Territorial change
Open on the mapFrench West Africa: Non-state territory → France (conquest)
1899 · French West Africa
What the records say
- When
- 1899
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- French West Africa
- Coordinates
- 15.00° N, 2.00° W
- Process
- conquest
- Type
- Conquest (armed force)
- Area km2
- 2394466
- Gaining
- France
- Cow number
- 386
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
French West Africa
Colonial federation from 1895 to 1958
French West Africa was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan, French Guinea, Ivory Coast, Upper Volta, Dahomey, and Niger. The federation existed from 1895 until 1958. Its capital was Saint-Louis in Senegal until 1902, and then Dakar until the federation's collapse in 1960.
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