Country · since 1958
French Fifth Republic
French Fifth Republic appears on the map from 1958 to today. At its greatest recorded extent, in 1958, it covered about 11.26 million km².
One of the realms of French Colonial Empire. France's first colonial empire began with Jacques Cartier's voyages to the St Lawrence in 1534 and grew into New France, a vast fur-trading realm reaching down the Mississippi to Louisiana, plus rich sugar islands such as Saint-Domingue worked by enslaved Africans. Defeat by Britain in 1763 cost Canada and most of India, the Haitian Revolution freed Saint-Domingue, and Napoleon sold Louisiana in 1803.
See French Fifth Republic on the map in 1958
- On the map
- 1958 – today
- Greatest extent
- 1958, about 11.26 million km²
- Read more
- Wikipedia: French Fifth Republic · Wikidata Q200686
Territory through time
| Years | Area drawn |
|---|---|
| 1958–1959 | 11.26 million km² |
| 1960 | 8.47 million km² |
| 1961–1990 | 3.03 million km² |
| 1991 | 3.03 million km² |
| since 1992 | 665,713 km² |