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• Located in western europe

• Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean

• the largest country in Western Europe and the third-largest in Europe as a whole

• And it possesses the second-largest exclusive economic zone in the world.

• fifth largest economy measured by GDP

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• Language:French• Population: 65,350,000 people• Capital: Paris• GDP:$2.712 trillion• Human Development Index:0.884 • Currency: Euro

• Geographic location makes crossroads of trade and population

• Its history as a former colonial power, France is a country of long migration

• In 2010, according to the United Nation, France hosts 7,2 millions immigrants: 11% of the total population

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PEOPLE

• Early 1820• Crisis of the German agriculture• Farmers, Craftsmen• 30,000 people

German pionners

Jews from Eastern and Central Europe. Late XIXcentury

• fleeing oppression and pogroms of Tsarist Russia, Austria and Romania

Czechs and Slovaks Las of XIXe century

• Depending on the geopolitical and economic

• First World War, the creation of Czechoslovakia

• World War II, the Communists came to power in Czechoslovakia and velvet revolution

Italians (1920-1950)

• Agriculture in the South West• Local Demographic situation: population

decline in campaigns• Not egnough birth rate

Spanish et Portugues (1950)

• 600,000 Spanish, 700,000 Portugues

• fleeing poverty and the Salazar regime

• ASIA• Since 15O years • Many communities and

many ways• Chineses workers ans

students• « Boat people »

Africa

• Maghreb• 1960• Workers from ALGERIA, MAROCCO and

TUNISIA after 1945• SENEGAL, MALI, etc…

Other sides

• Since 3 centuries• freed slaves• From west indies and

colonies in Black Africa