Brazil was a Portuguese colony.

Brazil was a colony of Portugal.

Kenya used to be a British colony.

Mauritania was once a French colony.

At one time Nigeria was a British colony.

Zimbabwe was once a colony of Britain.

Timor Leste was a colony of Portugal for 400 years.

I grew up in Mozambique when the country was still under Portuguese rule, and the inequality in our colonial society shaped my view that all people have a right to health care.

The north, in the meanwhile, eventually evolved into the Jaffna kingdom.

The College of the Marshall Islands is a community college in the Marshall Islands.

A former German colony before being claimed by Japan, Qingdao is famous for its Munich style lager

Indeed, at the beginning of the twentieth century, such efforts failed and Korea became a colony of Japan.

It became a French protectorate, not a colony as in the case of neighboring Algeria in the nineteenth century.

After the First World War and its defeat, it ceded the territory to Belgium.

South Australia became a self governing colony in 1856 with the ratification of a new constitution by the British parliament.

Defeated and divided, it became a French colony in the nineteenth century, regaining independence in 1960.

South Korea was formerly a Japanese colony (1910 1945), and the natives were treated like an inferior race.

After all, the British simply appointed governors when Hong Kong was still a crown colony, and nobody protested then.

The Canadian territory was ruled as a French colony until 1760, when it was surrendered to Great Britain after the Seven Years' War.

Japan colonized Korea between 1905 and 1945, and the Japanese occupation of the country could be quite brutal.

The Philippines, a Southeast Asian archipelago of more than 7,000 islands, is like Latin American countries a former colony in the Spanish Empire.

While Haiti is now known as the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, it was once the most profitable possession of the French Empire.

Former British colony Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China and enjoys a high level of autonomy from the communist country under the idea of one country, two systems.

As Malta was a British colony for 160 years, English is very widely spoken and even has official language status, along with Maltese, which is descended from a Sicilian Arabic dialect.

Coming from Indonesia, a former Dutch colony, Sidarto spoke the language pretty well before she even arrived and had relatives already living in the Netherlands.

I grew up in Mozambique when the country was still under Portuguese rule, and the inequality in our colonial society shaped my view that all people have a right to health care.

Israel is regarded in the Middle East, as well as by many people in the West, as a colony led by white people (even though many prominent Israelis have their roots in Teheran, Fez, or Baghdad).

That's why the story of Nirupama, a 9 year old girl who gave up all her gold jewelry to benefit the struggle for freedom against the British in 1934 when India was still under colonial rule is still powerful.

Ségolène Royal, despite having been raised in Senegal when it was a French colony, appears disinterested in Africa, and her opponent, Nicolas Sarkozy, has evinced an interest in Africa only in the context of illegal immigration.

Thus, those of us who value Georgia s historical ties with Russia are called, at best, archaists, and at worst enemies of Georgian independence, as if Georgia would become a Russian colony if we ever came to power.

Whatever else is said about such French backed authoritarian regimes, hindsight leaves no doubt about the benefits of the social stability seen in the Ivory Coast during the period until the 1980 s, when France remained paternalistically engaged with its former colony.

We, who were a colony of a European country and share a culture with the Spanish, got stuck us with Europe's Schengen visa to prevent us from entering, and they told us we were going to live off their welfare state and steal their jobs.

The law prohibiting sodomy dates back to Malaysia s time as a British colony research shows that the law has only been invoked seven times from 1938 to 2009, and that four of the seven times were for Anwar.