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This refreshing mint-infused coconut oil pull is formulated to help support happy teeth, gums, and overall oral health. Oil pulling is an ancient Ayurvedic practise that helps to restore the oral microbiome by removing harmful bacteria while leaving the good to help strengthen our immune system from within.
This practice can help freshen your breath, and may also help to whiten your teeth and soothe your gums.
Coconut oil contains lauric acid, which helps to defend against harmful pathogens.
How to use: Measure 1 teaspoon of oil and let it dissolve in your mouth. Swish for 10 to 15 minutes. It is best to oil pull either first thing in the morning, or after brushing your teeth at night. After 15 minutes, spit out the coconut oil (it is best to dispose of it in the garbage, as it might solidify in your drain). Use daily for optimal results!
Size: 4 oz / 118 ml
Packaged in a reusable glass jar.
Ingredients: Organic coconut oil*, peppermint essential oil, spearmint essential oil, tea tree essential oil, menthol
DISCLAIMER: This product does not claim to treat or cure medical conditions and should be used for cosmetic purposes only. Our peppermint oil pull should be used in conjunction with regular visits to your dentist and traditional home oral care such as brushing, flossing, and tongue scraping.
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This is where it's at. If we have to pick one LA sushi restaurant, we'll pick Katsuya again and again. The fish is so fresh, but then again so is the vibe. Dark, sexy, and perfect for all occasions. We love it for date night, for out of towners, and for family dinners. Start with the crispy rice, and make sure you take a pic. Beautifully plated, and here it all starts with the fish itself. The richest toro, the crispiest rice, and the best assortment. So, book a table, grab a friend, and pass the soy sauce.
Nobu Malibu
Make a Reservation – Call (310) 317-9140
The view is why you'll come, but let's be honest instagram is why you'll come back. Probably the most hyped restaurant in Malibu, but let's not disrespect the food. The food is phenomenal! Everything is perfect for sharing, and don't forget to get dessert. The mochi is unlike anything we've ever tried, and it pairs perfectly with a specialty cocktail or 7. 🙂
En Sushi
West Los Angeles
Let's talk cheap sushi. One of the scariest adjectives to describe my favorite cuisine, but in this instance your stomach is safe with us. We've had En Sushi maybe 20 times? And, no issues in that arena ever. This cheap sushi is cheap because this restaurant is packed, always. Not the fanciest, not the most amazing (me love you, Katsuya), but definitely great to have in the sushi rotation. A weekly dinner here is always a good idea, and happy hour doesn't end until 7.
Noma Sushi
Santa Monica
One step up on the fancy scale than En Sushi, and slightly more delicious. When we think Noma we think tempura, and for good reason. Tons of unique options (we're still talking about tempura), and great riceless rolls. The Hawaiian roll is cucumber wrapped, and though rice is our first love, sometimes one has to choose between rice and tempura. And at Noma, tempura wins every time.
Marina Del Rey, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills
Our one and only issue with Sugarfish: no reservations. Aside from that, this is a perfect dining experience. Curated menu options, and the Trust Me is our personal fave. You leave feeling satisfied, but also like you had a meal of high value and high return. You won't feel stuffed, you won't feel a dent in your wallet, but you will have indulged in high quality, well designed sushi. The blue crab hand roll is stupid good, and the same goes for the Toro. We love you Sugarfish, and we'll love you more when you are bookable.
Culver City
One of the hardest reservations to get in LA. The reservations only open up on Sunday's at 10am for 3 months in advance for a split second (Make sure your internet connection is fast and your reflexes are on point).The experience is what you're paying for. Sure there are top notch ingredients like sea urchin and uni, but the service is what's truly unforgettable. After a dozen courses, you'll get to know the server well. The chef will stop by at dessert if you're lucky, and you can thank her yourself. The exterior of the building is unassuming, but the food presentation isn't. Get ready to feast your eyes on true artwork, one plate at a time.
Sushi Tsujita
The alcohol selection is diverse, the sushi is fresh as all heck, and there's a reason has a cult following. Interesting selections like gizzards might intimidate you (they intimidate me), and beloved toro are top choices here. We're toro people, but you knew that. Anywho, grab a friend, some chop sticks, a shitton of sake, and make a resy.
West Los Angeles
Let's get right to it. Here's what you need to order: start with the edamame and grilled tofu. Then the toro carpaccio (which is as amazing as it sounds). If you're hungry, add the albacore crispy onion here too. Get at least one black cod per person, and finish the meal off with pork belly. Gluttonous, sure. Worth every bite and penny? Yes and yes.
Santa Monica, Westwood
Holy handroll. KazuNori is sugarfish, with a twist. Overordering is key here, as handrolls are easy to inhale. Our favorites are the tuna and the crab, but that's true of any sushi we try. 🙂 Great as a dine-in experience, a casual lunch or dinner, and as a healthish option.
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Přímo u moře a blízko Ti centru Lovran, soukromá kamenitá pláž a restaurace, Opatija, Kvarner, Chorvatsko
Poloha:Set right next to the sea and close to the centre of Lovran, Hotel Bristol offers private stone paved beach and an on-site restaurant with a summer terrace. Free Wi-Fi is available throughout the property.
Renovated 2015.
5 lifts, 2 elevators.
2016 - fully renovated Standard rooms and Premium rooms.
Pláž:Walk through the lush, green park of Hotel Bristol Lovran, absorbing the scents of nature until your walk is halted by the sight of the clear sea. At the beach, deckchairs and umbrellas are available for hotel guests at additional charge (extra payment).
Ubytování:All rooms in hotel Bristol provide cable TV and a private bathroom with either a shower or a bathtub and a hairdryer. Some also have balconies with sea views.
Hotel has 5 floors and 2 elevators.
Rooms are not air-conditioned.
- renovated rooms Standard;
- 35 rooms Prmeium with sea view and balcony; king size bed 210 x 200, TV
1 /2 +1 STANDARD (STREET, BALCONY):balkon s výhledem na park, kabelovou televizi. V koupelně je sprchový kout a vysoušeč vlasů.
1 /2 STANDARD (PART SEA SIDE, BALCONY):V pokoji s balkonem s posezením a kabelovou TV. V koupelně je sprchový kout a vysoušeč vlasů.
1 /2 SUPERIOR (SEA, BALCONY):Nové pokoje v roce 2016. Velikost: 27-40 m2. moře, balkón, vana.
Nabídka hotelu:24-hour front desk, Currency exchange, Laundry, Dry cleaning, Fax/photocopying. Internet corner-extra payment, aperitiv bar, restaurant, privat beach.
- daily animation in hotel Excelsior: 1.6. - 1.9., except on Saturday
Stravování:Hotel offers 212 places on closed part of restaurant and 160 places on opened part of restaurant.
Kvarner's dinner with live music - Thursday
Sunday's dinner: 1.6. - 1.9., romantic dinner
Possibility of gluten free and vegeterian cousine.
Zvířata:allowed (at request: 13,5 EUR/day)


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I'm a second 12 months Nephrology fellow and have been very lucky to obtain devoted education on the enterprise of medication. For the First 3 years College students are awarded BSc in the discipline of Medical science for College of Ghana medical school; and Human biology for KNUST and UDS medical schools. This may increasingly not seem to be an amazing deal when compared to the eventual salaries of doctors, however we haven't factored in the different costs of the primary 4 years of medical school but.
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Watch out Harry.
At just 2-years-old, Michael Rangamiz has quickly risen to fame on Instagram for dressing as One Direction singer Harry Styles and it's just about the cutest thing ever. Now at almost three years of age, Michael has gained over sixty thousand followers. You can see more here.
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A photographic account of heavy music in Portland, Maine
Editor's note: This is the second installment in a four-part series. The first installment is here.
In the world of concert photography, no one is more neglected than the drummer.
Music websites and magazines are chockablock with epic images of guitar-faces and frontmen flipping the bird, but you rarely see drummers outside of Modern Drumming.
There are at least two reasons for this, and the first is practical: It's really, really hard to see drummers from the edge of the stage — that beer-soaked (and sometimes farty) realm where photographers lurk. There are innumerable obstacles between the photographer and drummer, including monitors, mic stands, cords, guitarists' legs and, well, drums.
The second reason is more sinister. This is conjecture, of course, but it's possible that most photographers dismiss drummers as uninteresting. Drummers just sit in one place, after all. They don't jump around, point at the audience or drop to their knees. They just park on a stool for 30 minutes or so, right?
In reality, drummers offer nonstop action. More importantly, they're indispensable.
A band can have the best songwriter, singer or guitarist on the planet but, in the heavy world, it won't make a shit-bit of difference unless you have a fantastic drummer to back it all up. In our experience, the drummer is the one element that separates good bands from truly great bands.
From a photographic perspective, the relative stillness of drummers is a good thing. Concert photographers are usually working in low light, so we need to open our apertures all the way. That means the depth of field narrows to mere inches or less. This is a tricky proposition for capturing sharp images of singers and guitarists. For example, if a guitarist takes the slightest step forward, they're suddenly way out of focus. If they're rocking back and forth, the chance of us capturing a sharp image is nearly zero. With drummers, on the other hand, we can set the focus once, then rattle off a few dozen sharp images with relative ease and pick the one that's most compelling or shows the drumsticks at the height of action.
For this reason, some of our best work has been capturing drummers. In fact, it's yet another reason we decided to do four "best of" lists: A single list would have been disproportionately focused on these beat makers and dragon slayers.
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If you'd like to see other examples of our work, here's a Best of 2014 collection culled from The Forecaster and elsewhere.
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Application of super resolution imagery techniques in neutron scattering data
Super resolution phonon Density of States from the ARCS instrument, a neutron Direct Geometry Chopper Spectrometer. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.09482
Neutron spectroscopy started by Brockhouse (The Nobel Prize in Physics 1994) is the tool of choice for studying exotic excitations in solids (e.g. Dennis Kim et al. 2018 PNAS, Hillary Smith et al. 2017 Nature Physics, Arnab Banerjee et al. 2017 Science, Michael Manley et al. 2019 Nature Communications). Clearly resolving fine features in the excitation spectra of novel materials is a long-standing challenge that pushes the limit of direct- geometry neutron chopper spectrometers (DGS), instruments to observe the reciprocal space. Only a few such facility-scale instruments exist in the world. They produce massive datasets, but excitations are obscured by asymmetric, varying blurs caused by the instrument.
Super-resolution techniques have revolutionized scientific fields such as fluorescence microscopy and biology (The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014), and new SR techniques continue to be invented for microscopy (e.g. Taehwan Kim et al. 2019 Nature Communications; Ron Tenne et al. 2019 Nature Photonics; Raphaël Turcotte et al. 2019 PNAS; Bin Yang et al. 2019 Nature Methods). More generally, sub-pixel enhancements in optical imagery for real-space observation are making significant contributions to science (e.g. Frederic Herman et al., Erosion by an Alpine glacier, Science 350(6257) 2015).
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England's only wild beavers give birth - the first known new arrivals for the species in 400 years
The only colony of wild beavers left in England has had a litter of babies - the first to be bred in the country in almost 400 years, conservationists have revealed.
The youngsters, known as kits, have been spotted taking their first swim and hitching onto their mothers' backs through the waters of the River Otter in Devon.
Retired scientist and wildlife buff Tom Buckley managed to snap pictures of the tiny creatures venturing into the open, and said he was "totally overwhelmed" by the sight.
The colony of beavers has been living wild on the river for between three and 10 years, making a surprise return after the species was hunted to extinction in the UK hundreds of years ago.
Their origin is not known, but is thought to be the result of an escape or unauthorised deliberate release.
Government ministers drew up plans to capture the creatures and keep them in captivity after evidence emerged last year that they may be breeding.
But following public outcry and a vocal campaign, the beavers were simply tested for disease before being released back into the wild.
Their impact on the river and surrounding countryside is being monitored by Devon Wildife Trust, who has asked dog walkers and visitors to keep dogs on leads and stick to footpaths to avoid disturbing the new arrivals.
Trust spokesman Mark Elliot said they were "thrilled" that the beavers had given birth.
Beavers have three kits per litter, on average - meaning if both mothers on the river have given birth, the population may now have expanded to 15.
Wildlife groups claim the return of the aquatic mammals, which cut down trees and dam rivers, could prove invaluable in preventing flooding, maintaining water quality and encouraging other wildlife.
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Also known as The Tipis. You get the idea. Whatever you call them, they're another opportunity to be momentarily transported to another time. These modern canvas recreations of classic, timeless Native American designs are nestled in hidden clearings on a bluff overlooking the lake and wetlands. For our Native American friends the tipi was durable, provided warmth and comfort in the winter, was cool in the heat of summer, and stayed dry during heavy rains. For us on the other hand, none of the above is true.
We offer them up as a place for our guests to hang out, lounge, and take a few photos. Like the Boy Scout Campground, once in a while we'll hear from hikers who have wandered in from the other side of the woods, stumbling upon our vintage campground. They momentarily fear they've accidentally travelled through a tear in the space time continuum. To see where they came, read on.


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Click here to download a free guide titled "Bruce Lee Training Research: How Boxing Influenced His Jeet Kune Do Techniques."Once these four basic punches have been learned, it's a good idea to practice them in the sequence they've been discussed: jab, cross, hook and uppercut. This combination, often used by trainers, is called the "one-two-three-four." It teaches proper translation, rotation and extension because it makes use of an important principle of all fighting arts: Each blow, if properly delivered, should leave you in a perfect position to deliver the next one in the sequence. The one-two-three-four combination should be practiced with the individual punches alternating from head level to midsection level. In this way, dozens of variations can be developed and perfected. Learning just these four basic boxing punches and how to deliver them in combinations will go a long way toward making you a knockout puncher. Incorporating them into your martial art by combining them gracefully with your other strikes, kicks and throws will be a lifelong challenge. But as with most things in life, the journey is its own reward. Read Part One of this post here. (Photos by Rick Hustead)
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Punch No. 3: Lead Hook The boxing lead hook is a more or less rounded punch made with the leading hand. It whips around to the side of the opponent's face or midsection, then snaps back. The hook draws power from translation, but this takes place in a manner unlike the jab or cross. Because the punch hits sideways, translation in the hook occurs when the bodyweight shifts from the side of the leading leg to the side of the rear leg. Power is added as the hips and shoulders rotate in the direction of the blow. power but whipping out from the shoulder loosely and quickly, and tensing only at the moment of impact to provide a solid connection between the fist and the entire weight of the body. It lands with the palm facing you. Punch No. 4: Rear Uppercut Boxing's rear uppercut is a rounded punch made with the rear hand. It drives forward and upward at the opponent's face or midsection, then snaps back. In the uppercut, translation is forward — as with the jab and cross — but to this is added a shifting of the bodyweight to the leading leg. This is the opposite of what takes place with the hook. developing solid punches, there is no substitute for working on the heavy bag. Practice with the bag held stationary and with it swinging freely. Practice delivering the punches from a stationary position and while moving in, out, to the left, to the right, and up and down. In all exercises, concentrate on breathing correctly. The sports maxim "breathe out on the power stroke" applies no less to boxing, and a sharp exhalation as you deliver each punch will put dynamite into it and make you less vulnerable to being hit in the midsection as you attack. In all exercises, concentrate on focus. This is really more of an attitude than a technique. Cultivate the habit of hitting not just with your fist but with your body, mind and spirit; of hitting with confidence and commitment; and of hitting not just at the target but through it. Focus is the key to delivering effective punches; it is the very essence of a fighting spirit.


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France today is one of the most modern countries in the world and is a leader among European nations. It plays an influential global role as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, NATO, the G-8, the G-20, the EU and other multilateral organizations. France rejoined NATO's integrated military command structure in 2009, reversing DE GAULLE's 1966 decision to withdraw French forces from NATO. Since 1958, it has constructed a hybrid presidential-parliamentary governing system resistant to the instabilities experienced in earlier, more purely parliamentary administrations. In recent decades, its reconciliation and cooperation with Germany have proved central to the economic integration of Europe, including the introduction of a common currency, the euro, in January 1999. In the early 21st century, five French overseas entities - French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, and Reunion - became French regions and were made part of France proper.
- Location
metropolitan France: Western Europe, bordering the Bay of Biscay and English Channel, between Belgium and Spain, southeast of the UK; bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Italy and Spain
French Guiana: Northern South America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Brazil and Suriname
Guadeloupe: Caribbean, islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Puerto Rico
Martinique: Caribbean, island between the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean, north of Trinidad and Tobago
Mayotte: Southern Indian Ocean, island in the Mozambique Channel, about halfway between northern Madagascar and northern Mozambique
Reunion: Southern Africa, island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar
- Geographic coordinates
metropolitan France: 46.00° N, 2.00° E
French Guiana: 4.00° N, 53.00° W
Guadeloupe: 16.15° N, 61.35° W
Martinique: 14.40° N, 61.00° W
Mayotte: 12.50° S, 45.10° E
Reunion: 21.06° S, 55.36° E
- Area 43/257
total: 643,801 sq km; 551,500 sq km (metropolitan France)
land: 640,427 sq km; 549,970 sq km (metropolitan France)
water: 3,374 sq km; 1,530 sq km (metropolitan France)
note: the first numbers include the overseas regions of French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, and Reunion
- Area - comparative
slightly more than four times the size of Georgia; slightly less than the size of Texas
- Land boundaries
metropolitan France - total: 2,751 km
border countries (8): Andorra 55 km, Belgium 556 km, Germany 418 km, Italy 476 km, Luxembourg 69 km, Monaco 6 km, Spain 646 km, Switzerland 525 km
French Guiana - total: 1,205 km
border countries (2): Brazil 649 km, Suriname 556 km
- Coastline
total: 4,853 km
metropolitan France: 3,427 km
- Maritime claims
territorial sea: 12 nm
contiguous zone: 24 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm (does not apply to the Mediterranean Sea)
continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
- Climate
metropolitan France: generally cool winters and mild summers, but mild winters and hot summers along the Mediterranean; occasional strong, cold, dry, north-to-northwesterly wind known as mistral
French Guiana: tropical; hot, humid; little seasonal temperature variation
Guadeloupe and Martinique: subtropical tempered by trade winds; moderately high humidity; rainy season (June to October); vulnerable to devastating cyclones (hurricanes) every eight years on average
Mayotte: tropical; marine; hot, humid, rainy season during northeastern monsoon (November to May); dry season is cooler (May to November)
Reunion: tropical, but temperature moderates with elevation; cool and dry (May to November), hot and rainy (November to April)
- Terrain
metropolitan France: mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in north and west; remainder is mountainous, especially Pyrenees in south, Alps in east
French Guiana: low-lying coastal plains rising to hills and small mountains
Guadeloupe: Basse-Terre is volcanic in origin with interior mountains; Grande-Terre is low limestone formation; most of the seven other islands are volcanic in origin
Martinique: mountainous with indented coastline; dormant volcano
Mayotte: generally undulating, with deep ravines and ancient volcanic peaks
Reunion: mostly rugged and mountainous; fertile lowlands along coast
- Elevation
mean elevation:
elevation extremes:
lowest point: Rhone River delta -2 m
highest point: Mont Blanc 4,807 m
note: to assess the possible effects of climate change on the ice and snow cap of Mont Blanc, its surface and peak have been extensively measured in recent years; these new peak measurements have exceeded the traditional height of 4,807 m and have varied between 4,808 m and 4,811 m; the actual rock summit is 4,792 m and is 40 m away from the ice-covered summit
- Natural resources
metropolitan France: coal, iron ore, bauxite, zinc, uranium, antimony, arsenic, potash, feldspar, fluorspar, gypsum, timber, arable land, fish
French Guiana: gold deposits, petroleum, kaolin, niobium, tantalum, clay
- Land use
agricultural land: 52.7%
arable land 33.4%; permanent crops 1.8%; permanent pasture 17.5%
forest: 29.2%
other: 18.1% (2011 est.)
- Irrigated land
total: 26,420 sq km 26,950 sq km
metropolitan France: 26,000 sq km (2012)
- Total renewable water resources
211 cu km (2011)
- Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural)
total: 31.62 cu km/yr (19%/71%/10%)
per capita: 512.1 cu m/yr (2009)
- Natural hazards
metropolitan France: flooding; avalanches; midwinter windstorms; drought; forest fires in south near the Mediterranean
overseas departments: hurricanes (cyclones); flooding; volcanic activity (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion)
- Environment - current issues
some forest damage from acid rain; air pollution from industrial and vehicle emissions; water pollution from urban wastes, agricultural runoff
- Environment - international agreements
party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
- Geography - note
largest West European nation
People and Society
- Nationality
noun: Frenchman(men), Frenchwoman(women)
adjective: French
- Ethnic groups
Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities
overseas departments: black, white, mulatto, East Indian, Chinese, Amerindian
- Languages
French (official) 100%, rapidly declining regional dialects and languages (Provencal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish)
overseas departments: French, Creole patois, Mahorian (a Swahili dialect)
- Religions
Christian (overwhelmingly Roman Catholic) 63-66%, Muslim 7-9%, Jewish .5-.75%, Buddhist .5-.75%, other .5-1.0%, none 23-28%
note: France maintains a tradition of secularism and has not officially collected data on religious affiliation since the 1872 national census, which complicates assessments of France's religious composition; an 1872 law prohibiting state authorities from collecting data on individuals' ethnicity or religious beliefs was reaffirmed by a 1978 law emphasizing the prohibition of the collection or exploitation of personal data revealing an individual's race, ethnicity, or political, philosophical, or religious opinions; a 1905 law codified France's separation of Church and State (2015 est.)
- Population 22/238
note: the above figure is for metropolitan France and five overseas regions; the metropolitan France population is 62,814,233 (July 2015 est.)
- Age structure
0-14 years: 18.66% (male 6,350,008/female 6,066,407)
15-24 years: 11.82% (male 4,025,283/female 3,842,989)
25-54 years: 38.31% (male 12,823,675/female 12,671,013)
55-64 years: 12.48% (male 4,008,672/female 4,294,218)
65 years and over: 18.74% (male 5,360,078/female 7,111,423) (2015 est.)
- Dependency ratios
total dependency ratio: 60.3%
youth dependency ratio: 29.6%
elderly dependency ratio: 30.6%
potential support ratio: 3.3% (2015 est.)
- Median age
total: 41.1 years
male: 39.4 years
female: 42.6 years (2015 est.)
- Population growth rate 163/233
0.43% (2015 est.)
- Birth rate 160/224
12.38 births/1,000 population (2015 est.)
- Death rate 65/225
9.16 deaths/1,000 population (2015 est.)
- Net migration rate 62/222
1.09 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2015 est.)
- Urbanization
urban population: 79.5% of total population (2015)
rate of urbanization: 0.84% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
- Major urban areas - population
PARIS (capital) 10.843 million; Lyon 1.609 million; Marseille-Aix-en-Provence 1.605 million; Lille 1.027 million; Nice-Cannes 967,000; Toulouse 938,000 (2015)
- Sex ratio
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.93 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.75 male(s)/female
total population: 0.96 male(s)/female (2015 est.)
- Mother's mean age at first birth
28.1 (2010 est.)
- Maternal mortality rate 158/184
8 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
- Infant mortality rate 213/224
total: 3.28 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 3.6 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 2.94 deaths/1,000 live births (2015 est.)
- Life expectancy at birth 19/224
total population: 81.75 years
male: 78.65 years
female: 85.01 years (2015 est.)
- Total fertility rate 110/224
2.08 children born/woman (2015 est.)
- Contraceptive prevalence rate
note: percent of women aged 20-49 (2008)
- Health expenditures 9/191
11.7% of GDP (2013)
- Physicians density
3.19 physicians/1,000 population (2013)
- Hospital bed density
6.4 beds/1,000 population (2011)
- Drinking water source
urban: 100% of population
rural: 100% of population
total: 100% of population
urban: 0% of population
rural: 0% of population
total: 0% of population (2015 est.)
- Sanitation facility access
urban: 98.6% of population
rural: 98.9% of population
total: 98.7% of population
urban: 1.4% of population
rural: 1.1% of population
total: 1.3% of population (2015 est.)
- HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate
- HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS
- HIV/AIDS - deaths
1,500 (2013 est.)
- Obesity - adult prevalence rate 108/191
25.7% (2014)
- Education expenditures 43/173
5.9% of GDP (2011)
- School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)
total: 16 years
male: 16 years
female: 16 years (2012)
- Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 39/134
total: 23.9%
male: 23.7%
female: 24.2% (2013 est.)
- Country name
conventional long form: French Republic
conventional short form: France
local long form: Republique francaise
local short form: France
etymology: name derives from the Latin "Francia" meaning "Land of the Franks"; the Franks were a group of Germanic tribes living along the middle and lower Rhine River in the 3rd century A.D. that merged with Gallic-Roman populations in succeeding centuries and to whom they passed on their name
- Government type
- Capital
name: Paris
geographic coordinates: 48.52° N, 2.20° E
time difference: UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October
note: applies to metropolitan France only, not to its overseas departments, collectivities, or territories
- Administrative divisions
27 regions (regions, singular - region); Alsace, Aquitaine, Auvergne, Basse-Normandie (Lower Normandy), Bourgogne (Burgundy), Bretagne (Brittany), Centre, Champagne-Ardenne, Corse (Corsica), Franche-Comte, Guadeloupe, Guyane (French Guiana), Haute-Normandie (Upper Normandy), Ile-de-France, Languedoc-Roussillon, Limousin, Lorraine, Martinique, Mayotte, Midi-Pyrenees, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Pays de la Loire, Picardie, Poitou-Charentes, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, Reunion, Rhone-Alpes
note: France is divided into 22 metropolitan regions (including the "territorial collectivity" of Corse or Corsica) and 5 overseas regions (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, and Reunion) and is subdivided into 96 metropolitan departments and 5 overseas departments (which are the same as the overseas regions)
- Dependent areas
Clipperton Island, French Polynesia, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, New Caledonia, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Wallis and Futuna
note: the US does not recognize claims to Antarctica; New Caledonia has been considered a "sui generis" collectivity of France since 1998, a unique status falling between that of an independent country and a French overseas department
- Independence
no official date of independence: 486 (Frankish tribes unified under Merovingian kingship); 10 August 843 (Western Francia established from the division of the Carolingian Empire); 14 July 1789 (French monarchy overthrown); 22 September 1792 (First French Republic founded); 4 October 1958 (Fifth French Republic established)
- National holiday
Fete de la Federation, 14 July (1790); note - although often incorrectly referred to as Bastille Day, the celebration actually commemorates the holiday held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille (on 14 July 1789) and the establishment of a constitutional monarchy; other names for the holiday are Fete Nationale (National Holiday) and quatorze juillet (14th of July)
- Constitution
many previous; latest effective 4 October 1958; amended many times, last in 2008 (2015)
- Legal system
civil law; review of administrative but not legislative acts
- International law organization participation
has not submitted an ICJ jurisdiction declaration; accepts ICCt jurisdiction
- Citizenship
citizenship by birth: no
citizenship by descent only: at least one parent must be a citizen of France
dual citizenship recognized: yes
residency requirement for naturalization: 5 years
- Suffrage
18 years of age; universal
- Executive branch
chief of state: President Francois HOLLANDE (since 15 May 2012)
head of government: Prime Minister Manuel VALLS (since 1 April 2014)
cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the president at the suggestion of the prime minister
elections/appointments: president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 22 April and 6 May 2012 (next to be held in the spring of 2017); prime minister appointed by the president
election results: Francois HOLLANDE elected president; percent of vote in first round - Francois HOLLANDE (PS) 28.6%, Nicolas SARKOZY (UMP) 27.2%, Marine LE PEN (FN) 17.9%, Jean-Luc MELENCHON (PG) 11.1%, Francois BAYROU (moDem) 9.1%, other 6.1%; percent of vote in second round - HOLLANDE 51.6%, SARKOZY 48.4%
- Legislative branch
description: bicameral Parliament or Parlement consists of the Senate or Senat (348 seats - 328 for metropolitan France and overseas departments and regions of Guadeloupe, Martinque, French Guiana, Reunion, and Mayotte, 2 for New Caledonia, 2 for French Polynesia, 1 for Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, 1 for Saint-Barthelemy, 1 for Saint-Martin, 1 for Wallis and Futuna, and 12 for French nationals abroad; members indirectly elected by departmental electoral colleges using absolute majority vote in two rounds if needed for departments with 1-3 members and proportional representation vote in departments with 4 or more members; members serve 6-year terms with one-half of the membership renewed every 3 years) and the National Assembly or Assemblee Nationale (577 seats - 556 for metropolitan France, 10 for overseas departments, and 11 for citizens abroad; members directly elected by absolute majority vote in two rounds if needed to serve 5-year terms)
elections: Senate - last held on 28 September 2014 (next to be held in September 2017); National Assembly - last held on 10 and 17 June 2012 (next to be held in June 2017)
election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - UMP 187, PS 152, other 9; National Assembly - percent of vote by party - PS 48.5%, UMP 33.6%, miscellaneous left wing parties 3.8%, Greens 3.0%, miscellaneous right wing parties 2.6%, NC 2.1%, PRG 2.1%, FDG 1.7%, other 2.6%; seats by party - PS 280, UMP 194, miscellaneous left wing parties 22, Greens 17, miscellaneous right wing parties 15, NC 12, PRG 12, FDG 10, other 15
- Judicial branch
highest court(s): Court of Cassation or Cour de Cassation (consists of the court president, 6 divisional presiding judges, 120 trial judges, and 70 deputy judges organized into 6 divisions - 3 civil, 1 commercial, 1 labor, and 1 criminal); Constitutional Council (consists of 9 members)
judge selection and term of office: Court of Cassation judges appointed by the president of the republic from nominations from the High Council of the Judiciary, presided by the Court of Cassation and 15 appointed members; judge term of appointment NA; Constitutional Council members appointed - 3 by the president of the republic and 3 each by the National Assembly and Senate presidents; members serve 9-year, non-renewable terms with one third of the membership renewed every 3 years
subordinate courts: appellate courts or Cour d'Appel; regional courts or Tribunal de Grande Instance; first instance courts or Tribunal' d'instance
- Political parties and leaders
Europe Ecology - The Greens or EELV [Emmanuelle COSSE]
French Communist Party or PCF [Pierre LAURENT]
Left Front Coalition or FDG [Jean-Luc MELENCHON]
Left Party or PG [Jean-Luc MELENCHON and Martine BILLARD]
Left Radical Party or PRG [Jean-Michel BAYLET] (previously Radical Socialist Party or PRS and the Left Radical Movement or MRG)
Movement for France or MPF [Philippe DE VILLIERS]
National Front or FN [Marine LE PEN]
New Anticapitalist Party or NPA [collective leadership; main spokesperson Christine POUPIN]
New Center or NC [Herve MORIN]
Radical Party [Jean-Louis BORLOO]
Rally for France or RPF [Charles PASQUA]
Republican and Citizen Movement or MRC [Jean-Luc LAURENT]
Socialist Party or PS [Haerlem DESIR]
The Republicans (formerly Union for a Popular Movement or UMP) [Nicolas SARKOZY]
Union des Democrates et Independants or UDI [Jean-Louis BORLOO] and Democratic Movement or MoDem [Francois BAYROU] (previously Union for French Democracy or UDF); together known as UDI-Modem
United Republic or RS [Dominique DE VILLEPIN]
Worker's Struggle (Lutte Ouvriere) or LO [collective leadership; spokespersons Nathalie ARTHAUD and Arlette LAQUILLER]
- Political pressure groups and leaders
Confederation francaise de l'encadrement - Confederation generale des cadres (French Confederation of Management - General Confederation of Executives) or CFE-CGC [Carole COUVERT, president] (independent white-collar union with 140,000 members)
Confederation Francaise Democratique du Travail (French Democratic Confederation of Labor) or CFDT [Laurent BERGER, secretary general] (left-leaning labor union with approximately 875,000 members)
Confederation francaise des travailleurs chretiens (French Confederation of Christian Workers) or CFTC [Philippe LOUIS, president] (independent labor union founded by Catholic workers that claims 142,000 members)
Confederation generale du travail (General Confederation of Labor) or CGT [Bernard THIBAULT, secretary general] (historically communist labor union with approximately 710,000 members)
Confederation generale du travail - Force ouvriere (General Confederation of Labor - Worker's Force) or FO [Jean-Claude MAILLY, secretary general] (independent labor union with an estimated 300,000 members)
Mouvement des entreprises de France or MEDEF [Pierre GATTAZ, president] (employers' union with claimed 750,000 companies as members)
French Guiana:
conservationists; gold mining pressure groups; hunting pressure groups
Christian Movement for the Liberation of Guadeloupe or KLPG
General Federation of Guadeloupe Workers or CGT-G
General Union of Guadeloupe Workers or UGTG
Movement for an Independent Guadeloupe or MPGI
The Socialist Renewal Movement
Caribbean Revolutionary Alliance or ARC
Central Union for Martinique Workers or CSTM
Frantz Fanon Circle
League of Workers and Peasants
Proletarian Action Group or GAP
- International organization participation
ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Arctic Council (observer), Australia Group, BDEAC, BIS, BSEC (observer), CBSS (observer), CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, ECB, EIB, EITI (implementing country), EMU, ESA, EU, FAO, FATF, FZ, G-5, G-7, G-8, G-10, G-20, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IGAD (partners), IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, InOC, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINURSO, MINUSMA, MINUSTAH, MONUSCO, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OIF, OPCW, OSCE, Pacific Alliance (observer), Paris Club, PCA, PIF (partner), Schengen Convention, SELEC (observer), SPC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, Union Latina, UNMIL, UNOCI, UNRWA, UNSC (permanent), UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
- Flag description
three equal vertical bands of blue (hoist side), white, and red; known as the "Le drapeau tricolore" (French Tricolor), the origin of the flag dates to 1790 and the French Revolution when the "ancient French color" of white was combined with the blue and red colors of the Parisian militia; the official flag for all French dependent areas
note: the design and/or colors are similar to a number of other flags, including those of Belgium, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, and Netherlands
- National symbol(s)
Gallic rooster, fleur-de-lis, Marianne (female personification); national colors: blue, white, red
- National anthem
name: "La Marseillaise" (The Song of Marseille)
lyrics/music: Claude-Joseph ROUGET de Lisle
note: adopted 1795, restored 1870; originally known as "Chant de Guerre pour l'Armee du Rhin" (War Song for the Army of the Rhine), the National Guard of Marseille made the song famous by singing it while marching into Paris in 1792 during the French Revolutionary Wars
- Economy - overview
The French economy is diversified across all sectors. The government has partially or fully privatized many large companies, including Air France, France Telecom, Renault, and Thales. However, the government maintains a strong presence in some sectors, particularly power, public transport, and defense industries. With more than 84 million foreign tourists per year, France is the most visited country in the world and maintains the third largest income in the world from tourism. France's leaders remain committed to a capitalism in which they maintain social equity by means of laws, tax policies, and social spending that mitigate economic inequality.
France's real GDP increased by 1.2% in 2015. The unemployment rate (including overseas territories) increased from 7.8% in 2008 to 10.4% in the fourth quarter of 2014. Youth unemployment in metropolitan France decreased from a high of 25.4% in the fourth quarter of 2012 to 24.3% in the fourth quarter of 2014.
Lower-than-expected growth and high spending have strained France's public finances. The budget deficit rose sharply from 3.3% of GDP in 2008 to 7.5% of GDP in 2009 before improving to 4% of GDP in 2014 and 2015, while France's public debt rose from 68% of GDP to more than 98% in 2015, and may hit 100% in 2016.
Elected on a conventionally leftist platform, President Francois HOLLANDE surprised and angered many supporters with a January 2014 speech announcing a sharp change in his economic policy, recasting himself as a liberalizing reformer. The government's budget for 2014 shifted the balance of fiscal consolidation from taxes to a total of $24 billion in spending cuts. In December 2014, HOLLANDE announced additional reforms, including a plan to extend commercial business hours, liberalize professional services, and sell off $6.2-12.4 billion in state owned assets. France's tax burden remains well above the EU average and income tax cuts over the past decade are being partly reversed, particularly for higher earners. The top rate of income tax is 41%. The government is allowing a 75% payroll tax on salaries over $1.24 million to lapse.
- GDP (purchasing power parity) 11/230
$2.647 trillion (2015 est.)
$2.617 trillion (2014 est.)
$2.612 trillion (2013 est.)
note: data are in 2015 US dollars
- GDP (official exchange rate)
$2.423 trillion (2015 est.)
- GDP - real growth rate 169/225
1.2% (2015 est.)
0.2% (2014 est.)
0.7% (2013 est.)
- GDP - per capita (PPP) 38/230
$41,400 (2015 est.)
$40,900 (2014 est.)
$40,900 (2013 est.)
note: data are in 2015 US dollars
- Gross national saving 76/179
21.5% of GDP (2015 est.)
21.2% of GDP (2014 est.)
21.5% of GDP (2013 est.)
- GDP - composition, by end use
household consumption: 55.6%
government consumption: 24.3%
investment in fixed capital: 21.2%
investment in inventories: 0.3%
exports of goods and services: 29.3%
imports of goods and services: -30.7%
(2015 est.)
- GDP - composition, by sector of origin
agriculture: 1.7%
industry: 19.3%
services: 79% (2015 est.)
- Agriculture - products
wheat, cereals, sugar beets, potatoes, wine grapes; beef, dairy products; fish
- Industries
machinery, chemicals, automobiles, metallurgy, aircraft, electronics; textiles, food processing; tourism
- Industrial production growth rate 160/202
0.5% (2015 est.)
- Labor force 20/233
29.84 million (2015 est.)
- Labor force - by occupation
agriculture: 3%
industry: 21.3%
services: 75.7% (2013 est.)
- Unemployment rate 112/207
9.9% (2015 est.)
9.9% (2014 est.)
note: includes overseas territories
- Population below poverty line
8.1% (2012 est.)
- Household income or consumption by percentage share
lowest 10%: 3.6%
highest 10%: 25.4% (2013)
- Distribution of family income - Gini index 121/144
30.1 (2013)
30.5 (2012)
- Budget
revenues: $1.253 trillion
expenditures: $1.351 trillion (2015 est.)
- Taxes and other revenues 13/219
51.7% of GDP (2015 est.)
- Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-) 146/220
-4% of GDP (2015 est.)
- Public debt 19/176
98.2% of GDP (2015 est.)
95.5% of GDP (2014 est.)
note: data cover general government debt, and includes debt instruments issued (or owned) by government entities other than the treasury; the data include treasury debt held by foreign entities; the data include debt issued by subnational entities, as well as intra-governmental debt; intra-governmental debt consists of treasury borrowings from surpluses in the social funds, such as for retirement, medical care, and unemployment; debt instruments for the social funds are not sold at public auctions
- Fiscal year
calendar year
- Inflation rate (consumer prices) 35/226
0.1% (2015 est.)
0.6% (2014 est.)
- Central bank discount rate 137/156
0.05% (31 December 2014)
0.25% (31 December 2013)
note: this is the European Central Bank's rate on the marginal lending facility, which offers overnight credit to banks in the euro area
- Commercial bank prime lending rate 177/184
2.1% (31 December 2015 est.)
2.6% (31 December 2014 est.)
- Stock of narrow money 7/192
$981.9 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
$989.7 billion (31 December 2014 est.)
note: see entry for the European Union for money supply for the entire euro area; the European Central Bank (ECB) controls monetary policy for the 18 members of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU); individual members of the EMU do not control the quantity of money circulating within their own borders
- Stock of broad money 7/193
$2.541 trillion (31 December 2014 est.)
$2.771 trillion (31 December 2013 est.)
- Stock of domestic credit 6/191
$3.593 trillion (31 December 2015 est.)
$3.831 trillion (31 December 2014 est.)
- Market value of publicly traded shares 8/121
$1.762 trillion (31 December 2012 est.)
$1.538 trillion (31 December 2011)
$1.983 trillion (31 December 2010 est.)
- Current account balance 169/197
-$5.24 billion (2015 est.)
-$26.24 billion (2014 est.)
- Exports 7/224
$509.1 billion (2015 est.)
$584.5 billion (2014 est.)
- Exports - commodities
machinery and transportation equipment, aircraft, plastics, chemicals, pharmaceutical products, iron and steel, beverages
- Exports - partners
Germany 16.9%, Belgium 7.5%, Italy 7.4%, Spain 7.3%, UK 7.2%, US 5.8%, Netherlands 4.1% (2014)
- Imports 7/223
$539 billion (2015 est.)
$631.1 billion (2014 est.)
- Imports - commodities
machinery and equipment, vehicles, crude oil, aircraft, plastics, chemicals
- Imports - partners
Germany 19.9%, Belgium 11.4%, Italy 7.8%, Netherlands 7.7%, Spain 6.7%, China 5%, UK 4.4% (2014)
- Reserves of foreign exchange and gold 17/170
$143.5 billion (31 December 2014 est.)
$144.9 billion (31 December 2013 est.)
- Debt - external 5/206
$5.496 trillion (31 December 2014 est.)
$5.549 trillion (31 December 2013 est.)
- Stock of direct foreign investment - at home 9/120
$1.124 trillion (31 December 2015 est.)
$1.103 trillion (31 December 2014 est.)
- Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad 6/105
$1.542 trillion (31 December 2015 est.)
$1.532 trillion (31 December 2014 est.)
- Exchange rates
euros (EUR) per US dollar -
0.89 (2015 est.)
0.75 (2014 est.)
0.76 (2013 est.)
0.78 (2012 est.)
0.72 (2011 est.)
- Electricity - production 9/220
568 billion kWh (2013 est.)
- Electricity - consumption 11/219
451.1 billion kWh (2012 est.)
- Electricity - exports 4/218
60.15 billion kWh (2013 est.)
- Electricity - imports 17/219
11.69 billion kWh (2013 est.)
- Electricity - installed generating capacity 9/214
129.3 million kW (2012 est.)
- Electricity - from fossil fuels 195/214
20.3% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
- Electricity - from nuclear fuels 1/214
48.8% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
- Electricity - from hydroelectric plants 104/214
14.2% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
- Electricity - from other renewable sources 30/212
11.2% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
- Crude oil - production 76/214
15,340 bbl/day (2014 est.)
- Crude oil - exports 75/214
3,664 bbl/day (2013 est.)
- Crude oil - imports 12/214
1.129 million bbl/day (2013 est.)
- Crude oil - proved reserves 74/215
84.08 million bbl (1 January 2015 est.)
- Refined petroleum products - production 17/214
1.27 million bbl/day (2013 est.)
- Refined petroleum products - consumption 15/212
1.706 million bbl/day (2014 est.)
- Refined petroleum products - exports 18/214
411,100 bbl/day (2013 est.)
- Refined petroleum products - imports 7/213
888,800 bbl/day (2013 est.)
- Natural gas - production 90/216
18 million cu m (2014 est.)
- Natural gas - consumption 28/215
35.76 billion cu m (2014 est.)
- Natural gas - exports 33/215
3.544 billion cu m (2014 est.)
- Natural gas - imports 10/214
41.18 billion cu m (2014 est.)
- Natural gas - proved reserves 82/212
9.656 billion cu m (1 January 2014 est.)
- Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy 19/212
385.6 million Mt (2013 est.)
- Telephones - fixed lines 8/219
total subscriptions: 38.81 million
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 59 (2014 est.)
- Telephones - mobile cellular 24/217
total: 64.9 million
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 98 (2014 est.)
- Telephone system
general assessment: highly developed
domestic: extensive cable and microwave radio relay; extensive use of fiber-optic cable; domestic satellite system
international: country code - 33; numerous submarine cables provide links throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and US; satellite earth stations - more than 3 (2 Intelsat (with total of 5 antennas - 2 for Indian Ocean and 3 for Atlantic Ocean), NA Eutelsat, 1 Inmarsat - Atlantic Ocean region); HF radiotelephone communications with more than 20 countries
overseas departments: country codes: French Guiana - 594; Guadeloupe - 590; Martinique - 596; Mayotte - 262; Reunion - 262 (2011)
- Broadcast media
a mix of both publicly operated and privately owned TV stations; state-owned France Televisions operates 4 networks, one of which is a network of regional stations, and has part-interest in several thematic cable/satellite channels and international channels; a large number of privately owned regional and local TV stations; multi-channel satellite and cable services provide a large number of channels; public broadcaster Radio France operates 7 national networks, a series of regional networks, and operates services for overseas territories and foreign audiences; Radio France Internationale (RFI), under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is a leading international broadcaster; a large number of commercial FM stations, with many of them consolidating into commercial networks (2008)
- Radio broadcast stations
AM 41, FM about 3,500 (this figure is an approximation and includes many repeaters), shortwave 2 (1998)
- Television broadcast stations
584 (plus 9,676 repeaters) (1995)
- Internet country code
metropolitan France - .fr; French Guiana - .gf; Guadeloupe - .gp; Martinique - .mq; Mayotte - .yt; Reunion - .re
- Internet hosts 7/232
17.266 million (2012)
- Internet users 11/217
total: 56.8 million
percent of population: 85.8% (2014 est.)
- Airports 17/236
464 (2013)
- Airports - with paved runways
total: 294
over 3,047 m: 14
2,438 to 3,047 m: 25
1,524 to 2,437 m: 97
914 to 1,523 m: 83
under 914 m: 75 (2013)
- Airports - with unpaved runways
total: 170
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 64
under 914 m: 105 (2013)
- Heliports
1 (2013)
- Pipelines
gas 15,322 km; oil 2,939 km; refined products 5,084 km (2013)
- Railways 9/136
total: 29,640 km
standard gauge: 29,473 km 1.435-m gauge (15,561 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 167 km 1.000-m gauge (63 km electrified) (2014)
- Roadways 8/223
total: 1,028,446 km (metropolitan France)
paved: 1,028,446 km (includes 11,416 km of expressways)
note: not included are 5,100 km of roadways in overseas departments (2010)
- Waterways
metropolitan France: 8,501 km (1,621 km navigable by craft up to 3,000 metric tons) (2010)
- Merchant marine 36/156
total: 162
by type: bulk carrier 3, cargo 7, chemical tanker 34, container 27, liquefied gas 12, passenger 10, passenger/cargo 41, petroleum tanker 16, refrigerated cargo 1, roll on/roll off 11
foreign-owned: 50 (Belgium 7, Bermuda 5, Denmark 11, French Polynesia 11, Germany 1, New Caledonia 3, Singapore 3, Sweden 4, Switzerland 5)
registered in other countries: 151 (Bahamas 15, Belgium 7, Bermuda 1, Canada 1, Cyprus 16, Egypt 1, Hong Kong 4, Indonesia 1, Ireland 2, Italy 2, Luxembourg 15, Malta 8, Marshall Islands 7, Mexico 1, Morocco 3, Netherlands 2, Norway 5, Panama 7, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2, Singapore 3, South Korea 2, Taiwan 2, UK 39, US 4, unknown 1) (2010)
- Ports and terminals
major seaport(s): Brest, Calais, Dunkerque, Le Havre, Marseille, Nantes,
river port(s): Paris, Rouen (Seine); Strasbourg (Rhine); Bordeaux (Garronne)
container port(s): Le Havre (2,215,262)(2011)
cruise/ferry port(s): Calais, Cherbourg, Le Havre
LNG terminal(s) (import): Fos Cavaou, Fos Tonkin, Montoir de Bretagne
Military and Security
- Military branches
Army (Armee de Terre; includes Marines, Foreign Legion, Army Light Aviation), Navy (Marine Nationale), Air Force (Armee de l'Air (AdlA); includes Air Defense) (2011)
- Military service age and obligation
18-25 years of age for male and female voluntary military service; no conscription; 1-year service obligation; women serve in noncombat posts (2013)
- Military expenditures 47/132
1.8% of GDP (2014)
1.9% of GDP (2013)
1.9% of GDP (2012)
Transnational Issues
- Disputes - international
Madagascar claims the French territories of Bassas da India, Europa Island, Glorioso Islands, and Juan de Nova Island; Comoros claims Mayotte; Mauritius claims Tromelin Island; territorial dispute between Suriname and the French overseas department of French Guiana; France asserts a territorial claim in Antarctica (Adelie Land); France and Vanuatu claim Matthew and Hunter Islands, east of New Caledonia
- Refugees and internally displaced persons
refugees (country of origin): 23,966 (Sri Lanka); 13,727 (Democratic Republic of the Congo); 13,644 (Russia); 12,003 (Cambodia); 12,119 (Serbia and Kosovo); 10,699 (Turkey); 8,281 (Vietnam); 7,036 (Laos); 5,201 (Guinea); 5,058 (Mauritania) (2014)
stateless persons: 1,288 (2014)
- Illicit drugs
metropolitan France: transshipment point for South American cocaine, Southwest Asian heroin, and European synthetics
French Guiana: small amount of marijuana grown for local consumption; minor transshipment point to Europe
Martinique: transshipment point for cocaine and marijuana bound for the US and Europe


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"To which doubtless are owing the many Distortions and Deformities we meet with everywhere:" Fears of Swaddling in Early Modern England
The Perceptions of Pregnancy blog, like the Researchers' Network, aims to reach beyond boundaries and borders, and to facilitate an international and interdisciplinary conversation on pregnancy and its associated bodily and emotional experiences from the earliest times to the present day. This week Stephanie Allen writes about early modern attitudes to swaddling.
Swaddling is recognised today as an important method of ensuring the health and comfort of babies. Yet, the use of swaddling has a long history. In early modern England, babies were swaddled not for comfort, but to promote healthy skeletal development in growing infants. Texts which instructed on its proper use, however, also allowed fears of the atypical body to emerge because if done incorrectly swaddling caused bodily deformity.
In 1671 Jane Sharp wrote in her midwives' book that, regarding new-borns it was important that midwives were
sure that all parts be bound up in their due place and order gently, without any crookedness, or rugged foldings; for infants are tender twigs, and as you use them, so they will grow straight or crooked…lay the arms right down by the sides, that they may grow right.
Sharpe described the malleability of babies' bodies, and how their limbs should be positioned to encourage healthy development. Contemporary opinion was that the soft and undeveloped nature of infant's bodies, meant that they were susceptible to manipulation.
Concerns about the dangers of swaddling persisted into the eighteenth century. Nicolas Andry's orthopaedic text argued in 1743 that 'The most part of children that are rickety, owe that disease to the ill manner in which they are swaddled,' indicating that certain ailments were caused by swaddling due to their amended body. Having the baby in the wrong position when swaddling could affect 'the shape of the body' and the overall health of the baby. He believed that people chose to swaddle babies due to their consistent movement, but instead of it encouraging the correct development, it could result in a hindering of their 'natural extension; and by this means occasions deformities which we should not see, if nature was left at liberty to conduct and direct this affair herself without trouble and constraint.' Nature had formed all bodies, and if left to their natural devices they would continue to strive and remain healthy, it was when individuals sought to control an infants body that they put them at risk of deformity.
Similarly, Physician and writer on childcare and nursing, William Cadogan wrote in 1748 that
that Nature has made Children able to bear even great Hardships, before they are made weak and sickly by their mistaken Nurses. But besides the Mischief arising from the Weight and Heat of these Swaddling-cloaths, they are put on so tight, and the Child is so cramp'd by them, that its Bowels have not Room, nor the Limbs any Liberty, to act and exert themselves in the free easy manner they ought. This is a very hurtful Circumstance, for Limbs that are not used, will never be strong, and such tender Bodies cannot bear much Pressure: The Circulation restrained by the Compression of any one Part, must produce unnatural Swellings in some other; especially as the Fibres of Infants are so easily distended. To which doubtless are owing the many Distortions and Deformities we meet with everywhere.
Cadogan believed that nature had created human bodies to withstand a multitude of affects and did not need to be moulded or protected from external impact in this manner. Unlike other authors, Cadogan listed a series of side effects that swaddling could have on the baby's body, such as overheating, cramping, and restricted blood flow and movement. Many of these would have been uncomfortable, if not painful, for the child and may have caused long term effects on the limbs and internal organs due to the compression. Cadogan was strongly against the use of swaddling and tight clothing, instead he recommended loose clothing that did not restrict or manipulate the body's shape.
This post has briefly examined early modern fears of swaddling babies, and how its incorrect use could have cause bodily deformity. The research has stemmed off of my wider doctoral project which assesses deceptive and defective bodies and discusses bodily amendments.
Stephanie is a final year Ph.D. student at the University of Hertfordshire. Her doctorate thesis is on the defective and deceptive body in early modern England. In 2018 she was awarded the Social History Society's Postgraduate Paper Prize for her work on counterfeit virginity in early modern England. Currently, she is preparing her thesis for submission this summer and is working on her first article.
Illegitimacy. A War Problem?
The Perceptions of Pregnancy blog, like the Researchers' Network, aims to reach beyond boundaries and borders, and to facilitate an international and interdisciplinary conversation on pregnancy and its associated bodily and emotional experiences from the earliest times to the present day. This week Leanne Blaney writes about illegitimacy as a social problem in 20th century Glasgow.
In April 1915 – as the First World War raged on the continent and thousands of young men and women had their lives forever inexplicably altered – Ronald McNeill, the Unionist MP had only one thing on his mind. He endeavoured to establish an "influential committee" to deal with the ongoing "problem" of unmarried mothers. Specifically those located in districts where "large masses [of] troops" had been quartered since the outbreak of the war.[1] A combination of time; more than nine months had passed since these regiments had been stationed in these various districts, and the 'shipping out' of various regiments to the front line had served to highlight the perceived 'problem'. And the press were not adverse to reporting it. An edition of the Daily Aberdeen Journal for instance, contained the rather alarming headline "Problem of Unmarried Mothers. 300 Cases in Aberdeen". The accompanying article included an interview with a "prominent Aberdeen clergyman" who reportedly was aware of a "large number of forced marriages that had been taking place in the city recently", which he believed was an indication of "the state of matters".[2] Laying the blame for "quite a number of the cases" at the feet of those girls whose "home circumstances were not the most desirable and who paraded about the streets and 'threw themselves' at the soldiers", the clergyman expressed the opinion that "this was not the time to be hard on the girls." Instead he felt that "they must be looked after, and help must be given [to] them."[3]
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Pregnancy Loss: A Note on Language
The Perceptions of Pregnancy blog, like the Researchers' Network, aims to reach beyond boundaries and borders, and to facilitate an international and interdisciplinary conversation on pregnancy and its associated bodily and emotional experiences from the earliest times to the present day. This week, to coincide with Baby-loss awareness week, Karolina Kuberska writes about the importance of language in discussions about pregnancy loss.
There are many difficult aspects to the experience of pregnancy loss; even the most articulate people may struggle to capture the emotional chaos or to accurately describe what it is that they have lost. While distinctions are made by professionals working in medicine and English law between miscarriage (up to 23 weeks and 6 days), stillbirth (from the 24th week), and terminations, these categories may not readily translate into how some people perceive what has happened to them: that their baby has died or that they have lost future hopes and dreams.


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Nunzio di Gola in Vivimilano, Corriere della Sera
Enrico Castelnuovo at the age of 14, in 1927, is already a learning pastry maker in Lecco. On November 4th 1945 he opens an artisan cake shop with his wife and colleague Maria Locatelli, in Via Mercato in Oggiono (Como).
After ten years and two children they decide to come back to Milan, where they open a pastry laboratory with retail sale in the Lorenteggio district, in Via dei Tulipani 18, present location.
In 1977 their son, Francesco, decides to carry on the father's enterprise going into business with his wife Augusta and his friend Serafino, later joined by the son Maurizio. Since 2002 also Niccolò, Francesco's son, has taken part to the family activity, dealing mainly with the communication and management aspects.
In addition to all the classic pastry, we re-evaluate the old simple recipes of the family tradition, as the "Torta Enrico", to recall the work done by the grandfather and the "Fior di Pesco" cake, in memory of the famous singer Lucio Battisti – loyal customer of the shop - and of his famous song.
Cake • Specialty
Cake • Healthy line
A very big number of faithful customers follows and supports this artisan activity. To all the customers of yesterday, today and tomorrow our heartfelt thanks for the success and satisfaction given in all these long years.
Delivery charges are:
10 euros for the city of Milan;
20 euros for neighbouring municipalities (please notice at least one day in advance).
We accept online bookings with store withdrawal or home delivery for the Municipality of Milan and neighboring
We prepare personalized cakes on request of the customer
We prepare receptions with homemade products, cakes, pastry and savoury up to 50 people
Pasticceria Castelnuovo di Francesco Castelnuovo & C. s.n.c.
via dei Tulipani 18, 20146 Milano
+39 02 48950168
C.F. e P.IVA 03249870159
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Tuesday-Saturday: 8:00am-1:00pm; 3:30pm-7:30pm
Sunday and holidays: 8:00am-1:30pm; 2:30pm-7:30pm


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Above the resort town of Uvita, on the southwest coast of Costa Rica where the mountains come closest to the ocean, sits a hidden jewel. Immersed in nature, tranquility and privacy, this unique tri-level custom home is situated on a bluff with spectacular sweeping views.
From your home or deck you witness the Uvita river meeting with the Ballena and Cortizal rivers. As you view up the Ballena river valley and the Uvita river valley these valleys climb into the Talamanca mountain range beyond. These valleys create mists at various times of day as the rainforest create 'clouds' all beautifully visible from your home.
Looking to southwest you see the " Whales' Tail"", the second longest sandbar in the world,extending out 1/2 mile into the Pacific, all part of the largest ocean reserve in Central America. Watch as the tides come in crashing over the reef and covering the sand peninsula at high tide. These views magically alter by the hour as the rivers, mists, tides, mountain shadows, as well as sun and moonlight continuously change.
Created with great love and attention to details, this large one bedroom, 1 1/2 bath home reflects an unusual melding of ancient and old European design incorporating stone, marble, tropical woods with steel reinforced thick concrete walls. Built to last centuries, the beautifully sculpted moldings, arched doors, high ceilings, were all exquisitely handcrafted by some of the finest artisans in Costa Rica.
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Tranquil and peaceful among the sounds are Howler monkeys, tropical birds and the soothing sound of the ocean and three rivers below. Yet still only minutes to town, beaches, and all amenities.
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Suzuki India subsidiary Suzuki Maruti announced on February 3 that it will debut the Vitara Bretz at the 2016 Delhi Motor Show (Auto Expo). It has released new images of the model.
The Vitara Bretz is the sister model to Suzuki's flagship SUV, the Vitara, and is a new compact SUV for the India market.
Maruti Suzuki developed the Vitara Bretz to be its core model. According to the company, the design emphasizes burliness, sportiness and virility.
Maruti Suzuki has published images of the model on its official site. The images show its front face with features like its unique grille.
(Translated by Greg Scott)