Netherlands Former Dutch Colonies

Former Dutch Colonies
North America:
 * New Netherlands (Nieuw-Amsterdam / New York)
 * Acadia

Caribbean:
 * Anegada
 * New Walcheren (Tobago)
 * Saint Croix
 * Tortola, originally Tor Tholen (New Tholen)
 * Virgin Gorda of the coast of Haiti

South America:
 * Berbice (Guyana)
 * Demerara
 * Dutch Guiana (Suriname)
 * Essequibo
 * New Holland (Brazil - Half the capitanas)

Africa:
 * Angola (Luanda, Sonyo and Cabinda)
 * Arguin Island (in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritania Mauritania)
 * Dutch Gold Coast (settlements along coast of Ghana, including El Mina)
 * Goree (in Senegal)
 * Moçambique (Delagoa Bay)
 * Sao Tomé
 * South Africa. The Dutch Cape Colony (Kaapstad / Cape Town)

Indian Ocean:
 * Mauritius

Middle East:
 * Mesopotamia(Iraq, Al Basrah)
 * Jemen, Al Mukha (Mocca)

Indian Subcontinent
 * Bengalen (Bangladesh)
 * Burma (Myanmar) (Mrohaung (Arakan), Siriangh, Syriam, Ava, Martaban)
 * Ceylon
 * India (Suratte, Malabar, Coromandel)

Asia-Pasific:
 * Dutch East Indies(Indonesia)
 * Malacca
 * Molukken or Maluku Islands
 * Taiwan (Tayowan)
 * Tonkin/Annam (Vietnam) (Tonkin, Hoi An)

The country of New Zealand was named after the province Zeeland in the Netherlands and the island of Tasman was named after the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman who discovered and mapped out most of New Zealand, Australia and Tasman.

See also Dutch Colonial Empire