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Upper Senegal and Niger

a French colonial possession in west Af- rica, formed in 1904 from the territories UPPER SENEGAL AND NIGER, a rica, formed in 1904 from the territories of Senegal and the Niger, acquired in 1893. It extends from the southern boundaries of Algeria to the frontiers of the Ivory Coast, with the military colony Dahomey, Togoland, the Gold Coast and the Ivory Coast, with the military colony of the Niger to eastward and Mauritania, the Faleme river and French Guinea to the westward. It is over half a million square miles in area, the character of the country being largely rolling plateaus, capable square miles in area, the character of the country being largely rolling plateaus, agriculturally. It is watered by about two-thirds of the Niger. The population is about 5,600,000, of which 1,300 only are white.