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Most Recent Foreign Sovereignty
Full Sovereignty does not necessarily include all forms of political/military control
Foreign being the colour of the modern country where the previous country had their latest capital at the time it held the territory.
Sometimes, the previous owner's capital is still in the modern country, therefore is not "foreign", so the next most foreign is shown.
Example: Independent Texas in Mexico instead of having the USA color, because although the Texan capital being inside the modern USA would warrant the USA colour, it would be the same as the current USA, so it gets excluded.
Edit: Also, the light grey is for regions that have apparently never had a previous foreign rulership. This includes perpetually self-governing places such as Japan, or recently colonized places such as Pacific Islands.
Anyway this wraps up my latest "recent sovereignty" series with some nice eye cancer