List of former German colonies

Brandenburg-Prussia • Groß Friedrichsburg (in Ghana), 1683–1718 • Arguin (in Mauritania), 1685–1721 Duchy of Courland • Curlander Gambia 1651–1660, 1660–1661 • St. Andrew's Island • Juffure • Banjul Island • Neu-Kurland (on Tobago) 1642–1650, 1654–1659, 1660–1666 Free City of Augsburg • Klein-Venedig (in Venezuela), 1528–1545 County of Hanau • Hanauish-Indies, Planned in 1669 but later canceled in 1672 House of Ascania • Neu-Askania, 1828–1856 == German Empire ==

Africa The following were German African protectorates: • Kionga Triangle, 1894–1916 • German South West Africa, 1884–1915 • German West Africa, 1884–1915 • Togoland, 1884–1916 • Kamerun, from 1884–1916 • Kapitaï and Koba, 1884–1885 • Mahinland, March 11, 1885 – October 24, 1885 • German East Africa, 1885–1918 • Witu Protectorate, 1885–1890 • German Somali Coast, 1885–1888 • German Congo, 1884–1885 • German Katanga, 1886 • Gwandu Protectorate, 1895–1897 • Gulmu Protectorate, 1895–1897 • German South Africa, 1884–1885 China These treaty ports were German concessions in China, leased to it by the Qing dynasty: • Kiautschou Bay concession, 1898–1914 • German concession in Tientsin, 1895–1917 • German concession in Hankou, 1895–1917 • Chefoo, 1901–1914 • German Peking Legation, 1900–1917 Pacific These were German colonies established in the Pacific: • German New Guinea, 1884–1919 • Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, 1885–1914 • Bismarck Archipelago, 1885–1914 • German Solomon Islands Protectorate, 1885–1914 • Bougainville Island, 1885–1914 • Buka Island, 1885–1914 • Choiseul Island, 1885–1900 • Shortland Islands, 1885–1900 • Santa Isabel Island, 1885–1900 • Nauru, 1906–1914 • Northern Mariana Islands, 1899–1914 • Caroline Islands, 1899–1914 • Palau Islands, 1899–1914 • Marshall Islands, 1906–1914 • German Samoa, 1900–1914 • Protectorate of the Marshall Islands, 1885–1906 • Nauru, 1888–1914 == Nazi Germany ==

• Poland (1939–1945) • Netherlands, 1940–1945 • Norway, 1940–1945 • Belgium and Northern France, 1944 • Ukraine, 1940–1944 • Ostland, 1941–1945 == See also ==