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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

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The British Empire no longer exists but at its height had about 50 countries as members and 25% of the world's population.

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At The Empire's Peak (1922): 458 Million.

In 2012: 260,000.

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106 countries made up the british empire!

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Roughly About 400 million people

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How many countries did british empire rule?

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