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The League of Nations gave Britain mandatory power over Palestine in 1922

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Italy was the last European country to establish a colonial empire.

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Ethiopia and Liberia are widely believed to be the only two African countries to have never been colonized.

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Although South Africa became a Union with its own white people government in 1910, the country was still regarded as a colony of Britain till 1961.

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The newly named “Belgian Congo” remained a colony until the Democratic Republic of Congo gained its independence in 1960.

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Egypt was effectively colonized in 1882. This was called the Veiled Protectorate, since Britain's rule, or protectorate, over Egypt was obfuscated.

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The Philippine islands first came to the attention of Europeans with the Spanish expedition around the world led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in 1521.

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France began colonizing the Americas in the 16th century and continued into the following centuries as it established a colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere.

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Nominally Chinese, Manchuria became a Japanese colony within three decades. Japan began exercising control over Manchuria in the early twentieth century, eventually overtaking the region in early 1932 and Nipponisizing its name to Manchoukuo.

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Vietnam became a French colony in 1877 with the founding of French Indochina, which included Tonkin, Annam, Cochin China, and Cambodia.

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Germany was one of the major colonial powers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Germany colonized parts of Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.

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Belgium colonized the present-day Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during the reign of King Leopold II

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Colonized Guam

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Guam, a territory of the United States, remains a colonized nation and colonialism continues to impact the native Chamorro people along with those who call the island home.

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The American presence in the Hawaiian Islands was and is currently colonial in nature.

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Colonized by Britain

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The British colonized Australia once they found more habitable land in the south eastern part of Australia, and spread from that point to the north and west.

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Portugal colonized parts of South America (Brazil, Colónia do Sacramento, Uruguay, Guanare, Venezuela), but also made some unsuccessful attempts to colonize North America (Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia in Canada).

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Japan was not formally colonized by Western powers, but was a colonizer itself.

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The United States didn't even set out to colonize the Philippines at first. It was only colonized because it happened to be a colony of Spain at the time of the Spanish-American War in 1898.

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Colonized the Indian territory

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The South Asian country of India was colonized by the European nation of the United Kingdom

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The indigenous populations had few rights and were often exploited. Mexico was greatly influenced by the Spanish way of life and culture. The combining of Indian with Spanish traditions gave birth to a new country. While Mexico remained a colony, rulers that governed Mexico came from mainland Spain.

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Puerto Rico is one of the world's oldest colonies, having been under some form of military occupation or protectorate status since 1508. On November 19, 1493, during his second voyage, Christopher Columbus arrived in Puerto Rico.

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Panama carries the claim of being the first part of the mainland Americas to be colonized, in 1502, albeit with a short-lived garrison of eighty men.

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Cuba had been a colony from 1492 until 1898 when the United States took over the territory in the Spanish–American War.