User:Dtcdthingy/UK territories

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Territories associated with the United Kingdom, in ascending order of independence.

Home Nations

Constituent Countries

Provinces

Overseas Territories

Sovereign Base Areas

Stage One

  • British Indian Ocean Territory
  • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  • British Antarctic Territory

Stage Two

  • Falkland Islands
  • Saint Helena
  • Pitcairn Islands

Stage Three

  • Anguilla
  • British Virgin Islands
  • Cayman Islands
  • Gibraltar
  • Montserrat
  • Turks and Caicos Islands

Stage Four

  • Bermuda

Crown Dependencies

Nominally independent nations that rely on the United Kingdom for defense and international affairs.

  • Guernsey
  • Jersey
  • Isle of Man

Commonwealth Realms

Independent nations that have the British monarch as head of state.

  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Australia
  • The Bahamas
  • Barbados
  • Belize
  • Canada
  • Grenada
  • Jamaica
  • New Zealand
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Saint Lucia
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • The Solomon Islands
  • Tuvalu

Commonwealth Members

Independent nations that are members of the Commonwealth of Nations.

  • Bangladesh
  • Botswana
  • Brunei
  • Cameroon
  • Cyprus
  • Dominica
  • Fiji
  • The Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Guyana
  • India
  • Kenya
  • Kiribati
  • Lesotho
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Maldives
  • Malta
  • Mauritius
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Nauru
  • Nigeria
  • Pakistan
  • Samoa
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Singapore
  • South Africa
  • Sri Lanka
  • Swaziland
  • Tanzania
  • Tonga
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Uganda
  • Vanuatu
  • Zambia

Historic territories

Home nations

  • Ireland

Realms

Partial realms

Miscellaneous

Afghanistan

Uncategorised

Territories

  • Ceylon now Sri Lanka
  • Fiji
  • Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Guyana
  • India
  • Kenya
  • Malawi
  • Malta
  • Mauritius
  • Nigeria
  • Pakistan
  • Sierra Leone
  • Union of South Africa
  • Tanganyika now Tanzania
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Uganda


  • Bangladesh
  • Botswana
  • Burma
  • Cyprus
  • Dominica
  • Kiribati
  • Nauru
  • The Seychelles
  • Singapore
  • South Yemen
  • Sudan
  • Thirteen Colonies (became United States)
  • Vanuatu
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe


  • Cameroon (British Somaliland)


Independent Monarchies

Independent nations that retained their own monarchy during colonial rule, and restored it at independence.

  • Malaya
  • Brunei
  • Tonga
  • Kuwait
  • Oman
  • Qatar
  • Bahrain
  • The Trucial States (now United Arab Emirates)
  • Swaziland
  • Lesotho

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