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French Republic | |
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Motto: "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" | |
Anthem: "La Marseillaise" | |
Great Seal: | |
Capital and largest city | Paris 48°51′N 2°21′E |
Official language and national language | French[upper-roman 1] |
Nationality (2018) |
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Religion (2019[2]) |
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Demonym(s) | French |
Government | Unitary semi-presidential constitutional republic |
Emmanuel Macron | |
Jean Castex | |
Gérard Larcher | |
Richard Ferrand | |
Legislature | Parliament |
Senate | |
National Assembly | |
Establishment | |
25 December 496 | |
August 843 | |
22 September 1792 | |
1 January 1958 | |
4 October 1958 | |
Area | |
• Total | 640,679 km2 (247,368 sq mi) |
551,695 km2 (213,011 sq mi) | |
• Metropolitan France (Cadastre) | 543,940.9 km2 (210,016.8 sq mi) |
Population | |
• June 2020 estimate | 67,081,000[5] (20th) |
• Density | 104/km2 (270/sq mi) (106th) |
• Metropolitan France, estimate as of June 2020[update] | 64,910,000[6] (22nd) |
• Density | 116/km2 (300.4/sq mi) (89th) |
GDP (PPP) | 2019 estimate |
• Total | $3.061 trillion[7] (10th) |
• Per capita | $47,223[7] (26th) |
GDP (nominal) | 2019 estimate |
• Total | $2.707 trillion[7] (7th) |
• Per capita | $41,761[7] (22nd) |
Gini (2018) | 28.5[8] low |
HDI (2018) | 0.891[9] very high (26th) |
Currency |
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Time zone | UTC+1 (Central European Time) |
UTC+2 (Central European Summer Time[upper-roman 9]) | |
Note: various other time zones are observed in overseas France.[upper-roman 10] Although France is in Western European Time/UTC (Z) zone, since 25 February 1940, upon WW2 German occupation, Central European Time/UTC+1 was enforced as standard time, with a +0:50:39 offset (and +1:50:39 during DST) from Paris LMT (UTC+0:09:21). | |
Date format | dd/mm/yyyy (AD) |
Driving side | right |
Calling code | +33[upper-roman 11] |
ISO 3166 code | FR |
Internet TLD | .fr[upper-roman 12] |
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). |
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- For information about regional languages see Languages of France.
- Established the Kingdom of the West Franks (the Kingdom of France) from the Carolingian Empire of Francia.
- European Union since 1993.
- Established the Fifth Republic
- French National Geographic Institute data, which includes bodies of water.
- French Land Register data, which exclude lakes, ponds and glaciers larger than 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) as well as the estuaries of rivers.
- Daylight saving time is observed in metropolitan France and Saint Pierre and Miquelon only.
- Time zones across the French Republic span from UTC-10 (French Polynesia) to UTC+12 (Wallis and Futuna).
- The overseas regions and collectivities form part of the French telephone numbering plan, but have their own country calling codes: Guadeloupe +590; Martinique +596; French Guiana +594, Réunion and Mayotte +262; Saint Pierre and Miquelon +508. The overseas territories are not part of the French telephone numbering plan; their country calling codes are: New Caledonia +687, French Polynesia +689; Wallis and Futuna +681.
- Special Eurobarometer 493, European Union: European Commission, September 2019, pages 229-230 Retrieved 17 January 2020. The question asked was "Do you consider yourself to be...?" With a card showing: Catholic, Orthodox Christian, Protestant, Other Christian, Jewish, Muslim - Shia, Muslim - Sunni, Other Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu, Atheist, Non believer/Agnostic and Other. Also space was given for Refusal (SPONTANEOUS) and Don't Know. On the other hand, Sikh and Hindu did not reach the 1% threshold.
- "Table 3: Population by sex, rate of population increase, surface area and density" (PDF). Demographic Yearbook. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
- "France Métropolitaine". INSEE. 2011. Archived from the original on 28 August 2015.
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(help) - "Demography – Population at the beginning of the month – France". Insee. 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
- "Demography – Population at the beginning of the month – Metropolitan France". Insee. 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
- "World Economic Outlook Database, October 2019". IMF.org. International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
- "Gini coefficient of equivalised disposable income – EU-SILC survey". ec.europa.eu/eurostat. Eurostat. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- "Human Development Report 2019" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 10 December 2019. Retrieved 10 December 2019.