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Key facts
- 1702
- 1,500 Europeans (east and west of the Mississippi)
- 1763
- 20,000 Europeans and Africans (west and east of the Mississippi)
- 1803
- 70,000 Europeans and Africans (west of the Mississippi)
- Capital
- Mobile (1702–1720), Biloxi (1720–1722), La Nouvelle-Orléans (1722-1762)
- 1700s
- over 1 million Native Americans (west and east of the Mississippi)
- Type
- Monarchy
- Historical era
- Colonial French and Indian War Napoleonic
- Transfer by spain
- 21 March 1801
- Louisiana purchase
- 30 April 1803
- Transferred to the united states
- 20 December 1803
- Political subdivisions
- Upper Louisiana ;, Lower Louisiana
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- administrative territorial entity
- Part of
- New France
- Named after
- Louis XV of France
- Official name
- Colonie de la Louisiane
- Country
- Kingdom of France
- Located in
- New France
- Capital
- New Orleans
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- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Oklahoma
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1804-01-01
- Commons category
- French Louisiana
- inception
- 1682-01-01
- replaced by
- Louisiana Purchase
- different from
- Louisiana
- topic's main category
- Category:Louisiana (New France)
- native label
- Louisiane
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part ofCanada United States
Louisiana, also known as French Louisiana, was a district of New France. In 1682, the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle erected a cross near the mouth of the Mississippi River and claimed the whole of the drainage basin of the Mississippi River in the name of King Louis XIV, naming it "Louisiana". This land area stretched from near the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Appalachian Mountains to the Rocky Mountains. The area was under French control from 1682 to 1762 and in part from 1801 to 1803.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Louisiana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.