France Facts
In this section, which we update all the time, we list as much useful and useless information as we can about France.
You can use the information to test your friends, to impress your pen pal, to get good marks at school, or just to find out more about France.
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We love websites! Here are some good ones about France:
www.wordreference.com - this is an online dictionary, so you can find out French words quickly
www.francetourism.com - lots of information from the French tourist people
www.ffct.org - all about cycling in France
www.fft.fr - all about playing tennis in France
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There are just over 60 million people in France.
France is 212,918 square miles, or about 550,000 square kilometres, which is about the size of Texas.
The monuments in Brittany called "menhirs" were put up almost six thousand years ago.
France has 3,299 km on coastline.
The French currency is the euro.
The highest mountain in Europe - Mont Blanc, 4807 metres high - is near Chamonix, in France.
The cold, dry wind that blows in the south of France for about 100 days a year is called the Mistral.
The French like nuclear power - three quarters of the country's electricity is produced with it.
There are 113 species of mammals in France, which is more than in any other country in Europe.
There are 1.7 million hunters in France too.
There are 363 species of birds in France.
Up until the 1930s, there used to be brown bears in the French Alps. There may still be a handful left in the French Pyrenees.
French is spoken as a first language by 122 million people all over the world.