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List of Former British Dominions, Colonies, Protectorates, Protected and Associated States, Mandated and Trust Territories
  • Aden
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Australia
  • Bahamas
  • Barbados
  • Basutoland - see Lesotho
  • Bechuanaland - see Botswana
  • British Antarctic Territory
  • British Central Africa
  • British East Africa
  • British Guiana - see Guyana
  • British Honduras - see Belize
  • British Indian Ocean Territory
  • British New Guinea (Papua)
  • British Somaliland
  • British South Africa Company
  • Brunei
  • Burma - see Myanmar
  • Canada
  • Cape Colony - South Africa
  • Ceylon - see Sri Lanka
  • Cook Islands
  • Cyprus
  • Dominica
  • East India Company
  • Federated Malay States
  • Fiji
  • Gambia
  • Gilbert and Ellice Islands
  • Gold Coast - see also Ghana
  • Ionian Islands
  • Grenada
  • Heligoland
  • Hong Kong
  • India
  • Ireland
  • Jamaica
  • Kenya
  • Labuan
  • Lagos (Nigeria)
  • Leeward Islands
  • Liu Kung Tau - see China
  • Malacca
  • Malaya - see Malaysia
  • Maldives
  • Malta
  • Mauritius
  • Mosquito Coast, Nicaragua
  • Natal
  • Nauru - see Western Pacific High Commission
  • New Hebrides
  • Newfoundland
  • New South Wales
  • New Zealand
  • Niger Coast Protectorate - see British Nigeria
  • Nigeria
  • Niue - see Western Pacific High Commission
  • North Borneo (Sabah)
  • Northern Nigeria - see British Nigeria
  • Northern Rhodesia
  • Nyasaland
  • Orange River Colony
  • Palestine
  • Penang
  • Queensland
  • Rhodesia
  • Royal Niger Company
  • Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
  • Saint Christopher, Nevis and Anguilla
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Saint Lucia
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Sarawak
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Singapore
  • Solomon Islands
  • South Africa
  • South Australia
  • Southern Nigeria - see British Nigeria
  • Southern Rhodesia
  • Straits Settlements
  • Sudan
  • Swaziland
  • Tanganyika
  • Tasmania
  • Tonga
  • Transjordan
  • Transvaal
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Uganda
  • Unfederated Malay States - see Historical Flags in Malaysia
  • Victoria
  • Weiheiwei, China
  • West African Settlements
  • West Indies Federation
  • West Pacific High Commissioner
  • Western Australia
  • Western Samoa - see Samoa
  • Windward Islands
  • Witu Protectorate
  • Zanzibar
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The United States and about 50 other countries.

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I don't know if this list is complete, but it's a start (these are the ones that celebrate an Independence Day holiday):

  • Afghanistan (19 August 1919)
  • Antigua and Barbuda (1 November 1981)
  • Bahamas (10 July 1973)
  • Bahrain (15 August 1971)
  • Barbados (30 November 1966)
  • Belize (21 September 1981)
  • Botswana (30 September 1966)
  • Brunei (1 January 1984)
  • Cameroon (1 January 1960)
  • Cyprus (1 October 1960)
  • Dominica (3 November 1978)
  • Fiji (10 October 1970)
  • The Gambia (18 February 1965)
  • Ghana (6 March 1957)
  • Grenada (7 February 1974)
  • Guyana (26 May 1966)
  • India (15 August 1947)
  • Iraq (3 October 1932)
  • Ireland (24 April 1916)
  • Jamaica (6 August 1962)
  • Jordan (25 May 1946)
  • Kenya (12 December 1963)
  • Kuwait (25 February 1961)
  • Lesotho (4 October 1966)
  • Malawi (6 July 1964)
  • Malaysia (Malaya: 31 August 1957; Sarawak: 22 July 1963; North Borneo: 31 August 1963)
  • Maldives (26 July 1965)
  • Malta (21 September 1964)
  • Mauritius (12 March 1968)
  • Nauru (31 January 1968)
  • Myanmar (4 January 1948)
  • Nigeria (1 October 1960)
  • Pakistan (14 August 1947)
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis (19 September 1983)
  • Saint Lucia (22 February 1979)
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (27 October 1979)
  • Seychelles (29 June 1976)
  • Sierra Leone (27 April 1961)
  • Solomon Islands (7 July 1978)
  • South Africa (11 December 1931)
  • Sri Lanka (4 February 1948)
  • Sudan (1 January 1956)
  • Swaziland (6 September 1968)
  • Tanzania (9 December 1961)
  • Tonga (4 June 1970)
  • Trinidad and Tobago (31 August 1962)
  • United Arab Emirates (2 December 1971)
  • United States of America (4 July 1776)
  • Vanuatu (30 July 1980)
  • Yemen (30 November 1967)
  • Zambia (24 October 1964)
  • Zimbabwe (18 April 1980)

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Britain no longer controls any countries but when the British Empire was at its height, there were around 50 countries which were controlled directly by Britain. If you can find an old world atlas, all the countries coloured red were controlled by Britain.

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