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Through out history eight Europeans countries have controlled different parts of the Americas, they are [[Denmark]], which still controls [[Greenland]], [[France]], which has in the past controlled, [[Canada]], [[Haiti]], [[Louisiana]] and other places, [[Netherlands]], which founded a colony in North America called [[New Netherlands]], which contained parts of what is now [[Delaware]], [[New Jersey]], [[New York]], and [[Connecticut]], [[Portugal]] in the past controlled [[Brazil]], [[Russia]], used to own [[Alaska]], which Russia later sold to the [[United States of America]], [[Spain]] in the past controlled most of what is now [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]], [[Puerto Rico]], [[Cuba]], [[Dominican Republic]], and large parts of the Southern part of [[North America]], including [[Mexico]],  and much of the Southern half of the [[United States]], including [[California]], [[Florida]] ,which Spain ceded to the [[United States of America]] in 1819, [[Nevada]], [[Texas]], [[Utah]], and parts of what is now, [[Arizona]], [[Colorado]], [[Kansas]], [[New Mexico]], [[Oklahoma]] and [[Wyoming]]. Sweden in the past founded a colony in North America, called [[New Sweden]], which contained parts of what are now [[Delaware]], [[New Jersey]], and [[Pennsylvania]], the [[United Kingdom]] in the past controlled the [[thirteen colonies]], which would later become the [[United States of America]], and also controlled [[Canada]], [[Jamaica]], [[Belize]], [[Antigua and Barbuda]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]], [[Barbados]] and other places in the Americas.
 
Through out history eight Europeans countries have controlled different parts of the Americas, they are [[Denmark]], which still controls [[Greenland]], [[France]], which has in the past controlled, [[Canada]], [[Haiti]], [[Louisiana]] and other places, [[Netherlands]], which founded a colony in North America called [[New Netherlands]], which contained parts of what is now [[Delaware]], [[New Jersey]], [[New York]], and [[Connecticut]], [[Portugal]] in the past controlled [[Brazil]], [[Russia]], used to own [[Alaska]], which Russia later sold to the [[United States of America]], [[Spain]] in the past controlled most of what is now [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]], [[Puerto Rico]], [[Cuba]], [[Dominican Republic]], and large parts of the Southern part of [[North America]], including [[Mexico]],  and much of the Southern half of the [[United States]], including [[California]], [[Florida]] ,which Spain ceded to the [[United States of America]] in 1819, [[Nevada]], [[Texas]], [[Utah]], and parts of what is now, [[Arizona]], [[Colorado]], [[Kansas]], [[New Mexico]], [[Oklahoma]] and [[Wyoming]]. Sweden in the past founded a colony in North America, called [[New Sweden]], which contained parts of what are now [[Delaware]], [[New Jersey]], and [[Pennsylvania]], the [[United Kingdom]] in the past controlled the [[thirteen colonies]], which would later become the [[United States of America]], and also controlled [[Canada]], [[Jamaica]], [[Belize]], [[Antigua and Barbuda]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]], [[Barbados]] and other places in the Americas.
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== External links ==
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*[http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/flags_of_the_americas.htm National Flags of the Americas and the Caribbean.]
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