France
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France (French: [fʁɑ̃s] (listen)), officially the French Republic (French: République française, pronounced [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛːz] (listen)), is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered by Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast, Switzerland and Italy to the east, and Andorra and Spain to the south. The overseas territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. The country's 18 integral regions (five of which are situated overseas) span a combined area of 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi) and a total population of 67.02 million (as of July 2019). France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. Other major urban areas include Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille and Nice. France, including its overseas territories, has the most number of time zones with total 12 time zones.
During the Iron Age, what is now metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls, a Celtic people. Rome annexed the area in 51 BC, holding it until the arrival of Germanic Franks in 476, who formed the Kingdom of Francia. The Treaty of Verdun of 843 partitioned Francia into East Francia, Middle Francia and West Francia. West Francia, which became the Kingdom of France in 987, emerged as a major European power in the Late Middle Ages, following its victory in the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453). During the Renaissance, French culture flourished and a global colonial empire was established, which by the 20th century would become the second largest in the world. The 16th century was dominated by religious civil wars between Catholics and Protestants (Huguenots). France became Europe's dominant cultural, political, and military power in the 17th century under Louis XIV. In the late 18th century, the French Revolution overthrew the absolute monarchy, establishing one of modern history's earliest republics and drafting the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which expresses the nation's ideals to this day.
In the 19th century, Napoleon took power and established the First French Empire. His subsequent Napoleonic Wars (1803–15) shaped the course of continental Europe. Following the collapse of the Empire, France endured a tumultuous succession of governments culminating with the establishment of the French Third Republic in 1870. France was a major participant in World War I, from which it emerged victorious, and was one of the Allies in World War II, but came under occupation by the Axis powers in 1940. Following liberation in 1944, a Fourth Republic was established and later dissolved in the course of the Algerian War. The Fifth Republic, led by Charles de Gaulle, was formed in 1958 and remains today. Algeria and nearly all the other colonies became independent in the 1960s, with most retaining close economic and military connections with France.
France has long been a global centre of art, science, and philosophy. It hosts the world's fourth-largest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites and is the leading tourist destination, receiving around 83 million foreign visitors annually. France is a developed country with the world's sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP, and tenth-largest by purchasing power parity. In terms of aggregate household wealth, it ranks fourth in the world. France performs well in international rankings of education, health care, life expectancy, and human development. France is considered a great power in global affairs, being one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council with the power to veto and an official nuclear-weapon state. It is a leading member state of the European Union and the Eurozone, and a member of the Group of 7, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and La Francophonie.
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France
Country in Europe
- Desc: France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories.
- URL: http://www.france.fr/
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France
- Type: Place, Country, Thing, AdministrativeArea
- Result Score: 14110.99
Football team
Telecommunications company
- Desc: Orange S.A., formerly France Télécom S.A., is a French multinational telecommunications corporation. It has 256 million customers worldwide and employs 95,000 people in France, and 59,000 elsewhere.
- URL: http://www.orange.com
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_S.A.
- Type: Corporation, Organization, Thing
- Result Score: 2932.37
Rugby union team
Basketball team
- Desc: The France national basketball team represents France in international basketball and is administered by the French Federation of Basketball. France has been a regular at the EuroBasket, with 37 appearances, the most for any nation all-time. Their best result at the tournament was winning the gold medal at EuroBasket 2013. They have also come away with two silver medals, in 1949 and 2011. The French squad has won two silver medals at the Summer Olympics as well, in 1948 and 2000. France's best result at the FIBA World Cup occurred in 2014, and 2019 where they came away with the bronze medal.
France is currently ranked fifth in the FIBA World Rankings.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_national_basketball_team
- Type: SportsTeam, Organization, Thing
- Result Score: 2737.02
Air carrier
- Desc: Air France, stylized as AIRFRANCE, is the French flag carrier headquartered in Tremblay-en-France. It is a subsidiary of the Air France–KLM Group and a founding member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance.
- URL: http://www.airfrance.com
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France
- Type: Corporation, Organization, Airline, Thing
- Result Score: 2726.67
Football team
Financial services company
Retail banking company
Manufacturing company
- Desc: Michelin is a French tyre manufacturer based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes région of France. It is the second largest tyre manufacturer in the world after Japanese Bridgestone and larger than both American Goodyear and German Continental.
- URL: http://www.michelin.com/
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelin
- Type: Organization, Corporation, Thing
- Result Score: 1495.10
Capital of France
- Desc: Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of 105 square kilometres and an official estimated population of 2,140,526 residents as of 1 January 2019.
- URL: http://www.paris.fr
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris
- Type: Place, City, AdministrativeArea, Thing
- Result Score: 1436.97
Volleyball team
Statesman
- Desc: Napoléon Bonaparte was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon
- Type: Person, Thing
- Result Score: 926.68
City in France
- Desc: Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France.
The municipality of Bordeaux proper has a population of 252,040. Together with its suburbs and satellite towns, Bordeaux is the centre of the Bordeaux Métropole.
- URL: http://www.bordeaux.fr/
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordeaux
- Type: Place, City, Thing, AdministrativeArea
- Result Score: 811.65
City in France
- Desc: Toulouse is the capital of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the region of Occitanie. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, 150 kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea, 230 km from the Atlantic Ocean and 680 km from Paris.
- URL: http://www.toulouse.fr/
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toulouse
- Type: Place, City, Thing, AdministrativeArea
- Result Score: 752.20
City in France
- Desc: Nice is the seventh most populous urban area in France and the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes department. The metropolitan area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of about 1 million on an area of 721 km².
- URL: http://www.ville-nice.fr/
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice
- Type: Place, City, AdministrativeArea, Thing
- Result Score: 751.56
City in France
- Desc: Nantes is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, 50 km from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth-largest in France, with a population of 303,382 in Nantes and a metropolitan area of nearly 950,000 inhabitants.
- URL: http://www.nantes.fr
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantes
- Type: Place, City, AdministrativeArea, Thing
- Result Score: 723.34
City in France
- Desc: Lille is a city at the northern tip of France, in French Flanders. On the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nord department, and the main city of the European Metropolis of Lille.
- URL: http://www.lille.fr/cms
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille
- Type: City, Place, Thing
- Result Score: 559.41
Handball team
- Desc: France national handball team is supervised by the French Handball Federation, and represents France in international matches. It is the first handball team to have held all three titles twice, and the only national team in its sport to hold six world titles and a total of eleven medals at the World Men's Handball Championship.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_national_handball_team
- Type: SportsTeam, Thing
- Result Score: 558.92
City in France
- Desc: Rennes is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the capital of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department.
- URL: http://www.rennes.fr/
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennes
- Type: City, Place, Thing
- Result Score: 557.46
City in France
- Desc: Cannes is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
- URL: http://www.cannes.com/
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannes
- Type: City, Place, Thing
- Result Score: 527.64
Basketball team
City in France
- Desc: Grenoble is a city in southeastern France, at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère. Located in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Grenoble is the capital of the department of Isère and is an important European scientific centre.
- URL: http://www.grenoble.fr/
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenoble
- Type: City, Place, Thing
- Result Score: 513.50
Vegetable
- Desc: The pea is most commonly the small spherical seed or the seed-pod of the pod fruit Pisum sativum. Each pod contains several peas, which can be green or yellow.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pea
- Type: Thing
- Result Score: 462.36
Commune in France
- Desc: Caen is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 108,365 inhabitants, while its urban area has 420,000, making Caen the largest city in former Lower Normandy.
- URL: http://www.caen.fr/
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caen
- Type: City, Place, Thing
- Result Score: 414.05
Automobile company
- Desc: Groupe PSA is a French multinational manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles sold under the Peugeot, Citroën, DS, Opel and Vauxhall brands. Peugeot is the largest PSA brand. PSA is listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange and is a constituent of the CAC 40 index.
- URL: http://www.psa-peugeot-citroen.com/
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupe_PSA
- Type: Corporation, Organization, Thing
- Result Score: 411.05
French Region
Commune in France
City in France
- Desc: Tours is a city in the west of France. It is the administrative centre of the Indre-et-Loire department and the largest city in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France.
- URL: http://www.tours.fr/
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tours
- Type: Place, City, AdministrativeArea, Thing
- Result Score: 389.31
Commune in France
Colombian pornographic film actor
- Type: Person, Thing
- Result Score: 343.10
Handball team
Austrian neurologist
- Desc: Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
- Type: Person, Thing
- Result Score: 260.34
Volleyball team
France
2016 film
- Type: Movie, Thing
- Result Score: 148.54
Plants
- Desc: Vicia sativa, known as the common vetch, garden vetch, tare or simply vetch, is a nitrogen-fixing leguminous plant in the family Fabaceae.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicia_sativa
- Type: Thing
- Result Score: 123.76
City in Belgium
- Desc: Tienen or Thienen is a city and municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in Flanders, Belgium. The municipality comprises the city of Tienen proper and the towns of Bost, Goetsenhoven, Hakendover, Kumtich, Oorbeek, Oplinter, Sint-Margriete-Houtem and Vissenaken.
- URL: http://www.tienen.be/
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tienen
- Type: Place, City, Thing, AdministrativeArea
- Result Score: 110.11
Vessel
- Desc: SS France was a Compagnie Générale Transatlantique ocean liner, constructed by the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard at Saint-Nazaire, France, and put into service in February 1962.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_France_(1960)
- Type: Thing
- Result Score: 105.77
Football team
Tourist attraction in Bay Lake, Florida
- Desc: The France Pavilion is a French-themed pavilion that is part of the World Showcase within Epcot at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, United States. Its location is between the Moroccan and UK pavilions.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_Pavilion_at_Epcot
- Type: TouristAttraction, Place, Thing
- Result Score: 98.68
Postal service company
- Desc: La Poste is a postal service company in France, operating in Metropolitan France as well as in the five French overseas departments and the overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Poste_(France)
- Type: Corporation, Organization, Thing
- Result Score: 85.08
Basketball team
- Type: SportsTeam, Thing
- Result Score: 83.15
Courbet-class battleship
- Desc: France was the last of four Courbet-class battleships, the first dreadnoughts built for the French Navy. The ship was completed just before the start of World War I in August 1914.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_battleship_France
- Type: Thing
- Result Score: 79.34
Football team
Football team
- Desc: France women's national under-19 football team represents France at UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship and FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. Their first achievement was winning the 2003 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship. They have then won four more UEFA Women's U-19 European Championships in 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_women's_national_under-19_football_team
- Type: SportsTeam, Thing
- Result Score: 63.17
Commune in France
Basketball team
- Type: SportsTeam, Thing
- Result Score: 57.71
Basketball team
- Type: SportsTeam, Organization, Thing
- Result Score: 56.04