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Colonies and trading posts of the Dutch East India Company (1602–1798)

Governorate General	Batavia
Governorates	Ambon Banda Islands Cape Colony Celebes Ceylon Coromandel Formosa Malacca Moluccas Northeast coast of Java
Directorates	Bengal Persia Suratte
Commandments	Bantam Malabar West coast of Sumatra
Residencies	Bantam Banjarmasin Batavia Cheribon Palembang Preanger Pontianak
Opperhoofd settlements	Myanmar Canton Dejima Mauritius Siam Timor Tonkin

Colonies and trading posts of the Dutch West India Company (1621–1792)

Colonies in the Americas	Berbice ¹ Brazil Cayenne Curaçao and Dependencies Demerara Essequibo New Netherland Pomeroon Sint Eustatius and Dependencies Surinam ² Tobago Virgin Islands
Trading posts in Africa	Arguin Gold Coast Loango-Angola Senegambia Slave Coast
¹ Governed by the Society of Berbice ² Governed by the Society of Suriname

Settlements of the Noordsche Compagnie (1614–1642)

Settlements	Jan Mayen Smeerenburg

Colonies of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815–1962)

Until 1825	Bengal Coromandel Malacca Suratte
Until 1853	Dejima
Until 1872	Gold Coast
Until 1945	Dutch East Indies
Until 1954	Curaçao and Dependencies ³ Surinam ³
Until 1962	New Guinea
³ Became constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; Suriname gained full independence in 1975, Curaçao and Dependencies was renamed to the Netherlands Antilles, which was eventually dissolved in 2010.