| Conventional Long Name: | Northern Territories of the Gold Coast |
| Common Name: | Northern Territories |
| Empire: | British Empire |
| Flag P1: | Flag of the United Kingdom.svg |
| S1: | Ghana (dominion) |
| Flag S1: | Flag of Ghana.svg |
| Flag Type: | Flag of the United Kingdom |
| National Anthem: | God Save the King (1902–1952) God Save the Queen (1952–1957) |
| Image Map Caption: | Map of the Gold Coast Colony, the Ashanti Colony, the Northern Territories and the mandate territory of British Togoland |
| Capital: | Gambaga |
| Common Languages: | English (official), Dagbani (official) |
| Government Type: | Protectorate |
| Title Leader: | Monarch |
| Date Start: | 1 January |
| Year Start: | 1902[1] |
| Event End: | Annexed to form part of Her Majesty’s dominions as part of Ghana |
| Date End: | 6 March |
| Year End: | 1957 |
| Currency: | Gold Coast ackey British West African pound |
| Today: | Ghana |
| Title Representative: | Chief Commissioner |
| Year Representative1: | 1897-1899 |
| Representative1: | Henry Ponting Northcott |
| Year Representative2: | 1954-1957 |
| Representative2: | Sydney MacDonald-Smith |
The Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, commonly known as the Northern Territories, was a British protectorate in Africa from 1901 until 1957.[2] The protectorate was administered by the Governor of the Gold Coast under a Chief Commissioner residing at Gambaga. A number of treaties were concluded in the name of Her Britannic Majesty with the Chiefs of Bona, Dagarti, Wa and Mamprusi at Gambaga.[3] These treaties were made in 1896.[4] Under the treaties, the Chiefs agreed not to conclude treaties with any other Power or to cede territory or to accept protectorates without the consent of Her Britannic Majesty.[3] The Northern Territories were constituted as a district in 1897.[3] The Northern Territories were formally established as a protectorate in 1901 under the Northern Territories Order in Council 1901 made on 26 September 1901.[4] The Northern Territories remained a protectorate until the Ghana Independence Act 1957 annexed the Northern Territories by providing that the territories included immediately before 6 March 1957 in the Gold Coast should, as from that day, form part of Her Majesty's dominions by the name of Ghana.[4]