| DECADENCE | Cane ceded to replace dilapidation |
| RARITY | It can be difficult to find equal treatment with power ceded to queen |
| IFNI | Spanish territory ceded to Morocco |
| ELPASO | City ceded to Texas in the Compromise of 1850 |
| CORSICA | Island ceded to France by Genoa in 1768 |
| GIBRALTAR | A limestone promontory at the tip of S Spain, settled by Moors in 711, taken by Spain in 1462 and ceded to Britain in 1713 |
| KALININGRAD | Russian port, formerly a main German naval base on the Baltic, ceded to the Soviet Union in 1945 (11) |
| TRENTO | City in northern Italy (pop about 120,000), ceded to Italy in 1919 (6) |
| RHODES | Island in the Aegean Sea (540 sq miles; pop about 115,0000, ceded to Greece in 1947 (6) |
| GUAM | Largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands in the N Pacific, ceded to the US by Spain in 1898 (4) |
| SUDETENLAND | Area of Czechoslovakia ceded to Germany by the Munich Agreement, 1938 (11) |
| LOLLAND | Which island in the Baltic Sea, long disputed between Denmark and Sweden, was ceded to Sweden in 1645? (7) |
| NEVADA | US state (110,540 sq miles; pop about 3 million), ceded to the US by Mexico in 1848 (6) |
| GIB | It was ceded to Brit. in the Treaty of Utrecht |
| TRAPANI | Port in N.W. Sicily, a Carthaginian naval base ceded to the Romans after the First Punic War (7) |
| ALSACELORRAINE | Former German territory ceded to France in 1920 (6-8) |
| QUEBEC | Largest province of Canada by area, settled by the French in 1608 and ceded to Britain in 1763 (6) |
| TIROL | Alpine state of western Austria partly ceded to Italy in 1919 (5) |
| LORRAINE | Former province of France ceded to Germany in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian war and regained by France in 1919 |
| ISTRIA | Peninsula that was ceded to Yugoslavia after the Second World War (6) |
