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Belize was never part of Guatemala. British Honduras (Belize) was taken from the Spanish before Guatemala existed.
The original size of Belize was much smaller, the British did infact take a portion of Belize from Guatemala. But either way you look at it, it was a territory the British split up.
Again, Britain never controlled Spain therefore could not split Spain up. Gibraltar was conceded to the UK by Spain at the Treaty of Utrecht. At the same treaty, Spain ceded the Southern Netherlands, Naples, Milan, and Sardinia to Austria. Did Austria also split Spain up?
Another example would be the Falkland Islands in Argentina.
Not really, other than very short periods of military occupation, the Falkland Islands have never been part of Argentina and the people who live there are not Argentinian.
For example, before exiting, it HAD to do something to break up India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Britain wanted to leave a unified India. It was the Indians themselves, led by Jinnah and the Muslim League, who insisted on partition. Despite its proximity, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was a separate colony and never part of British India. It has a different culture, predominant religion, etc. Even though it has a Tamil minority, but it never would have been part of an independent India.
Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania were formed by the British subdivision of East Africa. Also, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, which became Zambia and Zimbabwe. All of the islands of the West Indies were given separate status by the British, which evolved into nationhood.
Conversely, Britain considered Singapore to be a part of Malaya, and they separated some years after the end of British rule.
But The whole region was under Ottoman rule before the British came.
To be honest, almost none of the countries that Britain completely (in contrary to just cession) was in a unified state. Nearly every countries in 18th and 18th century was divided, with dozens or even hundreds of warlords/small kingdom fighting with each other in the same country. In many former colonial subjects, the British colonial government was the first centralised authority ever come into history (except as a subject of ancient empires).
From the original area of Palestine - the area east of the Jordan River, the British broke off in 1922 and gave to the Hashemite family in order to create the new country of Jordan (or Transjordan as it was called at the time). The decision to make 2 separate countries in the western portion of Palestine was made by the United Nations (and not England) on November 29, 1947.
I get that. I'm just saying, that's not how Guatemalans would answer the OP's question.
Lol. Are you serious? Either you give your opinion or let a Guatemalan give theirs if not then it is a mute point!
You don't speak for a nation!
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