British Togoland
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former territory under British administration
Key facts
- Status
- Class B League of Nations mandate of the United Kingdom (1922-1946) , United Nations trust territory under British administration (1946-1957)
- Capital
- Ho
- Common languages
- English , French , Ewe , Gur , and Ghana-Togo
- Occupation
- 27 August 1914
- Partitioning
- 27 December 1916
- Admission by the gold coast
- 27 December 1916 – 13 December 1956
- League of nations mandate
- 20 July 1922 – 20 April 1946
- U n trust territory
- 13 December 1946 – 6 March 1957
- Addition to the gold coast
- 13 December 1956
- Annexed to her majesty s dominions to fo
- 6 March 1957
- Currency
- British West African pound
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- United Nations trust territory
- Continent
- Africa
- Capital
- Ho
- Official language
- French
- Currency
- British West African pound
- Anthem
- God Save the King
- Image
- Togo Deutsches Koloniallexikon, Verlag von Quelle & Meyer Leipzig.jpg
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- inception
- 1916-12-27
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1956-12-13
- Commons category
- British Togoland
- native label
- British Togoland
- replaced by
- Ghana
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part ofGhana
British Togoland, officially Togoland under British Mandate and later officially the Togoland under United Kingdom Trusteeship, was a territory in West Africa under the administration of the United Kingdom, which subsequently entered a union with Ghana, part of which became its Volta Region. The territory was effectively formed in 1916 by the splitting of the German protectorate of Togoland into two territories, French Togoland and British Togoland, during the First World War. Initially, it was a League of Nations Class B mandate. In 1922, British Togoland was formally placed under British rule, and French Togoland, now Togo, was placed under French rule.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “British Togoland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.