Ministry of the Colonies may refer to: Government department or ministry with "colony" or a derivative in its name: * France – Ministry of the Colonies * Germany –

Imperial Colonial Office The Imperial Colonial Office (german: Reichskolonialamt) was a governmental agency of the German Empire tasked with managing Germany's overseas territories. Dissolved after World War I, on 20 February 1919 the Imperial Colonial Ministry (''Reich ...

Kingdom of Italy The Kingdom of Italy ( it, Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 1946, when civil discontent led to an institutional referendum to abandon the monarchy and f ...

– Ministry of the Colonies, the ministry of the government of the Kingdom of Italy responsible for the government of the country's colonial possessions and the direction of their economies * Japan – Ministry of Colonial Affairs * Netherlands – Ministry of the Colonies * Portugal – Ministry of the Colonies * United Kingdom –

Colonial Office The Colonial Office was a government department of the Kingdom of Great Britain and later of the United Kingdom, first created to deal with the colonial affairs of British North America but required also to oversee the increasing number of c ...

Similar government organizations without using the word "colony": * France – Minister of the Overseas * Portugal – Overseas Ministry * Spain – Ministry of Overseas * United States –

Office of Insular Affairs The Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) is a unit of the United States Department of the Interior that oversees federal administration of several United States insular areas. It is the successor to the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Departme ...

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