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• Rise and Fall of the British Empire

(Note: In Square Miles)

• Afghanistan 250,001
• Grand Total: 250,001 square miles of land lost in 1919

• Ireland 27,132
• Nepal 56,827
• Weihaiwei 2,099
• Grand Total: 86,058 square miles of land lost between 1920 and 1930

• Iraq 168,754
• Grand Total: 168,754 square miles of land lost between 1930 and 1940

• Australia 2,967,910
• New Zealand 103, 738
• South Africa 471,011
• Namibia 318,696
• Canada 3,855,103
• India 1,269,346
• Pakistan 310,403
• Ceylon 25,332
• Bangladesh 56,000
• Burma 261,970
• Grand Total: 9,639,509 square miles of land lost between 1940 and 1949.

• The Sudan 967,500
• Ghana 92,100
• Malay Federation 50,320
• Grand Total: 1,109,920 square miles of land lost between 1950 and 1959

• Nigeria 356,669
• British Somaliland 53,128
• Cyprus 3,571
• Tanganyika and Zanzibar 364,901
• Sierra Leone 27,699
• Kuwait 6,880
• British Cameroon 61,000 (est.)
• Uganda 91,135
• Jamaica 4,000
• Trinidad and Tobago 1,980
• Kenya 224,962
• Singapore 270
• Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) 290,586
• British North Borneo 29,388
• Sarawak 48,000
• Malawi 45,745
• Malta 122
• Gambia 3,978
• Maldives 115
• Barbados 166
• Guyana 83,000
• Botswana 231,804
• Lesotho 11,720
• Yemen 203,000
• Mauritius 788
• Swaziland 6,704
• Grand Total: 2,151,311 square miles of land lost between 1960 and 1970

• Fiji 7,054
• Tonga 289
• Bahrain 253
• Qatar 4,000
• Oman 119,499
• Arab Emirates 29,016
• Bahamas 5,382
• Grenada 133
• Seychelles 176
• Dominica 291
• Solomon Islands 10,985
• Tuvalu 10
• Kiribati 313
• Saint Lucia 239
• Saint Vincent 150
• Grand Total: 177,790 square miles of land lost between 1970 and 1979

• Rhodesia 150,804
• Vanuatu 4,710
• Belize 8,867
• Antigua & Barbuda 171
• Saint Kitts and Nevis 101
• Brunei 2,226
• Grand Total: 166,879 square miles of land lost between 1980 and 1990

• Hong Kong 426
• Grand Total: 426 square miles of land lost between 1990 and 2005

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