List of European Colonies in The Americas
- British
- British America (1607– 1783)
- Thirteen Colonies
- British North America (1783 – 1907)
- Indian Reserve (1763–1783)
- British West Indies
- Courland
- New Courland (Tobago) (1654–1689)
- Danish
- Danish West Indies (1754–1917)
- Greenland (1814 - today)
- Dutch
- New Netherland (1609–1667)
- Essequibo (1616–1815)
- Dutch Virgin Islands (1625–1680)
- Berbice (1627–1815)
- New Walcheren (1628–1677)
- Dutch Brazil (1630–1654)
- Pomeroon (1650–1689)
- Cayenne (1658–1664)
- Demerara (1745–1815)
- Suriname (1667–1954)
- Curaçao and Dependencies (1634–1954)
- Sint Eustatius and Dependencies (1636–1954)
- French
- New France (1604–1763)
- Acadia (1604–1713)
- Canada (1608–1763)
- Louisiana (1699–1763, 1800–1803)
- Newfoundland (1662–1713)
- Île Royale (1713–1763)
- French Guiana (1763-today)
- French West Indies
- Saint-Domingue (1659–1804, now Haiti)
- Tobago
- Virgin Islands
- France Antarctique (1555–1567)
- Equinoctial France (1612–1615)
- Portuguese
- Colonial Brazil (1500–1815) became a Kingdom, United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves.
- Cisplatina (1808–1822, today Uruguay)
- Barbados (1536–1620)
- French Guiana (1809–1817)
- Russian
- Russian America (now Alaska, 1799–1867)
- Spanish
- Cuba (until 1898)
- New Granada (1717–1819)
- Captaincy General of Venezuela
- New Spain (1535–1821)
- Nueva Extremadura
- Nueva Galicia
- Nuevo Reino de León
- Nuevo Santander
- Nueva Vizcaya
- Las Californias
- Santa Fe de Nuevo México
- Peru (1542–1824)
- Puerto Rico (until 1898)
- Rio de la Plata (1776–1814)
- Santo Domingo (last Spanish rule 1861-1865)
- Swedish
- New Sweden (1638–1655)
- Saint Barthélemy (1785–1878)
- Guadeloupe (1813–1815)
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