Basutoland

18th century
1708–1757  Minorca
since 1713  Gibraltar
1763–1782  Minorca
1798–1802  Minorca

19th century
1800–1964  Malta
1807–1890  Heligoland
1809–1864  Ionian Islands

20th century
1921–1937  Irish Free State

17th century
1583–1907  Newfoundland
1605–1979  *Saint Lucia
1607–1776  Virginia
since 1619  Bermuda
1620–1691  Plymouth Colony
1623–1883  Saint Kitts (*Saint Kitts & Nevis)
1624–1966  *Barbados
1625–1650  Saint Croix
1627–1979  *St. Vincent and the Grenadines
1628–1883  Nevis (*Saint Kitts & Nevis)
1629–1691  Massachusetts Bay Colony
1632–1776  Maryland
since 1632  Montserrat
1632–1860  Antigua (*Antigua & Barbuda)
1636–1776  Connecticut
1636–1776  Rhode Island
1637–1662  New Haven Colony
1643–1860  Bay Islands
since 1650  Anguilla
1655–1850  Mosquito Coast (protectorate)
1655–1962  *Jamaica
1663–1712  Carolina
1664–1776  New York
1665–1674 and 1702–1776  New Jersey
since 1666  British Virgin Islands
since 1670  Cayman Islands
1670–1973  *Bahamas
1670–1870  Rupert's Land
1671–1816  Leeward Islands
1674–1702  East Jersey
1674–1702  West Jersey
1680–1776  New Hampshire
1681–1776  Pennsylvania
1686–1689  Dominion of New England
1691–1776  Massachusetts

18th century
1701–1776  Delaware
1712–1776  North Carolina
1712–1776  South Carolina
1713–1867  Nova Scotia
1733–1776  Georgia
1762–1974  *Grenada
1763–1978  Dominica
1763–1873  Prince Edward Island
1763–1791  Quebec
1763–1783  East Florida
1763–1783  West Florida
1784–1867  New Brunswick
1791–1841  Lower Canada
1791–1841  Upper Canada
since 1799  Turks and Caicos Islands

19th century
1818–1846  Columbia District / Oregon Country¹
1833–1960  Windward Islands
1833–1960  Leeward Islands
1841–1867  Province of Canada
1849–1866  Vancouver Island
1853–1863  Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands
1858–1866  British Columbia
1859–1870  North-Western Territory
1860–1981  *British Antigua and Barbuda
1862–1863  Stikine Territory
1866–1871  Vancouver Island and British Columbia
1867–1931  *Dominion of Canada²
1871–1964  British Honduras (*Belize)
1882–1983  *St. Kitts and Nevis
1889–1962  Trinidad and Tobago

20th century
1907–1949  Dominion of Newfoundland³
1958–1962  West Indies Federation

¹Occupied jointly with the United States
²In 1931, Canada and other British dominions obtained self-government through the Statute of Westminster. see Canada's name.
³Gave up self-rule in 1934, but remained a de jure Dominion until it joined Canada in 1949.

17th century
1651–1667  Willoughbyland (Suriname)
1670–1688  St. Andrew and Providence Islands⁴

18th century

19th century
1831–1966  British Guiana (Guyana)
since 1833  Falkland Islands⁵
20th century
since 1908  South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands⁵

⁴Now the San Andrés y Providencia Department of Colombia
⁵Occupied by Argentina during the Falklands War of April–June 1982

18th century
1792–1961  Sierra Leone
1795–1803  Cape Colony

19th century
1806–1910  Cape Colony
1807–1808  Madeira
1810–1968  Mauritius
1816–1965  Gambia
1856–1910  Natal
1868–1966  Basutoland (Lesotho)
1874–1957  Gold Coast (Ghana)
1882–1922  Egypt
1884–1966  Bechuanaland (Botswana)
1884–1960  British Somaliland
1887–1897  Zululand
1890–1962  Uganda
1890–1963  Zanzibar (Tanzania)
1891–1964  Nyasaland (Malawi)
1891–1907  British Central Africa Protectorate
1893–1968  Swaziland
1895–1920  East Africa Protectorate
1899–1956  Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

20th century
1900–1914  Northern Nigeria
1900–1914  Southern Nigeria
1900–1910  Orange River Colony
1900–1910  Transvaal Colony
1906–1954  Nigeria Colony
1910–1931  South Africa
1914–1954  Nigeria Colony and Protectorate
1915–1931  South West Africa (Namibia)
1919–1960  Cameroons (Cameroon) ⁶
1920–1963  Kenya
1922–1961  Tanganyika (Tanzania) ⁶
1923–1965  Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) ⁷
1924–1964  Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)
1954–1960  Nigeria
1979–1980  Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) ⁷

⁶League of Nations mandate
⁷Southern Rhodesia, which had self-rule from 1923, issued a Unilateral Declaration of Independence on 11 November 1965, as Rhodesia. It returned to British control in December 1979.

17th Century
1685–1824  Bencoolen
(Sumatra)

18th century
1702–1705  Côn Đảo
1757–1947  Bengal (West Bengal (India) and Bangladesh)
1762–1764  Manila
1795–1948  Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
1796–1965  Maldives

19th century
1812–1824  Banka (Sumatra)
1812–1824  Billiton (Sumatra)
1819–1826  British Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore)
1824–1946  Straits Settlement of Malacca

1826–1946  Straits Settlements
1839–1967  Colony of Aden
1839–1842  Afghanistan
1841–1997  Hong Kong
1841–1946  Kingdom of Sarawak (Malaysia)
1848–1946  Crown colony of Labuan

1858–1947  British India (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Burma)
1879–1919  Afghanistan
1882–1963  British North Borneo (Malaysia)
1885–1946  Unfederated Malay States
1888–1984  Sultanate of Brunei
1888–1946  Sultanate of Sulu
1891–1971  Muscat and Oman protectorate
1892–1971  Trucial States protectorate
1895–1946  Federated Malay States
1898–1930  Weihai Garrison
1878–1960  Cyprus

20th century
1918–1961  Kuwait protectorate
1920–1932  Iraq⁷
1921–1946  Transjordan⁷
1923–1948  Palestine⁷
1945–1946  South Vietnam
1946–1963  Sarawak (Malaysia)
1946–1963  Singapore
1946–1948  Malayan Union
1948–1957  Federation of Malaya (Malaysia)
since 1960  Akrotiri and Dhekelia (before as part of Cyprus)
since 1965  British Indian Ocean Territory (before as part of Mauritius and the Seychelles)

⁷League of Nations mandate

18th century
1788–1901  New South Wales

19th century
1803–1901  Van Diemen's Land/Tasmania
1807–1863  Auckland Islands⁸
1824–1980  New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
1824–1901  Queensland
1829–1901  Swan River Colony/Western Australia
1836–1901  South Australia
since 1838  Pitcairn Islands
1841–1907  Colony of New Zealand
1851–1901  Victoria
1874–1970  Fiji⁹
1877–1976  British Western Pacific Territories
1884–1949  Territory of Papua
1888–1965  Cook Islands⁸
1889–1948  Union Islands (Tokelau)⁸
1892–1979  Gilbert and Ellice Islands¹⁰
1893–1978  British Solomon Islands¹¹

20th century
1900–1970  Tonga (protected state)
1900–1974  Niue⁸
1901–1942  *Commonwealth of Australia
1907–1953  *Dominion of New Zealand
1919–1942  Nauru
1945–1968  Nauru
1919–1949  Territory of New Guinea
1949–1975  Territory of Papua and New Guinea¹²

⁸Now part of the *Realm of New Zealand
⁹Suspended member
¹⁰Now Kiribati and *Tuvalu
¹¹Now the *Solomon Islands
¹²Now *Papua New Guinea

17th century
since 1659  St. Helena¹³

19th century
since 1815  Ascension Island¹³
since 1816  Tristan da Cunha¹³

20th century
since 1908  British Antarctic Territory¹⁴

¹³Since 2009 part of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha; Ascension Island (1922—) and Tristan da Cunha (1938—) were previously dependencies of St Helena
¹⁴Both claimed in 1908; territories formed in 1962 (British Antarctic Territory) and 1985 (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)