AREA AND POPULATION OF THE SEVERAL COLONIES, REPUBLICS AND TERRITORIES IN SOUTH AFRICA
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AREA IN SQUARE MILES. POPULATION IN 1891.
European. Coloured. Total.
British— Cape Colony (including Walfish Bay) 277,000 382,198 1,383,762 1,765,960
Basutoland 10,293 578 218,624 219,202
Bechuanaland (Protectorate) 200,000 (?) 800 (?) 200,000 (?) ——
Natal 20,461 46,788 497,125 543,913
Zululand 12,500 (?) 1,100 179,270 (?) 180,370
Tongaland (British) 2,000 (?) none 20,000 (?) ——
Territories of British South Africa Company, south of the Zabesi (Matabililand and Mashonaland) 142,000 7,000 (1899) (?) unknown ——
Independent— South African Republic (Transvaal) 119,139 245,397 (?) 622,500 (?) 867,897
Swaziland (dependent on South African Republic) 8,500 900 (?) 55,000 (?) ——
Orange Free State 48,326 77,716 129,787 207,503
Portuguese East Africa 300,000 (?) 10,000 (?) 3,100,000 (?) ——
German South West Africa 320,000 (?) 2,025 (1896) 200,000 (?) ——