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The U.K. still has the Falkland Islands. But for the most part, once India achieved independence, the British empire was pretty much toast.
by rm_-rf_slash 9y ago
The U.K. still has the Falkland Islands. But for the most part, once India achieved independence, the British empire was pretty much toast.
- madaxe_again 9y agoThe UK still has many overseas posessions, but they are mostly minuscule specs of land in the world’s oceans. By that argument, Ecuador has an empire, insofar as it possesses the Galapagos archipelago.
- otempomores 9y agoLocation is a strange thing. Who would have guessed that some forsaken desert by the sea or a muddy island could be this expensive. So are this islands nearstreams of people, data or goods.