There are 14 British overseas territories which include the Islands:- Anguilla Bermuda British Antarctic Territory British Indian ocean Territory British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Falkland Islands Gibraltar Montserrat Pitcairn Islands St Helena South Georgia Sovereign Base Areas - Cyprus Turks and Caicos Islands
Guyana, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
The British colonial Empire had the largest colonial extent of all countries. It owned colonies on every continent, of course leaving out Antarctica.
what part of anerica did the british originally claim
Here's a list of all British Crown Colonies that ever existed (* denotes colonies that are still part of the UK today) Aden Anguilla* Basutoland British Bechuanaland Bermuda* North Borneo Canada Cape of Good Hope North Carolina South Carolina Cayman Islands* Ceylon British Columbia Connecticut Cyprus Falkland Islands* Gibraltar* British Guiana Massachusetts Bay New Hampshire New Jersey New York New Zealand British Honduras (AKA Belize) Hong Kong Jamaica Kenya Labuan Malata Natal New South Wales Queensland Rhode Island Sarawak Sierra Leone Straits Settlements Vancouver Victoria Virginia The UK owned many other lands, but with different titles than "Colony" (Dominion, Protectorate, Mandate).
Here's a list of all the Crown Colonies founded by Britain (Please note that Britain owned many other lands, but they were not called colonies) Aden Anguilla Basutoland British Bechuanaland Bermuda North Borneo Canada Cape of Good Hope North Carolina South Carolina Cayman Islands Ceylon British Columbia Connecticut Cyprus Falkland Islands Gibraltar British Guiana Massachusetts Bay New Hampshire New Jersey New York New Zealand British Honduras (AKA Belize) Hong Kong Jamaica Kenya Labuan Malata Natal New South Wales Queensland Rhode Island Sarawak Sierra Leone Straits Settlements Vancouver Victoria Virginia
All within CARICOM... so basically all of them except Cuba, the US owned islands and the British owned islands
Great Britain owns some of the Virgin Islands ( BVI = British Virgin Islands) but not all of them. Some atre owned by the USA (USVI)
besides martinique and guadaloupe (french owned) Aruba (dutch owned) and 1 or 2 others owned by the UK that i can't think of ATM all the other islands are independent
British Isles is the geographical term for the islands of Britain and Ireland and all of their offshore islands. It has nothing to do with the political split of these islands.
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Britain and Ireland are the two main islands, but all of their off-shore islands are also included.
Geographically, the British Isles are the islands of Britain and Ireland and all of their off-shore islands.
Geographically, the British Isles are comprised if the islands of Britain and Ireland and all of their smaller offshore islands. Politically, it is much more complicated than that.
Well first of all reverse that question why doesn't the British Virgin Islands bind with the U..S. Virgin Islands? I would say that British Virgin Islanders are part of the British Government. While the citizens are of the US Virgin Islands are citizens United States. This issue was actually discussed by the British and US Governments during the 1950s, but there was a great deal of resistance to the idea locally, particularly in the British Virgin Islands.
The Outer Hebrides, the inner hebrides, the Shetland islands, the Orkney Islands, the Farne Islands, Anglesey and the Isle of Wight are the main groups. Note that the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands are not part of the UK.
Geographically, the British Isles are the islands of Britain and Ireland and all of their offshore islands. Politically, the British Isles are the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England.
The British Isles refers to the two large islands of Britain and Ireland and all their associated islands, and it also includes the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. See the outline map below.