1. FRANCE

2. France , officially the French Republic , is
a unitary semi-presidential republic located
mostly in Western Europe,[note 12] with
several overseas regions and
territories. Metropolitan France extends from
the Mediterranean Sea to the English
Channel and the North Sea, and from
the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. From its
shape, it is often referred to in French
asl’Hexagone ("The Hexagon").

3. The logo of Freanch government

4. France is the largest country in Western Europe
and the third-largest in Europe as a whole. It
possesses the second-largest exclusive
economic zone in the world. France has been
a major power with
strong cultural, economic, military,
and political influence in Europe and around the
world.[6] France has its main ideals expressed in
the 18th-century Declaration of the Rights of Man
and of the Citizen. In the 19th and early 20th
centuries, France built the

5. second-largest colonial empire of the time, ruling
large portions of first North America and India and
then Northwest and Central
Africa;Madagascar; Indochina and
southeast China; and
many Caribbean and Pacific Islands. France is
a developed country,[7] possessing the
world's fifth-largest and Europe'ssecond-
largest economy by nominal GDP. It is also the
world's ninth-largest by GDP at purchasing power
parity. France is

6. The
National
Embled Of
France.

7. the wealthiest nation in Europe – and the fourth-wealthiest in the
world – in aggregate household wealth.[9] French citizens enjoy a
highstandard of living, high public education level, and one of the
world's longest life expectancies.[10] France has been listed as the
world's "best overall health care" provider by the World Health
Organization.[11] It is the most-visited country in the world, receiving
79.5 million foreign tourists annually.
France has the world's fifth-largest nominal military budget,[13] as
well as (in terms of personnel) the largest military in the EU,[citation
needed] the third-largest deployable force in NATO, and the 26th-
largest military in the world.

8. The flag of france.

9. France also possesses the third-largest stockpile
of nuclear weapons in the world[14] – with around 300
active warheads as of 25 May 2010 – and the world's
second-largest diplomatic corps (behind the United
States).[15] France is a founding member of the United
Nations, one of the five permanent members of the UN
Security Council, and a member of theFrancophonie,
the G8, G20, NATO, OECD, WTO, and the Latin
Union. It is also a founding and leading member state
of the European Union and the largest EU state by
area.[16] In 2013, France was listed 20th on the Human
Development Index and, in 2010, 24th on
the Corruption Perceptions Index.

10. ECONOMICAL ASPECTS
A member of the G8 group of leading
industrialised countries, it is ranked as the
world's fifth largest and Europe's second
largest economy by nominal GDP;[144] with 39 of
the 500 biggest companies of the world in 2010,
France ranks world's 4th and Europe's 1st in
theFortune Global 500 ahead of Germany and
the UK. France joined 11 other EU members to
launch the euro on 1 January 1999, with euro
coins and banknotes completely replacing
theFrench franc (₣) in early 2002.[145]

11.  France has a mixed economy which combines
extensive private enterprise (nearly 2.5 million
companies registered)[147][148] with substantial
(though declining[149]) state enterprise and
government intervention (see dirigisme). The
government retains considerable influence over
key segments of infrastructure sectors, with
majority ownership of railway, electricity, aircraft,
nuclear power and telecommunications.[149] It
has been gradually relaxing its control over
these sectors since the early 1990s.[149]

12. the first completed Airbus A380 at the “A380
Reveal” event in Toulouse on 18 January 2005.
Airbus is a symbol of the globalisation of the
French and European economy.

13.  The government is slowly corporatising the state
sector and selling off holdings in France
Télécom, Air France, as well as the insurance,
banking, and defence industries.[149] France has
an important aerospace industry led by the
European consortium Airbus, and has its own
national spaceport, the Centre Spatial
Guyanais.
 According to the World Trade
Organization (WTO), in 2009 France was the
world's sixth-largest exporter and the fourth-
largest importer of manufactured goods.[150] In

14.  2008, France was the third-largest recipient
of foreign direct investment among OECD
countries at $117.9billion, ranking behind
Luxembourg (where foreign direct investment
was essentially monetary transfers to banks
located in that country) and the United States
($316.1 billion), but above the United
Kingdom ($96.9 billion), Germany
($24.9 billion), or Japan ($24.4 billion)

15. france derives 79% of its electricity from nuclear
power, the highest percentage in the world

16.  In the same year, French companies invested
$220 billion outside of France, ranking France
as the second most important outward direct
investor in the OECD, behind the United States
($311.8 billion), and ahead of the United
Kingdom ($111.4 billion), Japan ($128 billion)
and Germany ($156.5 billion).[151][152] With 39 of
the 500 biggest companies of the world in 2010,
France ranks 4th in the Fortune Global 500,
behind the USA, Japan and China, but ahead of
Germany and the UK

17.  Financial services, banking and the
insurance sector are an important part of
France's economy. The Paris stock exchange
market (French: La Bourse de Paris) is an
ancient institution, as it was created by Louis
XV in 1724.[154] In 2000, the stock exchanges
of Paris, Amsterdam and Bruxelles merged
into Euronext.[155] In 2007, Euronext merged
with the New York stock exchange to
form NYSE Euronext,

18. the world's largest stock exchange. Euronext
Paris, the French branch of the NYSE
Euronext group is Europe's second largest
stock exchange market, behind the London
Stock Exchange.
French companies have maintained key
positions in the Insurance and Banking
industries:AXA is the world's largest insurance
company, and is ranked by Fortune the ninth
richest

19. France is part of a monetary union, the
Eurozone (dark blue), and of the EU single
market.

20. corporation by revenues. The leading French
banks are BNP Paribas and the Crédit Agricole,
ranking as the world's 1st and 6th largest banks
in 2010[156] (determined by the amount of assets),
while the Société Générale group was ranked the
world's eight largest in 2008–2009.
France is the smallest emitter of carbon
dioxide among the seven most industrialized
countries in the world, due to its heavy investmen

21. in nuclear power.[157] As a result of large
investments in nuclear technology, most of the
electricity produced in the country is
generated by 59 nuclear power plants (78% in
2006,[158] up from only 8% in 1973, 24% in
1980, and 75% in 1990). In this context,
renewable energies (see the power
cooperative Enercoop) are having difficulties
taking off the ground

22. POLITICAL ASPECTS.
France is a semi-presidential representative
democratic republic, in which the President of
France ishead of state and the Prime Minister
of France is the head of government, and there
is a pluriform, multi-party system. Executive
power is exercised by the
government. Legislative power is vested in the
government, Senate and National Assembly.
The judiciary is independent of the executive
and the legislature

24. SOCIAL ASPECTS
Economically, France has a higher
unemployement rate than most of the
industrialized countries.
Big companies are very efficient, a lot of them are
leaders on their markets but France suffers from a
lack of little and medium sized companies.
Socially, poverty is increasing in France. There is
also a lack of decent housings : a large part of the
housing stock is unhealthy.

25. The school system is considered to be deconnected
with the labour needs. According to french, school is to
make citizens, and not workers.
The Health Care system is in persistent deficit.
Life cost is high in France.
Immigration can be a problem for some french, racism
and xenophobia exists in France as in every country.
Contrary to the common belief, France has few
problems with religion. It is a secularist country, you are
a french citizen before

26. being a Catholic, a Jew or a Muslim. And most
of the french agree with that. Of course, there
are hate crimes in France but justice consider
them like every other crime.
for example, the riots in 2005 were not Muslim
riots but young people from "poor" suburds
complaining about their conditions.

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