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French Guinea

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Also known as Guinée française

French colony in West Africa (1891-1958); now the country of Guinea

Key facts

Capital
Conakry
1891 1900
Noël Ballay
1956 1958
Jean Ramadier
Independence
2 October 1958

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Encyclopedic overview

Today part ofGuinea

French Guinea (French: Guinée française) 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “French Guinea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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