Excerpt from The Colonies of the World and How They Are Governed Asiatic colonies number 25: but their population exceeds that of any other of the grand divisions; while in area they are exceeded only by those of Africa. Oi this number, 10 are under the control of the Brit ish Government viz., Aden, on the southern coast of Arabia, command ing the entrance to the Red Sea, Bahrein Islands, Baluchistan, Ceylon, Cyprus, Hong Kong, British India, Malay federated native states, Sik kim, and the Straits Settlements. The F rench ...
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Excerpt from The Colonies of the World and How They Are Governed Asiatic colonies number 25: but their population exceeds that of any other of the grand divisions; while in area they are exceeded only by those of Africa. Oi this number, 10 are under the control of the Brit ish Government viz., Aden, on the southern coast of Arabia, command ing the entrance to the Red Sea, Bahrein Islands, Baluchistan, Ceylon, Cyprus, Hong Kong, British India, Malay federated native states, Sik kim, and the Straits Settlements. The F rench possessions in Asia include Annam, Cochin China, Cambodia, F rench India, and Tonquin. Portugal has a small territory in India and the island of Macao off the coast of China. Russia includes Bokhara and Khiva under the title of dependencies. Turkey extends her control over Samos; and China includes within her jurisdiction, as dependencies, Manchuria, Mongolia, Tibet, J ungaria, and East Turkestan, with the enormous area of 800 square miles and a population of In the above the native feudatory states of India are not included, though British author ities generally agree that, indirectly at least, they are controlled by the British Government through native princes, ministers, or councils, with the help and under the advice of political officers of the British Govern ment. The area of these Indian feudatory states is square miles; and their population is These, if included, would bring the area in Asia controlled by Great Britain up to square miles; while the population of the territory thus controlled would be out of a grand total of within the Asiatic territory classified as colonies, protectorates, dependencies, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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