Lado Enclave
The Lado Enclave (French: Enclave de Lado; Dutch: Lado-Enclave) was a leased territory administered by the Congo Free State and later by the Belgian Congo that existed from 1894 until 1910, situated on the west bank of the Upper Nile in what is now South Sudan and northwest Uganda. Its capital was the town of Lado.
| Lado Enclave | |||||||||
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| Territory of Congo Free State | |||||||||
| 1894–1910 | |||||||||
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Map of the Lado Enclave in 1904. | |||||||||
| Capital | Lado | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1894 | 39,000 km2 (15,000 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1894 | 250 000 | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| Commandant | |||||||||
• 1897 (first) | Louis-Napoléon Chaltin | ||||||||
• 1904–1907 (last) | Ferdinand, baron de Rennette de Villers-Perwin | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Signing of the 1894 British-Congolese Treaty | 12 May 1894 | ||||||||
• Incorporation into the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan | 10 June 1910 | ||||||||
| Contained within | |||||||||
| • Country | Congo Free State (1894–1908) Belgian Congo (1908–1910) | ||||||||
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