British East Africa

The East Africa Protectorate, also known as British East Africa, was a British protectorate established on July 1, 1895. Located in the African Great Lakes region, it encompassed an area roughly equivalent to present-day Kenya, stretching from the Indian Ocean to the Ugandan border. Its origins lay in British commercial interests in the 1880s. The protectorate was dissolved on July 23, 1920, when it was largely transformed into the Colony of Kenya, with a coastal strip becoming the Kenya Protectorate.