Louis Gustave Binger was a French

France

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 officer and explorer

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 who claimed the Côte d'Ivoire

Côte d'Ivoire

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 for France.

Binger was born at Strasbourg

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 in the Bas-Rhin

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 . In 1887 he travelled from Senegal

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 up to the Niger River

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, arriving at Grand Bassam in 1889. During this expedition he discovered that the Mountains of Kong

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 did not exist . He described this journey in his work Du Niger au golfe de Guinée par le pays de Kong et le Mossi (From the Niger to the Gulf of Guinea though the land of the Kong and the Mossi) (1891).

In 1892 he returned to the Guinea Coast to superintend the forming of the boundaries between the British and French colonies. In 1893 Binger was appointed governor of the Côte d'Ivoire.

Louis Gustave Binger died at L'Isle-Adam

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, Île-de-France

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, France and was buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris

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. The city of Bingerville

Bingerville

Bingerville is a city in south eastern Côte d'Ivoire, lying on the Ébrié Lagoon. Originally a market town, it grew as the capital of the then colony from 1909 until 1934. It is named after Louis-Gustave Binger, a former French colonial governor...

is named after him.