
- * Lagos Colony
- * Niger Coast Protectorate
- * Northern Nigeria Protectorate
- * Southern Nigeria Protectorate
- Crown Colony of Malacca
- Colony of Natal
- Colony of New Zealand
- Crown Colony of Penang
- Colony of Singapore
- Crown Colony of Malta
- British concession of Tianjin
- British Concession of Jiujiang
- British Concession at Amoy
- British Concession
- British Central Africa Protectorate
- Bermuda
- Bahrain and its Dependencies
- Bechuanaland Protectorate
- Barotziland–North-Western Rhodesia
- Berbice
- Cayman Islands
- Dominion of New Zealand
- Dominion of Newfoundland
- Demerara-Essequibo
- East Africa Protectorate
- Emirate of Afghanistan
- Emirate of Transjordan
- Emirate of Kuwait
- Falkland Islands
- Falkland Islands Dependencies
- French and British interregnum in the Dutch East Indies
- Federation of Malaya
- Federation of the Emirates of South Arabia
- Federation of South Arabia
- Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
- Gambia Colony and Protectorate
- Gibraltar
- Gold Coast
- Griqualand East
- Griqualand West
- History of Egypt under the British
- Kenya Colony
- Kulangsu International Settlement
- Khedivate of Egypt
- Mandatory Iraq
- Mandatory Palestine
- Muscat and Oman
- Malayan Union
- Malta Protectorate
- North-Eastern Rhodesia
- Northern Rhodesia
- Northern Territories of the Gold Coast
- Nyasaland
- Orange River Sovereignty
- Orange River Colony
- Oregon Country
- Protectorate of Uganda
- Protectorate of South Arabia
- Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
- * Ascension Island
- * Saint Helena
- * Tristan da Cunha
- Sultanate of Egypt
- Sultanate of Zanzibar
- Sultanate of the Maldive Islands
- Shanghai International Settlement
- Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Southern Rhodesia
- St. Peter's Colony
- Transvaal Colony
- Tanganyika Territory
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Trucial StatesFile:Resa del bacino del Brandewater.jpg|thumb|The result of the Boer Wars was the annexation of the Boer Republics to the British Empire in 1902
- Union of South Africa
- United States of the Ionian Islands
- West Indies Federation
- Wituland
- Zimbabwe Rhodesia
French
- Acadia
- Canada
- Clipperton Island
- Collectivity of Saint Martin
- De Rays Expedition
- Equinoctial France
- France Antarctique
- French Algeria
- French and British interregnum in the Dutch East Indies
- French Cameroon
- French concession of Hankou
- French Equatorial Africa
- * French Chad
- * French Congo
- * Ubangi-Shari
- French Guiana
- French India
- French Indochina
- *Annam
- *French Cochinchina
- *French protectorate of Cambodia
- *French protectorate of Laos
- *Tonkin
- French Madagascar
- French protectorate in Morocco
- French protectorate of Tunisia
- French Polynesia
- French Somaliland
- French Southern and Antarctic Lands File:LeCommandantMarchand.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Contemporary illustration of Major Marchand's trek across Africa in 1898
- French West Africa
- * Colonial Mauritania
- * Colony of Niger
- * French Dahomey
- * French Guinea
- * French Sudan
- * French Upper Volta
- Guadeloupe
- Inini
- Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia
- Leased Territory of Guangzhouwan
- Louisiana
- Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
- * Alawite State
- * Greater Lebanon
- * Jabal Druze State
- * State of Syria
- Martinique
- New Caledonia
- New Hebrides
- Réunion
- Saint Barthélemy
- Saint-Domingue
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Shanghai French Concession
- Wallis and Futuna
Russian
- Fort Ross
- Russian America
- Russian concession of Tianjin
- Russian Dalian
- Sagallo
German
- Adelsverein
- Brandenburger Gold Coast
- German concession of Tianjin
- German East Africa
- German New Guinea
- German Samoa
- German South West Africa
- Kamerun
- Kapitaï and Koba
- Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory
- Klein-Venedig
- Mahinland
- New Swabia
- North Solomon Islands
- Togoland
- Wituland
Italian
- Italian Islands of the Aegean
- Italian protectorate of Albania
- Italian concession of Tianjin
- Italian East Africa
- * Italian Eritrea
- * Italian Ethiopia
- * Italian Somaliland
- * Oltre Giuba
- Italian Libya
- * Italian Tripolitania
- * Italian Cyrenaica
Dutch
- Aruba
- Bonaire
- Curaçao
- Dutch Brazil
- Dutch Cape Colony
- Dutch Ceylon
- Dutch East Indies
- Dutch Formosa
- Dutch Malacca
- Dutch New Guinea
- Saba
- Senegambia
- Sint Eustatius
- Sint Maarten
- Surinam
Portuguese
- Azores
- Colonial Brazil
- Madeira
- Portuguese Angola
- Portuguese Cape Verde
- Portuguese Ceylon
- Portuguese Guinea
- Portuguese India
- Portuguese Macau
- Portuguese Malacca
- Portuguese Mozambique
- Portuguese Nagasaki
- Portuguese Oman
- Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe
- Portuguese Timor
Spanish
- Canary Islands
- Captaincy General of CubaFile:Entrada triunfal de Arsenio Martínez Campos en La Habana, 1878.jpg|thumb|Spanish General Arsenio Martínez Campos in Havana, Colonial Cuba, 1878
- * Louisiana
- * Spanish Florida
- Captaincy General of the Philippines
- Ifni
- New Spain
- * Captaincy General of Guatemala
- * Captaincy General of Yucatán
- * Captaincy General of Santo Domingo
- * Captaincy General of Puerto Rico
- * Spanish Formosa
- Río de Oro
- Saguia el-Hamra
- Spanish Oran
- Spanish protectorate in MoroccoFile:093 La batalla de Tetuan, de Marià Fortuny.jpg|thumb|The Battle of Tétouan, 1860, by Marià Fortuny
- Spanish Sahara
- Spanish Tripoli
- Viceroyalty of Peru
- * Captaincy General of Chile
- Viceroyalty of New Granada
- * Captaincy General of Venezuela
- Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
- * Spanish Guinea
Austrian
- Austro-Hungarian concession of Tianjin
- Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Danish
- Danish Gold Coast
- Danish India
- Danish West IndiesFile:Bark MARY og Frederiksted.jpg|thumb|Frederiksstad on Saint Croix, Danish West Indies, 1848
- Faroe Islands
- Greenland
Belgian
- Belgian concession of Tianjin
- Belgian Congo
- Ruanda-Urundi