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5 days ago · A memorial to Paty as a defender of France’s values hangs in the entrance of the Education Ministry in Paris. For its officials and most educators, secularism in public schools and other public ...
5 days ago · New Caledonia, largest island of the French unique collectivity of New Caledonia, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean 750 miles (1,200 km) east of Australia. Also known as Grande Terre (Mainland), it is approximately 250 miles (400 km) long and 25 miles (40 km) wide. Map showing the location of New Caledonia.
4 days ago · Luxembourg is a representative democracy headed by a constitutional monarch, Grand Duke Henri, making it the world's only remaining sovereign grand duchy . Luxembourg is a developed country with an advanced economy and one of the world's highest GDP (PPP) per capita as per IMF and World Bank estimates.
5 days ago · France’s geography is characterized by a diverse landscape consisting of low-lying plains, plateaus, older mountain blocks, and massifs. The country is known for its wide fertile plains in the north and west, making it the agricultural epicenter of Europe. The southern interior is dominated by the sprawling, forested plateau of the Massif ...
4 days ago · Much closer to Australia than Europe, New Caledonia is 10,500 miles from the French mainland but remains both part of France and a strategic outpost in an increasingly contested region.
2 days ago · The Seine River flowing through Paris. Seine River, river of France, after the Loire its longest. It rises 18 miles (30 kilometres) northwest of Dijon and flows in a northwesterly direction through Paris before emptying into the English Channel at Le Havre. The river is 485 miles (780 kilometres) long and with its tributaries drains an area of ...
3 days ago · Saint Pierre and Miquelon (/ ˈ m ɪ k ə l ɒ n /), officially the Territorial Collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (French: Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon [sɛ̃ pjɛʁ e miklɔ̃]), is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, located near the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
