Imperialism can be in the form of a colony where a foreign country is in control of a protectorate with the local government controlled by a foreign country. A foreign country can also exert a great deal of economic influence. One of the most widespread forms of imperialism was colonization.
Imperialism Examples and Colonies
Former European Colonies in North and South America
Britain
- Belize
- Canada – British Columbia, Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
- Mosquito Coast, British Guiana
- Falkland Islands
- Newfoundland and Labrador, North-Western Territory, Prince Edward Island, Rupert’s Land, Upper Canada
- South Georgia
- South Sandwich Islands
- United States: 13 colonies, Oregon country in the Pacific Northwest
France
- Canada – eastern and central
- French Guiana
- Haiti
- Brazil for a short time
- Iles Malouines
- Sao Luis for a short time
- United States – area around the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, the Great Lakes
Netherlands
- New Netherlands – portions of modern day Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island
Portugal
- Brazil
- Cisplatina
- French Guiana
- Labrador
- Terra Nova in Newfoundland
Russia
- Alaska
Spain
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- East Florida
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Nootka (near Vancouver Island)
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Portion of the Southwestern United States – Arizona, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- West Florida
Sweden
- New Sweden – parts of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania in the United States
Former European Colonies in Africa and the Indian Ocean
Belgium
- Belgian Congo
- Lado Enclave
- Ruanda-Urundi
Brandenburg
- Arguin
- Brandenburger Gold Coast
Britain
- Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
- Basutoland
- Bechuanaland
- British East Africa
- British Somaliland
- British Togoland
- Cameroons
- Egypt
- Gambia
- Gold Coast
- Nigeria
- Northern Rhodesia
- Nyasaland
- Sierra Leone
- South Africa
- South-West Africa
- Southern Rhodesia
- Swaziland
- Tanganyika
- Uganda
- Zanzibar
France
- Albreda
- Algeria
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Dahomey
- French Congo
- French Guinea
- French Upper Volta
- French Somaliland
- French Sudan
- French Togoland
- Gabon
- Ivory Coast
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Niger
- Oubangui-Chari
- Senegal
- Tunisia
- Zanzibar
- Comoros
- Isle de France
- Madagascar
- Seychelles
Germany
- German East Africa – Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania
- German South West Africa
- Kamerun
- Togoland
- Wituland
Italy
- Eritrea
- Italian Somaliland
- Libya
- Netherlands
- Angola
- Arguin Island
- Dutch Gold Coast
- Goree
- Mocambique
- Sao Tomé
- South Africa
- Dutch Mauritius
Portugal
- Ajuda
- Angola
- Annobon
- Cabinda
- Ceuta
- Goree
- Malindi
- Mombasa
- Algarve Ultramar – Agadir, Alcacer Ceguer, Arzila, Azamor, Mazagan, Mogador, Safim
- Mozambique
- Portuguese Gold Coast
- Portuguese Guinea
- Quiloa
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Tangier
- Zanzibar
- Ziguinchor
- Laccadive Islands
- Maldive Islands
- Socotra
Spain
- Bona
- Bougie
- Jerba
- Fernando Po and Annobon
- Oran
- Port Guinea
- Rio Muni
- Spanish North Africa
- Spanish West Africa
Former European colonies in Asia, India, the Pacific and the Middle East
France
- East Asia Indochina
- Hatay
- India
- Lebanon
- New Hebrides
- Syria
- Yemen
Britain
- Aden Protectorate
- Australia
- Bahrain
- Bhutan
- British India
- Brunei
- Burma
- Ceylon
- Egypt
- Hong Kong
- Kuwait
- New Zealand
- Malaysia
- Oman
- Palestine
- Phoenix Islands
- Qatar
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- South Arabia
- Transjordan
- Trucial Coast
- Western Samoa
Portugal
- Bandar Abbas
- Bombay
- Calicut
- Cambay
- Cannanore
- Ceylon
- Chaul
- Chittagong
- Cochin
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli
- Daman and Diu
- Flores
- Goa
- Hormuz
- Hughli
- Macau
- Malacca
- Manama
- Mangalore
- Masulipatnam
- Moluccas
- Muharraq Island
- Muscat
- Portuguese Timor
- Qeshm
- Surat
- Syriam
Imperialism is, and was, very common and there are many different locations which have been under the control of another foreign country, all of which are examples of imperialism.
