France
France (officially French Republic) is a country in Western Europe, with its capital at Paris, and is home to roughly 68.6M people.
French is the official language; the currency in circulation is Euro (€); people from here are called French.
- »France is the most visited country in the world.
- »Its territory spans twelve time zones, more than any other country, because of its overseas departments.
- »The metric system was created here in the 1790s.
France touches eight neighbours: Andorra to the south, Belgium to the north, Germany to the northeast, Italy to the east, Luxembourg to the northeast, Monaco to the southeast, Spain to the southwest and Switzerland to the east. Directions run from one centre to the other. Neighbours in six different compass directions make this one of the better-connected outlines in the set.
Paris has been the seat of French power since the Capetians, and its present look is largely Haussmann's: in the 1850s and 60s he cut wide boulevards through the medieval city on Napoleon III's orders.
545,146 km² (210,482 sq mi), 48th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Ukraine.
Population 68,551,653, 23rd of 198 on file. That averages 126 per km² (326 per sq mi).
The tricolour comes from the Revolution: white, the colour of the Bourbon monarchy, placed between the blue and red of Paris. Lafayette is credited with the combination, the city's colours closing in on the king's.
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