The colonies and dependencies of France (including Algeria and Tunis)
have an area roughly estimated at about 4,000,000 square miles with a
population of about 41,600,000. Algeria, however, is not regarded as a
colony but as a part of France, and Tunis is attached to the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.
The area and population of the colonial domain of France at the
beginning of the European war was as follows:
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COLONIES AND YEAR OF ACQUISITION| AREA IN |POPULATION
| SQ. MI. |
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=In Asia=: | |
India (1679) | 196| 277,000
Annam (1884) |} |
Cambodia (1862) |} |
Cochin-China (1861) |} 309,980|16,317,000
Tonking (1884) |} |
Laos (1892) |} |
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Total Asia | 310,176|16,594,000
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=In Africa=: | |
Algeria (1830-1902) | 343,500| 5,231,850
Sahara (----) | 1,544,000| 800,000
Tunis (1881) | 45,779| 1,500,000
Senegal (1637-1880) |} |{ 915,000
Upper Senegal & Niger (1893) |} |{4,415,000
Guinea (1843) |} |{1,498,000
Ivory Coast (1843) |}1,585,810|{ 890,000
Dahomey (1893) |} |{ 749,000
Mauritania (1893) |} |{ 400,000
Congo (1884) | 669,280| 5,000,000
Reunion (1649) | 970| 201,000
Madagascar (1643-1896) | 226,015| 2,701,000
Mayotte (1843) | 840| 96,000
Somali Coast (1864) | 5,790| 180,000
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Total Africa | 4,421,934|24,576,850
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=In America=: | |
St. Pierre and Miquelon (1635)| 96| 6,000
Guadeloupe (1634) | 688| 182,000
Martinique (1635) | 378| 182,000
Guiana (1626) | 34,000| 27,000
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Total America | 35,222| 397,000
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=In Oceania=: | |
New Caledonia (1854-1887) | 7,200| 55,800
Tahiti, etc. (1841-1881) | 1,544| 30,000
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Total Oceania | 8,744| 85,000
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Grand Total | 4,776,126|41,653,650
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