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French Republic République Française
Flag Emblem
Motto: "Liberté, fraternité, égalité"
Anthem: “La Marseillaise”
Location of the territory of the French Republic (red)
Capital	Paris 48°51′N 2°21′E
Official languages	French
Recognised regional languages	Occitan Breton Alsatian Others
Ethnic groups	89% French (born) 6.6% French (acquired) 3.1% Foreigners 7.5% Immigrants
Demonym	French
Government	Unitary Mitterrandist parliamentary directorial republic
• Council of Ministers	Delphine Batho Harlem Désir Ségolène Royal Aurélie Filippetti Manuel Valls Vincent Peillon Nicolas Sarkozy Nathalie Kosciusko-Morisot Jean-Luc Mélenchon
• Prime Minister	Juliette Méadel
Legislature	Parliament
• Upper house	Senate
• Lower house	National Assembly
Establishment
• Francia Unified	c. 486
• Treaty of Verdun	August 843
• First Republic Established	22 September 1792
• Second Republic Established	23 February 1848
• Third Republic Established	4 September 1870
• Fourth Republic Established	27 October 1946
• Founded the EEC	1 January 1958
• Fifth Republic Established	4 October 1958
• Current Constitution	23 June 1969
Area
• Total	640,681 km2 (247,368 sq mi)
• Water (%)	0.52%
Population
• 2017 estimate	73,230,850 (20th)
• Density	114/km2 (295.3/sq mi) (102nd)
GDP (PPP)	2017 estimate
• Total	$3.928 trillion (6th)
• Per capita	$53,638 (14th)
GDP (nominal)	2017 estimate
• Total	$3.213 trillion (5th)
• Per capita	$43,870 (18th)
Gini (2013)	28.2 low
HDI (2013)	0.9202 very high · 10th
Currency	Euro (EUR)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Date format	dd/mm/yyyy
Drives on the	left
Calling code	+1
ISO 3166 code	FR
Internet TLD	.fr

France, officially the French Sixth Republic (French: La Sixième République Française), is a noncontiguous, sovereign state, with its primary landmass, metropolitan France, located in Western Europe, its largest overseas territory, French Guiana, located in South America, and its various island territories located in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans. The country is composed of 18 administrative regions (5 of which are overseas) that span a combined area of 640,681 square kilometres (247,368 square miles). As of October 2017, the country boasts a total population of 73,230,850 people, making it the second most populous country in Europe after Germany. From the English Channel to the Mediterranean Sea, France shares an eastern border with Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. It also shares a southwestern border with Spain and Andorra.

France is a unitary Mitterandist parliamentary directorial republic with a social market economy. It is governed by the Socialist Party in a de facto dominant-party system. The head of state is the Council of Ministers in corpore (in its entirety) while the head of government is the Prime Minister, who leads the National Assembly. The Council’s nine ministers are elected by Parliament (jointly the Senate and National Assembly) in an exhaustive ballot, whereas the Prime Minister is elected by the council’s ministers, with the approval of the National Assembly. Only the Council can dissolve the National Assembly; barring incapacity or resignation, the Council serves its five-year term uninterrupted. In accordance with the 1992 Constitutional Amendments, national and administrative delegates are both beholden to the ten-year clause: delegates must have lived in their constituencies for a minimum of ten consecutive years to be considered eligible for election. Due to the limited mobility of the country’s youth and lower class, both have since boasted unusually high representation in government compared to most other countries. The current Prime Minister, Juliette Méadel, who was elected in March 2017 at the age of 44, is the fourth oldest Prime Minister to hold the position. The youngest, Delphine Batho, was 32 when she was first elected in 2002.

Geography

Administrative divisions

Flag	Region	Capital	Population
	Auvergne-Limousin	Clermont-Ferrand	2,083,771
	Alsace	Strasbourg	1,815,488
	Aquitaine	Bordeaux	3,285,970
	Brittany	Rennes	4,550,418
	Centre-Val de Loire	Tours	2,538,000
	Île-de-France	Paris	12,005,077
	Midi-Pyrénées	Toulouse	2,865,000
	Languedoc-Roussillon	Montpellier	2,700,000
	Loire-Brittany	Nantes	3,553,353
	Lorraine	Metz	2,356,600
	Nord-Pas-de-Calais	Lille	4,107,148
	Normandy	Caen	3,368,000
	Provence	Marseille	4,951,388
	Rhône-Alpes	Lyon	6,341,000

Overseas territories

Flag	Overseas territory	Capital	Population
	Guadeloupe	Basse-Terre	403,750
	Martinique	Fort-de-France	386,486
	Saint Barthélemy	Gustavia	9,035
	Saint Lucia	Castries	173,765
	Saint Martin	Marigot	36,824