Kionga Triangle & Southern German East Africa

When

Apr 1916 – Aug 1919

Kind

Territorial claim

Coordinates

10.50° S, 39.00° E

Region

3

Claim resolution

14

Claim violence

1

Significance

6

Significance index

2

Significance state1

3

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

German colony in modern Mozambique

The Kionga Triangle was a small region of German East Africa situated at the mouth of the Ruvuma River. The Ruvuma served as the border between the German colony and Portuguese Mozambique, and the Kionga Triangle was the only section of German East Africa south of the river. Its principal settlement was Kionga which had a population of 4,000 in 1910.

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