What the records say
- When
- 1958
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- French Guinea
- Coordinates
- 10.62° N, 10.02° W
- Process
- unknown
- Type
- Unknown process (often independences)
- Pop
- 2896000
- Area km2
- 245857
- Gaining
- Guinea
- Losing
- France
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
French Guinea
French colony in West Africa (1891-1958); now the country of Guinea
French Guinea was a French colonial possession in West Africa. Its borders, while changed over time, were in 1958 those of the current independent nation of Guinea.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation