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Exploration of the Americas

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The exploration of the Americas includes:

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Sovereign states	Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela
Dependencies and territories	Anguilla Aruba Bermuda Bonaire British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Curaçao Falkland Islands French Guiana Greenland Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat Puerto Rico Saba Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Turks and Caicos Islands U.S. Virgin Islands
North America Central America Caribbean South America

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Colonization, decolonization, and neocolonialism

By region

Exploration	Americas Africa Asia Oceania Antarctica — World oceans
Colonization	Americas Africa European colonies Asia Southeast Asia Oceania Antarctica
Decolonization	Americas Africa Asia Oceania

General
topics

Exploration	Maritime history (European) Age of Discovery
Colonization	Antiquity — Imperialism Chartered companies Interventionism Colonialism chronology history empires detribalization settler colonialism wars Current: Non-self-governing Dependent
Colonial empires in the modern era	Overseas, major: British Dutch French German Italian Portuguese Spanish Overseas, minor: American Australian Austro-Hungarian Belgian Couronian (Polish-Lithuanian) Danish New Zealand Norwegian Swedish Mostly contiguous: American Chinese Japanese Ottoman Russian South African
Decolonization	Wars of national liberation — Predecessors of sovereign states in Europe in South America Independence referendum Sovereign states formation dates
Postcolonialism	Independence Internal colonialism Nation-building Neocolonialism Postcolonial international relations
Related concepts	Decolonization of knowledge Terra nullius Plantation Settler Indigenous peoples Uncontacted peoples Christianity and colonialism Decolonization of public space

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