France is located in Western Europe, extending from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel. It has the largest land area in Western Europe and the fifth largest economy in the world. France has a population of 65 million people and its capital and largest city is Paris. France has a long history of migration due to its colonial past and geographic location as a trade crossroads in Europe. It currently hosts over 7 million immigrants, making up 11% of its total population.

2. • Located in western
europe
• Metropolitan France
extends from the
Mediterranean Sea to
the English Channel and
the North Sea, and
from the Rhine to the
Atlantic Ocean

4. • the largest country in Western Europe and
the third-largest in Europe as a whole
• And it possesses the second-largest exclusive
economic zone in the world.
• fifth largest economy measured by GDP

5. figures
• Language:French
• Population: 65,350,000 people
• Capital: Paris
• GDP:$2.712 trillion
• Human Development Index:0.884
• Currency: Euro

6. • Geographic location makes crossroads of
trade and population
• Its history as a former colonial power, France
is a country of long migration
• In 2010, according to the United
Nation, France hosts 7,2 millions immigrants:
11% of the total population

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8. German pionners
• Early 1820
• Crisis of the German agriculture
• Farmers, Craftsmen
• 30,000 people

9. Jews from Eastern and Central Europe. Late XIXcentury
• fleeing oppression and
pogroms of Tsarist
Russia, Austria and Romania

10. Czechs and Slovaks Las of XIXe century
• Depending on the geopolitical
and economic
• First World War, the
creation of Czechoslovakia
• World War II, the
Communists came to power in
Czechoslovakia and velvet
revolution

12. Italians (1920-1950)
• Agriculture in the South West
• Local Demographic situation: population
decline in campaigns
• Not egnough birth rate

14. Spanish et Portugues (1950)
• 600,000
Spanish, 700,000
Portugues
• fleeing poverty and the
Salazar regime

15. • ASIA
• Since 15O years
• Many communities and many
ways
• Chineses workers ans
students
• « Boat people »

16. Africa
• Maghreb
• 1960
• Workers from ALGERIA, MAROCCO and
TUNISIA after 1945
• SENEGAL, MALI, etc…

18. Other sides
• Since 3 centuries
• freed slaves
• From west indies and
colonies in Black Africa