What the records say
- When
- 1961
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- German East Africa
- Coordinates
- 6.05° S, 34.96° E
- Process
- unknown
- Type
- Unknown process (often independences)
- Pop
- 9399000
- Area km2
- 939361
- Gaining
- Tanzania
- Losing
- United Kingdom
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
German East Africa
German colony, 1885–1918
German East Africa was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, the Tanzania mainland, and the Kionga Triangle, a small region later incorporated into Mozambique. GEA's area was 994,996 km2 (384,170 sq mi), which is nearly three times the area of present-day Germany and almost double the area of metropolitan Germany at the time.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation