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What about the ones you don't know of! Guess it was my clumsy way of saying the overseas territories are a lot bigger than I realised. And as you point out the vast majority of those territories are still there as they want to be still (apart from maybe the people of the Chagos islands).

This book is a very good read, touches on the history of all those places and why they became so important to the empire. It surprised me our country still had so many overseas territories still as I'd assumed as the empire collapsed they'd all be released...