Data for this page came from the CIA World Factbook

Countries that were colonized by Great Britain

North America

    Canada, the U.S.

The Caribbean

    Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago

Sub-Saharan Africa

    Botswana, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

SW Asia and N. Africa

    Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Sudan, UAE, Yemen

South Asia

    Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

SE Asia

    Brunei, Burma, Malaysia, Singapore

Australia and Oceania

    Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Tuvalu

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Countries that were colonized by Spain

Latin America

    Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela

The Caribbean

    Cuba, Dominican Republic

Sub-Saharan Africa

    Equatorial Guinea,

SW Asia and N. Africa

    Western Sahara

SE Asia

    Philippines

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Countries that were colonized by Portugal

Latin America

    Brazil

Sub-Saharan Africa

    Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique

SW Asia and N. Africa

    Oman

SE Asia

    East Timor

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Countries that were colonized by The Netherlands

The Caribbean

    Suriname

SE Asia

    Indonesia

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Countries that were colonized by France

The Caribbean

    French Guiana, Haiti

Sub-Saharan Africa

    Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Senegal, Togo

SW Asia and N. Africa

    Algeria, Djibouti, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia

SE Asia

    Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam

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Countries that were colonized by Belgium

Sub-Saharan Africa

    Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda

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Countries that were colonized by Italy

SW Asia and N. Africa

    Libya

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Countries that were part of The Soviet Union

Europe

    Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

The Russian Domain

    Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine

Central Asia

    Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan

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Countries that were never colonized

Sub-Saharan Africa

    Ethiopia

Central Asia

    Afghanistan

East Asia

    China, Japan

SE Asia

    Thailand