The largest country in the European Union and the second largest in Europe, France has been a major world power for many centuries and is one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. The French colonized huge parts of North America, North West and Central Africa and numerous Pacific islands.
The origin of the name France stems from the Latin word Francia, which means Land of the Franks. The word Frank had been used from the fall of the Roman Empire up to the Middl…
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