French Trivia Facts

Day 399, 10:04 • Published in USA USA • by Joe DaSmoe

Hello Americans,

I want to create a kind of study guide for all citizens in order to help educate our people about our enemy. My hope is this article will help us raise our damage in any upcoming scuffle with the French. I used wiki as my source, this article is a kind of "cliff notes version." Please bear with me as I intend this paper to be a work in progress. HOPE IT HELPS!!!!!!!!!!! The first topics will be Government and Geography. Look for more soon.


Government

--The government of France is a semi-presidential system determined by the French Constitution of the fifth Republic, in which the nation declares itself to be "an indivisible, secular, democratic, and social Republic
keywords, semi-presidential system, fifth Republic, social Republic.

--executive, a legislative and a judicial branch.

--The French President serves a five year term.

--The President shares executive power with his appointee, the Prime Minister.

--A popular referendum approved the constitution of the French Fifth Republic in 1958, greatly strengthening the authority of the presidency and the executive with respect to Parliament.

--Parliament comprises the National Assembly and the Senate

--The independent judiciary is based on a civil law system which evolved from the Napoleonic codes

--France is a founding member of the European Community and later the European Union

--1962, Charles de Gaulle obtained, through a referendum, an amendment to the constitution whereby the president would be directly elected by citizens.

--The National Assembly is the principal legislative body. Its 577 deputies are directly elected for 5-year terms in local majority votes, and all seats are voted on in each election.

--Senators are chosen by an electoral college of about 145,000 local elected officials for 6-year terms

--Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen = Bill of Rights

-- Declaration of 1789 = Bill of Rights

--Regions do not have legislative autonomy, nor can they issue regulations

Geography Facts


--France is divided into 26 regions or régions

--of which 21 are in continental metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, and four lie overseas

--In 2004, the median population of a region in continental France was 2,329,000 inhabitants

--The total population of France is 60.3 million, of which 58.6 million (97.2😵 live in Europe.

--Region names and population

Rank Region Population % Density
1 Île-de-France 10,952,011 18.1% 911.8
2 Rhône-Alpes 5,645,407 9.4% 129.2
3 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur 4,506,151 7.5% 143.5
4 Nord-Pas de Calais 3,996,588 6.6% 321.9
5 Pays de la Loire 3,222,061 5.3% 100.4
6 Bretagne 2,972,700 4.9% 109.3
7 Aquitaine 2,908,359 4.8% 70.4
8 Midi-Pyrénées 2,551,687 4.2% 56.3
9 Centre 2,440,329 4.0% 62.3
10 Lorraine 2,310,376 3.8% 98.1
11 Languedoc-Roussillon 2,295,648 3.8% 83.8
12 Picardie 1,857,481 3.1% 95.8
13 Haute-Normandie 1,780,192 3.0% 144.5
14 Alsace 1,734,145 2.9% 209.4
15 Poitou-Charentes 1,640,068 2.7% 63.5
16 Bourgogne 1,610,067 2.7% 51.0
17 Basse-Normandie 1,422,193 2.4% 80.9
18 Champagne-Ardenne 1,342,363 2.2% 52.4
19 Auvergne 1,308,878 2.2% 50.3
20 Franche-Comté 1,117,059 1.9% 68.9
21 Réunion 720,934 1.2% 287.0
22 Limousin 710,939 1.2% 42.0
23 Guadeloupe 436,000 0.7% 255.7
24 Martinique 414,516 0.7% 383.8
25 Corse 290,196 0.5% 33.4
26 Guyane 157,213 0.3% 1.8


--The Longest River in France --La Loire

--tallest mountain --Mont Blanc (France) - 4'800 metres above sea... approximately 14'400 feet.

--Mont Blanc is also the tallest in Europe

-- What is the largest city in France?--- lol well Paris of course

-- The Pyrenees Mountains rise between France and Spain, The highest point of the French Pyrenees is called Pic de Vignemale, and is 10,820 feet high.

--France has three main rivers – the Seine, the Loire, and the Rhone

--Some of Europe’s mountains border France to the southeast and southwest. East of Massif Central the Jura mountain range moves into the Alps. In France, the Alps begin at the Mediterranean Sea where they are called the Maritime Alps

--The countries of Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Spain also surround France, and across the English Channel is the United Kingdom.



Thanks for reading, im hoping this will help inform citizens who are leary of using the decoder(u can get banned) or think using it takes away from the fun of this game.

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Thanks Joe DaSmoe

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