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Territories of the British Empire in 1920

Can you name the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories of the British Empire in the year 1920?
BSAC = British South Africa Company
Territories under 'Both colonies and protectorates' are single entities, but consist of separate areas of the 'colony' and 'protectorate'
Many of these territories today do not exist as sovereign states or have been renamed
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Colonies
Ascension Island
Bahamas
Barbados
Basutoland
Bermuda
British Guiana
British Honduras
British Leeward Islands
British Windward Islands
Ceylon
Falkland Islands and Dependencies
Fiji
Gibraltar
Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Gold Coast
Hong Kong
Jamaica
Malta
Mauritius
Pitcairn Islands
Saint Helena
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Straits Settlements
Trinidad and Tobago
Tristan da Cunha
Turks and Caicos Islands
Protectorates
Aden
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Bahrain
Bechuanaland
British North Borneo
British Solomon Islands
British Somaliland
Brunei
Egypt
Federated Malay States
Kuwait
Maldive Islands
Muscat and Oman
Nyasaland
Qatar
Sarawak
Sikkim
Swaziland
Tonga
Trucial States
Uganda
Unfederated Malay States
Zanzibar
Both colonies and protectorates
Gambia
Kenya
Nigeria
 
Dominions
Australia
Canada
New Zealand
Newfoundland
South Africa
 
Mother country
United Kingdom
 
British Raj
India
 
League of Nations mandates
British Cameroon
British Togoland
Nauru
New Guinea
Palestine
South West Africa
Tanganyika
Western Samoa
Crown dependencies
Isle of Man
Channel Islands
 
Military occupation
Cyprus
 
BSAC administration
Northern Rhodesia
Southern Rhodesia
 
Australian external territory
Papua
 
Leased territory
Weihaiwei
 
Anglo-French condominium
New Hebrides
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Level 70
Jun 8, 2022
This quiz absolutely rocks.
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Level 69
Jun 8, 2022
South Africa was a dominion by 1920 (31 May 1910) Nice quiz though.
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Level 79
Jun 8, 2022
You're right; updated!
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Level 49
Jun 8, 2022
Excellent quiz - thank you! One needs to know their what-is-now-called-Malaysia/Singapore history to get many of the lesser-known answers
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Level 64
Jun 8, 2022
Transjordan?
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Level 79
Jun 9, 2022
It only became a protectorate in 1921.
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Level 83
Jun 8, 2022
Missing protectorates in Malaya: Perlis, Kelantan, Terengganu, Kedah and Johor.
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Level 79
Jun 9, 2022
These are listed as the Unfederated Malay States.