penal colony

English

Noun

penal colony (plural penal colonies)

A colonial territory used (mainly) for the detention and forced labor of deportees, typically where free labor is desperately scarce.
Entire countries started as penal colonies, such as French Guyana.

Translations

colonial territory

Catalan: colònia penal f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 流放地 (zh) (liúfàngdì)
Dutch: strafkolonie (nl), colonie pénale
Finnish: rangaistussiirtola, työsiirtola
German: Strafkolonie (de) f

Norwegian:
Bokmål: straffekoloni m

Nynorsk: straffekoloni m
Russian: исправи́тельная коло́ния f (ispravítelʹnaja kolónija) (especially for young offenders), штрафна́я коло́ния f (štrafnája kolónija) (especially for military offenders)
Spanish: colonia penal f

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