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These are the only Western European countries which didn't participated in colonization/empire building: Vatican* (questionable) Malta (but not Sovereign M
by nivertech 4y ago
These are the only Western European countries which didn't participated in colonization/empire building:
Vatican* (questionable)
Malta (but not Sovereign Military Order of Malta)
Monaco
San Marino
Andorra
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Ireland** (only after independence from UK)
Under some classifications Scandinavia is also counts as Western Europe, and even there Denmark-Norway colonized Iceland and Greenland, and Sweden expanded its empire into Finland, Baltics and Northern Russia.