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World Data Atlas

France

  • President:Francois Hollande
  • Prime Minister:Jean-Marc Ayrault
  • Capital city:Paris
  • Languages:French (official) 100%, rapidly declining regional dialects and languages (Provencal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish) overseas departments: French, Creole patois, Mahorian (a Swahili dialect)
  • Government
  • National statistics office
  • Population:65,436,552 (2011)
  • Area:547,660 (2010)
  • GDP per capita:42,377 (2011)
  • GDP, current US$:2,773 (2011)
  • GINI index:32.74 (1995)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:34 (2013)