German East Africa
Post Offices from 4.10.1890 to October 1917
(Lamu from 22.11.1888)
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German East Africa, the largest of the German colonies extended from 29
degrees to 41 degrees longitude East and 1 and 11 degrees latitude South,
covering an area of some 1 million sq. kms. It was thus double the size of
the then motherland and nearly three times the size of present day
Germany.
By far the largest part of the territory constitutes a plateau at a height
of 1000 m to 1500 m. In the Northeast this includes the highest point in
Africa, Mt. Kilimanjaro at almost 5900 m.
In 1913 the population was estimated at about 7.5 million; of these 15000 Indian, Arab and other non-whites. The white population comprised 1131 people in 1900 and had increased to 5336 by 1913 of whom 4107 were German.
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