List of territory purchased by a sovereign nation from another sovereign nation

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This is a list of purchases of territory by a sovereign nation from another sovereign nation.

Territory Purchased by Purchased from Cost Year Area Cost/Area Agreement (article)
Isle of Man, Hebrides, Kintyre and islands of the Firth of Clyde[1][2] Scotland Norway 4,000 marks sterling, 100 mark annuity 1266 ~8,000 km² ~0.5 marks sterling/km² Treaty of Perth
Dunkirk and Fort-Mardyck[3]  France  England 5,000,000 livres 1662 ~44 km² ~113,500 livres/km² Sale of Dunkirk
Estonia, Livonia, Ingria, and Southeast Finland (Kexholmslän and part of Karelian Isthmus)[4][5]  Russia  Sweden 2,000,000 silver Swedish riksdaler 1721 ~100,000 km² ~2,000 Riksdaler/km² Treaty of Nystad
Saint Croix[6][7]  Denmark–Norway  France 750,000 livres 1733 210 km² 3571 livres/km²
Louisiana[8]  United States  France $15,000,000 USD 1803 2,140,000 km² 7 USD/km² Louisiana Purchase
Florida[9]  United States  Spain $5,000,000 USD 1819 ~200,000 km² ~5 USD/km² Adams–Onís Treaty
Singapore[10]  United Kingdom  Johor $60,000 Spanish dollars[11] 1824 728 km² ~82 Spanish dollars/km²
Tranquebar, Serampore, and other continental holdings of Danish India[12]  United Kingdom  Denmark 125,000 GBP or 1,125,000 Danish krone 1845 ~44 km² ~2840 GBP/km² or ~25,600 Kr/km²
California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona  United States  Mexico $18,250,000 USD 1848 1,360,000 km² 13.4 USD/km² Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Southern Arizona and New Mexico[13]  United States  Mexico $10,000,000 USD 1853 76,800 km² 130 USD/km² Gadsden Purchase
Danish Gold Coast[12]  United Kingdom  Denmark 10,000 GBP 1850 ~12,000 km² ~1.2 GBP/km²
Saxe-Lauenburg[14]  Prussia  Austria 2,500,000 Danish rigsdaler[15] 1865 1,000 km² 2,500 Rigsdaler/km² Gastein Convention
Alaska[16]  United States  Russia $7,200,000 USD 1867 1,717,856 km² 4 USD/km² Alaska Purchase
Dutch Gold Coast[17]  United Kingdom  Netherlands 46,939.62 Dutch guilders 1872 Anglo-Dutch Treaties of 1870–1871
Saint Barthélemy[18] [19]  France  Sweden 320,000 French francs 1878 21 km² 15,238 Francs/km²
Philippines  United States  Spain $20,000,000 USD 1898 300,000 km² 20 USD/km² Treaty of Paris
Caroline Islands[20]  Germany  Spain 25,000,000 ESP 1899 1,160 km² 21,551 ESP/km² German–Spanish Treaty
Palau[20]
Mariana Islands[20]
Cagayan Sulu and Sibutu  United States  Spain $100,000 USD 1900 467 km² 214 USD/km² Treaty of Washington
Acre (state)[21]  Brazil  Bolivia £2,000,000 1903 142,800 km² 14 GBP/km² Treaty of Petrópolis
Danish West Indies[22]  United States  Denmark $25,000,000 USD 1916 400 km² 62,500 USD/km² Treaty of the Danish West Indies
Jäniskoski-Niskakoski territory[23][24]  Soviet Union  Finland 700,000,000 FIM 1947 176 km² 700 FIM/km²
Gwadar[25][26]  Pakistan  Muscat and Oman 5,500,000,000 PKR 1958 15,210 km²[27] 20,754,716 PKR/km² Gwadar Purchase
Elten, Selfkant, and Suderwick  West Germany  Netherlands 280 million DM 1963 69 km² 4.1 million DM/km² Ausgleichsvertrag
Tiran Island and Sanafir Island  Saudi Arabia  Egypt $22,000,000 USD in oil and development aid 2017 113 km² Agreement of maritime delimitation between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Arab Republic of Egypt

References[edit]

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  2. ^ "Agreement between Magnus IV and Alexander III, 1266". isle-of-man.com. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  3. ^ Grose, Clyde L. (March 1933). "The Dunkirk Money, 1662". The Journal of Modern History. 5 (1). The University of Chicago Press: 5. doi:10.1086/235963. JSTOR 1872278. S2CID 144839201.
  4. ^ Russian: РГАДА. Рукописный отдел библиотеки Московской Синодальной типографии. Фонд 381, ед.хр.805. Л.6. Original handwritten text of the Treaty of Nystad in Russian
  5. ^ (in Russian) Ништадтский мирный договор между Россией и Швецией, 30 августа 1721 г. Text of the Treaty of Nystad in Russian
  6. ^ "Saint Croix, Virgin Islands: Facts & History". Vinow.com. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  7. ^ Westergaard, Waldemar (1917). The Danish West Indies Under Company Rule (1671–1754). New York: The Macmillan Company. pp. 206–209, 222–225, 235, 243.
  8. ^ "Louisiana Purchase, 1803". Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs.
  9. ^ "Acquisition of Florida: Treaty of Adams-Onis (1819) and Transcontinental Treaty (1821)". Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs.
  10. ^ "Treaty of Friendship and Alliance between the Honourable East India Company, and the Sultan and the Temenggong of Johore (1824)". Jus Mundi. 1824-08-02.
  11. ^ "1824 Treaty of Friendship and Alliance | Infopedia". eresources.nlb.gov.sg. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  12. ^ a b "The english purchasse of the danish possessions in the East and Africa, in 1845 and 1850". Outre-Mers. Revue d'histoire. 21 (93): 1–74. 1933. doi:10.3406/outre.1933.2853.
  13. ^ "Gadsden Purchase, 1853–1854". Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs.
  14. ^ "Herzogtum Lauenburg County (Germany)". CRW flags.
  15. ^ Wolfgang Neugebauer (Hrsg.): Handbuch der preußischen Geschichte. Band 2: Das 19. Jahrhundert und große Themen der Geschichte Preußens. Verlag De Gruyter, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-11-008322-1, S. 340 books.google
  16. ^ "Purchase of Alaska, 1867". Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs.
  17. ^ ADHIN, J. H. (1961). "De Immigratie van Hindostanen en de Afstand van de Goudkust". Nieuwe West-Indische Gids / New West Indian Guide. 41: 4–13. ISSN 0028-9930. JSTOR 41848937.
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  21. ^ "Revolucao Acreana Bolivia e Brasil disputam o Acre, 2013". 2013-08-06. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  22. ^ "Purchase of the United States Virgin Islands, 1917". U.S. Department of State. 2008-07-21.
  23. ^ Asetus Jäniskosken ja Niskakosken alueen liittämisestä Neuvostoliiton alueeseen sekä Suomessa olevien, Neuvostoliitolle siirtyneiden entisten saksalaisten rahavarojen käytöstä tehtyjen sopimusten voimaansaattamisesta. 9/1947, Valtiosopimukset, Finlex (in Finnish)
  24. ^ Kosonen, Matti & Pohjonen, Juha: Isänmaan portinvartijat: Suomen rajojen vartiointi 1918-1994, s. 343-345. Rajavartiolaitoksen julkaisu. Helsinki: Otava, 1994. ISBN 951-1-13106-0. (in Finnish)
  25. ^ "Gwadar Port finally becomes functional". The News.
  26. ^ "About Gwadar". Jamal City Gwadar.
  27. ^ "Gwadar Purchase", Wikipedia, 2023-10-27, retrieved 2024-02-18
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