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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
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
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
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
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^ "Agreement between Magnus IV and Alexander III, 1266" . isle-of-man.com. Retrieved 27 August 2019 .
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^ 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 .
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^ "Gadsden Purchase, 1853–1854" . Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs.
^ "Herzogtum Lauenburg County (Germany)" . CRW flags.
^ "Purchase of Alaska, 1867" . Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs.
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^ "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)
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^ "Gwadar Port finally becomes functional" . The News.
^ "About Gwadar" . Jamal City Gwadar.
^ "Gwadar Purchase" , Wikipedia , 2023-10-27, retrieved 2024-02-18