Former Colonies of the British Empire

Could you accept Bahamas and Gambia without 'the'?

I do second that some Irish will likely be quite offended by leaving them out of this quiz. As they are still proving in Derry county for one. (Read IRA).

And whilst the semantics do sound right, they are very much not. The counties that make up the current Republic of Ireland where very much under direct control of the Westminster government.

The fact that in 1870, 1873, 1882, 1886, 1893, 1912, 1916 (quite famous actually something with easter and 'rebellion' on netflix). There was a home-rule movement strongly suggests this fact. Moreover the party with still the Republican thought is called Sinn Fein which translates into 'we for ourselves' from Gaelic (Irish) again implying that self governance was not a thing for quite some time.

The famous potato famine too was caused by conscious choice from London not intervene in the dubbed 'economic downturn' because of liberalism.

Technically they were never administered as a colony but then again neither were Israel, Egypt.

I could go on naming reasons why your choice is incorrect.

I DO applaud the effort and the idea of creating this quiz

And I Do get the confusion since it was never a 'true' colony but if one of the high school students I teach would miss Ireland as an area formerly governed by the British empire is would very much cost them points. Or in your case a nomination.

You forgot Singapore,Bangladesh

Bangladesh may not have been a direct colony, but it was still a territory within the British Raj until it's dissolution in 1947. So shouldn't it still count?

british raj was divided into two states, india and pakistan, the latter of which bangladesh was part of. bangladesh is obviously now not part of pakistan which is why it is excluded

Singapore declared independence from Malaysia didn't it? And Bangladesh declared independence from Pakistan.

Apparently partial conquests do not apply(?)

Did you leave out Hong Kong and Palestine because the British handed them over to other countries rather than granting them independence outright? If so, perhaps an additional explanatory note is in order, which would cover the Singapore case as well. Former colonies relinquished by Britian, which did not immediately become independent, sovereign nations are also excluded. Or something like that...

Can you please accept Eswatini instead of Swaziland as every other quiz on Jetpunk does it?

British Cameroons? British Somaliland? Papua new guinea? Northern/Southern Cameroons were both separate colonies, British Somaliland was an official protectorate, and New Guinea was controlled by Australia. And the kingdom of Hanover was an English puppet until german unification in the late 1800s, but that wasn't significantly influential.

I think you should rephrase your second caveat that says 'colonies which were made part of Britain and never left', which I assume you mean the current British Overseas Territories. They were actually never a part of the United Kingdom and are not considered as such; they are dependent territories of the UK while not being a part of it.

Great quiz! Only missed Ceylon and Kuwait.

very good quiz! Nominated

Is this only present-day sovereign states? What about Newfoundland?