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ID: 6002142
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6002142

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of French West Africa (federation)  French West Africa (federation)

Note: Administrative grouping under French rule from 1895 to 1958; comprised of former French territories of West Africa including Senegal, Guinea, Cöte d'Ivoire, Mali (then French Sudan), Benin (then Dahomey), Burkina Faso (then Upper Volta), Niger, and Mauritania.

Names:
French West Africa (preferred,C,O)
Afrique Occidentale Française (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of French West Africa (federation)  ........  French West Africa (federation) (P)

Place Types:
federation (preferred, C)
union (C)

Related geographic places:
member is ....  Benin .......... (nation)
................  (World, Africa) [1000160]
member is ....  Burkina Faso .......... (nation)
................  (World, Africa) [1000208]
member is ....  Côte d'Ivoire .......... (nation)
................  (World, Africa) [1000168]
member is ....  Guinea .......... (nation)
................  (World, Africa) [1000167]
member is ....  Mali .......... (nation)
................  (World, Africa) [1000175]
member is ....  Mauritania .......... (nation)
................  (World, Africa) [1000176]
member is ....  Niger .......... (nation)
................  (World, Africa) [1000181]
member is ....  Senegal .......... (nation)
................  (World, Africa) [1000189]

Sources and Contributors:
Afrique Occidentale Française..........  [VP]
..................................................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
French West Africa..........  [VP Preferred]
...................................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
...................................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 343
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 343
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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