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France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. It also includes overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.
The French people ( French: Les Français, lit. 'The French') are a nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common French culture, history, and language, identified with the country of France. Quick Facts Total population, Regions with significant populations ...
In the history of the French language, the most important groups are the Franks in northern France, the Alemanni in the modern German/French border area ( Alsace ), the Burgundians in the Rhône (and the Saone) Valley and the Visigoths in the Aquitaine region and Spain.
As of 1 January 2021, 65,250,000 people lived in Metropolitan France, while 2,785,000 lived in overseas France, for a total of 68,035,000 inhabitants in the French Republic. In March 2017, the population of France officially reached the 67,000,000 mark. It had reached 66,000,000 in early 2014.
France - Ethnicity, Immigration, Language: The French are, paradoxically, strongly conscious of belonging to a single nation, but they hardly constitute a unified ethnic group by any scientific gauge.
This category has the following 38 subcategories, out of 38 total. French people by descent (17 C) French people by location (8 C) French people by occupation (82 C) French people by period (14 C) French people by political orientation (46 C) French people by religion (16 C)
The term French people refers to both an ethnic group in Western Europe and the citizens of France. There are about 100 million French people in the world.
