List of colonial governors in 1940
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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...
-- Hubert Jules Deschamps, Governor of French Somaliland (1938-1940)
- Gaëtan Louis Elie Germain, Governor of French Somaliland (1940)
- Pierre Marie Elie Louis Nouailhetas, Governor of French Somaliland (1940-1942)
- 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...
-- Louis-Placide Blacher, Governor of Guinea (1939-1940)
- Antoine Félix Giacobbi, Governor of Guinea (1940-1942)
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...
-- Toshikazu Munei, Governor-General of Karafuto (7 May 1938-9 April 1940)
- Masayoshi Ogawa, Governor-General of Karafuto (9 April 1940-1 July 1943)
- 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....
- Jirō MinamiJiro Minami- Notes :...
, 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...
(1936-1942) - 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....
-- Seizō Kobayashi, 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...
(June 1936-November 1940) - Kiyoshi Hasegawa, 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...
(16 December 1940-December 1944)
- Seizō Kobayashi, Governor-General of Taiwan
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...
- Manoel da Cunha e Costa Marquês Mano, High Commissioner of Angola (1939-1941)
United Kingdom
- AdenAdenAden is a seaport city in Yemen, located by the eastern approach to the Red Sea , some 170 kilometres east of Bab-el-Mandeb. Its population is approximately 800,000. Aden's ancient, natural harbour lies in the crater of an extinct volcano which now forms a peninsula, joined to the mainland by a...
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- Sir Bernard Rawdon Reilly, Governor of Aden (1937-1940)
- John Hathorn Hall, Governor of Aden (1940-1945)
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- 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....
- Sir John Alexander Maybin, Governor of Northern Rhodesia (1938-1941)