What the records say
- When
- 1960
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- French Togoland
- Coordinates
- 8.81° N, 1.06° E
- Process
- unknown
- Type
- Unknown process (often independences)
- Pop
- 1440000
- Area km2
- 56600
- Gaining
- Togo
- Losing
- France
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
French Togoland
French colonial mandate in West Africa (1916–1960)
French Togoland, officially the French Mandate for Togoland during the League of Nations period and then Togoland under French Administration during the UN trusteeship period, was a French colonial League of Nations mandate from 1922 to 1946, and a UN trust territory from 1946 to 1960 in French West Africa. In 1960 it became the independent Togolese Republic.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation
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