List of former German colonies
This is a list of former German colonies owned by states of Germany:
01Holy Roman Empire and German Confederation
Brandenburg-Prussia
- Groß Friedrichsburg (in Ghana), 1683-1718
- Arguin (in Mauritania), 1685-1721
Duchy of Courland
- Curlander Gambia 1651-1660, 1660-1661
- Neu-Kurland (on Tobago) 1642-1650, 1654-1659, 1660-1666
Free City of Augsburg
- Klein-Venedig (in Venezuela), 1528-1545
County of Hanau
- Hanauish-Indies, Planned in 1669 but later canceled in 1672
House of Ascania
- Neu-Askania, 1828-1856
02German Empire
Africa
The following were German African protectorates:
- Kionga Triangle, 1894-1916
- German South West Africa, 1884-1915
- German West Africa, 1884-1915
- Togoland, 1884-1916
- Kamerun, from 1884-1916
- Kapitaï and Koba, 1884-1885
- Mahinland, March 11, 1885, October 24, 1885
- German East Africa, 1885-1918
- Witu Protectorate, 1885-1890
- German Somali Coast, 1885-1888
- German Congo, 1884-1885
- German Katanga, 1886
- Gwandu Protectorate, 1895-1897
- Gulmu Protectorate, 1895-1897
- German South Africa, 1884-1885
China
These treaty ports were German concessions in China, leased to it by the Qing dynasty:
- Kiautschou Bay concession, 1898-1914
- German concession in Tientsin, 1895-1917
- German concession in Hankou, 1895-1917
- Chefoo, 1901-1914
Pacific
These were German colonies established in the Pacific:
- German New Guinea, 1884-1919
- Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, 1885-1914
- Bismarck Archipelago, 1885-1914
- German Solomon Islands Protectorate, 1885-1914
- Bougainville Island, 1885-1914
- Buka Island, 1885-1914
- Choiseul Island, 1885-1900
- Shortland Islands, 1885-1900
- Santa Isabel Island, 1885-1900
- Nauru, 1906-1914
- Northern Mariana Islands, 1899-1914
- Caroline Islands, 1899-1914
- Palau Islands, 1899-1914
- Marshall Islands, 1906-1914
- German Samoa, 1900-1914
- Protectorate of the Marshall Islands, 1885-1906
- Nauru, 1888-1914
03Nazi Germany
- Poland (1939-1945)
- Netherlands, 1940-1945
- Norway, 1940-1945
- Belgium and Northern France, 1944
- Ukraine, 1940-1944
- Ostland, 1941-1945
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