GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A colony is a group of people from one country who build a settlement in another territory, or land. They claim the new land for the original country, and the original country keeps some control over the colony. The settlement itself is also called a colony. The practice of setting up colonies is called colonialism.

Detailed explanation-2: -col·o·ny ˈkäl-ə-nē plural colonies. : a group of people sent out by a state to a new territory. : the territory in which such colonists live. : a distant territory belonging to or under the control of a nation.

Detailed explanation-3: -A colony is a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

Detailed explanation-4: -A settlement is a place where people settle; colony usually refers to a settlement overseas where the settlers impose their own culture and forms of government on the local people.

Detailed explanation-5: -In fact, there were three different types of colonies: royal, self-governing, and proprietary. Royal colonies were owned and completely administered by the Crown.