The Sultanate of M'Simbati was a micronation founded in 1959 in Tanganyika by Englishman Latham Leslie Moore, approximately 25 km southeast of Mtwara.
[1] Latham Leslie-Moore was born in Paddington, London, United Kingdom in 1893.
When Tanganyika later merged with the People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba to form modern day Tanzania, Moore also corresponded with the nation's new president, Julius Nyerere, requesting recognition of his state, as well as to the United Nations.
[5] Moore and the sultanate were featured in the 1983 book No Man's Land: The Last of White Africa by John Heminway.
[6] The Sultanate was also featured in the book Colours of the Fleet, by Malcolm Farrow, OBE, which strived to provide a compendium of all known instances of flags based on British designs.