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FRANCE: — COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES
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Year of Acquisition
Area in Square Miles
Population
In America : — St. Pierre and Miquelon .
1635 1634 1635 1020
1854-1887 1841-1881
93
385 32,000
4,652 212,430 193,000 49,000
Total America 1
33,200
459,0S2
In Oceania : — Tahiti, &c
7,650 1,544
50,600 30,000
Total Oceania 1
9,194 1
81,200
Grand Total ....
5,119,138
53,582,905
1 Approximate figures.
A large area of Morocco is under France as a Protectorate. See Morocco.
The following tables show the value of the imports into and the exports from the various dependencies of France (except Algeria and Tunis) for 1917 and 1918 : —
Colonies
French West Africa French Equatorial Africa .
Reunion
Madagascar and dependencies .
French Soinaliland
French Establishments in India .
Indo-China
St. Pierre and Miquelon Guadeloupe and dependencies
Martinique
French Guiana
New Caledonia and dependencies French Establishments in Oceania
Total
Imports
1917
Francs
204,440,065
9,574,999
22,001,829
136,770,590
39,416,120
13,225,207
373,555,560
4,076,304
39,511,206
56,569,283
11,972,900
17,947,S49
7,806,294
1918
Francs
575.271.7S2
8,890,S66
31,21S,373
102,269,S27
57,463.449
4,2S9,071
363,383,747
5,166,7*3
39,696,055
54,770,959
15,808,526
21,736,236
7.S00,294
Exports
930,868,S06 1,287,276,937 1,001,576,4421,184,950 s '"' (37,474, 752;.)i(M, 491,0771.) (40.003, 017/.) (44, 99s,n:i;./. )
Books of Reference concerning the French Colonies generally.
1/ Annuaire Coloniale. Annual. Paris.
Annuaire de la Marine et des Colonies. Paris.
Annuaire du Ministere des Colonies. Paris.
Annuaire Oftlciel des troupes Coloni.'iles. Annual, liuis.
Bulletin de la Comite Frangai.se Coloniale. Monthly. I'aris.
Budget vote des d6penses du Ministere des Colonies. Annual. Paris.
Compte deflnitif des depenses du Ministere des Colonies. Annual. Paris.
Depfiche Coloniale. Weekly. Paris.
Exposition uuiverselle de 1900. hes Colonics Francises. [Descriptions of the several Colonies from various points of view by various authors.] 6 vols. Paris, 1M0.
Feuillede Rensetifiiementsde l'Offlce Colonial. (Published atleast once a month.) Paris,
Foreign Office Reports, Miscellaneous Series. No. 520. London, 1900.
Les Colonies Franchises. Paris, 1902.
Revue coloniale. (Weekly). Paris.
Statistiques coloniales. Commerce, 2 vols. ; Navigation, 1 vol. ; Finance, 1 voj, Aunu.il. Paris.
