List of colonial governors in 1912
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France
- French SomalilandDjiboutiDjibouti , officially the Republic of Djibouti , is a country in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea in the north, Ethiopia in the west and south, and Somalia in the southeast. The remainder of the border is formed by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden at the east...
- Pierre Hubert Auguste Pascal, Governor of French Somaliland (1911–1915) - GuineaGuineaGuinea , officially the Republic of Guinea , is a country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea , it is today sometimes called Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from its neighbour Guinea-Bissau. Guinea is divided into eight administrative regions and subdivided into thirty-three prefectures...
-- Camille Guy, Lieutenant-Governor of Guinea (1910–1912)
- Jean Louis Georges PoiretJean Louis Georges PoiretJean Louis Georges Poiret was Lieutenant-Governor of Guinea when it was a French colony....
, acting Lieutenant-Governor of Guinea (1912–1913)
Japan
- KarafutoKarafuto Prefecture, commonly called South Sakhalin, was the Japanese administrative division corresponding to Japanese territory on Sakhalin from 1905 to 1945. Through the Treaty of Portsmouth, the portion of Sakhalin south of 50°N became a colony of Japan in 1905...
- Hiraoka Teitarō, Governor-General of Karafuto (12 June 1908-5 June 1914) - KoreaKorea under Japanese ruleKorea was under Japanese rule as part of Japan's 35-year imperialist expansion . Japanese rule ended in 1945 shortly after the Japanese defeat in World War II....
- Terauchi MasatakeTerauchi Masatake, GCB was a Japanese military officer and politician. He was a Field Marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army and the 18th Prime Minister of Japan from 9 October 1916 to 29 September 1918.-Early period:...
, Governor-General of KoreaGovernor-General of KoreaThe post of Japanese Governor-General of Korea served as the chief administrator of the Japanese government in Korea while it was held as the Japanese colony of Chōsen from 1910 to 1945...
(1910–1916) - TaiwanTaiwan under Japanese ruleBetween 1895 and 1945, Taiwan was a dependency of the Empire of Japan. The expansion into Taiwan was a part of Imperial Japan's general policy of southward expansion during the late 19th century....
- Sakuma SamataSakuma Samata-External links:*...
, Governor-General of TaiwanGovernor-General of TaiwanThe position of Governor-General of Taiwan existed when Taiwan and the Pescadores were part of the Empire of Japan, from 1895 to 1945.The Japanese Governors-General were members of the Diet, civilian officials, Japanese nobles or generals...
(15 April 1906-May 1915)
Portugal
- AngolaAngolaAngola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...
-- Manuel Maria CoelhoManuel Maria CoelhoManuel Maria Coelho was a Portuguese military officer of the Portuguese Army and politician during the period of the Portuguese First Republic. Among other posts, he served as governor of Angola...
, Governor-General of Angola (1911–1912) - José Mendes Ribeiro Norton de Matos, Governor-General of Angola (1912–1915)
- Manuel Maria Coelho
United Kingdom
- Bechuanaland
- High Commissioner - Viscount Gladstone, High Commissioner for Southern AfricaHigh Commissioner for Southern AfricaThe British office of High Commissioner for South Africa was responsible for governing British possessions in Southern Africa, latterly the protectorates Basutoland , the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland, as well as for relations with autonomous governments in the area...
(1910–1914) - Resident Commissioner - Francis William Panzera, Resident Commissioner of Bechuanaland (1906–1916)
- High Commissioner - Viscount Gladstone, High Commissioner for Southern Africa
- Northern RhodesiaZambiaZambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....
- Lawrence Aubrey WallaceLawrence Aubrey WallaceSir Lawrence Aubrey Wallace was a British colonial administrator. He was the administrator of North-Eastern Rhodesia from April 1907 to January 1909, administrator of North-Western Rhodesia from January 1909 to August 1911, and administrator of Northern Rhodesia from August 1911 until March...
, Administrator of Northern Rhodesia (1911–1921)