France

France, officially French Republic, French France or République Française, country of northwestern Europe. Historically and culturally among the most important nations in the Western world, France has also played a highly significant role in international affairs, with former colonies in every corner of the globe. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the Alps, and the Pyrenees, France has long provided a geographic, economic, and linguistic bridge joining northern and southern Europe. It is Europe’s most important agricultural producer and one of the world’s leading industrial powers.

Among France’s other major cities are Lyon, located along an ancient Rhône valley trade route linking the North Sea and the Mediterranean; Marseille, a multiethnic port on the Mediterranean founded as an entrepôt for Greek and Carthaginian traders in the 6th-century BCE; Nantes, an industrial centre and deepwater harbour along the Atlantic coast; and Bordeaux, located in southwestern France along the Garonne River.

Capital: Paris
Dialing code: +33
Population: 66.9 million (2016) World Bank
President: Emmanuel Macron
Prime minister: Édouard Philippe

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France has long been a global centre of art, science, and philosophy. It hosts Europe’s third-largest number of cultural UNESCOWorld Heritage Sites and receives around 83 million foreign tourists annually, the most of any country in the world.

Originally applied to the whole Frankish Empire, the name “France” comes from the Latin Francia, or “country of the Franks“.^[20] Modern France is still named today Francia in Italian and Spanish, Frankreichin German and Frankrijk in Dutch, all of which have the same historical meaning.