Facts about France

Situated in the Western Europe, France is also former French Republic. To know more about France, read further below some fun facts about France.

Fun facts about France:

• Football (soccer), rugby union and rugby league are the most popular games in France. Also, basketball and handball are well liked in several regions of France.

• The most famous sport events held in France is the Tour de France i.e. the road bicycle race, famous all over the world and the French Open i.e. it is one of the four Grand Slam tournaments of tennis.

• The writer of books such as Cinderella, Puss in Boots, and Sleeping Beauty, is Charles Perrault, a French writer, who contributed in French literature and many more.
• In 1997, The French healthcare system was graded as number one in the entire world. In France, standard life expectancy at present is 79.73 years.
• 31 percent of the population is not religious whereas 54 percent of French people follow Christianity. And one percent believes and follows Buddhism, Islam, and Judaism.
• It is predicted that between 200,000 and 1 million of unlawful refugees lives in France.
• France ranks nineteenth country in the world for population of 64.5 millions in the world.
• Annually more than 80 million people all over the world come to France for their vacation. Spain is comes next after the France as the most popular tourist destination with more than 54 millions of tourists annually.
• France has the most widespread railway network in Western Europe. Commercial rail companies uses high speed trains to travel and the train speed goes up to 320 kilometer per hour.

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