Administrative division adjustment obviously does not happen overnight, but involves the game between all parties. After all, it involves resource allocation, the most typical ones are education, medical care, etc. Livelihood project, especially in a system like East Africa, only provincial administrative regions can enjoy the related resources for upgrading and supporting facilities.
In November 1896, East African government released a rough plan for the adjustment of administrative divisions in East Africa.
"Based on comprehensive data considerations from various regions across the country, we plan to divide the country into 45 provincial-level administrative regions, including the two new provinces established on Lanfang Overseas Province and Madagascar Island, but not including overseas colonies."
"There is also a special area, which is the Congo rainforest area. Because of its climate characteristics, we plan to continue to retain its role as a protected area. The administrative level is the same as the provincial level."
"And because of Rhine City, we plan to cancel the original Central Province, and separate parts from Hohenzollern Province, Swabia Province and Salzburg Province As the new Central Province, the future Central Province will be geographically located in the heart of East Africa. As for the original Central Province, the name Coastal Province will be restored."
Coastal Province is now Central Province, and the area where First Town is located was one of the three Binhai Districts in the early days of East Africa. At that time, the administrative divisions of East Africa were still determined by regions.
"At Mozambique Region, we will set Tete Province, Nyasaland Province, Zambezi River Province, Rhodesia Province, Plains Province, these five new provinces have Tete City, Nacala City, Quelimane City, Bella City, and Xinxiang City as their provincial capitals."
The name Nyasaland is naturally another name for Lake Malawi in his previous life. Similarly, Rhodesia is the name of Zimbabwe and other places in his previous life, which was retained by Ernst.
As for Plains Province, it is completely the bad taste of Ernst. There is also Xinxiang City, the provincial capital of Plains Province, which is actually Shaoqui Town of Portuguese colony.
After all, there are too few plains in East Africa, and the best farming conditions are concentrated in southern Mozambique. Therefore, Ernst's naming of this place as Pingyuan Province is worthy of the name. Naturally, the capital of Pingyuan Province should be named after Xinxiang, which can also remove the name Saukui from the Portuguese colonial period.
And Plains Province is also equipped with a port, which is the Inhambane City in Mozambique in its previous life. In this way, although Xinxiang City is inland, it does not have no outlet to the sea.
"Maputo, New Hamburg City, and surrounding areas form a new province, which is Hansa Province. The provincial capital is set at New Hamburg City."
"In addition, a new Orange Province was set up in the South Africa region, with Bloemfontein as the provincial capital, including Kimberley City. The area basically overlaps with the original Orange Free State."
"Baden Province makes slight changes. The provincial capital is set at Gaborone, and the second largest city in the province is Upington."
The geographical location of Baden Province is almost the southeast area of Botswana plus British Bechuanaland Northern Colony in the previous life.
"In addition to adding Central Province in the central region and making Rhine City the national political center, Matabele Province was renamed Bohemia Province."
This change in name actually emphasizes the industrial attributes of Bohemia Province (Northeast Zimbabwe). It is known that most of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's industries are concentrated in Bohemia region, so East Africa also used this as a basis to rename Matabele Province to Bohemia Province.
"At the same time, Bulawayo city delimits Bohemia Province, which together with part of the western Kalahari Basin area forms a new Lorraine Province."
This is for the purpose of checks and balances. The original Matabele Province was too strong, so it was split into two provinces in this zoning adjustment. At the same time, it was also considered to take care of the Kalahari region.
The original Kalahari Basin was all in the Lorraine Province area, but there were no cities that could be conquered. The area was all desert and arid areas, so incorporating Bulawayo city was a way to strengthen and promote the local area.
"At the same time, Hesse Province in the central part of the country has been transformed into two provinces, Hesse Province and Mitoomba Province."
This is also true of long-lasting divisions and long-lasting divisions. The original Hesse Province was the merger of Hesse Province and Mitoomba Province. Now it has been split into two provinces again. The main reason is the development of the local economy.
"The Okavango Delta in the northern part of Lorraine Province together with the northern plateau area, that is, most of the eastern part of the original Letania Province, forms Okavango Province, mainly for the comprehensive management of the Okavango River watershed."
"Southwest Africa established Southwest Province, and the provincial capital was established at Windhoek City."
Southwest Africa was finally established as a separate province and is the second largest provincial administrative region in East Africa, second only to Congo rainforest protected area.
"In the west, Letania Province takes Port of Alexandria as the new provincial capital, and the overall development is westward. The area has been reduced due to the separation of Okavango Province."
"With Benguela as the provincial capital, Benguela Province will be established along the railway. Luanda will be the provincial capital, and West Coast Province will be established along the railway."
"Congo Province is set up along the northern Congo River coast, including Cabinda City and Kinshasa City, and Kinshasa City is the provincial capital."
The new Congo Province is basically distributed along the main stream downstream of the Congo River. At the same time, the sea port is mainly Cabinda, which also means that Brazzaville is gone. In the future, Kinshasa will be a city that spans Congo River.
In the previous life, Brazzaville and Kinshasa were two cities formed due to colonial division. Now that East Africa has unified both sides of the Congo River, there is naturally no need to set up two cities, especially after the Congo River railway bridge project was established.
"Main changes in the northern region, Ubangi Province was established, and the provincial capital was set at Bangui city."
It is basically a province established by the Ubangi River. It is also an important border province, bordering four countries: Sigmaringen, Cameroon (Germany), Gabon (France), and Belgian Congo.
"At the same time, the east part of Ubangi Province was divided into two provinces, West Azande Province and East Azande Province. According to the division of Azande Plateau, the original Bavaria Province moved eastward to the west bank of King Lake (Lake Albert)."
In this way, Azande Plateau and its surrounding areas will change from two provinces to four provinces.
"Great Lake Province is established in the west and south of Great Lakes Region, North Great Lakes Province remains in the north, Northwest Region remains basically unchanged, Lake Tanganyika Province is established in the east, and the original Central Province is changed to Coastal Province."
"Finally, Madagascar Island is divided into Mahajanga Province and Toliara Province."
The administrative divisions of Madagascar Island are basically not much different from the previous life. Ernst directly borrows the names of these two provinces. At the same time, the areas and regions of the two provinces are basically not much different from the previous life.
"The above are the changes in the provincial administrative districts in East Africa. In addition, there are two Special Municipality, which are not up to the provincial administrative district level, but are higher than ordinary provincial capitals and prefecture-level cities, namely Dar es Salaam city and Mombasa city. In the future, East African economic development and Special Municipality may be adjusted at any time."
It is similar to the sub-provincial capital city or municipality in the previous life Far East Empire, but it does not have as high a status as a municipality. After all, a municipality is a provincial administrative region, and Dar es Salaam city and Mombasa city still belong to Coastal Province (original Central Province) and Eastern Province.
This is a reflection of the economic strength of the two cities. However, with the development of other cities in the future, it is possible to be promoted to Special Municipality, such as New Frankfurt City, Bella City, New Hamburg City, Luanda City, Cabinda City, Mbeya city... are all on the candidate list.
In the end, there were a total of 45 provincial administrative regions in East Africa, including Lanfang Overseas Province, the two provinces on Madagascar Island, and the Congo rainforest protected area. Dar es Salaam city and Mombasa became Special Municipality.
In March 1897, the latest data on the land of East Africa was also released. The land area of East Africa was approximately 13,006,500 square kilometers, just over 13 million square kilometers. If calculated based on the area of 3020 (3022) square kilometers of Africa, it would account for about 43% of the entire continent.
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