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The following is a complete list of British posessions in the year 1851 and their respective form of governance/alignment with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Bight of Biafra (Protectorate)

Bioko (Leased Territory)

Gambia (Colony)

Sierra Leone (Crown Colony)

Walvis Bay (Protectorate)

Province of Canada (Colony)

Newfoundland (Crown Colony)

Nova Scotia (self-governed territory)

Prince Edward Island (Colony)

Rupert's Land (Posession controlled by the Hudson's Bay Co; a British fur-trading company)

Vancouver Land (Colony)

Leeward Islands (Colony)

Bahamas (Crown Colony)

Windward Islands (Colony)

Bay Islands (Colony)

British Honduras (Crown Colony)

Cayman Islands (Colony)

Dominica (Colony)

Jamaica (Colony)

Mosquito Coast (Protectorate)

Turks and Caicos Islands (Colony)

British Guiana (Colony)

Aden (Colony)

Bengal (Special possession)

Arakan (Special possession)

Tenasserim (Special Possession)

Ceylon (Colony)

Hong Kong (Crown Colony)

Company India (Large amounts of modern-day India controlled and governed by British Companies)

Malaya (Controlled by the East India Company, a British Company)

Straits Settlements (Controlled by the East India Company)

Singapore (Controlled by the East India Company)

Calais (Fort and Town controlled by the United Kingdom)

Gibraltar (Colony)

Guernsey (Baliliwick)

Heligoland (Colony)

Ionan Islands (Small independent country protected by the UK from enemies)

Isle of Man (Crown Dependency)

Jersey (Baliliwick)

Malta (Crown Colony)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (the Home Country)

South Orkney (Unsettled Claimed Territory)

South Shetland (Unsettled Claimed Territory)

Victoria Land (Unsettled Claimed Territory)

Ascention island (Posession)

Bermuda (Crown Colony)

Falkland Islands (Crown Colony)

Saint Helena and Its Dependencies (Crown Colony)

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (Part of the Falkland Islands)

Tristan De Cunha (Part of the Cape Colony)

Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Special Posession)

Cocos Islands (Fiefdom)

Heard and McDonald Islands (Unsettled Claimed Territory)

Maldives (Protectorate)

Mauritius (Colony)

Seychelles (Colony)

Baker Island (Unsettled Claimed Territory)

Bonin Islands (Unsettled Claimed Territory)

Lord Howe Island (Settlement)

New Hebrides (Protectorate)

New South Wales (Colony)

New Zealand (Colony)

Pitcarin Islands (Protectorate)

South Australia (Colony)

Tasmania (Colony)

Victorua (Colony)

Western Australia (Colony)

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