The modern Republic of the Congo is considered French Congo's successor state, having virtually identical borders, and having inherited rights to sovereignty and independence from France through the dissolution of French Equatorial Africa in the late 1950s.

Its borders with Cabinda, Cameroons, and the Congo Free State were established by treaties over the next decade.

The plan to develop the colony was to grant massive concessions to some thirty French companies.

Many of the companies' vast holdings existed only on paper with virtually no presence on the ground in Africa.

In 1911 the Morocco-Congo Treaty gave part of the territory to Germany for an outlet on the Congo River.