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AFRICA

German East Africa - ''Deutsch-Ostafrika''

---'' Tanganyika ''; after World War I a British mandate, which in 1962 became independent and in 1964 joined with former British protectorate of the sultanate of Zanzibar to form present-day Tanzania

---'' Rwanda '' (present-day)

---'' Burundi '' (present-day)

German South West Africa - Deutsch-Südwestafrika

---'' Namibia '' (present-day) except Walvisbaai

German West Africa -''Deutsch-Westafrika'' - existed as one unit only for two or three years, then split into two colonies due to distances:

---1. ''Kamerun''; after World War I separated in a British part, '' Cameroons '', and a French Cameroun , which became present Cameroon . The British part was later split in half, with one part joining Nigeria and the other Cameroon .

---2. '' Togoland ''; after World War I separated in a British part, which joined Ghana , and a French one, which became Togo

PACIFIC

German New Guinea - ''Deutsch-Neuguinea, Kaiser-Wilhelmsland'' (today Papua-New-Guinea)

--- German Solomon Islands

--- Caroline Islands (''Karolinen'')

--'' Federated States Of Micronesia '' (present-day)

--'' Palau '' (present-day)

--- Mariana Islands (''Marianen'')

--- Nauru

--- Marshall Islands

Samoa

ASIA

Jiaozhou Bay (''Kiautschou'')

--- Tsingtao

SEE ALSO

New Swabia was a part of Antarctica , claimed by Nazi Germany 19 January 1939 - 25 May 1945, but not effectively colonized; the claim was completely abandoned afterward

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