French Congo
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former French colony in Central Africa
Key facts
- Status
- French colony
- Capital
- Brazzaville
- Common languages
- French (official), Fang , Myene , Kongo , Lingala
- Religion
- Christianity , Bwiti , Islam , traditional religions
- Currency
- French franc
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- colony
- Religion
- Christianity
- Country
- French colonial empire
- Continent
- Africa
- Capital
- Libreville
- Official language
- French
- Currency
- French franc
- Form of government
- colony
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- territory claimed by
- France
- Commons category
- French Congo
- inception
- 1882-11-30
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1906-00-00
- topic's main category
- Category:French Congo
- native label
- Congo français
- language used
- Spanish
- different from
- Belgian Congo
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part ofRepublic of the Congo
The French Congo (French: Congo français), also known as Middle Congo (French: Moyen-Congo), was a French colony which at one time comprised the present-day area of the Republic of the Congo and parts of Gabon, and the Central African Republic. In 1910, it was made part of the larger French Equatorial Africa.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “French Congo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.