As the first chart from Statista’s new content series InFact shows, although certainly not all of them became its subjects,\u00a0Britain’s warfaring efforts only spared precious few countries in the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n According to the book “All the Countries We\u2019ve Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To”,\u00a0there are only 22 countries\u00a0Britain\u00a0<\/a>never invaded throughout history<\/strong>. There aren’t many gaps on the map, but some of the more notable include Sweden, Belarus and Vatican City.<\/p>\n You will find more infographics at\u00a0Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n The biggest blank spots can be seen on the African continent,<\/strong>\u00a0even though the Royal African Company founded in 1660 alone was responsible for forcibly removing 212,000\u00a0slaves<\/a>\u00a0from their homeland and shipping them to English colonies in the Americas between 1662 and 1731.<\/p>\n The British Empire in its various iterations can be seen as one of the longest-lasting Western empires in the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n Its first permanent overseas colony in the Americas was established in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia, while Hong Kong, its last big overseas territory, was handed over to China in 1997.<\/p>\n![\"Infographic:](\"https:\/\/cdn.statcdn.com\/Infographic\/images\/normal\/3441.jpeg\")
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