APPENDIX ONE

THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN 1921

Country	Area (square miles)	How acquired	Date	Population
England	50,874			35,678,530
Wales	7,474	Conquest	1282	2,206,712
Scotland	29,798	Union	1603	4,882,288
Ireland & Irish Free State	31,855	Conquest	1172	4,485,000
Isle of Man, Channel Isles	296			149,852
TOTAL FOR BRITISH ISLES	120,297			47,402,382

Gibraltar	2	Conquest	1704	23,018
Malta, etc	121	Treaty	1814	224,680
Cyprus	3,584	Convention (Turkey)	1878	310,715
TOTAL FOR EUROPE	3,707			557,413

Newfoundland	42,734	Treaty	1583	259,358
Nova Scotia	21,428	Conquest, cession	1627™1713	523,837
Alberta	252,985	Settlement	1670	588,454
British Columbia	355,855	Settlement	1670	524,582
Northwest Territories, Yukon	1,539,298	Settlement	1670	12,145
Saskatchewan	241,310	Settlement	1670	757,510
Prince Edward Island	2,133	Conquest	1745™1763	88,615
Ontario	365,880	Conquest	1759™1763	2,933,662
Québec	690,865	Conquest	1759™1763	2,361,199
Labrador	120,000	Conquest	1759™1763	3,621
New Brunswick	27,985	Treaty	1763	387,876
Manitoba	231,926	Settlement	1813	610,118

Barbados	166	Settlement	1605	156,352
Bermuda	19	Settlement	1612	20,127
Leeward Islands	688	Settlement	1623™1659	126,472
Bahamas	4,403	Settlement	1629	53,031
Jamaica	4,450	Conquest	1655	858,118
Windward Islands	564	Cession	1763™1783	162,254
Falkland Islands	6,500	Treaty	1771	3,431
Trinidad and Tobago	1,974	Conquest	1797	362,780
British Honduras	8,598	Conquest	1798	45,317
British Guiana	90,277	Conquest	1803™1814	297,691
TOTAL FOR AMERICAS	4,010,038			11,136,550

New Zealand	103,861	Purchase	1845	1,284,873
Fiji and Rotuma	7,435	Cession	1874	157,266
Papua	90,540	Annexation	1884	200,000
Pacific Islands	˜	Treaty	1893™1906	273,302
New South Wales	310,372	Settlement	1788	2,099,763
Tasmania	26,215	Settlement	1803	213,877
Queensland	670,500	Settlement	1824	757,634
Western Australia	975,920	Settlement	1828	332,313
Victoria	87,884	Settlement	1832	1,531,529
South Australia	380,070	Settlement	1836	495,336
Northern Territory	523,620	Settlement	1836	3,870
Federal Capital Territory		˜	˜	2,572
Solomon Islands Protectorate	14,800
TOTAL FOR AUSTRALASIA	3,191,217			7,352,335

Cape of Good Hope	276,995	Treaty	1588, 1814	2,781,185
Natal	35,290	Annexation	1843	1,427,431
Transvaal	110,426	Conquest	1900	2,085,837
Orange Free State	50,389	Conquest	1900	628,360
St Helena	47	Conqest	1673	3,747
Sierra Leone	58,908	Settlement	1787	1,541,311
Gambia	4,500	Treaty	1807	210,530
Mauritius	720	Conquest	1810, 1814	383,746
Seychelles Islands	160	Treaty	1814	24,523
Ascension	34	Annexation	1815	177
Tristan da Cunha	˜	Annexation	1815	127
Somaliland Protectorate	68,000	Treaty	1872	2,029,754
Gold Coast	80,235	Treaty	1884	300,000
East African Protectorate	250,000	Treaty	1888	4,038,000
Southern Rhodesia	148,575	Annexation	1889	899,187
Northern Rhodesia	291,000	Annexation	1889	983,539
Zanzibar and Pemba	1,020	Treaty	1890	200,000
Nyasaland	39,801	Treaty	1891	1,201,983
Nigeria	335,580	Treaty	1891	1,650,000
Uganda Protectorate	117,861	Treaty	1894	3,071,608
Bechuanaland Protectorate	275,000	Annexation	1895	152,983
Swaziland	6,678	Conquest	1900	112,951
Basutoland	11,716	Annexation	˜	498,781
British Cameroons	31,150	Mandated	˜	650,000
Tanganyika	365,000	Mandated	˜	4,121,991
TOTAL FOR AFRICA	2,559,085			28,997,751

Empire of India	1,802,657	Conquest	begun 1757
		Transfer fm E India Co	1858	318,942,480
Straits Settlements	1,600	Treaty	1785™1909	883,769
Ceylon	25,481	Treaty	1801	4,502,477
Aden, Perim and Socotra	10,405	(Aden) Conquest	1839	113,200
Sarawak	50,000	Treaty	1842	600,000
Hong Kong	32	Treaty	1842™1906	625,166
British North Borneo	31,106	Cession	1877	258,355
Johore	7,678	Treaty	1885	282,234
Federated Malay States	27,648	Treaty	1874™1888	1,324,890
Brunei	4,000	Treaty	1888	25,451
Wei Hai Wei	288	Treaty	1898	154,406
Trenganu, Kedah, etc	15,829	Treaty	1909	841,710
TOTAL FOR ASIA	1,976,724			328,554,138

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