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French Republic | |
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Motto: "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" (French) "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" | |
Anthem: "La Marseillaise" | |
![]() Location of metropolitan France (dark green) – in Europe (green & dark grey) | |
![]() Territory of the French Republic in the world[note 2] | |
Capital and largest city | Paris 48°51.4′N 2°21.05′E |
Official languages | French [note 3] |
Recognised languages | |
Demonym(s) | French |
Government | Unitary semi-presidential constitutional republic |
François Hollande | |
Manuel Valls | |
Legislature | Parliament |
Senate | |
National Assembly | |
Establishment from the Carolingian Empire | |
August 843 | |
September 1791 | |
22 September 1792 | |
4 October 1958 | |
Area | |
• Total[note 4] | 640,679[1] km2 (247,368 sq mi) (42nd) |
551,695 km2 (213,011 sq mi) (50th) | |
543,965 km2 (210,026 sq mi) (50th) | |
Population | |
(2014) | |
• Total[note 4] | 66,616,416[2] (20th) |
63,929,000[2] (22nd) | |
• Density[note 7] | 116/km2 (300.4/sq mi) (89th) |
GDP (PPP) | 2014 estimate |
• Total | $2.587 trillion[3] (8th) |
• Per capita | $40,445[3] (26th) |
GDP (nominal) | 2014 estimate |
• Total | $2.902 trillion[3] (5th) |
• Per capita | $45,384[3] (18th) |
Gini (2008) | 32.7[4] medium inequality |
HDI (2013) | ![]() very high (20th) |
Currency | |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET[note 10]) |
UTC+2 (CEST[note 11]) | |
Date format | dd/mm/yyyy |
Driving side | right |
Calling code | +33[note 12] |
ISO 3166 code | FR |
Internet TLD | .fr[note 13] |
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- Excluding Adélie Land in Antarctica, where sovereignty is suspended.
- Excluding Adélie Land in Antarctica, where sovereignty is suspended.
- French is the official and national language throughout the French Republic. For information about the official and unofficial regional languages also spoken see Languages of France.
- Including all the overseas departments and overseas territories but excluding the French territory of Terre Adélie in Antarctica where sovereignty is suspended since the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959.
- 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.
- Metropolitan France only. The population density for the whole territory of the French Republic (including overseas departments and territories) is 96.837/km2 (250.808/sq mi).
- Whole of the French Republic except the overseas territories in the Pacific Ocean.
- French overseas territories in the Pacific Ocean only.
- CET applies to Metropolitan France only. Time zones across the French Republic span from UTC-10 (PF) to UTC+12 (WF).
- CEST applies to Metropolitan France only. Not all overseas territories observe Daylight Saving Time.
- 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.
- "Demographic Yearbook—Table 3: Population by sex, rate of population increase, surface area and density" (PDF). United Nations Statistics Division. 2010.
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(help) (French departments without Mayotte: 65,821,000 inhabitants)
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(help) (Mayotte : 212,645 inhabitants – overseas collectivities : 337,191 – new Caledonia : 245,580)
Total (French departments+French overseas collectivies+New Caledonia) : 66,616,416 inhabitants - "CIA World Factbook". CIA. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
- "2014 Human Development Report Summary" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 2014. pp. 21–25. Retrieved 27 July 2014.