France

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French Republic

République française (French)

Flag

Emblem

Motto: "Liberté, égalité, fraternité"

"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"

Anthem: "La Marseillaise"

"The Marsellaise"

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Great Seal of France

 Grand Sceau de la République française

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Location of metropolitan France (dark green)
– in Europe (green & dark grey)
– in the European Union (green)

 Location of the territory of the French Republic (red)

 Adélie Land (Antarctic claim; hatched)

Capital Paris
and largest city 48°51′N 2°21′E

Official language French[I]

and national
language

Nationality (2010)  89% French (native-born)

 4.4% French(naturalised)
 6.2% non-citizens
 8.9% foreign-born[1]
(Maghrebis, Africans, Other
Europeans, Asians, Turks, Americans)

Religion  51% Christian

(2016)  40% irreligious
  6% Muslim
 1% Jewish
 2% other faiths[2]

Demonym(s) French

Government Unitarysemi-presidentialrepublic

• President Emmanuel Macron

• Prime Minister Édouard Philippe
• President of the Senate Gérard Larcher
• President of the Richard Ferrand
National Assembly

Legislature Parliament

• Upper house Senate

• Lower house National Assembly

Establishment

• Baptism of Clovis I 25 December 496

• Treaty of Verdun [II] August 843
• Republic established 22 September 1792
• Founded the EEC[III] 1 January 1958
• Current constitution[IV] 4 October 1958

Area
• Total 640,679 km2(247,368 sq mi)[3](42nd)
• Metropolitan 551,695 km2(213,011 sq mi)[V](50th)
France(IGN)
• Metropolitan France 543,940.9 km2(210,016.8 sq mi)[VI][4] (50th)
(Cadastre)

Population
• October 2018 estimate 67,348,000[5](21st)
• Density 105/km2 (271/sq mi) (106th)
• Metropolitan France, 65,167,000[6](22nd)
estimate as of
October 2018
• Density 116/km2(300.4/sq mi) (89th)

GDP (PPP) 2019 estimate

• Total $3.081 trillion[7](10th)
• Per capita $47,113[7] (26th)
 GDP (nominal) 2019 estimate
• Total $2.845 trillion[7](6th)
• Per capita $43,500[7] (22nd)

Gini (2017) 29.3[8]

low

HDI (2017) 0.901[9]

very high · 24th

Currency  Euro (€) (EUR)[VII]

 CFP franc (XPF)[VIII]

Time zone UTC+1 (Central European Time)

• Summer (DST) UTC+2 (Central European Summer
Time[X])
Note: various other time zones are observed
in overseas France.[IX]

Date format dd/mm/yyyy (AD)

Driving side right

Calling code +33[XI]

ISO 3166 code FR

Internet TLD .fr[XII]

Source gives area of metropolitan France as 551,500 km2 (212,900

sq mi) and lists overseas regions separately, whose areas sum to
89,179 km2 (34,432 sq mi). Adding these give the total shown here
for the entire French Republic. The CIA reports the total as 643,801
km2 (248,573 sq mi).

France (French: [fʁɑ̃s]), officially the French Republic (French: République

française, pronounced [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛːz]), is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan
France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories.[XIII] The metropolitan area of
France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from
the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered by Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to the
northeast, Switzerland and Italy to the east, and Andorra and Spain to the south. The overseas
territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the
Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. The country's 18 integral regions (five of which are situated
overseas) span a combined area of 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi) and a total
population of 67.3 million (as of October 2018).[10] France, a sovereign state, is a unitary semi-
presidentialrepublic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and
commercial centre. Other major urban
areas include Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille and Nice.