Over 200
A full list of the 166 countries that have been part of the British Empire are shown below. There is also a list of British Overseas Terrotries that are still ruled by the United KIngdom.
1708-1757 Minorca
1763-1782 Minorca
1798-1802 Minorca
1800-1964 Malta
1807-1890 Heligoland
1809-1864 Ionian Islands
1921-1937 Irish Free State
1583-1907 Newfoundland
1605-1979 *Saint Lucia
1607-1776 Virginia
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
1632-1860 Antigua (*Antigua & Barbuda)
1636-1776 Connecticut
1636-1776 Rhode Island
1637-1662 New Haven Colony
1643-1860 Bay Islands
1655-1850 Mosquito Coast (protectorate)
1655-1962 *Jamaica
1663-1712 Carolina
1664-1776 New York
1665-1674 and 1702-1776 New Jersey
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
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
1818-1846 Columbia District / Oregon Country
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 Canada
1871-1964 British Honduras (*Belize)
1882-1983 *St. Kitts and Nevis
1889-1962 Trinidad and Tobago
1907-1949 Dominion of Newfoundland
1958-1962 West Indies Federation
1651-1667 Willoughbyland (Suriname)
1670-1688 St. Andrew and Providence Islands
1831-1966 British Guiana (Guyana)
1792-1961 Sierra Leone
1795-1803 Cape Colony
1806-1910 Cape Colony
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
1888-1894 Matabeleland
1890-1965 Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
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
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
1911-1964 Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)
1914-1954 Nigeria Colony and Protectorate
1915-1931 South West Africa (Namibia)
1919-1960 Cameroons (Cameroon)
1920-1963 Kenya
1922-1961 Tanganyika (Tanzania)
1954-1960 Nigeria
1979-1980 Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
1685-1824 Bencoolen
1702-1705 Côn Đảo
1757-1947 Bengal (West Bengal (India) and Bangladesh)
1762-1764 Manila
1795-1948 Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
1796-1965 Maldives
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
1918-1961 Kuwait protectorate
1920-1932 Iraq
1921-1946 Transjordan
1923-1948 Palestine
1945-1946 South Vietnam
1946-1963 Sarawak (Malaysia)
1946-1963 Singapore
1946-1948 Malayan Union
1948-1957 Federation of Malaya (Malaysia)
1788-1901 New South Wales
1803-1901 Van Diemen's Land/Tasmania
1807-1863 Auckland Islands
1824-1980 New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
1824-1901 Queensland
1829-1901 Swan River Colony/Western Australia
1836-1901 South Australia
1841-1907 Colony of New Zealand
1851-1901 Victoria
1874-1970 Fiji
1877-1976 British Western Pacific Territories
1884-1949 Territory of Papua
1888-1965 Cook Islands
1889-1948 Union Islands (Tokelau)
1892-1979 Gilbert and Ellice Islands
1893-1978 British Solomon Islands
1900-1970 Tonga (protected state)
1900-1974 Niue
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 Guinea
since 1713 Gibraltar
since 1799 Turks and Caicos Islands
since 1659 St. Helena
since 1815 Ascension Island
since 1816 Tristan da Cunha
since 1908 British Antarctic Territory
since 1838 Pitcairn Islands
since 1960 Akrotiri and Dhekelia (before as part of Cyprus)
since 1965 British Indian Ocean Territory (before as part of Mauritius and the Seychelles)
since 1833 Falkland Islands
since 1908 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
since 1666 British Virgin Islands
since 1670 Cayman Islands
since 1632 Montserrat
since 1619 Bermuda
since 1650 Anguilla
The British Empire no longer exists but at its height had about 50 countries as members and 25% of the world's population.
At The Empire's Peak (1922): 458 Million.
In 2012: 260,000.
106 countries made up the british empire!
Roughly About 400 million people
Ireland, Gibraltar, New Zealand, Australia and Sierra Leone were apart of Great Britain or the British Empire in 1914. Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa were apart of the British Empire as well.
"Imperial preference" refers to "preferred", that is reduced, tariffs available to countries or colonies under British rule &/or members of the British Commonwealth as the Empire was later called.
India taught the British Empire the lessons of Live and Let Live through her doctrines of Ahimsa (Non-violence), Peace, Universal Brotherhood and Greed Hath A Fall, in such a manner that the Empire is reduced to a mere country of England. One after one, all countries under British got freedom from its rule of loot and exploitation.
Egypt was under British rule for a number of years. British rule began in Egypt in 1882 and lasted until 1952 and the Egyptian Revolution.
Parts of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan
About 50
Many small Countries and Canada Canada is not under British rule. It is independent. All territories still under British rule are very small.
It depends how you count it, and at what time in history.
Ireland, Gibraltar, New Zealand, Australia and Sierra Leone were apart of Great Britain or the British Empire in 1914. Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa were apart of the British Empire as well.
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Malta was officially under British rule from 1814-1964 but had been occupied by Britain somewhat earlier.
With authority.
"Imperial preference" refers to "preferred", that is reduced, tariffs available to countries or colonies under British rule &/or members of the British Commonwealth as the Empire was later called.
the purpose was so that they could rule the other countries and use them to make their profit.
The British Empire ruled approximately 90% of the world, being the largest empire on the planet at 33,700,000 km2 (13,012,000 sq mi).It is difficult to get an exact number because the treaties, political situations and boundary divisions were always changing.As an approximation, the British Empire ruled about 140 major countries, bearing in mind some now no longer exist as they have merged with other existing countries once independent.If you include protectorates, mandates and minor territories, that number stretches to approximately 192.It was often said that "the sun never sets on the British Empire". Because the span of the empire across the globe meant that the sun was always shining on at least one of the many British colonies.
None. All African countries are now fully independent, although some are still part of the Commonwealth of Nations which is a loose association of countries that were originally part of the British Empire.
There are a number of countries that are still under British rule. This includes New Zealand, Australia, the Bahamas, as well as Jamaica.