This page needs to be proofread.
THE MEASURE OF IMPERIALISM
17
| Date of Acquisition. | Area. Square Miles | Population. | |
| Europe— | |||
| Cyprus | 1878 | 3,584 | 227,900 |
| Africa)— | |||
| Zanzibar and Pemba | 1888 | 1,000,000 | 200,000 |
| East Africa Protectorate | 1895 | 2,500,000 | |
| Uganda Protectorate | 1894–1896 | 140,000 | 3,800,000 |
| Somali Coast Protectorate | 1884–1885 | 68,000 | (?) |
| British Central Africa Protectorate | 1889 | 42,217 | 688,049 |
| Lagos | to 1899 | 21,000 | 3,000,000 |
| Gambia | to 1888 | 3,550 | 215,000 |
| Ashantee | 1896–1901 | 70,000 | 2,000,000 |
| Niger Coast Protectorate | 1885–1898 | 400,00 to 500,000 |
25,000,000 to 40,000,000 |
| Egypt | 1882 | 400,000 | 9,734,405 |
| Egyptian Soudan | 1882 | 950,000 | 10,000,000 |
| Griqualand West | 1871–1880 | 15,197 | 83,373 |
| Zululand | 1879–1897 | 10,521 | 240,000 |
| British Bechuanaland | 1885 | 51,424 | 72,736 |
| Bechuanaland Protectorate | 1891 | 213,000 | 200,000 |
| Transkei | 1879–1885 | 2,535 | 153,582 |
| Tembuland | 1885 | 4,158 | 180,130 |
| Pondoland | 1894 | 4,040 | 188,000 |
| Griqualand East | 1879–1885 | 7,511 | 152,609 |
| British South Africa Charter | 1889 | 750,000 | 321,000 |
| Transvaal | 1900 | 119,139 | 870,000 |
| Orange River Colony | 1900 | 48,826 | 207,503 |
| Asia— | |||
| Hong Kong (littoral) | 1898 | 376 | 100,000 |
| Wei-hai-wei | … | 270 | 118,000 |
| Socotra | 1886 | 1,382 | 10,000 |
| Upper Burma | 1887 | 83,473 | 2,046,933 |
| Baluchistan | 1876–1889 | 130,000 | 500,000 |
| Sikkim | 1890 | 2,818 | 30,000 |
| Rajputana (States) | since 1881 | 12,186,352 | |
| Burma (States) | 62,661 | 785,800 | |
| Jammu and Kashmir | 80,000 | 2,543,952 | |
| Malay Protected States | 1883–1895 | 24,849 | 620,000 |
| North Borneo Company | 1881 | 31,106 | 175,000 |
| North Borneo Protectorate | 1888 | … | … |
| Sarawak | 1888 | 50,000 | 500,000 |
| British New | 1888 | 90,540 | 350,000 |
| Fiji Islands | 1874 | 7,740 | 122,676 |
The list is by no means complete. It takes no account of several large regions which have passed under the control of our Indian Government as native or feudatory States, but of which no statistics of area or popula-
