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Summary[edit]

  • Rise and Fall of the British Empire

(Note: In Square Miles)

  • Afghanistan 250,001
  • Grand Total: 250,001 square miles (647,500 km2) of land lost in 1919


  • Ireland 27,132
  • Nepal 56,827
  • Weihaiwei 2,099
  • Grand Total: 86,058 square miles (222,890 km2) 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 (24,966,210 km2) 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 (5,571,870 km2) 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 (460,500 km2) 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 (432,210 km2) of land lost between 1980 and 1990


  • Hong Kong 426
  • Grand Total: 426 square miles (1,100 km2) of land lost between 1990 and 2005

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