Fun Facts About France

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Fun Facts About France

• Bienvenu!

France Quiz!
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Geography

• Largest country in western Europe
• Borders Andorra, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany,
  Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, and Spain
  
• Coastline Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean,
  English Channel
  
• Possessions Corsica, Guadeloupe, Martinique,
  French Polynesia, New Caledoina, French Guiana
  
• Topography ranges from flat plains to the highest
  mountain in in western Europe
  
• Rhone River Delta -2m
• Mont Blanc 4,807m

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Geographical Organization

• Land divisions
• 22 regions
• Rhône-Alpes
• 96 departments
• Loire, Rhône, Ain, Isère, Ardèche, Drôme, Savoie,
  Haute-Savoie
  
• Capital city is Paris
• Other major cities Lyon, Marseille, Nantes,
  Nice, Toulouse, and Strasbourg
  

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Politics Religion

• Unified by Clovis into monarchy(486)
• Revolution (1789) begins 1st republic
• Empire under Napoleon
• Republic (1871)
• Current constitution adopted 1958
• Voting age 18

• 88 Catholic
• 5 Muslim
• 4 Unaffiliated
• 2 Protestant
• 1 Jewish

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Population Economy

• 60.5 million
• 65 between 15-64
• Remaining split between young and old
• Life expectancy 80 years
• Median age 39
• Almost even number of men and women

• Capitalist country
• Original member of the European Union
• 73 Service (products?)
• 24 Industry (products?)
• 3 Agriculture (products?)
• Currency?

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Famous People Places

• Place de la Concorde
• Michel de Nostredame
• The Montgolfier Brothers
• Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• The Sorbonne
• Avignon
• Jeanne dArc
• Alexandre Dumas
• Victor Hugo
• Henri Matisse
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir

• Descartes Pascal
• St. Bernadette
• Andre Ampere
• Louis Braille
• Louis Pasteur
• Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
• Gustave Eiffel
• Marie Curie
• Claude Monet
• Paul Cezzane
• Jacques Cousteau
• Claude-Archille Debussy

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