French West Africa

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/French_West_Africa

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Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	colonial territory former federation
gptkbp:area	4,689,000 km²
gptkbp:capital	gptkb:Dakar
gptkbp:composedOf	gptkb:Benin gptkb:Burkina_Faso gptkb:Guinea gptkb:Ivory_Coast gptkb:Mali gptkb:Mauritania gptkb:Niger gptkb:Senegal
gptkbp:country	gptkb:France
gptkbp:currency	gptkb:French_West_African_franc
gptkbp:demonym	French West African
gptkbp:dissolved	1958
gptkbp:establishedBy	gptkb:France
gptkbp:existedDuring	1895
gptkbp:existedUntil	1958
gptkbp:flag	gptkb:Flag_of_French_West_Africa
gptkbp:governedBy	gptkb:Governor-General_of_French_West_Africa
gptkbp:governmentType	colonial federation
gptkbp:historicalEvent	gptkb:World_War_II gptkb:Scramble_for_Africa decolonization
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	French West Africa
gptkbp:ISO_3166-2_code	gptkb:AOF
gptkbp:locatedIn	gptkb:West_Africa
gptkbp:notableLeader	gptkb:Ernest_Roume gptkb:Jean_Charles_Eboué gptkb:Jules_Carde gptkb:Louis_Faidherbe gptkb:Paul_Jean_Louis_Azan gptkb:Pierre_Boisson gptkb:René_Barthes
gptkbp:officialLanguage	gptkb:French
gptkbp:parentOrganization	French colonial administration
gptkbp:partOf	gptkb:colonialism
gptkbp:population	about 15 million (1950s)
gptkbp:precededBy	various pre-colonial states
gptkbp:successor	gptkb:Benin gptkb:Burkina_Faso gptkb:Guinea gptkb:Ivory_Coast gptkb:Mali gptkb:Mauritania gptkb:Niger gptkb:Senegal
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:French_Administration_in_Togoland_and_Dahomey gptkb:French_Sudan gptkb:St._Louis,_Senegal
gptkbp:bfsLayer	4