France
French Republic
- Region
- Europe · Western Europe
- Capital
- Paris
- Population
- 68,720,337 (2025)
- Government
- semi-presidential republic
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Official languages
- French
- Spoken languages
- French (official) 100%, declining regional dialects and languages (Provençal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish, Occitan, Picard)
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 551,695 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- EU, G7, G20, IMF, NATO, OECD, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Andorra , Belgium , Germany , Italy , Luxembourg , Monaco , Spain , Switzerland
Political stability
62 / 100
Economic stability
72 / 100
Population stability
59 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- aircraft, cars, packaged medicine, gas turbines, vehicle parts/accessories (2023)
- Key imports
- cars, natural gas, crude petroleum, refined petroleum, garments (2023)
- Natural resources
- <em>metropolitan France:</em> coal, iron ore, bauxite, zinc, uranium, antimony, arsenic, potash, feldspar, fluorspar, gypsum, timber
- Luxury goods
- wine and champagne, spirits (cognac), fashion and leather goods, perfume and cosmetics
- Primary route
- Le Havre and Marseille-Fos on Asia–Europe lanes
- Secondary route
- Transatlantic and Mediterranean short-sea services
The xin.bz view
- France transmits drought through several markets at once: maize potentially below 7M t, sugar beet yields 20%+ down, potatoes ~23% below 2025 — while August river temperatures constrained nuclear cooling, making autumn’s cool-down and recharge a double economic win.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño Is Arriving as Western Europe Rebuilds Its Water Reserves — While Energy and Arctic Trade Reprice the Atlantic Economy
The Rhine recovering from record lows, England 71% in drought, French crops down hard, Qatar's LNG collapse pushing Europe to U.S. gas, and Iceland and Greenland turning the Atlantic into Western Europe's organizing system.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.