British Empire

Extent

At its traditional height in 1921, the British Empire consisted of the following territories:

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Africa

• Basutoland (now Lesotho)
• Bechuanaland (now Botswana) (divided, one part colony and another part a British protectorate)
• British Togoland (now part of Ghana)
• Gambia
• Gold Coast (now Ghana)
• Egypt (as a state under British protectorate)
• Kenya (most parts colony, the coast area protectorate)
• Mauritius
• Nigeria
• Northern Cameroons (now part of Nigeria)
• Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia)
• Nyasaland (now Malawi)
• Sierra Leone
• Somaliland
• South Africa
• Southern Cameroons (now part of Cameroon, being 9% of the territory of Cameroon)
• Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
• South West Africa (now Namibia)
• Swaziland (as a state under British protectorate)
• Sudan
• Tanganyika and Zanzibar (now Tanzania) (Zanzibar as a state under British protectorate)
• Uganda

The Americas and Atlantic

• Ascension Island
• British Guiana (now Guyana)
• British Honduras (now Belize)
• Canada
• Falkland Islands
• Newfoundland (now a province of Canada)
• West Indies
• Anguilla
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Bahamas
• Barbados
• Bermuda
• British Virgin Islands
• Cayman Islands
• Dominica
• Grenada
• Jamaica
• Montserrat
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Turks and Caicos Islands
• St Helena
• Tristan da Cunha
• South Georgia (also claimed by Argentina)

Antarctica

• British Antarctic Territory (under Antarctic Treaty overlaps Argentine and Chilean claim)

Asia

• Aden Colony (now part of Yemen)
• Aden Protectorate (states under British protection; now part of Yemen)
• Bahrain
• Bhutan
• British India (now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh)
• British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel without the Golan Heights plus the Gaza Strip and the West Bank)
• Brunei (British protectorate)
• Burma (now Myanmar)
• Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
• Hong Kong (now a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China)
• Iraq
• Kuwait
• Malaya (now Peninsular Malaysia, part of Malaysia)
• Maldives
• North Borneo (now Sabah, part of Malaysia)
• Muscat and Oman (now Oman)
• Qatar
• Sarawak (now part of Malaysia)
• Sikkim (now part of India)
• Straits Settlements (Singapore, Malacca, Penang, and Labuan in Southeast Asia and Cocos Islands and Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean; now divided among Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia)
• Transjordan (now Jordan)
• Trucial States (states under British protection; now the United Arab Emirates)
• Wei-Hai-Wei (威海衞) (now the city of Weihai in Shandong, China)

Europe

• Channel Islands (crown dependencies)
• Guernsey
• Jersey
• Cyprus
• Gibraltar
• Malta
• Isle of Man (crown dependency)
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Pacific

• Australia
• British New Guinea (southern part of what is now Papua New Guinea)
• Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu)
• Fiji
• Gilbert Islands (now part of Kiribati)
• Nauru
• New Hebrides (condominium shared with the French Empire) (now Vanuatu)
• New Zealand
• Pitcairn
• Solomon Islands
• Tonga (as a state under British protectorate)