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France, [IX] officially the French Republic, [X] is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.
Education in France is organized in a highly centralized manner, with many subdivisions. [1] It is divided into the three stages of primary education ( enseignement primaire ), secondary education ( enseignement secondaire ), and higher education ( enseignement supérieur ).
Gulli was created as a result of a partnership between a kids-television pioneer Lagardère Active and the state-owned France Télévisions. [3] The former is known due to its children's network, Canal J, while the latter has a long history investing in kids programming through its youth-oriented division on France 3.
Disney Jr. is a British-managed French kids television preschool channel owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company Limited, [1] aimed for kids 3 to 7 years old. It was launched on 2 November 2002, as Playhouse Disney, and rebranded as Disney Junior on 28 May 2011.
Disney Jr. is a British-managed French kids television preschool channel owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company Limited, [1] aimed for kids 3 to 7 years old. It was launched on 2 November 2002, as Playhouse Disney, and rebranded as Disney Junior on 28 May 2011.
The population of France is growing by 1,000,000 people every three years- an average annual increase of 340,000 people, or +0.6%. [7] France was historically Europe's most populous country. During the Middle Ages, more than one-quarter of Europe's total population was French; [8] by the seventeenth century, this had decreased slightly to one ...
France has a long history of innovation and scientific discovery, contributing to various fields such as physics, mathematics, engineering, medicine, and the arts. [1] French inventors and scientists have pioneered breakthroughs that shaped the modern world, from the development of photography and the metric system to advancements in aviation ...
It is the precursor of modern France. It was divided into the following great fiefs: Aquitaine, Brittany, Burgundy, Catalonia, Flanders, Gascony, Gothia, Paris & Blois, and Toulouse. After 1180 and Phillip II, the kingdom came to be known as France, because the new ruling dynasty (the Capetians) were originally Counts of Paris.