Chapter 919 Land Area and Administrative Districts of East Africa
Administrative division adjustment is obviously not done overnight, but involves the game of all parties. After all, it involves resource allocation, the most typical ones are education, medical and other livelihood projects, especially It is under this system in East Africa that only provincial administrative regions can enjoy the related resources for upgrading and supporting facilities.
In November 1896, the East African government released a general plan for the adjustment of the administrative divisions of East Africa.
“Based on comprehensive data considerations from various regions across the country, we intend to divide the country into 45 provincial-level administrative regions, including Lanfang Overseas Province and two new provinces established on the island of Madagascar, but excluding overseas colonies . ”
“There is also a special area, the Congo rainforest area. Because of its climate characteristics, we plan to continue to retain its role as a protected area, and the administrative level is the same as the provincial level.”
"And because of the Rhine City, we are planning to cancel the original Central Province and separate part of the land from the Hohenzollern Province, Swabia and Salzburg Provinces as the new Central Province. In this way, in the future The Central Province is truly located in the center of East Africa geographically. As for the original Central Province, the name of the Coastal Province was restored. "
The Coastal Province is now the Central Province and the area where the first town and city is located. In the early days of East Africa. This is one of the three coastal areas. At that time, the administrative divisions of East Africa were still determined by regions.
“In the Mozambique region, we will set up five new provinces: Tete, Nyasaland, Zambezi, Rhodesia, and Plains, respectively, with the cities of Tete and Nacala The city, Quelimane City, Beira City, and Xinxiang City are the provincial capitals.”
The name Nyasaland is naturally another name for Lake Malawi in its previous life, and similarly, Rhodesia was its previous name. The names of places such as Zimbabwe were retained by Ernst.
As for Pingyuan Province, it is completely Ernst’s bad taste, and Xinxiang City, the capital of Pingyuan Province, is actually the town of Saukui, the former Portuguese colony.
After all, there are too few plains in East Africa, and the best farming conditions are concentrated in southern Mozambique. Therefore, Ernst’s naming of this place as Pingyuan Province is worthy of its name, and the capital of Pingyuan Province naturally has to be named after Xinxiang. This can also Get rid of the Portuguese colonial name Sauquet.
The Plains Province is also equipped with a port, which was the city of Inhambane in Mozambique in the previous life. In this way, although Xinxiang City is inland, it does not have no outlet to the sea.
"Maputo and New Hamburg, as well as the surrounding areas, form a new province, the Hanseatic Province, with the provincial capital in New Hamburg."
"In addition , the South African region also established a new Orange Province, with Bloemfontein as the provincial capital and including the city of Kimberley. The area basically overlaps with the original Orange Free State. "
"Baden Province has made slight changes. , the provincial capital is in Gaborone, and the second largest city in the province is Upington.”
The geographical location of Baden Province is almost the southeast of Botswana in the former world and the northern British colony of Bechuanaland.
"In addition to adding the Central Province in the central region, with the Rhine City as the national political center, Matabele Province was renamed Bohemian Province."
This change in name is actually The above is to emphasize the industrial attributes of Bohemia Province (northeast Zimbabwe). It is known that most of the industries of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were concentrated in Bohemia, so East Africa also used this as a basis to rename Matabele Province to Bohemia. Province of Simia.
“At the same time, the city of Bulawayo was divided into the province of Bohemia and formed a new province of Lorraine with part of the Kalahari Basin in the west.”
This is for the purpose of checks and balances. It turns out that Matabele Province was too strong, so it was split into two provinces in this regional adjustment. At the same time, there were also considerations to take care of the Kalahari region.
The entire Kalahari Basin was part of the Lorraine Province, but there were no cities that could be invaded. The area was all desert and arid areas, so the annexation of Bulawayo City was a way to strengthen and stimulate the local area. .
“At the same time, the central province of Hesse was re-formed into two provinces, Hesse and Mitumba.”
This is also the reason why the original Hesse Province must be reunited after a long period of separation. It was the merger of Hesse and Mitumba provinces, and now it is split into two provinces again, mainly due to the development of the local economy.
“The Okavango Delta in the northern part of Lorraine Province, together with the northern plateau area, which is most of the eastern part of the former Letania Province, forms the Okavango Province, mainly for the comprehensive management of Oka Wango River Basin ""South-West Africa established the South-West Province, with the provincial capital in the city of Windhoek"
Southwest Africa was finally established as a separate province and is the second largest provincial administrative region in East Africa, second only to the Congo Rainforest Reserve.
“In the west, with Alexandria as the new provincial capital, Letania Province is developing westward as a whole, and its area has been reduced due to the separation of Okavango Province.”
“With Benguela is the provincial capital, Benguela Province is established along the railway, Luanda is the provincial capital, and the West Coast Province is established along the railway. "
"Congo Province is established along the Congo River in the north, including the cities of Cabinda and Kinshasa. Kinshasa is the provincial capital. ”
New Congo Province is basically distributed along the lower reaches of the Congo River, and the main sea port is Cabinda. This also means that Brazzaville is gone, and Kinshasa will be across from it in the future. City on the Congo River.
In the previous life, Brazzaville and Kinshasa were two cities formed due to colonial division. Now that East Africa has unified both sides of the Congo River, there is no need to set up two cities, especially after the Congo River Railway Bridge project was established.
“The main change in the northern region was the establishment of the province of Ubangi, with the provincial capital set in the city of Bangui.”
Basically a province established by the Ubangi River and an important border province , bordering Sigmaringen, Cameroon (Germany), Gabon (France), and the Belgian Congo.
“At the same time, the eastern part of Ubangi Province was divided into two provinces, West Azande Province and East Azande Province. According to the Azande Plateau, the original Bavaria Province moved eastward to King Lake (Aber (Lake Te) on the west coast.”
In this way, the Azande Plateau and its surrounding areas have changed from two provinces to four provinces.
"The Great Lakes Province will be established in the west and south of the Great Lakes region, the North Great Lakes Province will remain in the north, the northwest region will remain basically unchanged, the Solon Lake Province will be established in the east, and the former Central Province will be changed to Maritime Province."
"Finally, Madagascar The island is divided into the provinces of Mahajanga and Toliara.”
The administrative divisions of Madagascar are basically the same as in previous generations. Ernst directly borrowed the names of these two provinces. The areas and regions of the two provinces are basically the same as in the previous life.
“The above are the changes in provincial administrative regions in East Africa. In addition, there are two special cities. However, they do not reach the level of provincial administrative regions, but they are higher than ordinary provincial capitals and prefecture-level cities. That is Dar es Salaam City and Mombasa City may be adjusted at any time in the future with the economic development of East Africa.”
Similar to the sub-provincial capital cities or municipalities in the previous Far Eastern Empire, but they do not have as high a status as municipalities. After all, municipalities are provinces. Level administrative regions, while the cities of Dar es Salaam and Mombasa still belong to the Coast Province (formerly Central Province) and Oriental Province.
This is a reflection of the economic strength of the two cities. However, with the development of other cities in the future, they may also be promoted to special municipalities, such as New Frankfurt, Beira, New Hamburg, Luanda, Cabinda, Mbe Asia City...are all on the candidate list.
In the end, there were 45 provincial administrative regions in East Africa, including Lanfang Overseas Province, two provinces on the island of Madagascar, and the Congo Rainforest Reserve. Dar es Salaam and Mombasa became special cities. .
In March 1897, the latest data on the land of East Africa was also released. The land area of East Africa was approximately 13.0065 million square kilometers, just over 13 million square kilometers. If calculated according to the area of 3020 (3022) square kilometers of Africa , accounting for approximately 43% of the continent's area.
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