East Africa, German, a possession of the German empire, lying on the African coast directly south of British East Africa. The German rights were acquired from the Sultan of Zanzibar in 1890 by a payment of $1,000,000. Area 384,000 square miles. Population, chiefly Bantu, 7,000,000. The protectorate is governed by a German governor. There are about 2,000 German residents, who act as officials, commanders, policemen, missionaries, and teachers. A few hundred Germans live near the coast on plantations of cocoa-palm, caoutchouc, vanilla, tobacco, cacao, sugar, tea, cotton, cardamon, and cinchona. The German government has established a number of experimental stations. In the year 1905 there were over half a million head of cattle and nearly 4,000,000 head of sheep and goats in the protectorate. Though not developed, it is known that there is a vast wealth of gold, lead, copper, coal, and salt. There are precious stones. Agates, topazes, moonstones, quartz crystals, and garnets are known to exist in large quantities. The German government spends about $1,000,000 a year on the protectorate, in addition to twice as much obtained from local revenue. The chief exports are rubber, copra, ivory, coffee, sisal, and wax, in all about $3,000,000 a year. See AFRICA.