FRANCE
France (in French, France), officially French Republic (République française), is a sovereign country, member of the European Union, constituted as a social and democratic State of law and whose form of government is the semi-presidential republic. Its territory, which includes overseas regions, extends over a total area of 643 801 km².1 In 2015 the country had 66.3 million inhabitants, 64.2 in metropolitan France and 2.1 in the territories of ultramarine.5