Native Name: | السنغامبيا والنيجر (Arabic)Al-singhambia walnayjar |
Conventional Long Name: | Senegambia and Niger |
Common Name: | Senegambia and Niger |
Status: | Colony |
Empire: | France |
Year Start: | 1902 |
Year End: | 1904 |
Event Start: | Established |
Event End: | Disestablished |
P1: | French Sudan |
Flag P1: | Flag of France.svg |
S1: | Upper Senegal and Niger |
Flag S1: | Flag of France.svg |
Flag: | Flag of France |
Flag Type: | Flag |
Common Languages: | French |
Currency: | French West African franc |
Senegambia and Niger was a short-lived administrative unit of the colonial French West Africa possessions, in the region of present-day Niger, Mali and Senegal.
It was formed in 1902, and reorganized in 1904 into Upper Senegal and Niger.[1]
See main article: Postage stamps and postal history of Senegambia and Niger. Despite its brief existence, the French government still managed to issue postage stamps for the administrative unit, in the form of a version of its Navigation and Commerce series, inscribed "SENEGAMBIE / ET NIGER".