Can you name the Modern Names of Former British Colonies?

created by zeppelinoid
  • Enter a Modern Country in the box below
  • Correctly named Modern Countries will show up below
  • Click any empty Colonial Name or Modern Country to answer for that location
  • Source: World Statesmen
  • Clues are names of former British Colonies. Answers are the modern country (or countries) that now control the territory of the former colony. Years are when the colony ended or changed its name.
  • Also try: Cities of the Roman Empire
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Colonial NameModern CountryYear Colony Ended
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan1956
Baluchistan1887
Basutoland1966
Bechuanaland1966
Bengal1774
British Cameroons1954
British Honduras1981
British Residency of the Arabian (Persian) Gulf1971
British Somaliland1960
British Togoland1956
British West Africa1888
Burma1948
Cape Colony1910
Ceylon1948
Cyrenaica1951
Darien (New Caledonia)1700
Demerara-Essequibo1831
Fort William1821
Gilbert and Ellice Islands1979
Gold Coast1956
Ionian Islands1864
Mesopotamia1920
Colonial NameModern CountryYear Colony Ended
Mosquito Coast1894
Muscat and Oman1971
Dominion of New England1689
New France1764
New Hebrides1980
New South Wales1900
Northern Rhodesia1964
Nyasaland1964
Oil Rivers Protectorate1914
Palestine1948
Port Clarence (Fernando Póo)1855
Providence Island1689
Saint-Domingue1798
Sikkim1947
Federation of South Arabia1967
Southern Rhodesia1980
Straits Settlement1946
Tanganyika1961
Transjordan1946
Weihaiwei1930
Willoughby1667
Zululand1910
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Modern Names of Former British Colonies Quiz

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  • Created May 6, 2011 in History
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