← The interactive mapAll civilizations

German East Africa

1885 – 1919
ColonyAfrica

German colony partitioned among Britain and Belgium after WWI.

German East Africa was partitioned by the 1919 Paris Peace Conference: the bulk became the British League of Nations mandate of Tanganyika Territory, while Ruanda-Urundi became a Belgian mandate and the Kionga Triangle went to Portugal.

Borders in 1895 · drawn from 2 sourced border frames
See it on the interactive map →

Borders over time

The atlas holds 2 border frames for German East Africa — the shape you scrub through changes in 1885 · 1895.

Further reading

Sources