Anthem: God Save the Queen (1895–1901) God Save the King (1901–1920)
Map of British East Africa in 1909
Status
British protectorate
Capital
Mombasa (1895–1905) Nairobi (1905–1920)
Common languages
English (official), Swahili, Kikuyu, Kamba, Luo, Kisii, Kimeru, Nandi–Markweta also spoken
Religion
Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, traditional African religion
Government
British dependency
Commissioner, Governor
• 1895–1897
Arthur Henry Hardinge
• 1919–1920
Sir Edward Northey
History
• Established
1 July 1895
• Disestablished
23 July 1920
Area
1904[1]
696,400 km2 (268,900 sq mi)
Population
• 1904[1]
4,000,000
Currency
Indian rupee (1895–1906) East African rupee (1906–20)
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Imperial British East Africa Company
Kenya Colony
Today part of
Kenya and Somalia
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East Africa Protectorate (also known as British East Africa) was an area in the African Great Lakes occupying roughly the same area as present-day Kenya from the Indian Ocean inland to the border with Uganda in the west. Controlled by Britain in the late 19th century, it grew out of British commercial interests in the area in the 1880s and remained a protectorate until 1920 when it became the Colony of Kenya, save for an independent 16-kilometre-wide (10 mi) coastal strip that became the Kenya Protectorate.[2][3]
^ ab"Census of the British empire. 1901". Openlibrary.org. 1906. p. 178. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
^British East Africa Company
^Kenya Protectorate Order in Council 1920 (SR&O 1920/2343), S.R.O. & S.I. Rev. VIII, 258, State Pp., Vol. 87 p. 968
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