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There are no prizes for guessing the European country that has colonized most often in history (or for the colonizing).

This chart is from StatistaInspired by This mapBased on This is the complete listThis gives an indication of the extent of Britain’s colonial past, with twice the number as France, Spain, and Portugal.

The current overseas territories that the UK still rules over are as follows: Anguilla; Bermuda; British Antarctic Territory; British Indian Ocean Territory; British Virgin Islands; Cayman Islands; Falkland Islands; Gibraltar; Montserrat; Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands; St Helena and St Helena Dependencies (Ascension and Tristan da Cunha); South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands; Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (Cyprus); and The Turks & Caicos Islands.

Some of the former territories are: South Africa, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Cyrpus and Cyrpus.

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These are the total numbers:

UK – UK 115

France – 53

Portugal – 52

Spain – 44

Netherlands – 29

Germany – 20

Russia – 17

Denmark – 9

Sweden – 8

Norway – 6

Italy – 7

Belgium – 3

Austria – 1

Greece – 1

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