France and It's Population

Three fourths of Frances population of 58,300,000 people is urban. There are

105 people per square kilometer. This census was taken in 1996. A little more than

85% of the French population is white and native born.

France has a lot of high speed trains. They even have the fastest train in the

world. It is called the TGV. Most of the population in France uses trains. They

have the most passengers each year and second most amount of freight tons on there

trains for Europe, both excluding the CIS. The French also hold the speed record

for train speed. One of their trains went 505 KH. France has only 904 planes and

helicopters flying under its flag and has 55.1 million people use them each year.

There are 22 political divisions and is subdivided into 96 departments. The

capital city is Paris which has a population of 1,188,918. This census was taken

back in 1982.

Most French are Roman Catholic. In fact 75% of Fances's people are. Some of

the other major religions are: Islam, Judaism, and Protestant.

The official language of France is French but a lot of people also speak Breoton

in Brittiany and Basque and Catalan are spoken in the Pyrenee's Mountains.

Provincical is spoken in Province. Flemish is spoken is Florence and German is

spoken in Alsace.

In 1959 they extended compulsory school to go to the age of 16. In the 1980's a

big boom of universities came, instead of 23 they had 70. The country is divided

into 27 educational districts for administration purposes. In the 80's they had some

47,000 schools that had about 4.1 million students going to them. They also have

11,200 secondary schools that had about 5.4 million students going to them. About

1.2 million students were going to universities and colleges in the 1980's.

France has produced many world class painters like Leonardo Da Vinnci who

painted the Mona Lisa and invented many things like tanks. He rarely ever got

finished with his work though. They have found 12 of his paintings but only 2 of

them are finished. He also drew many sketches. If he would have kept up with his

work and not tried something new so fast, we probably would have flown before the

Right brothers were even born.

The French phone company, telegraph company, and postal company are all

operated by the French government. More than 33.3 million phones are in use and

radio and television are run by independent companies. France has 22 million

televisions and 49 million radios. France had circulation of 112 daily newspapers in

the late 80's with about 9.4 million subscribers. The biggest newspaper is called

Paris Match and it has 690 million subscribers.