User blog comment:Leonhard Bosch/The Claims of the Netherlands (May 2017)/@comment-3112181-20170603140659

You seem to have missed some

Jerry to the rescue <£

- Dutch Gold Coast (Africa): First colonised 1598 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Gold_Coast)

- Dutch Slave Coast (Africa): First colonised 1660 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Slave_Coast)

- Malacca (Asia): Seized from Portugal in 1641, would not become British until 1795 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Malacca)

- Dejima (Asia): Artificial island built off of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1641 to promote trade between Japan and the Netherlands; it's more of a trading post and not a full-fledged 'colony', but is definitely worth listing given it's extreme importance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dejima)

- Ceylon (Asia): This is the big one. Though Johnny' in-game screenshot linked below witnesses the surrender of "[Dutch] South Africa and India", this cannot be interpreted to include Dutch Ceylon, but rather the Dutch possessions on mainland India (Coromandel, Bengal, Suratte, etc). Though of course the language is vague, 'Ceylon' (ie the island of Sri Lanka) has never once been considered to be part of 'India' in any variation of its political history, colonial or not. Notably, not even the Bombay Presidency that governed British India considered Ceylon to be part of the Raj, though even Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and the faraway Yemeni island of Socotra were. Furthermore, the Dutch governors of Ceylon were only that: governors of Ceylon, NOT the whole of Dutch India. Therefore, we can conclude that Ceylon, not only in 1750 but throughout its colonial history, was both governed as and considered to be a completely separate political entity, disconnected from India in every way, shape, and form.