AREA AND POPULATION OF THE SEVERAL COLONIES, REPUBLICS AND TERRITORIES IN SOUTH AFRICA
| AREA IN SQUARE MILES. | POPULATION IN 1891. | ||||||
| European. | Coloured. | Total. | |||||
| British— Cape Colony (including Walfish Bay) | 277,000 | 382,198 | 1,383,762 | 1,765,960 | |||
| Basutoland | 10,293 | 578 | 218,624 | 219,202 | |||
| Bechuanaland (Protectorate) | 200,000 | (?) | 800 | (?) | 200,000 | (?) | —— |
| Natal | 20,461 | 46,788 | 497,125 | 543,913 | |||
| Zululand | 12,500 | (?) | 1,100 | 179,270 | (?) | 180,370 | |
| Tongaland (British) | 2,000 | (?) | none | 20,000 | (?) | —— | |
| Territories of British South Africa Company, south of the Zabesi (Matabililand and Mashonaland) | 142,000 | 7,000 (1899) | (?) | unknown | —— | ||
| Independent— South African Republic (Transvaal) | 119,139 | 245,397 | (?) | 622,500 | (?) | 867,897 | |
| Swaziland (dependent on South African Republic) | 8,500 | 900 | (?) | 55,000 | (?) | —— | |
| Orange Free State | 48,326 | 77,716 | 129,787 | 207,503 | |||
| Portuguese East Africa | 300,000 | (?) | 10,000 | (?) | 3,100,000 | (?) | —— |
| German South West Africa | 320,000 | (?) | 2,025 (1896) | 200,000 | (?) | —— | |