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Key facts
- 1936
- 510 km (200 sq mi)
- 1954
- Georges Escaragueil
- Status
- Colony of France (1664–1946), Overseas Territory of France (1946–1954)
- Capital
- Pondichéry
- Common languages
- French ( de jure ) , Bengali , Malayalam , Tamil , Telugu
- 1668 1673
- François Caron (first)
- Legislature
- Representative Assembly of French India
- De facto transfer
- 1 November 1954
- Currency
- French Indian rupee
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- colony
- Country
- France
- Continent
- Asia
- Capital
- Pondicherry
- Currency
- French Indian rupee
- Population
- 298851
- Area
- 510
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- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- French India
- topic's main category
- Category:French India
- inception
- 1668-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1954-11-01
- replaced by
- Puducherry
- has seal, badge, or sigil
- Great Seal of France
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part ofIndia
Portuguese India (1505–1961)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “French India” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.