French Republic
Motto: "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
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French Guiana highlighted on the extreme lefthand side of the globe image.)
Location of the territory of the French Republic (red) Adélie Land (Antarctic claim; hatched)Capitaland largest city
Paris48°51′N 2°21′E / 48.850°N 2.350°E / 48.850; 2.350 French[upper-roman 1] Nationality (2018) Religion Demonym(s) French Government Unitary semi-presidential constitutional republic Emmanuel Macron Gabriel Attal Gérard Larcher Richard Ferrand Legislature Parliament Senate National Assembly 25 December 496 August 843 22 September 1792 1 January 1958 4 October 1958 • Total
Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). (42nd )551,695 km2 (213,011 sq mi) [upper-roman 5] (50th ) 543,940.9 km2 (210,016.8 sq mi) [upper-roman 6] (50th ) • Feb 2022 estimate
67,818,000 (20th )• Density
104/km2 (270/sq mi) (106th ) • Metropolitan France, estimate as of June 2020
64,910,000 (22nd )• Density
Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). (89th )GDP (PPP ) 2019 estimate • Total
$3.061 trillion (10th )• Per capita
$47,223 (26th )GDP (nominal) 2019 estimate • Total
$2.707 trillion (7th )• Per capita
$41,761 (22nd )Gini (2018) ▼ 28.5low HDI (2018) 0.891very high · 26th Currency Time zone UTC +1 (Central European Time )UTC +2 (Central European Summer Time [upper-roman 10] )Note: various other time zones are observed in overseas France.[upper-roman 9] Although France is located in Western European Time /UTC (Z) zone, since 25 February 1940, upon WW2 German occupation , Central European Time /UTC+1 was enforced (without reversal to this day) as standard time, with a +0:50:39 offset (and +1:50:39 during DST ) from Paris LMT (UTC+0:09:21). Date format dd/mm/yyyy (AD ) Driving side right Calling code +33 [upper-roman 11] ISO 3166 code FR Internet TLD .fr [upper-roman 12] Source gives area of metropolitan France as 551,500 km2 (212,900 sq mi) and lists overseas regions separately, whose areas sum to 89,179 km
2 (34,432 sq mi). Adding these give the total shown here for the entire French Republic.
The World Factbook reports the total as 643,801 km2 (248,573 sq mi).