

For example, if the Maya or Inca (in Mesoamerica and South America, respectively) colonize North America, the colonized territory will remain under their direct control. In order to allow a country to spawn colonial nations, its capital must not be located within a colonial region.

There are twelve colonial regions in the game, 11 in the Americas (7 in North America, 4 in South America) and 1 covering Australia and New Zealand.Īs long as the conditions are met, any nation in the game except former colonial nation formables can spawn colonial nations, from large and wealthy empires like Ming or a united Bharat to small and poor minor nations like Iceland. The New World and Oceania are divided into several ‘colonial regions’ for the purpose of forming colonial nations.

Colonial regions in the new world (America and Oceania).
