France

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of France. France is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. 2 contested areas are marked with hatching: Lawa Headwaters (marked at minimum size, not to scale), Mayotte (marked at minimum size, not to scale). 21 parts of it are too small to draw at this scale and are not shown. View spans 124.4°W to 71.0°E and 27.9°S to 57.6°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.Lawa Headwaters — status contested; see the list below.Mayotte — status contested; see the list below.

France is filled. The 154 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

The 2 hatched areas are contested, and Aletheia takes no position on any of them. The hatching marks where the dispute lies — including where it falls inside the outline — and it is the same set the list below names. 2 of them are smaller than this map can draw and are marked with a fixed-size diamond: the diamond is their position, not their size or shape.

21 parts of France in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.

This frame is wide because the source attributes territory to France across about 195° of longitude. Nothing has been cropped to make the country look compact.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 14.9°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 124.4°W–71.0°E, 27.9°S–57.6°N.

Disputed areas involving France

2 areas whose status is contested. Aletheia takes no position on any of them. Each is described in the source’s own words.

Source: Natural Earth’s disputed-areas layer (public domain). The list is not exhaustive, and inclusion or omission is not a judgment about any claim’s merit. What has happened in these places is not described here — that needs a source Aletheia has not yet been able to read.

  1. News sources

    3 sources from Francein Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is covered.

    • Libération
    • Euronews
    • Le Monde (English)

    sources not yet assessed

  2. Official alerts

    An official alerting source is connected for France: MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET).

    This says a source is connected — not whether any warning is in force right now. Open Alerts for that.

  3. National legislature

    French Parliament ↗

    Wikidata P856 · authoritative source, but our checker could not reach it (many government sites block automated requests)

  4. Local time

    One time zone.

    The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in Paris

    23°C / 73°FOvercastwind 10 km/h / 6 mph

    Checked 12 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Paris, 2026-09-20Sunrise 7:34 AM · sunset 7:53 PM12h 19m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    FRAuncited
    Driving side
    rightuncited
    Mains voltage
    230 Vuncited
    Capital
    Paris — officialuncited
    Official language
    Frenchcited
    Plug types
    Type C (Europlug), Type Ecited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official websites
    gouvernement.fr ↗We could not reach this from our checker. Many government sites refuse automated requests, so this is not a report that the site is down. This address now redirects to info.gouv.fr.service-public.fr ↗This address now redirects to service-public.gouv.fr.From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of France: the UN's 2025 estimate is 68,720,337 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 19 more an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    68,720,337 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    68,551,653 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 19 more an hour (168,796 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    68,720,3372025
    GDP
    3,366,315,927,4472025
    GDP per capita
    48,9862025
    Life expectancy at birth
    83.0 years2024
    Exports
    33.4%2025
    Imports
    33.8%2025

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  8. In this country's own words

    Liberté, égalité, fraternité
    the state's official mottovia Wikidata (CC0)
    Founded
    0481
    National anthem
    La Marseillaise

    Everything in this section is quoted, with its source. Aletheia does not write about a country's history, culture or religion in its own words — where there is nothing to quote, there is no section.

  9. World Heritage Sites

    56 World Heritage Sitesshow all
    1. Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay · inscribed 1979
    2. Notre-Dame de Chartres · inscribed 1979
    3. Palace of Versailles · inscribed 1979

      The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.

    4. Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley · inscribed 1979
    5. Palace of Fontainebleau · inscribed 1981
    6. Château de Chambord · inscribed 1981 · removed from the List
    7. Roman Theatre and its Surroundings and the "Triumphal Arch" of Orange · inscribed 1981
    8. Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments · inscribed 1981
    9. Abbey of Fontenay · inscribed 1981
    10. From the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains to the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, the Production of Open-pan Salt · inscribed 1982
    11. Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance in Nancy · inscribed 1983
    12. Saint-Savin · inscribed 1983

      The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.

    13. Gulf of Porto: Calanche of Piana, Gulf of Girolata, Scandola Reserve · inscribed 1983
    14. Pont du Gard · inscribed 1985
    15. Strasbourg: from Grande-île to Neustadt, a European urban scene · inscribed 1988
    16. banks of the Seine · inscribed 1991
    17. Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Rémi and Palace of Tau, Reims · inscribed 1991

      The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.

    18. Bourges Cathedral · inscribed 1992
    19. Way of Saint James UNESCO World Heritage Sites in France · inscribed 1992
    20. Historic Centre of Avignon · inscribed 1995
    21. Canal du Midi · inscribed 1996
    22. Cité de Carcassonne · inscribed 1997
    23. Pyrénées – Mont Perdu World Heritage Site · inscribed 1997 · shared with Spain
    24. Vieux Lyon · inscribed 1998
    25. Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion · inscribed 1999
    26. Belfries of Belgium and France · inscribed 1999 · shared with Belgium
    27. The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes · inscribed 2000
    28. Provins · inscribed 2001
    29. reconstructed center of Le Havre · inscribed 2005
    30. Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe · inscribed 2007 · shared with Albania, Austria and 15 more countries
    31. port of the Moon · inscribed 2007
    32. New Caledonia Barrier Reef · inscribed 2008
    33. Fortifications of Vauban · inscribed 2008
    34. Episcopal City of Albi · inscribed 2010
    35. The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape · inscribed 2011
    36. prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps · inscribed 2011 · shared with Austria, Switzerland and 3 more countries
    37. northern French coal mining region · inscribed 2012
    38. Chauvet Cave · inscribed 2014
    39. Climats, terroirs of Burgundy · inscribed 2015
    40. Champagne hillsides, houses and cellars · inscribed 2015
    41. The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier · inscribed 2016 · shared with Argentina, Belgium and 4 more countries
    42. Taputapuatea marae · inscribed 2017
    43. Chaîne des Puys - Limagne fault tectonic arena · inscribed 2018
    44. French Austral Lands and Seas · inscribed 2019

      The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.

    45. The Great Spa Towns of Europe · inscribed 2021 · shared with Austria, Belgium and 4 more countries
    46. Cordouan Lighthouse · inscribed 2021
    47. Nice, Winter Resort Town of the Riviera · inscribed 2021
    48. Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) · inscribed 2023 · shared with Belgium
    49. Maison Carrée · inscribed 2023
    50. Volcanoes and Forests of Mount Pelée and the Pitons of Northern Martinique · inscribed 2023
    51. Marquesas Islands · inscribed 2024
    52. Megaliths of Carnac and of the shores of Morbihan · inscribed 2025
    53. Beaches of the D-Day Landings, Normandy, 1944 · inscribed 2026
    54. Royal Capetian Fortresses of Languedoc · inscribed 2026
    55. Pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island
    56. Notre-Dame d'Amiens
    57. Vézelay, Church and Hill

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO · 1 removed from the list is shown and not counted

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 15listed as: emergency medical services
    • 17listed as: police
    • 18listed as: fire department
    • 112
    • 114listed as: deaf community

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    EUR

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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