Suggest some Boer-like people

What do I mean by Boer-like people ? Well, people colonizing a place, with no official state to claim the land that they colonize, it's a very very wide idea, so I count on you to contribute to this subject, don't be shy, there is no stupid question or suggestion, only a stupid thread poster in the person of Myself.
 

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Americans west of the Appalachians if Britain remained in control and banned formal settlement.

The probably wouldn't be called Americans, but good call. They would have to go quite a long way to not fall under British control, similar to OTL Mormons.

Prazeros and Sertanejos could have done something similar a little north of the OTL Boers, and there were the Afrikaans speaking Griquas and Baasters who I believe came very close to what might be called states in SA and Namibia respectively. Maroons and Garifuna in the Caribbean, there was shedloads of population transfer in OTL Caribbean, if you got the right combo of wars and resettlement, you might find polities for these somewhere like Darien, The Guyanas, Nicaragua or Isla Margarita.
 
Something eclectic would be a Dutch creole culture on Taiwan, I suppose, if the Chinese didn't take it as in OTL. But then it would still be Dutch, at least on paper.
 
What do I mean by Boer-like people ? Well, people colonizing a place, with no official state to claim the land that they colonize, it's a very very wide idea, so I count on you to contribute to this subject, don't be shy, there is no stupid question or suggestion, only a stupid thread poster in the person of Myself.
Acadians and Mi'kmaq flee to Newfoundland durring the Seven Years War?
 

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Madagascar looks promising. While not valuable enough to be colonized as aggressively as Brazil, colonists could slowly trickle in and live a rustic life.
 
Madagascar looks promising. While not valuable enough to be colonized as aggressively as Brazil, colonists could slowly trickle in and live a rustic life.

The climate around the coasts isn't really that good for non-native settlement, and while the highlands are climactically suitable they're already pretty densely occupied by the colonial period, unless you get an Mfecane analogue to decrease population density in the highlands. Even then, I don't know how well a colony would survive with limited coastal access.
 

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The climate around the coasts isn't really that good for non-native settlement, and while the highlands are climactically suitable they're already pretty densely occupied by the colonial period, unless you get an Mfecane analogue to decrease population density in the highlands. Even then, I don't know how well a colony would survive with limited coastal access.
Worse than Brazil?
 
Could a Sybirak state happen if the exiled families congregate in a suitably distant backwater of Siberia?

White emigres carve out a territory durring China's Warlord Period?
 
Madagascar have a very wide group of climates : East and North are wet tropical, East is savanah, Center is half-tropical half-montainous, and South is extremely dry with temperatures from -6°C to +40°C
 
Surely you're aware that the largest rain forest in the world is in Brazil i.e it has a hot and humid climate.

Except, Brazil is a large country and the Amazon only makes up so much of it. Most of the colonists settled in the south in Sap Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, which are in a far more hospitable climate.
 

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Except, Brazil is a large country and the Amazon only makes up so much of it. Most of the colonists settled in the south in Sap Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, which are in a far more hospitable climate.
The largest city in Madagascar Antananarivo. Their current temperature is considerably cooler than Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
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The real feel is about 20 degrees cooler than Brazilian counterparts. The forecast for the next few weeks has them averaging in the low to mid 70s. Not a single day even reaches 80 degrees.

Accuweather doesn't show weather by the hour. Here's an image from weather.com
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Even Lisbon, Portugal is warmer than this.
 
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The largest city in Madagascar Antananarivo. Their current temperature is considerably cooler than Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

The real feel is about 20 degrees cooler than Brazilian counterparts. The forecast for the next few weeks has them averaging in the low to mid 70s. Not a single day even reaches 80 degrees.

Accuweather doesn't show weather by the hour. Here's an image from weather.com

Even Lisbon, Portugal is warmer than this.

What are you trying to communicate?
 
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