Togoland (under British administration) |
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United with the Gold Coast (Colony and Protectorate), a Non-Self-Governing Territory administered by the United Kingdom, in 1957 to form Ghana |
Somaliland (under Italian administration) |
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United with British Somaliland Protectorate in 1960 to form Somalia |
Togoland (under French administration) |
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Became independent as Togo in 1960 |
Cameroons (under French administration) |
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Became independent as Cameroon in 1960 |
Cameroons (under British administration) |
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Northern territory
joined Nigeria and Southern territory joined Cameroon (1961) |
Tanganyika (under British administration) |
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Became independent in 1961 (in 1964, Tanganyika and the former protectorate of Zanzibar, which had become independent in 1963, united as a single State under the name of the United Republic of Tanzania) |
Ruanda-Urundi (under Belgian administration) |
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Voted to divide into the two sovereign States of Rwanda and Burundi in 1962 |
Western Samoa (under New Zealand administration) |
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Became independent as Samoa in 1962 |
Nauru (administered by Australia on behalf of Australia, New Zealand and
the United Kingdom) |
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Became independent in 1968 |
New Guinea (administered by Australia) |
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United with the Non-Self-Governing Territory of Papua, also administered by Australia, to become the independent State of Papua New Guinea in 1975 |
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: |
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(a) Federated States of Micronesia
Became fully self-governing in free Association with the United States in 1990
(b) Republic of the Marshall Islands
Became fully self-governing in free Association with the United States in 1990
(c) Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Became fully self-governing as Commonwealth of the United States in 1990
(d) Palau
Became fully self-governing in free Association with the United States in 1994
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