Editing Treaty of Versailles (section)

===Mandates===
{{main|League of Nations mandate}}
[[File:Map of the German Empire - 1914.PNG|thumb|German colonies (light blue) were made into [[League of Nations mandates]].]]

Article 119 of the treaty required Germany to renounce sovereignty over former colonies and Article 22 converted the territories into [[League of Nations mandates]] under the control of Allied states.<ref name="Articles 22 and 119" group=n.>[[s:Covenant of the League of Nations#Article 22|Article 22]] and [[s:Treaty of Versailles/Part IV#Article 119|Article 119]]</ref> [[Togoland]] and [[German Kamerun]] (Cameroon) were transferred to France, aside from portions given to Britain, [[British Togoland]] and [[British Cameroon]]. [[Ruanda-Urundi|Ruanda and Urundi]] were allocated to Belgium, whereas [[German South-West Africa]] went to South Africa and Britain obtained [[German East Africa]].{{sfn|Tucker|Roberts|2005|p=437}}{{sfn|Benians|Butler|Carrington|1959|p=658}}{{sfn|Tucker|Roberts|2005|p=1224}} As compensation for the German invasion of Portuguese Africa, Portugal was granted the [[Kionga Triangle]], a sliver of German East Africa in northern [[Mozambique]].{{sfn|Roberts|1986|p=496}}
Article 156 of the treaty transferred German concessions in [[Shandong]], China, to Japan, not to China. Japan was granted all German possessions in the Pacific north of the equator and those south of the equator went to Australia, except for [[German Samoa]], which was taken by [[New Zealand]].{{sfn|Benians|Butler|Carrington|1959|p=658}}<ref name="Article 156" group=n.>[[s:Treaty of Versailles/Part IV|Article 156]]</ref>