Crown colony may refer to:

• Crown Dependencies, a term for the territories of Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man.
• Crown colony governance, a process where local governance is limited, suspended, or removed from a colony and the colony is effectively administered by the British Government directly. (This is in direct contrast to a Self-governing colony.)
• British Overseas Territories, all BOTs are sometimes incorrectly called Crown colonies.
• Crown Colony class cruiser, a class of ships by the Royal Navy named after various locations in the British Empire.