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France
Country name:
conventional long form:
French Republic
conventional short form: France
local long form: Republique Francaise
local short form: France
Capital:
Paris
Location:
Western Europe, bordering
the Bay of Biscay and English Channel, between Belgium and Spain,
southeast of the UK; bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Italy
and Spain
Area:
total: 547,030 sq
km
land: 545,630 sq km
water: 1,400 sq km
note: includes only metropolitan France; excludes the overseas
administrative divisions
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60,424,213 (July 2004 est.)
French 100%, rapidly declining regional
dialects and languages (Provencal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican,
Catalan, Basque, Flemish)
machinery, chemicals, automobiles,
metallurgy, aircraft, electronics; textiles, food processing;
tourism
machinery and transportation equipment,
aircraft, plastics, chemicals, pharmaceutical products, iron and
steel, beverages
machinery and equipment, vehicles, crude
oil, aircraft, plastics, chemicals
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