We Swedes always joke about Scania (Skåne), particularly that the locals are actually East-Danish, conquered by Swedes in the 16th century, and we should give it back to Denmark since we don't understand the language so great anyways 😆
I'm a Minnesotan with ancestors from Skåne. Visited in the fall and it was great. Was surprised to learn about their dialect's similarity to Danish when I went there.
As an Italian myself, I can tell that from what I learned the government decoded not to build a bridge between continental Italy and Sicily for 4 major reasons: 1 there would be no roads to connect the bridge to the rest of the railroad system 2 even if that gap is very small, the water is very deep 3 there is a fault right in between the Mediterranean that passes between the Messina canal so there would be a risk for earthquakes. 4 we really suck at building bridges
In defense of Canada, they’re fairly successful in the fact that they have a near two trillion dollar economy with a tiny thirty something million population
I'm pretty sure California is beating Canada in these metrics so I don't know if you can call Canada successful in that metric... Russia is just under like 300 sanctions
Also Canadian standard of living is much more comparable to the United States and Europe than it is Russia or China. Higher GDP per capita, median wages, etc
@@THE_ELÐEN_LORÐ You got to remember that Cali is home to businesses like apple and google in silicon valley and has Hollywood so money is flooding in from business like those.
Actually, Canada has a great riverine network that allowed the Hudson Bay Company to establish a trading empire. Is it efficient to portage vast quantities of exports across the country? No, but there are still the Great Lakes and the St. Laurence Waterway.
Sorry to ruin your point, but you were looking at a ranking of the size of the EEZ, not the total area. If you include land area, India is 10th on the list, while Denmark is all the way down at 13th.
The point isn’t ruined at all, cuz Literally the whole point of the video -especially the first section on Russia- was that the video very deliberately wasn’t focusing on the land-area rankings, so there’s no ruining occurring if you’re saying stuff that’s focused on the land-area rankings
I was going to comment this. I love his content, but the DRC being *somehow smaller* than the Republic of Congo at the end, and him still not realising that the entire tagline of the video is straight up wrong just really annoys me.
I just found out that through the st. Lawrence river , the great lakes , rainy river , lake of the woods , winnepeg river, lake winnepeg , nelson river and related waterways you can go from the atlantic ocean to the rocky mountains with only a 1/4 mile portage.
And there's a teensy little creek in Wyoming that drains into both Atlantic and Pacific watersheds (Two Ocean Creek). Shame it never turned out to be navigable, but imagine if it was dug way deeper into an actual land canal.
@@deleetiusproductions3497 Very technically it already is, since the Two Ocean Creek is contiguous. You'd just be deepening the ship draught that it could carry
I think the sizes of Kiribati and Micronesia’s EEZs are more interesting than Denmark’s as they have so little land mass while even placing above Denmark
sunflower oil is actually poisonous as with most seed oils, lard is actually way better as with butter, if you are vegan you ca use coconut oil instead
"The British didn't invade their neighbours" Ahhhhhh, actually, The British (English at the time) were one of the first to invade their neighbour 'Ireland' and they still occupy part of their neighbour's territory today.
I think that following the Good Friday Agreement, which explicitly mandates that Ireland can reunify at any time and without needing Britain's permission, it's a stretch to still call NI an occupied territory. The thing that has kept NI part of the UK is the will of the people of NI. (And by the way, that will is visibly weakening - there's a Stormont election in May, and Sinn Fein are currently leading in the polls, so that border poll might not be too far away...)
Denmark does not technically own Greenland and the Faroe Islands, but Greenland and the Faroe Islands are part of the Kingdom of Denmark ' So Denmark decides on their defense and security policy. But the two countries themselves decide how they spend their money.
@@Snp2024 Yes, it's a lot like Scotland. And Denmark does not have the right to sell Greenland either, without Greenland it also says yes. 🙂 Im from Denmark my selves, so i know a lot of Danish History. 😅
Thank you for mentioning my country of Tuvalu. Even though Tuvalu is a small country we are very patriotic. Every Tuvaluan loves our Monarchy. God bless Her Majesty the Queen and HRH the Prince of Wales. I would love it if you could do a video about Tuvalu as we don't really have a voice.
You used to be able to travel anywhere on google earth, now your limited by certain spots... You could even go in the middle of nowhere, and have relatively good quality My favorite was the Siberian Traps, viewing them from the ground was quite spectacular... Good times... before the Empire
You are assuming a flat map doesn't have distortions. Which all 2D (Flat) maps DO. You always have to do something to be able to fit a map of a sphere onto a flat surface.
Hey! you should look into african hydrology and the congo river, its actually a huge river but Africa is a Mesa so the rivers rush a lot faster and it leads to a lot of stunts in growth for African countries. Sending love from Georgia (USA)!
The only Mercator projection I've seen is at the Equator. I wonder how things would look with the point of interest at the center (North not necessarily being up). Have you been in websites that could do that?
In the nordic countrys i feel like Norway is the little brother, Sweden the middle child, Denmark the oldest brother and Finland an far away cousin. Btw im from Sweden
just correcting you here Britain did go for Europe including claiming France and going in a war but were not successful so did not really have any colonies or take over Europe
They did have "colonies" (depending on your definition) in Europe though like Malta and Cyprus (as mentioned in the video). Also, England did maintain territories of France: the islands of Jersey and Guernsey. And technically the queen does hold the title "Duke of Normandy" because of those islands.
Soooo, tuvalu needs to hurry up and become a knight order? Looks like there will be a lot of demand for horses coming from the polynesians in the coming decades...
Yeah... We have gulf and river of St. Lawrence to great lakes, Hudson Bay and its rivers. West coast is not as well off but we have Columbia river through usa and fraser. Arctic ocean (NW passage) will become more valuable as ice melts too...
One place you missed that is incredibly well placed is Oman. But not because of their territory south of the UAE it's what's north of it. Oman controls a plot of water called The Strait of Hormuz. What makes it important is that it is the gate to like 90% of the world's energy. Whoever controls The Strait of Hormuz controls the oil and by extension the world.
Of course Andorra is not a Singapore, but actually for Spanish people its becoming like some kind of Monaco, many youtubers and wealthy people settle down there, as the taxes are much smaller than in Spain, but they would still be very close to all the main cities in Spain
China should totally change the name of the Asian-American River. I'm concerned that Chinese people might be offended and for some reason that matters xD
Off topic: is Google Maps always accurate with borders? For example, I see the border between Panama and Costa Rica which seems to go through homes and cross roads south of the Pan-Am Highway. Also, in parts of west Africa, the border goes through villages without closed roads between two countries. For example, check the city between Benin and Nigeria on the Atlantic Ocean.
lmao you could put any title and i would be like "no... maybe?" start lying to us for fun for like a year then reveal at the end ill pay you like 10 bucks
10:50 i think i have a good idea of how this would be... Like i've it was already a reality... (Talking about Ceuta, Melilla and some other little Islands and peninsulas on Northern African Coast being integral parte of Spain)
@@LucyWest370 Just that I think it's kinda funny how I'm watching a second channel without even knowing about the main one. I looked it up now, but I didn't know before
The UK did have colonies in mainland Europe. Gibraltar, obviously, but even aside from that there were colonies in northern France fo rquite a while and, while less a colony, a sizeable chunk of Germany belonged to Britain via medieval style marriages giving shared monarchs.
As a Maltese, this way of rank countries by size is brilliant news. According to this list Malta is larger than Poland and just behind Germany.
Malta supremacy 💪🇲🇹
Wait you are a Malteser? I'm a Twix!!!
@@moffeltje4967 funny
@@moffeltje4967 i am a snicker
What language is spoken in Malta?
We Swedes always joke about Scania (Skåne), particularly that the locals are actually East-Danish, conquered by Swedes in the 16th century, and we should give it back to Denmark since we don't understand the language so great anyways 😆
Even Swedes agree
@@usefulhumvn not scanians
Well how about a unified Nordics? We share a history and culture, no matter what you might think from knowing about the last 1000 years
I'm a Minnesotan with ancestors from Skåne. Visited in the fall and it was great. Was surprised to learn about their dialect's similarity to Danish when I went there.
And if they give scania to Denmark swedens population would be similar to Denmark population
As an Italian myself, I can tell that from what I learned the government decoded not to build a bridge between continental Italy and Sicily for 4 major reasons:
1 there would be no roads to connect the bridge to the rest of the railroad system
2 even if that gap is very small, the water is very deep
3 there is a fault right in between the Mediterranean that passes between the Messina canal so there would be a risk for earthquakes.
4 we really suck at building bridges
Why don’t they just do huge zip lines? Sounds great, is fun
Also isn't good chunk, if not majority, of construction industry in Southern Italy controlled by mafia?
What about floating bridges? Wouldn't that be an option?
@@fjellyo3261 That would go against his fourth point
@@fjellyo3261 floating bridge 4-6 kilometers long LMAO
When Brits discuss Indian borders, it never goes well.
And you talked about interesting Islands around the Malacca strait but skipped Andaman.
Or pretty much any border they discuss
Oh jolly straight line look good on map doesn't it France .
Qui
@@Snp2024 Qui😭
Let’s go, little brother Denmark, you are officialy my big brother now!
We always have been
But you hate Denmark
@@lessthan1446 No, we hate Sweden (and I’m also 25% danish)
Norway is basically Denmarks and Sweden’s demonic child, not older brother that doesn’t make sense at all historically
@@blackchrysler This Madlad saying this under a comment by a norwegian.
In defense of Canada, they’re fairly successful in the fact that they have a near two trillion dollar economy with a tiny thirty something million population
I'm pretty sure California is beating Canada in these metrics so I don't know if you can call Canada successful in that metric... Russia is just under like 300 sanctions
how canada compares to australia and UK? Id guess also beat those
Also Canadian standard of living is much more comparable to the United States and Europe than it is Russia or China. Higher GDP per capita, median wages, etc
@@THE_ELÐEN_LORÐ 0%
@@THE_ELÐEN_LORÐ You got to remember that Cali is home to businesses like apple and google in silicon valley and has Hollywood so money is flooding in from business like those.
Canada also has the 9th largest GDP in the world of ~$2 Trillion so I’d hardly imply it’s an unsuccessful nation
Specially considering it's population.
Canada and Australia perform really well.
Yeah mate, Canada is super successful no sarcasm, even though Tokyo alone has a bigger population then them they got a gigantic GDP
@@dominusvolpus8031Tokyo has a GDP of $ 3 trillion....
"What does the US have-What does Russia have-What does China have that Canada doesn't?"
Me: Nukes
"The answer is waterways."
Me: Oh
Actually, Canada has a great riverine network that allowed the Hudson Bay Company to establish a trading empire. Is it efficient to portage vast quantities of exports across the country? No, but there are still the Great Lakes and the St. Laurence Waterway.
Bonus to the other major rivers in Canada that with further development could be as impactful as the major US rivers (especially the Mackenzie River)
This guy is like the perfect RUclipsr for me. He love geography AND minecraft, the 2 of my favorite things. And he uploads frequently.
Toycat: "What laws can Russia enforce over Bolshevik Island?"
Vladimir Putin *watching video in his underwear at 2AM* "Well, let's see..."
As someone NOT from denmark or india, i CAN confirm
Sorry to ruin your point, but you were looking at a ranking of the size of the EEZ, not the total area. If you include land area, India is 10th on the list, while Denmark is all the way down at 13th.
Shhhh… don’t take away our new cool thing!
thats what he meant???
If it’s just EEZ, China is at 33rd place on the list. That’s why China is creating to new islands in the South China Sea to expand its EEZ.
The point isn’t ruined at all, cuz Literally the whole point of the video -especially the first section on Russia- was that the video very deliberately wasn’t focusing on the land-area rankings, so there’s no ruining occurring if you’re saying stuff that’s focused on the land-area rankings
I was going to comment this. I love his content, but the DRC being *somehow smaller* than the Republic of Congo at the end, and him still not realising that the entire tagline of the video is straight up wrong just really annoys me.
I just found out that through the st. Lawrence river , the great lakes , rainy river , lake of the woods , winnepeg river, lake winnepeg , nelson river and related waterways you can go from the atlantic ocean to the rocky mountains with only a 1/4 mile portage.
And there's a teensy little creek in Wyoming that drains into both Atlantic and Pacific watersheds (Two Ocean Creek). Shame it never turned out to be navigable, but imagine if it was dug way deeper into an actual land canal.
@@tylerphuoc2653 But… wouldn’t that turn northern North America into a massive island?
@@deleetiusproductions3497 Very technically it already is, since the Two Ocean Creek is contiguous. You'd just be deepening the ship draught that it could carry
im a simple indian. i see india in title, i click.
And Indians are sensitive to criticism against them bepcz of Western propoganda
@@isukdik believe it or not Western media does actual propaganda to India in bad sight
@@sickboi2615 yeah like seriously we literally grew GDP by around 1200% in last 28 year but people don't talk about it
The video is bad it just explained for like 7 min and then ignored it for the rest of video without a single convincing explanation
@@sickboi2615 that's only for the people who still think that india is discriminated like in imperialist periods
I think the sizes of Kiribati and Micronesia’s EEZs are more interesting than Denmark’s as they have so little land mass while even placing above Denmark
Oil is very important. Sunflower oil is great for frying and olive oil is good for salad seasoning. But there are many other tasty oils.
Motor Oil 😋
Murica
F*CK yeah
sunflower oil is actually poisonous as with most seed oils, lard is actually way better as with butter, if you are vegan you ca use coconut oil instead
@@NeostormXLMAX it is not poisonous
@@NeostormXLMAX Coconuts are also seeds.
as a danish person, i can confirm this
zamn
as an Indian person, i can confirm this
nah, most danes get triggered on behalf of Greenland and claim theyre independent.
The video is disgrace
As an indian you have extermly offended me and you must not speak things against us as we make 6% of your viewership
Just kidding i love your vids.
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@STALIN why are you gae
"Crimea River" should be in every Crimea souvenir shop printed in mugs, tshirts, and stuff; I'd buy one.
Canada has waterways. The St Lawrence, and the great lakes works for that.
It's more about how much farmable land there is.
You also have to remember that Canada is small because they stumped out a lot of immigration while under control of the British
Forgot this channel existed, just remembered and came back I'm glad
There is actually a street in Milford, Pennsylvania called "Crimea River Lane" lol
Country starts mining oil:
“MURICA FUCK YEAH!”
Paraguary: Oh shit…
No no, Paraguay is Brazil's backyard and no one else.
"Where we happened to spawn in." Thank for explaining where babies comes from.😸
fun fact: you can fit china into albania 10 times over
and even after that there's still 99% space left
With plenty of room for the country of Africa as well.
Fun fact you can fit the ROC into the PROC exactly 0 times
edit: so far...
So does China have 1 tenth of 0 square kilometres? They must be small if you can fit them into a country which is 0 square kilometers.
Wow😱🤯 unbelievable! China is smaller than Vatican city!? Omg!
The border between the Netherlands and Belgium is pretty whacky as well. I believe Baarle-Nassau is a famous place for showing that
Yes the border goes through buildings
"The British didn't invade their neighbours" Ahhhhhh, actually, The British (English at the time) were one of the first to invade their neighbour 'Ireland' and they still occupy part of their neighbour's territory today.
Still an island
I think that following the Good Friday Agreement, which explicitly mandates that Ireland can reunify at any time and without needing Britain's permission, it's a stretch to still call NI an occupied territory. The thing that has kept NI part of the UK is the will of the people of NI. (And by the way, that will is visibly weakening - there's a Stormont election in May, and Sinn Fein are currently leading in the polls, so that border poll might not be too far away...)
dont forget about Scotland
@@oddmerlin9797 Scotland joined the union by mutual consent. Scotland has never been a colony.
3:22 Canada has larger GDP than Russia
Good knowledge! Thanks for the video
congrats on 200k subs!!
Indians seeing the thumbnail: Its showtime
lol
Indians after watching the video: it's not showtime
@@emilv.3693 Show time is delayed
@ yeah not even a convincing explanation
No, it's just 83k views, which is quiet normal?? I dont see your point here
Denmark does not technically own Greenland and the Faroe Islands, but Greenland and the Faroe Islands are part of the Kingdom of Denmark '
So Denmark decides on their defense and security policy. But the two countries themselves decide how they spend their money.
So like how Scotland is not part of England but both are part of UK ?
@@Snp2024 Yes, it's a lot like Scotland. And Denmark does not have the right to sell Greenland either, without Greenland it also says yes. 🙂
Im from Denmark my selves, so i know a lot of Danish History. 😅
@@MrMasterTop1 oh nice
@The Dark Knight yeah i have heard about it. 🙂
Congratulations for reaching 200'000 subs.
Thank you for mentioning my country of Tuvalu. Even though Tuvalu is a small country we are very patriotic. Every Tuvaluan loves our Monarchy. God bless Her Majesty the Queen and HRH the Prince of Wales. I would love it if you could do a video about Tuvalu as we don't really have a voice.
Omg! I Tuvalu person in the wild!
Crimea a River.
That got me off-guard. Hahahaha thanks for the laughs mate!
You used to be able to travel anywhere on google earth, now your limited by certain spots...
You could even go in the middle of nowhere, and have relatively good quality
My favorite was the Siberian Traps, viewing them from the ground was quite spectacular...
Good times... before the Empire
you could go to egypt and half the floor would be covered by some guys feet with dusty ass toenails
What happened?
@@craftah it got removed...
I don’t know why...
but mabye, it has something to do with being able to go near "secret military locations"
"If Spain and Morocco shared a land border:
Sad Ceuta and Melilla (Spanish cities on the African mainland) noises
You are assuming a flat map doesn't have distortions. Which all 2D (Flat) maps DO.
You always have to do something to be able to fit a map of a sphere onto a flat surface.
I wonder how many of his statements would change if Greenland were to hypothetically become an independent country, thus no longer being Denmark?
As a Crimean, the sarcasm in this video killed me. Good job, love your vids
Just more evidence that your second channel is honestly kinda better than your main.
I love Minecraft, but I love exaggerated technicalities more
🇬🇱Greenland’s population: 56,000
🇮🇳India’s population: 1,392,000,000
😂😂😂😂
fun fact, the Kingdom of Denmark is 98% of territory Greenland, 2% Territory Denmark, 98% of population lives in denmark, 2% in Greenland
Is that flex?
@@isukdik yes
@@Kushagra.j no?
@@Kushagra.j Having that many people in a country can make things difficult so it's sort of a flex and sort of not.
Love your videos and your personality keep making good videos :)
Switzerland really is a legendary country, landlocked and small, but still one of the best.
Facts they're top 100 countries in the world
Hey! you should look into african hydrology and the congo river, its actually a huge river but Africa is a Mesa so the rivers rush a lot faster and it leads to a lot of stunts in growth for African countries. Sending love from Georgia (USA)!
The only Mercator projection I've seen is at the Equator. I wonder how things would look with the point of interest at the center (North not necessarily being up). Have you been in websites that could do that?
Great video! You should make a video about the Valeriepieris circle 👌
Canada likes lakes more than rivers
Did you know that Russia is bigger than Liechtenstein
O_O!
aYo? 🤨😲😱
I'm amazed 👏
Show me on truesizeof or I won't believe it
In the nordic countrys i feel like Norway is the little brother, Sweden the middle child, Denmark the oldest brother and Finland an far away cousin. Btw im from Sweden
Toycat: 26:10
DR Congo: laughs in diamonds and minerals
Europe: laughs in colonialism
just correcting you here Britain did go for Europe including claiming France and going in a war but were not successful so did not really have any colonies or take over Europe
They did have "colonies" (depending on your definition) in Europe though like Malta and Cyprus (as mentioned in the video).
Also, England did maintain territories of France: the islands of Jersey and Guernsey.
And technically the queen does hold the title "Duke of Normandy" because of those islands.
Soooo, tuvalu needs to hurry up and become a knight order?
Looks like there will be a lot of demand for horses coming from the polynesians in the coming decades...
What if india claims the whole indian ocean like china? o_O
Yep and dont forget indonesia literally means
" indian islands" :)
I mean we would become even bigger assholes than China
Then all of Indian subcontinent Indian Ocean Indonesia and west Indies should be part of India.
I think the Bay of Bengal belongs to the Cincinnati Bengals
What if they claim the state of Indiana?
How does Canada not have waterways? It has the most islands in the world. They have most of the Great Lakes?
Yeah... We have gulf and river of St. Lawrence to great lakes, Hudson Bay and its rivers. West coast is not as well off but we have Columbia river through usa and fraser. Arctic ocean (NW passage) will become more valuable as ice melts too...
Canada doesn't have most of the great lakes, they have like 40% of them.
@@joplin8433 4/5 lakes are in both Canada and the US so that is probably what they meant
@@Henry-qt3py
Yeah, you're probably right.
Yeah, those great lakes sure are incredibly important for trading with the singular country attached to them that are literally a stones throw away
One place you missed that is incredibly well placed is Oman. But not because of their territory south of the UAE it's what's north of it. Oman controls a plot of water called The Strait of Hormuz. What makes it important is that it is the gate to like 90% of the world's energy. Whoever controls The Strait of Hormuz controls the oil and by extension the world.
17:42 Speaking of Crimea River. Putin just needs to build a bridge so he can just get over it.
for some reason i enjoy just watching this man talk about countries for 15 minutes
China "discovers" islands while also helping "thawing" islands in Nordic countries and Canada.
Congratz on 200k
0:17 “it’s where we happened to spawn in” man’s been playing a little too much minecraft
I'm from a small country called Austria, you might Not have Heard of it
@@arxalier2956 Yikes
Finally I can feel proud to be a dane.
I found out that you can fit India in India 🧐😳😳😳
>tfw when its called the Indian Ocean but you don't have the entire ocean to yourself :(
im patiently waiting for toycat to randomly zoom in on a place that i know
as a earthian i cannot confirm, can some of my other planetary bros help confirm?
Of course Andorra is not a Singapore, but actually for Spanish people its becoming like some kind of Monaco, many youtubers and wealthy people settle down there, as the taxes are much smaller than in Spain, but they would still be very close to all the main cities in Spain
But Denmark doesn't exist
Ohhhhhh nice joke
But Toycat have you read 'The Yellow River' by I.P. Daley?
a petition to get toy cat to do a geoguessr video
I've done several!
did not realise! watching them now. love your videos
About the riverways, Brazil is the 5th largest country and almost no one lives in the Amazon river region
1:15 as a swede, i really enoyed that joke
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I would argue that is there were no Gibraltar straight, we would have dug a gibraltar canal as well as the suez canal
Hey wanna make a prediction for the future with the current geopolitics video?
Greenland is the reason why
China should totally change the name of the Asian-American River. I'm concerned that Chinese people might be offended and for some reason that matters xD
Off topic: is Google Maps always accurate with borders? For example, I see the border between Panama and Costa Rica which seems to go through homes and cross roads south of the Pan-Am Highway. Also, in parts of west Africa, the border goes through villages without closed roads between two countries. For example, check the city between Benin and Nigeria on the Atlantic Ocean.
lmao you could put any title and i would be like "no... maybe?"
start lying to us for fun for like a year then reveal at the end ill pay you like 10 bucks
Canada has the st Lawrence river and Great Lakes which serves the Quebec City - Windsor corridor, highest density corridor in Canada.
i knew this was because of greenland and faroe islands just by looking at the title
Can't forget about the coolest Guyana town, Jonestown
the UK also constantly invaded France
nice, our danish brothers are bigger!
I, a proud norwegian, loves all of scandinavia.
We worked very hard my freind
ibx2cat: starts explaining stuff.
also ibx2cat a few min later: oh wow whhaa look at these names of guyana XD
Toycat has forgotten that he has 2nd channel
Not only Italy is bad at tunnels and bridges, they're also bad at building and making tanks.
"There's huge benefits to having dead dinosaurs in your land"
w h a t
14:11 i cant ignore that you got emails from a country. we need a followup video about your emails from andorra
This is really interesting information.
"Denmark is a sub-country" 😅😬
I just realized Toycat has a beard. I’m so used to him having a smooth face lol
10:50 i think i have a good idea of how this would be... Like i've it was already a reality... (Talking about Ceuta, Melilla and some other little Islands and peninsulas on Northern African Coast being integral parte of Spain)
He always says "welcome back to the second channel" yet I have no idea what his main channel is about
Minecraft stuff
Bro i know he does have a main channel, but imagine if you say that and you only have one channel
not sure what the point of this comment is
@@LucyWest370 Just that I think it's kinda funny how I'm watching a second channel without even knowing about the main one. I looked it up now, but I didn't know before
@@fabio5286 lmao
“Land isn’t the thing we should be valuing”
Toycat confirmed anti georgist
Could you do some geo guesser battle royal videos, personally think that would be funny
I was like what then I remembered that denmark owns green land
The UK did have colonies in mainland Europe. Gibraltar, obviously, but even aside from that there were colonies in northern France fo rquite a while and, while less a colony, a sizeable chunk of Germany belonged to Britain via medieval style marriages giving shared monarchs.