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Which countries used to have colonies but lost them before the beginning of WW2

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15 Comments
gzx5
+1
Level 75
Apr 7, 2017
Denmark still has Greenland even today so how is it on here?
robjm75
+3
Level 61
Jan 12, 2019
Greenland is not a colony, it is a country within the kingdom of Denmark. Much like Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland being in the United Kingdom.
Fishes
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Level 65
Nov 30, 2025
At the start of WW2, Greenland was definitely still a colony. It still doesn't work for this quiz.
Constantinos
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Level 74
Dec 1, 2025
And? I did not ask whether it was colony, or not. Denmark is there because of the Virgin Islands.
muskox
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Level 70
Jan 26, 2018
they also owned Iceland during ww2.
robjm75
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Level 61
Jan 12, 2019
Like Greenland, Iceland used to be a country within the kingdom of Denmark.
Nestormakhno
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Level 77
Jul 20, 2019
But what about Oman tho
robjm75
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Level 61
Jul 30, 2019
What about Oman? Please can you elaborate?
Fishes
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Level 65
Nov 30, 2025
Colonized Zanzibar
Constantinos
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Level 74
Dec 1, 2025
It was not Omani at that point.
tomaar
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Level 16
Jul 29, 2019
What about Austria, Turkey/Ottomans, Greece and Russia/USSR? And probably even someone else whom I can't recall at the moment.

And about the Danish thing, Greenland was colony with no representation in government all the way until 1953.

robjm75
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Level 61
Jul 30, 2019
Please can you give examples of their colonies? Do you have a link to where Greenland was referred to as a colony of Denmark from 1933 to 1940?
Drixtrix
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Level 54
Aug 12, 2021
austria had a short lived colony in Mozambique and in tianjin, belgium had also in tianjin plus in Guatemala, the ottomans had a shortlived zanzibar colony, russia had one in Hawaii and Djibouti, norway had in Canada,oman owned a lot of the eastern african coast, latvia had trinindad and gambia and finally little salzburg used to own Venezuela. I'm probably still missing some
Mapenthusiast
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Level 39
Feb 24, 2022
i think poland lithuania also had a colony in madagascar, trinidad, and cameroon
Constantinos
+2
Level 74
Nov 1, 2022
None of those were official claims and therefore they have never been incorporated.
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