Witu Protectorate, United Kingdom, 1893-1920 Wituland was a territory of approximately 3,000 km²

Witu Protectorate, United Kingdom, 1893-1920

Wituland was a territory of approximately 3,000 km² (1,200 sq mi) in East Africa centered on the town of Witu in what is now Kenya. In 1885, Wituland became a German protectorate, but in accord with the 1890 Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty it renounced its claims, though the inhabitants wanted to stay under the relatively mild German rule.

The area was part of the Arab Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, in which plain red flags had a long tradition. The flag follows this tradition, but also illustrates British rule. Unlike most British colonial flags the Union flag is centred and not in the canton.

Wituland was under rule of the British East Africa Company until it was incorporated into the British protectorate of Kenya in 1920.