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Official question: Quel pays a été colonisé par la France ?

Official lists: Resident card (CR)

  1. L'Algérie
  2. La Suisse
  3. Le Portugal
  4. L'Espagne
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Our answer: L'Algérie

Algeria was conquered by the French army in 1830 and became part of the French colonial empire. Portugal and Spain were other colonial powers, not countries colonised by France. Switzerland was not colonised by France.

En 1830, l’Algérie est conquise par l’armée française (Afrique du Nord).
Source: Le territoire français dans le temps (1/2) · Ministère de l'Intérieur (DIAN), fiches de la formation civique · read on 2026-11-03

Options, answer and explanation written by us, checked against the cited source on ⁦2026-11-03⁩.

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