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No country can be a colony, otherwise it wouldn't be a country.
The country that started Georgia was England ,it was formed so it would stop the advance of Spain's Florida colony.
The first European settlement in Australia was a penal colony.
Brazil
France.
England made Georgia colony to be a front line colony to defend against Spanish attack.
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The Netherlands
Great Britain
Bulgaria
The primary interest of the British government in approving James Oglethorpe's Georgia colony was Thwarting Spanish claims in the area South of Carolina.