Examples of Colonialism

With the colonization process, the dominated country is called a colony ; This will depend on the State or power that is in charge of it for its operation. However, after a while, the colony may have grown strong enough to declare its independence and begin to advance as a country. The decade between the 40s and the 50s, in which World War II came to an end, was a historic moment in which many colonies ceased to depend.

Despite this, there are seventeen colonies existing in the world today according to the United Nations (UN). This body calls non-autonomous territories those countries that continue to depend on their colonizer because they have not created their own and functional government, as it should be. These are some islands that are recognized, as is, as colonies of three countries, mainly: the United States, the United Kingdom, France and New Zealand.

Examples of colonialism

Here is a list of the seventeen colonies that exist today, with their respective colonizers written in parentheses to the right:

1. Anguilla (UK)
2. Bermuda (UK)
3. Gibraltar (UK)
4. Cayman Islands (UK)
5. Falkland Islands (United Kingdom)
6. Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
7. British Virgin Islands (UK)
8. Montserrat (UK)
9. Pitcairn (UK)
10. Saint Helena (UK)
11. Guam (United States)
12. United States Virgin Islands (United States)
13. American Samoa (United States)
14. French Polynesia (France)
15. New Caledonia (France)
16. Tokelau (New Zealand)
17. Western Sahara (Morocco and Mauritania)