| **** |
Great Britain |
France |
Belgium |
Netherlands |
Germany (1914) |
| Area in Square Miles |
94,000 |
212,600 |
11,800 |
13,200 |
210,000 |
| Population |
45,500,100 |
42,000,000 |
8,300,000 |
8.500,000 |
67,500,000 |
| Area of Colonies |
13,100,000 |
4,300,000 |
940,000 |
790,000 |
1,100,000 |
| Population of Colonies |
470,000,000 |
65,000,000 |
13,000,000 |
66,000,000 |
13,000,000 |
SOURCE: Mary Evelyn Townsend, European Colonial Expansion Since 1871 (Chicago:
J.P. Lippincott Company, 1941), p. 19
Percentage of Territories Belonging to the European/US Colonial Powers
(1900)
| Region |
Percentage Controlled |
| Africa |
90.4% |
| Polynesia |
98.9% |
| Asia |
56.5% |
| Australia |
100.0% |
| Americas |
27.2% |
SOURCE: A. Supan, Die territoriale Entwicklung der Euroaischen Kolonien (Gotha,
1906), p. 254 |
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