Togo Regions (original) (raw)

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Updates:

I have updated the populations of regions using the 2010 census results. I've also concluded that Centrale, rather than Centre, is the standard short form of that region's name.

Since about 1970, Togo has been divided into regions, which are further subdivided into prefectures (formerly called circumscriptions). International standard ISO 3166-2 was published on December 15, 1998. It superseded ISO/DIS 3166-2 (draft international standard). The draft standard listed the 21 circumscriptions. The final standard listed the five regions instead. FIPS PUB 10-4 continued to list the prefectures until 2006-03-23, when FIPS Publication Change Notice No. 10 was issued. It assigned new FIPS codes to the current Togolese regions, superseding the prefecture codes formerly in effect.

Country overview:

Togoland was a German protectorate in 1900. After World War I, the Allies split up Germany's African possessions. The League of Nations mandated Togoland to Great Britain and France. They split it longitudinally. On 1922-07-20, France received the broader eastern strip. The French mandate of Togo was administered under Dahomey (see Benin), and thus formed part of French West Africa. After World War II, the mandate was extended as a U.N. trusteeship. Togo became independent on 1960-04-27. (The British part of Togoland is now part of Ghana.)

Other names of country:

1. Danish: Togo
2. Dutch: Togo, Togolese Republiek (formal)
3. English: Republic of Togo (formal), Togoland (obsolete)
4. Finnish: Togo
5. French: Togo m, R�publique f Togolaise (formal)
6. German: Togo n
7. Icelandic: T�g�
8. Italian: Togo m
9. Norwegian: Togo, Republikken Togo (formal)
10. Portuguese: Togo m, Rep�blica f Togolesa (formal)
11. Russian: Того, Тоголезская Республика (formal)
12. Spanish: Togo m, Rep�blica f Togolesa (formal), Rep�blica de Togo (formal)
13. Swedish: Togo
14. Turkish: Togo Cumhuriyeti (formal)

Origin of name:

from Togoville, on Lake Togo, where the German protectorate was established

Primary subdivisions:

Togo is divided into five r�gions (regions).

Further subdivisions:

See the Prefectures of Togo page.

The regions are subdivided into pr�fectures.

Territorial extent:

The UN LOCODE page for Togo lists locations in the country, some of them with their latitudes and longitudes, some with their ISO 3166-2 codes for their subdivisions. This information can be put together to approximate the territorial extent of subdivisions.

Change history:

1. 1914-08: Under French administration, capital of Togo moved from Sebbe to An�ho.
2. 1920: Capital of Togo moved from An�ho to Lom�.
3. ~1920-1950: The divisions of Togo in this period are shown in the following table (sources [5]-[7]). They were called circonscriptions administratives, or later, cercles.

1. ~1955: According to sources [9] and [10], Togo consisted of ten divisions (source [10] calls them regions): An�cho, Atakpam�, Bassari, Dapango, Lama-Kara, Lom�, Mango, Palim�, Sokod�, and Ts�vi�.
2. ~1960: Source [8] shows Togo composed of four regions (Centrale, Maritime, Plateaux, and Savanes).

1. ~1966: The four regions were supposedly abolished as administrative divisions. However, the same four regions show up in the late 1970s.
2. ~1981: Kara region formed from parts of Centrale and Savanes.

Other names of subdivisions:

Centrale: Centre (variant)

Sources:

1. [1] L'�valuation des effectifs de la population des pays Africains, Tome I. Groupe de D�mographie Africaine, Paris, 1982.
2. [2] �tude de Faisabilit� des Forages Manuels au Togo , Togo Water Ministry, Lom�, 2009-10-01 (p. 24, retrieved 2010-10-28). Figures are a synthesis of data from several sources: incomplete surveys conducted between 1996 and 2007, extrapolated to include the growth rate.
3. [3] Togo's Direction G�n�rale de la Statistique et de la Comptabilit� Nationale has yearly population estimates by prefecture and region (retrieved 2007-11-17 from a different URL).
4. [4] Recensement g�n�ral de la population et de l'habitat : R�sultats d�finitifs. Bureau Central du Recencement, 2011-12 (retrieved 2011-12-31). This document also has results of the 1981 census, and they differ from the figures I previously reported, which came from the Statesman's Yearbook 1988-1989.
5. [5] Encyclop�dia Britannica World Atlas, 1951 edition.
6. [6] Territoire du Togo plac� sous le mandat de la France (map, retrieved 2004-01-19). This map references the 1914 borders, and probably dates from the interbellum period (1918-1939).
7. [7] Carte du Togo . Service G�ographique des Colonies, 1926 (map, retrieved 2004-01-19).
8. [8] Encyclop�dia Britannica World Atlas, 1964 edition.
9. [9] The Statesman's Year-Book 1959, Macmillan & Co., London, 1959.
10. [10] Fisher, Morris. Provinces and Provincial Capitals of the World. New York: Scarecrow Press, 1967.
11. [11] Encyclop�dia Britannica, 15th Edition, Chicago, 1984: Togo article