This is a list of the trading posts and settlements of the Dutch West India Company (active 1621-1791), including chronological details of possessions taken over from the Dutch state in 1621, and for the period after 1791 when the Dutch government took over responsibility again.
The list runs in geographical sequence from north to south along the West African coast and from north to south through the Americas.
1611 – 1872
18 October 1599. - 20 October 1599./3 October 1641-16 October 1641, nowadays São Tomé and Príncipe
26 August 1641.- 21/24 August 1648.,
Settlements of the New Netherland colony, now in the present day U.S. states of: