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==History==
Previously a part of the Ottoman-[[Egypt]]ian province of [[Equatoria]], Lado came under the control of the British and in 1869 Sir [[Samuel Baker]] created an administration in the area, suppressed the slave trade and opened up the area to commerce.<ref>''Sir Samuel White Baker'' (2013), Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia,
In 1894, the British, under the stipulations of the 1894 British-Congolese Treaty, leased the area to [[Leopold II of Belgium|King Leopold II of the Belgians]] for the period of his lifetime. In exchange, Leopold agreed to cede a strip of land in eastern Congo when construction of the [[Cape to Cairo railway]] was to begin. The enclave had an area of about {{convert|15000|sqmi|km2}}, a population of about 250,000 and had its capital at the town of [[Lado, South Sudan|Lado]].
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