Fun Facts about France
France (officially the French Republic) is a country located in Western Europe. Here are some fun facts about France.
- The most popular sports in France are football (soccer), rugby league and rugby union. Handball and basketball are also popular in many parts of France.
- Well known sporting events held annually in France are the Tour de France (the best known road bicycle race in the world) and the French Open (one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments)
- French literature is very popular and well known. Charles Perrault was one of France’s most influential children’s writers. He wrote books such as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Puss in Boots.
- The French healthcare system was ranked number one in the world back in 1997. Average life expectancy in France is currently 79.73 years.
- 54% of French people identify themselves as being Christians, while 31% of people stated that they were not religious. Islam, Buddhism and Judaism are all practised by a minority (just over 1%) of the population
- It is estimated that there are between 200,000 and 1 million illegal immigrants in France
- France has an estimated population of 64.5 million, making it the 19th largest country (in terms of population) in the world.
- France is the most popular tourist destination in the world. Nearly 82 million people traveled to France for holidays in 2007. Spain was the second most popular tourist destination with 58.5 million visitors.
- In 2004, only 68.8% of French people aged 15-64 were working. This is a major contributor to the relatively low GDP per capita in France compared with the United States.
- France has the most extensive railway system in Western Europe. High speed trains traveling at up to 320 km/h (200mph) are used by commercial rail companies.
- France has a civil legal system. This means that the law arises from statues and judges can only interpret this law (they are not to make law). England (the United Kingdom), the United States, Australia and Canada all have common law systems. This means that judges make (or declare) the law, as well as interpret statutes. In common law systems, judges are bound to follow previous decisions in the same way (hence, the name ‘common’ law).
Hope you enjoyed those fun facts about France.
chelsie
I thought these was kind of boring. I wish you had weird or funny facts not social studies facts, that’s dumb. I could of read a book and found these out without even wanting to. Some is common sense.
Want to know it
Can’t please everyone I guess. What about this one- in France it was once illegal to sell dolls without a human face.
Madeline
LOVE this info. Helped me majorly in a report about France. Thank you SO much!
person
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shatavia thorne
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Emma
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anonymous
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tripleM
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A Friend
This site has a lot of information and fun facts about France. Wow!
lklklklkl
thank u it helped me on my project!!!!!!
katie
france is the best country on the planet.
Kenzy
Thanks so much for this, it helped out a bit.
I do suggest other “Fun” Facts, but pretty good.
Kenzy
a student
Faith
Thanks this was big help for school most appreciated
That guy
This site helped me so much on my project! But I wish their were more weird and funny facts about french rather than these general facts. None the less great site to visit thank u to whoever made this.
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Taylor
Great information!!! Thanks!
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person 1
THANK YOU IT HELPED
Poppy & Charly
THANKS A BUNCH! this website is full of funny, useful and interesting facts about my favorite country!
I am sat next to my good friends timothy and poppy, before we found this webstie we were falling behind terribly with our french facts but now im on top of my work and back on track. I owe it all to you, and i will send you my gold sticker i know i will receive when i get an a***.
Thanks a bundle of baguettes (laugh out loud hilariously funny) lolhf
menna
they were good for my homework but i think you should put more interesting ones on there
ellie
thanks sooooooo much I have needed to know this for ages especially for school
taylor
these facts are really helpful thank you for who ever put them up
Me
these facts helped me so much while doing a project on france
Aisling
Thanks, have a project on France due in 3 weeks. Helped me a lot. Thats at least 3/4 of a page for me. The title will be ‘Did you know facts?’
Thanks a million