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| Rank | Topic | Wikipedia views Oct 21 2010 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States (entire basin of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, Great Lakes) | 299170 |
| 2 | Canada | 120111 |
| 3 | India (Suratte, Malabar, Coromandel) | 111253 |
| 4 | Australia | 107685 |
| 5 | Brazil | 55766 |
| 6 | Mexico | 48191 |
| 7 | Ireland (first as the Lordship of Ireland, later not a colony but an integral part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) | 43978 |
| 8 | Pakistan | 43158 |
| 9 | New Zealand | 42215 |
| 10 | Philippines | 41530 |
| 11 | South Africa. The Dutch Cape Colony (Kaapstad / Cape Town) | 37246 |
| 12 | Egypt | 35394 |
| 13 | Singapore | 34758 |
| 14 | Argentina | 34630 |
| 15 | Hong Kong | 32495 |
| 16 | Peru | 31267 |
| 17 | Socotra | 29492 |
| 18 | Malaysia | 29290 |
| 19 | Puerto Rico | 28389 |
| 20 | Vietnam | 25380 |
| 21 | Colombia | 24873 |
| 22 | Chile | 24481 |
| 23 | Nigeria | 23088 |
| 24 | Cuba | 21957 |
| 25 | Burma (Myanmar) (Mrohaung (Arakan), Siriangh, Syriam, Ava, Martaban) | 21206 |
| 26 | Morocco enclaves | 20818 |
| 27 | Bangladesh | 20724 |
| 28 | Jamaica | 19769 |
| 29 | Taiwan (Tayowan) | 19236 |
| 30 | Venezuela | 18408 |
| 31 | Dominican Republic | 18330 |
| 32 | Cyprus | 18287 |
| 33 | Iceland | 18278 |
| 34 | Mesopotamia (Iraq, Al Basrah) | 17569 |
| 35 | Alaska | 17030 |
| 36 | Costa Rica | 16862 |
| 37 | Ecuador | 16770 |
| 38 | Lebanon | 16552 |
| 39 | Bolivia | 16347 |
| 40 | Malta | 16327 |
| 41 | Haiti | 15155 |
| 42 | Madagascar | 14479 |
| 43 | Guatemala | 14395 |
| 44 | Isle of Man | 13799 |
| 45 | Cambodia | 13549 |
| 46 | Qatar | 13476 |
| 47 | Panama (formerly a part of Colombia) | 13388 |
| 48 | Algeria | 13137 |
| 49 | El Salvador | 12911 |
| 50 | Cisplatina (Uruguay) | 12613 |
| 51 | Syria | 12499 |
| 52 | Yemen (Cheik-Saïd peninsula) | 12054 |
| 53 | Belize | 12015 |
| 54 | Nicaragua | 11780 |
| 55 | Honduras | 11708 |
| 56 | Macau | 11635 |
| 57 | Mauritius | 11620 |
| 58 | Libya | 11159 |
| 59 | Bhutan | 10779 |
| 60 | Uganda | 10424 |
| 61 | Tunisia | 10269 |
| 62 | Palestine | 10260 |
| 63 | Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Wisconsin | 10002 |
| 64 | Brunei | 9753 |
| 65 | Louisiana and Minnesota east of the Mississippi River | 9750 |
| 66 | Sierra Leone | 9553 |
| 67 | Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon | 9481 |
| 68 | Laos | 9448 |
| 69 | Kuwait | 9436 |
| 70 | Nova Scotia | 9319 |
| 71 | Bahrain | 9257 |
| 72 | Guam | 9218 |
| 73 | Cameroon (91% of Cameroon) | 8795 |
| 74 | Angola | 8681 |
| 75 | Oman | 8512 |
| 76 | Barbados | 8497 |
| 77 | Paraguay | 8386 |
| 78 | Faroe Islands | 7883 |
| 79 | Eritrea | 7645 |
| 80 | Seychelles | 7617 |
| 81 | Nauru | 7600 |
| 82 | Senegal | 7582 |
| 83 | Western Samoa | 6836 |
| 84 | Mozambique | 6687 |
| 85 | Grenada | 6446 |
| 86 | Goa | 6328 |
| 87 | Saint Lucia | 5969 |
| 88 | Chad | 5901 |
| 89 | Niger | 5620 |
| 90 | Swaziland | 5503 |
| 91 | French Guiana | 5242 |
| 92 | Palau | 5090 |
| 93 | Corsica (the Anglo-Corsican Kingdom was a protectorate or in personal union with Britain) | 5062 |
| 94 | Solomon Islands | 5044 |
| 95 | Zanzibar | 5032 |
| 96 | Mauritania | 4823 |
| 97 | Trinidad | 4713 |
| 98 | Gabon | 4699 |
| 99 | Montserrat | 4556 |
| 100 | Guadeloupe | 4258 |
| 101 | Marshall Islands | 4109 |
| 102 | Dominica | 4090 |
| 103 | Comoros | 3391 |
| 104 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 3238 |
| 105 | Antigua and Barbuda | 2904 |
| 106 | Moluccas | 2727 |
| 107 | Malacca | 2700 |
| 108 | Saint Christopher (St Kitts) | 2698 |
| 109 | Anguilla | 2564 |
| 110 | Micronesia | 2508 |
| 111 | Southwestern United States - Arizona, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah | 2456 |
| 112 | Shetland | 2403 |
| 113 | Tangier | 2312 |
| 114 | Orkney | 2276 |
| 115 | Terra Nova (Newfoundland) | 2226 |
| 116 | Labrador | 2168 |
| 117 | Muscat | 1986 |
| 118 | Ceuta | 1924 |
| 119 | Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) | 1879 |
| 120 | Hebrides | 1752 |
| 121 | Mombasa | 1671 |
| 122 | Indochina | 1625 |
| 123 | St Thomas | 1557 |
| 124 | Surat | 1366 |
| 125 | Mangalore | 1317 |
| 126 | Chittagong | 1288 |
| 127 | Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo) | 1249 |
| 128 | Heligoland | 1151 |
| 129 | Minorca | 1082 |
| 130 | Tobago | 1075 |
| 131 | Oregon Country | 1050 |
| 132 | Manama | 1037 |
| 133 | Magna Graecia | 1033 |
| 134 | Gold Coast (Ghana) | 1019 |
| 135 | Orange Free State | 1011 |
| 136 | Cape Colony | 991 |
| 137 | Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) | 971 |
| 138 | Agadir | 895 |
| 139 | Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania) | 872 |
| 140 | Dahomey (Benin) | 871 |
| 141 | Saint Christophe (St Kitts) | 871 |
| 142 | Oran | 860 |
| 143 | Sint Eustatius | 847 |
| 144 | New Sweden (Nya Sverige) | 827 |
| 145 | Flores | 820 |
| 146 | Nevis | 817 |
| 147 | Tortola | 803 |
| 148 | German East Africa (Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania) | 797 |
| 149 | Zululand | 722 |
| 150 | Daman and Diu | 710 |
| 151 | Jerba | 708 |
| 152 | Leeward Islands | 704 |
| 153 | Dodecanese | 652 |
| 154 | South-West Africa (Namibia) | 623 |
| 155 | Transjordan | 620 |
| 156 | Hatay (Sanjak of Alexandretta, now called Hatay province) | 620 |
| 157 | Finland | 605 |
| 158 | Caroline Islands (Karolinen) | 600 |
| 159 | Tortuga (off coast of Haiti) | 596 |
| 160 | Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 584 |
| 161 | Cabinda | 517 |
| 162 | Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) | 502 |
| 163 | Walvis Bay | 469 |
| 164 | Spanish Morocco | 460 |
| 165 | Windward Islands | 455 |
| 166 | Fernando Po and Annobon (insular Equatorial Guinea) | 444 |
| 167 | Spanish East Indies | 441 |
| 168 | Mosquito Coast | 434 |
| 169 | British Somaliland (northern Somalia) | 429 |
| 170 | Ayutthaya | 420 |
| 171 | New Hebrides (Vanuatu, condominium with Britain) | 375 |
| 172 | Ambon | 361 |
| 173 | Phoenix Islands (part of Kiribati) | 360 |
| 174 | Nyasaland (Malawi) | 356 |
| 175 | Swedish Pomerania | 342 |
| 176 | Malindi | 335 |
| 177 | Italian Somaliland | 328 |
| 178 | Bona | 326 |
| 179 | Demerara | 318 |
| 180 | Virgin Gorda | 316 |
| 181 | Togoland (split between Togo and Ghana) | 305 |
| 182 | Ternate | 298 |
| 183 | Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Sudan) | 297 |
| 184 | Transvaal | 283 |
| 185 | Bismarck Archipelago | 282 |
| 186 | Natal | 277 |
| 187 | Danish West Indies | 276 |
| 188 | Spanish Sahara | 273 |
| 189 | Tonkin/Annam (Vietnam) (Tonkin, Hoi An) | 265 |
| 190 | East Florida and West Florida | 264 |
| 191 | Portuguese Timor (Timor-Leste) | 257 |
| 192 | Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau) | 248 |
| 193 | Basutoland (Lesotho) | 247 |
| 194 | French Guinea (Guinea) | 247 |
| 195 | Albania | 243 |
| 196 | Nootka (Vancouver Island, Canada) | 235 |
| 197 | New Holland (Brazil - Half the capitanas) | 232 |
| 198 | Hughli | 228 |
| 199 | Arguin Island (in Mauritania) | 225 |
| 200 | Kamerun (split between Cameroon and Nigeria) | 220 |
| 201 | Dutch Guiana (Suriname) | 214 |
| 202 | Ruanda-Urundi (Rwanda and Burundi) | 207 |
| 203 | *Annam | 206 |
| 204 | QuÃloa | 203 |
| 205 | Tientsin (concession territory) | 199 |
| 206 | French Sudan (Mali) | 195 |
| 207 | Qeshm | 191 |
| 208 | South Arabia | 190 |
| 209 | Aden Protectorate | 187 |
| 210 | Swedish Estonia | 183 |
| 211 | Serampore | 183 |
| 212 | Anegada | 177 |
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