UK Territories Past & Present

• Anguilla;
• Bermuda;
• British Antarctic Territory;
• British Indian Ocean Territory (includes the Chagos Islands and Diago Garcia);
• Cayman Islands;
• Falkland Islands (and dependencies);
• Gibraltar;
• Montserrat;
• Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands;
• Saint Helena and its dependencies Gough Island, Inaccessible Island, Nightingale Island and Tristan da Cunha;
• The Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (British military bases in Cyprus);
• Turks and Caicos Islands;
• The Virgin Islands (also known as the “British Virgin Islands”).

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• Aden, colony, State of and protectorate of, later part of Yemen (to 29 Nov 1967)
• Amoy, later Xiamen China (to 16 Sep 1930)
• Anguilla (continuing)
• Antigua and Barbuda (to 26 Feb 1967)
• Ascension Island (to 26 Oct 1922)
• Ashanti – part of Gold Coast (to 5 Mar 1957)
• Ashmore and Cartier Islands (to 31 Dec 1948)
• Ashmore Islands (to 2 May 1934)
• Aubad Island (to 26 Jun 1960)
• Bahamas (to 9 Jul 1973)
• Barbados (to 29 Nov 1966)
• Basutoland, later Lesotho (to 3 Oct 1966)
• Bechuanaland Protectorate, later Botswana (to 29 Sep 1966)
• British Honduras, later Belize (to 20 Sep 1981)
• Bermuda (continuing)
• British Antarctic Territory (continuing)
• British Burma, later Burma and Myanmar (to 3 Jan 1948)
• British Guiana (later Guyana) (to 25 May 1966)
• British Indian Ocean Territory (continuing)
• Brunei (to 31 Dec 1983)
• Cameroons – British, later part of Nigeria (to 30 Sep 1961)
• Cartier Island (to 2 May 1934)
• Cayman Islands (continuing)
• Ceylon, later Sri Lanka (31 Dec 1948)
• Channel Islands – Jersey, Gurnsey, Sark and dependencies (continuing)
• Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) (to 30 Sep 1958)
• Christmas Island (Pacific Ocean) (to 27 Nov 1919)
• Cyprus (to 9 Aug 1960)
• Cyprus, Akrotiri and Dhekelia, British military bases (continuing)
• Dominica (to 28 Feb 1967)
• The Falkland Islands and dependencies (continuing)
• Fanning Island (to 18 May 1916)
• Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Central African Federation) – see Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland
• Fiji (to 9 Oct 1970)
• Gambia, Colony and Protectorate of (to 17 Feb 1965)
• Gan Island (to 29 Mar 1976)
• Gibraltar (continuing)
• Gilbert and Ellice Islands, later Kiribati and Tuvalu (to 11 Jul 1979)
• Gold Coast Colony, Ashanti and protectorate, later Ghana (to 5 Mar 1957)
• Grenada (to 21 Feb 1967)
• Heard and McDonald Islands (to 31 Dec 1948)
• Hong Kong (to 30 Jun 1997)
• India: independent India, Pakistan or British India (to 31 Dec 1948)
• Isle of Man (continuing)
• Jamaica (to 5 Aug 1962)
• Kenya, Colony and Protectorate of (to 11 Dec 1963)
• Kuria Muria Islands (to 29 Nov 1967)
• Labuan, later part of Malaysia (to 14 Jul 1946)
• Lawas River, later part of Malaysia (to 15 Sep 1963)
• Leeward Islands (to 1 Jan 1960)
• Line Islands (to 11 Jul 1979)
• Malacca, later part of Malaysia (to 30 Aug 1957)
• Malaya, later Malaysia (Malay States, Penang, Malacca, Labuan, Dindings, Province Wellesley) (to 30 Aug 1957)
• Malta (to 20 Sep 1964)
• Mantanani Islands (to 15 Sep 1963)
• Mauritius (to 11 Mar 1968)
• Montserrat (continuing)
• Nigeria, Colony and Protectorate of (to 30 Sep 1960)
• Norfolk Island (to 31 Dec 1948)
• Northern Rhodesia, later Zambia (to 23 Oct 1964)
• Northern Territories – part of Gold Coast (to 5 Mar 1957)
• Nyasaland Protectorate, later Malawi (to 5 Jul 1964)
• Pakistan, British India or independent India (to 31 Dec 1948)
• Papua, later part of Papua New Guinea (to 31 Dec 1948)
• Penang Island, later part of Malaysia (to 30 Aug 1957)
• Perim Island (to 29 Nov 1967)
• Phoenix Islands (to 17 Mar 1937)
• Pitcairn and dependencies Ducie Island, Henderson Island, Oeno Island (continuing)
• Prince Edward Islands (to 3 Jan 1948)
• Ross Dependency (to 31 Dec 1948)
• Sabah, British North Borneo, later part of Malaysia (to 15 Sep 1963)
• Saint Helena and its dependencies Gough Island, Inaccessible Island, Nightingale Island and Tristan da Cunha (continuing)
• Sarawak, later part of Malaysia (to 15 Sep 1963)
• Seychelles (to 28 Jun 1976)
• Sierra Leone, Colony and Protectorate of (to 26 Apr 1961)
• Singapore (to 2 Jun 1959)
• Somaliland, State of – formerly British Somaliland (to 26 Jun 1960)
• South Arabia, Protectorate of, later part of Yemen (to 29 Nov 1967)
• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (continuing)
• South Sandwich Islands (to 31 Aug 1908)
• Southern Nigeria, Colony of (to 30 Sep 1960)
• Southern Rhodesia, later Zimbabwe (to 31 Dec 1948)
• St. Christopher and Nevis (to 26 Feb 1967)
• St. Lucia (to 28 Feb 1967)
• St. Vincent (to 26 Oct 1969)
• Straits Settlements, later part of Malaysia or Singapore (to 31 Mar 1946)
• Swaziland (to 6 Sep 1968)
• Tanganyika Territory, later Tanzania (to 8 Dec 1961)
• Togoland, British (to 5 Mar 1957)
• Tokelau Islands (to 12 Sep 1948)
• Trinidad and Tobago (to 30 Aug 1962)
• Turks and Caicos Islands (continuing)
• Uganda, Protectorate of (to 8 Oct 1962)
• The Virgin Islands, British (continuing)
• Washington Island (to 18 May 1916)
• Wei-Hai-Wei (Weihai Garrison or Port Edward), later Weihai China (to 30 Sep 1930)
• West Indies Federation (to 31 May 1962)
• Windward Islands (to 1 Jan 1960)
• Zanzibar (Sultanate), later part of Kenya and Tanzania (to 9 Dec 1963)

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