From the inception of French West Africa in 1895, the capital was at Saint-Louis, an island city and seaport near the mouth of the Sénégal River in Senegal. It is the oldest colonial city on the western African coast. In 1902 the capital of the colonial administration was moved to Dakar, also in Senegal.
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