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GERMAN EMPIRE: — FOREiaX DEPENDENCIES
Foreign Dependencies.
Gennany has declared licv protection over various areas or spheres of influence in Africa, in Cliina, and in the Western Pacific. The following is a list of the various foreign regions at present (1898) under the protection or influence of Germany, the estimates given being necessarily vague : —
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Date of Acquisition
Method of Government;
Estimated
Area Sq. Miles.
Estimated Population
In Africa: — Togoland . Kamerun German Soxitli-West
Afi-ica German East Africa .
Total AfricanPossessions In Asia : —
Kiaucliau Bay , In the Pacific : —
Kaiser Wilhelm's Land
Bismarck Archipelago
Solomon Islands.
Marshall Islands, etc.
Total Pacific Possessions
Total Foreign Depen- dencies
1884 1884
1884-90 1885-90
1884-90 1897
1885-86 1885 1886 1886
1884-86 1884-97
Imperial Commissioner Imperial Governor
Imperial Commissioner Imperial Governor
Imperial Governor
< New Guinea Company > Imperial Commissioner
33,000 191,130
322,450 884,180
2,500,000 3,500,000
200,000 4,000,000
930,760
10,200,000
1201
70,000
20,000
9,000
150
60,0001
110,000
188,000
89,000
13,000
99,270
460,000
1,030,030
10,660,000
1 Exclusive of the Bay with ah area of about 200 square miles, and the neutral zone with an area of about 2j500 square miles, and population of 1,200,000.
Togoland.
Togoland, with Little Popo and Porto Seguro, situated on the Slave Coast, in Upper Guinea, between the Gold Coast Colony on the west and the French Colony of Dahomey on the east, has an estimated area of 33,000 square miles, and an estimated population of 2,500,000 ; European popu- lation, December 31, 1897, 110, of whom 102 are German. It extends from long. 1° 14' E.to long. 1°38'E. The length of coast line is about 32 miles, but inland the territory, which lies between the rivers Volta and Mona, widens to three or four times that breadth. By agi-eement with France, July 23, 1897, the boundary on the east from near the coast is the middle of the river Mona, as far as 7"^ N. Lat. ; on the north the boundary is the 11th degree N. Lat. and the \Yhite Volta to the 10th degree N. Lat. The territory was declared a German protectorate in 1884, and is placed under an imperial com- missioner, assisted'by a secretary, an inspector of customs, and a local council of representatives of the merchants. Lome, the chief port, is regarded as the capital ; Little Popo, Porto Seguro, and Bagida are also on the coast. Inland the government stations are Misahohe, Kratji, Sansanne-Mangu. Bas- Bari, Bismarokburg, Atakpame, and Kpando. Togo, which has given name to the region, is situated on Lake Togo, and is said to have 8,000 inhabitants.
