COLONIES AND DEPENDENt IFS
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Colonies and Dependencies.
The colonies and dependencies of France (including Algeria and Tunis) have an area roughly estimated at about 5,119,138 square miles with a population of about 53,582,905. Algeria, however, is not regarded as a colony but as a part of France, and Tunis and Morocco are attached to the Ministry of Foreign A flairs. The administration of the colonies is directed or controlled by the Ministry of the Colonics, which was organised as a separate department in 1894. Most of them enjoy some measure of self-government and have elective councils to assist the governor. The older colonies have also direct representation in the French legislature, Reunion, Martinique and Guadeloupe seudiug each a senator and two deputies : French India a senator and a deputy ; Senegal, Guiana, and Cochin-China each a deputy, while most of the others are represented on the "Conseil Superieur des Colonies." This council consists of the senators and deputies of colonies, delegates from other colonies, and officials and other persons appointed on account of their special knowledge or qualifications. Some only of the colonies have a revenue suffi- cient for the cost of administration. In 1919, France spent on the colonial service 201.835,110 francs, of which 18,001,210 francs were for civil admini- stration, 173,791,000 francs for military services, and 10,042,900 francs for penitentiary services.
The area and population of the colonial domain of France are as follows :
Tear of Area in
Acquisition Square Miles !
In Atia ; — India . Annam Cambodia .
Cochiu-China Tonking . Laos .
Total Asia I In Africa : — Algeria Sahara Tunis Senegal
French Sudau ( Upper Volta I Guinea Ivory Coast Dahomey . Mauritania Military Territory of Niger Congo Cameroon '* To^.2 Reunion . Madagascar Mayotte . Somali Coast .
Total Africa I . 1 Approximate figures.
1679
1S62 1861 LStt
1892
1881 IMF-UN
1S93 1S43
1912 MM 1914
I64y
1643-1396 1«43 lau4
256,000
Population
■2GS,m
16,990,229
1,544,0001
50,000
74.112
617,000
154,400
•
131,970
347. 4- >0
166,4*9
970
22S.000
790
5,790
5,563,82S
800,000 1 1,953,000 1.204,113
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44
70"..
10.000,000
1,500.000
500,000
174,000
3,512,690
97,000
•.'.00
4.s2".'-;s
- Held under a mandate of the League of Nations.
