OT: German West African colony?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/27/2012 11:19 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>And in West Africa, a colony that that I'm
> > incapable of identifying with present-day countries without
> > overlaying two maps.  [Wikipedia: German colonial empire.]
>
>That's Togo (formerly Togoland), I think.
>
>--bgz

If you compare the Wikipedia map for German Colonial Empire with a
Google map for Togo, they don't seem to be in the same place -- the
German colony rising from the N-S coast, Togo on the E-W coast.  And
Togo is too small.

Joel

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