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I know a couple of Congo threads have been brought up before, one about Portugal and the other... I can't actually remember.

Nevertheless! I'm working on a post-Napoleanic scenario (scenario, not TL, I'm too uncommitted for that) which involves the Belgians being beaten to the Congo by another power. I thought about the Americans re-SRegan's map in the map thread, but for some reason I have something against Americans in Africa (call it a complex). So I thought about what other European powers could get it.

Major colonial powers are: Britain, France, Italy (yes, Italy).
Minor colonial powers are: the Netherlands, Portugal, Prussia, Austria, perhaps Belgium (Belgian New Guinea, anyone?) and on a very insignificant level, Spain.

Also, ITTL, when Norway goes to Sweden, the Danes are forced to give up Greenland, the Faroes and Iceland too. But because of butterflies, they hang onto most of Danish India, Virgin Islands and the Nicobars.

My question is: Could the Danes feasibly get the Congo? By the 1880s (similar time period of OTL's Berlin Conference), Denmark, sour from the loss of her colonies to Norway/Sweden, might be more aggressive in colonialism.

Otherwise: Could any of the other powers, except maybe France or Britain (Britain is wanked enough ITTL, France has enough of Africa, and neither wants the other to have it), gain it?
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