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This is a list of articles holding galleries of maps of present-day countries and dependencies. The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries , the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies.
In Mexico City (the capital of New Spain), Hasekura met with several colonial leaders and offered the New Spanish government free commerce between the New Spanish territories and Japan and asked for a group of Christian missionaries to return to Japan. The diplomatic mission also offered to expel both English and Dutch citizens from the country ...
Empire of Japan Japan: 27 December 1949 [n] Vietnam [o] French Indochina Empire of Japan France Japan: 2 September 1945: Hồ Chí Minh: August Revolution Jordan: Emirate of Transjordan British Empire: 25 May 1946: Abdullah I Pakistan [p] India British Empire: 14 August 1947: Liaquat Ali Khan [q]-[r] Bangladesh as part of Pakistan: 14 August ...
Spain later agreed by treaty to cede the Philippines in Asia and Guam in the Pacific. In the Caribbean, Spain ceded Puerto Rico to the U.S. The war also marked the end of Spanish rule in Cuba, which was to be granted nominal independence but remained heavily influenced by the U.S. government and U.S. business interests.
Map of Spain in 1960. Present-day Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara, as well as the Ifni territory , were still part of Spain. In 1959, the Spanish territory on the Gulf of Guinea was established with a status similar to the provinces of metropolitan Spain.
The dominions of Charles V in Europe and the Americas. Charles V of the House of Habsburg controlled in personal union a composite monarchy inclusive of the Holy Roman Empire stretching from Germany to Northern Italy with direct rule over the Low Countries and Austria, and of Spain, which also included the southern Italian kingdoms of Sicily, Sardinia and Naples and the long-lasting Spanish ...
The Empire of Japan, a constitutional monarchy with Hirohito as its Emperor, was the principal Axis power in Asia and the Pacific. Under the emperor were a political cabinet and the Imperial General Headquarters, with two chiefs of staff. By 1945 the Emperor of Japan was more than a symbolic leader; he played a major role in devising a strategy ...
All ports and major towns in the Primorsky Krai and Siberia regions of Russia east of the city of Chita, from 1918 until gradually withdrawing in 1922. [1] North Sakhalin was occupied by Japan 1920–1925. Japanese occupation of German colonial possessions. Japanese occupation of Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands, Palau Islands, Caroline Islands