| List of Former British Colonial Possessions | 
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| Aden ↣ formerly governed as part of British India; independent in 1967 as part of Yemen | 
| Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ↣ Sudan | 
| Bahrain ↣ independent in 1971 | 
| British Cameroon ↣ divided between Nigeria and the Republic of Cameroon in 1961 | 
| British Commonwealth of Nations | 
| Gold Coast ↣ Ghana, 1957 | 
| Nigeria, 1957 | 
| Sierra Leone, 1961 | 
| Tanganyika, 1961 | 
| Joined Zanzibar in 1964 to become Tanzania | 
| Further divided into Rwanda and Burundi | 
| Burma (a.k.a. Myanmar) ↣ independent in 1948 | 
| Egypt ↣ independent in 1922 | 
| Gambia ↣ joined the British Commonwealth in 1965 | 
| Iraq ↣ independent in 1932 | 
| Kenya ↣ independent in 1963 | 
| Kuwait ↣ independent in 1961 | 
| Northern Rhodesia ↣ Zambia (joined the British Commonwealth in 1964) | 
| Nyasaland ↣ Malawi (joined the British Commonwealth in 1964) | 
| Oman ↣ independent in 1971 | 
| Palestine ↣ largely became the independent country of Israel in 1948 | 
| Qatar ↣ independent in 1971 | 
| Somaliland ↣ joined Italian Somaliland as Republic of Somalia in 1960 | 
| Southern Rhodesia | 
| 1965 ↣ declared independence as Rhodesia under the leadership of white leader Ian Smith | 
| 1980 ↣ known as the Republic of Zimbabwe after blacks won the circa 15-year civil war | 
| Suez Canal ↣ control went to Egypt in 1956 | 
| Togoland ↣ joined Ghana | 
| Transjordan ↣ independent in 1946 as Jordan | 
| Uganda ↣ independent in 1962 | 
| United Arab Emirates (UAE) ↣ independent in 1971 | 
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