The Bechuanaland Protectorate was a protectorate established on 31 March 1885, by the United Kingdom in southern Africa. It became the Republic of Botswana on 30 September 1966.
Bechuanaland meant the country of the Tswana and for administrative purposes was divided into two political entities. The northern part was admistered as the Bechuanaland Protectorate and the southern part was administered as the crown colony of British Bechuanaland. Brit...
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The Bechuanaland Protectorate was a protectorate established on 31 March 1885, by the United Kingdom in southern Africa. It became the Republic of Botswana on 30 September 1966.
Bechuanaland meant the country of the Tswana and for administrative purposes was divided into two political entities. The northern part was admistered as the Bechuanaland Protectorate and the southern part was administered as the crown colony of British Bechuanaland. British Bechuanaland was incorporated into the Cape Colony in 1895 and now forms part of South Africa.
The northern part, the Bechuanaland Protectorate, had an area of 225,000 square miles (580,000 km), and a population 120,776.
The British government originally expected to turn over administration of the protectorate to Rhodesia or South Africa, but Tswana opposition left the protectorate under British rule until independence in 1966.
The Bechuanaland Protectorate was technically a protectorate rather than a colony. Originally the local Tswana...
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