United States Virgin Islands are LHD as a result of their being imported from the United States. In the West Indies, colonies and territories drive on the identical side as their mother or father countries, apart from the United States Virgin Islands. Brazil, a Portuguese colony until the early nineteenth century, had in the 19th and the early 20th century combined guidelines, with some regions still on LHT, switching these remaining areas to RHT in 1928, the same year Portugal switched sides. Historically, many locations stored left, whereas many others kept right, often inside the identical country. For example, a driver in an LHT nation would usually overtake on the correct of the automobile being overtaken. Also referenced is the necessity for pedestrians to keep their swords in the best hand and cross on the left as in LHT, for self-defence. Similarly, Hungary switched in 1941. West Ukraine was LHT, but the remainder of Ukraine, having been part of the Russian Empire, was RHT. Vietnam grew to become RHT as part of French Indochina, as did Laos and Cambodia. In Canada, the provinces of Quebec and Ontario had been always RHT as a result of they had been created out of the former French colony of latest France.
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