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

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

^ Lustig, Richard I. (1979). "The Treaty of Perth: A Re-Examination". The Scottish Historical Review. 58 (165). jstor.org: 35–57. JSTOR 25529318.
^ "Agreement between Magnus IV and Alexander III, 1266". isle-of-man.com. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
^ 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.
^ 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
^ (in Russian) Ништадтский мирный договор между Россией и Швецией, 30 августа 1721 г. Text of the Treaty of Nystad in Russian
^ "Saint Croix, Virgin Islands: Facts & History". Vinow.com. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
^ Westergaard, Waldemar (1917). The Danish West Indies Under Company Rule (1671–1754). New York: The Macmillan Company. pp. 206–209, 222–225, 235, 243.
^ "Louisiana Purchase, 1803". Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs.
^ "Acquisition of Florida: Treaty of Adams-Onis (1819) and Transcontinental Treaty (1821)". Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs.
^ "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.
^ "1824 Treaty of Friendship and Alliance | Infopedia". eresources.nlb.gov.sg. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
^ ^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.
^ "Gadsden Purchase, 1853–1854". Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs.
^ "Herzogtum Lauenburg County (Germany)". CRW flags.
^ 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
^ "Purchase of Alaska, 1867". Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs.
^ 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.
^ "History of St. Barthelemy Island". Wimco. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
^ Pålsson, Ale (2016). "Our Side of the Water, Political Culture in the Swedish colony of St Barthélemy 1800–1825" (PDF).
^ ^a ^b ^c "Venta a Alemania "las islas Carolinas, las Palaos y Islas Marianas"". Contactar con el administrador de esta comunidad.
^ "Revolucao Acreana Bolivia e Brasil disputam o Acre, 2013". 2013-08-06. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
^ "Purchase of the United States Virgin Islands, 1917". U.S. Department of State. 2008-07-21.
^ 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)
^ 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)
^ "Gwadar Port finally becomes functional". The News.
^ "About Gwadar". Jamal City Gwadar.
^ "Gwadar Purchase", Wikipedia, 2023-10-27, retrieved 2024-02-18

[1] Lustig, Richard I. (1979). "The Treaty of Perth: A Re-Examination". The Scottish Historical Review. 58 (165). jstor.org: 35–57. JSTOR 25529318.

[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.

[Westergaard-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.

[UK-Den-12] "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.

[Gadsden-13] "Gadsden Purchase, 1853–1854". Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs.

[crwflags-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.

[18] "History of St. Barthelemy Island". Wimco. Retrieved 4 July 2015.

[19] Pålsson, Ale (2016). "Our Side of the Water, Political Culture in the Swedish colony of St Barthélemy 1800–1825" (PDF).

[Contactar-20] "Venta a Alemania "las islas Carolinas, las Palaos y Islas Marianas"". Contactar con el administrador de esta comunidad.

[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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