FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA


Meaning of FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA in English

French Afrique quatoriale Franaise (AEF), collectively, four French territories in central Africa from 1910 to 1959. In 1960 the former territory of Ubangi-Shari (Oubangui-Chari), to which Chad (Tchad) had been attached in 1920, became the Central African Republic and the Republic of Chad; the Middle Congo (Moyen-Congo) became the Congo Republic, now the Republic of the Congo; and Gabon became the Republic of Gabon.

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