Wednesday, September 9, 2015

France (French: France; IPA: [fʁɑs]), officially the French Republic (République française; [ʁepyblik fʁɑsɛz]), is a sovereign country, member of the European Union, established in social and democratic rule of law and whose way of government is the semi-presidential republic. Its territory, with its capital in Paris, extending over a total area of ​​675,417 square kilometers and January 1, 2015 had 66.3 million inhabitants, 64.2 million in metropolitan France and 2.1 million in the five departments ultramar.4

The territory of France and its metropolitan or mainland, 5 are located in Western Europe, where it borders on the south by the Mediterranean Sea, Monaco (4.4 km) and Italy (488 km); southwest, with Spain (623 km), Andorra (56.6 km) and the Bay of Biscay; on the west by the Atlantic Ocean; north, with the English Channel, the North Sea and Belgium (620 km) and east, with Luxembourg (73 km), Germany (451 km) and Switzerland (573 km). Its European insular territory includes the island of Corsica in the western Mediterranean, and various coastal archipelagos in the Atlantic Ocean. In America, it is the French territory of French Guiana, which borders Brazil (673 km) 6 and Suriname (510 km), and the islands and archipelagos of Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Barthelemy, St. Martin and St. Pierre and Miquelon. In the Indian Ocean islands of Mayotte has and assembly, as well as the islands of French Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna and New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean. They are territories of France uninhabited atoll of Clipperton Island in the eastern Pacific, and so-called French Southern and Antarctic Lands.

France is the fifth world economy with a high cultural diffusion in the international context. G8 member, the Eurozone and the Schengen Area, and is home to many of the major multinationals, leaders in various segments of industry and the primary sector, and is the world's leading tourist destination, with 83 million visitors foreigners per year (7% of GDP) in July. France, where the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 was drafted, is a founding member of the United Nations and one of the five permanent members of the Council safety.8 France hosts the headquarters of the Council of Europe and the European Parliament, both in Strasbourg and those of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and UNESCO in Paris. It is also one of the eight nuclear powers reconocidas9 and NATO member.

Former colonial power, culture and civilization is spread by countries around the world united in the organization of the Francophonie. The French language is one of the most spread languages ​​traditionally used as the language of diplomacy, together with other regional languages, forms the linguistic heritage of France, a member of the Latin Union

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