What the records say
- When
- 1999
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Bechuanaland
- Coordinates
- 22.10° S, 24.18° E
- Process
- cession
- Type
- Cession (part yielded to other entity)
- Pop
- 0
- Area km2
- 5
- Gaining
- Botswana
- Losing
- Namibia
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Bechuanaland Protectorate
British protectorate in southern Africa
The Bechuanaland Protectorate was a protectorate established on 31 March 1885 in Southern Africa by the United Kingdom. It became independent as the Republic of Botswana on 30 September 1966, six years after the Bechuanaland Democratic Party was established, under the leadership of Seretse Khama.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Read the article
The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation