former British colony

A former British colony is a territory that was once governed or administered by the British Empire but has since gained independence or undergone a change in political status.

Observed surface forms (31)

• former colony ×50
• historical political entity ×26
• British colony ×25
• Thirteen Colonies ×6
• British colony in North America ×4
• British colonial possession ×3
• British dominion ×3
• colonial possession ×3
• British overseas territory ×2
• North American colony ×2

• British American colonies ×1
• British Crown colony ×1
• British Dominion ×1
• British colonial entity ×1
• British colonial province ×1
• British colonial territory ×1
• British colonies in North America ×1
• British overseas settlement ×1
• English overseas possession ×1
• charter colony ×1
• former British colonial possession ×1
• former British protectorate ×1
• former colonial entity ×1
• former colonial territories ×1
• former colony and protectorate of the United Kingdom ×1
• former components of the British Empire ×1
• former federation of colonies ×1
• former province of British India ×1
• period of British rule ×1
• province of the Kingdom of Great Britain ×1
• remnants of the British Empire ×1

Instances (112)

• New France via concept surface "former colony"
• Borneo territories of the British Empire via concept surface "former colonial territories"
• Danubian Principalities via concept surface "historical political entity"
• British America via concept surface "former colonial entity"
• Iberian Union via concept surface "historical political entity"
• Province of Carolina via concept surface "former colony"
• Phips via concept surface "British colony"
  surface form: Province of Massachusetts Bay
• Southern Colonies via concept surface "British colonies in North America"
• French Morocco via concept surface "former colony"
• Province of Canada via concept surface "British colony"
• Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations via concept surface "British colony"
• Province of South Carolina via concept surface "British colony"
• Gela via concept surface "former colony"
• British Canada via concept surface "former British colonial possession"
• Dutch Gold Coast via concept surface "former colony"
• British Gold Coast
• New York Colony via concept surface "British colony"
• Lower Canada via concept surface "British colony"
• Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria
• Colony of Maryland via concept surface "British colony"
• Spanish East Indies via concept surface "former colony"
• British Malaya
• Easttown Township, Province of Pennsylvania via concept surface "British colony in North America"
  surface form: Province of Pennsylvania
• Colony of Pennsylvania via concept surface "British colony"
• East Florida via concept surface "British colony"
• West Florida via concept surface "British colonial province"
• British colonial period in Jamaica via concept surface "period of British rule"
• Spanish West Indies via concept surface "former colony"
• Natal Colony
• Genoese colonies in Crimea via concept surface "colonial possession"
• Thirteen Colonies
• Italian Somaliland via concept surface "former colony"
• British Overseas Territories via concept surface "remnants of the British Empire"
• Burma (until 1937) via concept surface "British colonial territory"
• French Territory of the Afars and the Issas via concept surface "historical political entity"
• British Solomon Islands Protectorate via concept surface "former British protectorate"
• Portuguese India via concept surface "former colony"
• Connecticut Colony via concept surface "British colony in North America"
• Province of Georgia via concept surface "British colony"
• Hong Kong under British rule via concept surface "British colony"
• British concession in Hankow via concept surface "British overseas settlement"
• Wei Hai Wei via concept surface "British colonial possession"
• British India via concept surface "British colony"
• British West Indies
• Province of Quebec via concept surface "British colony"
• Bourbon realms via concept surface "historical political entity"
• Italian Libya via concept surface "former colony"
• Trust Territory of Cameroon under French administration via concept surface "former colony"
• Colony and Dominion of Virginia via concept surface "British colony"
• Ubangi-Shari territory via concept surface "former colony"
  surface form: Ubangi-Shari