Colony

In politics and in history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a geographically-distant state (or city, in ancient times). Some colonies were historically separate countries, while others were territories without definite statehood at the moment of colonization. The metropolitan state is the state that owns the colony. In Ancient Greece, the city that owned a colony was called the metropolis within its political organization. Mother country is the term used to refer to the metropolitan state by its citizens that live in a colony. In some cases colonies are referred to as overseas territories.

Recent colonies (examples)

• West Papua has been a colonial procession of Indonesia since 1969.
• India was a Dominion in the British Empire until 1947. See also Crown colony.
• Rhodesia was formally a colony in the British Empire until 1980.
• Korea was a colony of Japan
• The Philippines were a colony of the United States until 1946

Today, none of the colonizing European and North American powers hold colonies in the traditional sense of the term. Some of their former colonies have been integrated as dependent areas or have closer integration with the country.

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