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                 October- France

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This article is about the country. For other uses, see France (disambiguation).

French Republic République française  (French)
Flag National emblem
Motto: "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" (French) "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem: "La Marseillaise" MENU 0:00
Territory of the French Republic[I]
Location of  metropolitan France, the European part of France  (dark green) – in Europe  (green & dark grey) – in the European Union  (green)
Capital and largest city		Paris 48°51.4′N 2°21.05′E
Official language and national language		French[II]
Demonym		French
Government		Unitarysemi‑presidential constitutional republic
•	President	François Hollande
•	Prime Minister	Manuel Valls
•	President of the Senate	Gérard Larcher
•	President of the National Assembly	Claude Bartolone
Legislature		Parliament
•	Upper house	Senate
•	Lower house	National Assembly
Establishment
•	Francia unified	486
•	Treaty of Verdun[III]	August 843
•	Republic established	22 September 1792
•	Founded the EEC[IV]	1 January 1958
•	Current constitution[V]	4 October 1958
Area
•	Total	643,801 km2[VI][1](41st) 248,600 sq mi
•	Metropolitan France(IGN)	551,695 km2[VII](50th) 213,010 sq mi
•	Metropolitan France(Cadastre)	543,940.9 km2[VIII][2](50th) 210,026 sq mi
Population
•	Total 2016​ estimate	66,736,000[VI][3](20th)
•	Metropolitan France June 2016 estimate	64,590,000[4] (22nd)
•	Density	116/km2[IX] (89th) 301/sq mi
GDP (PPP)		2015 estimate
•	Total	$2.647 trillion (10th)
•	Per capita	$41,181[5] (24th)
GDP (nominal)		2015 estimate
•	Total	$2.422 trillion (6th)
•	Per capita	$37,675[5] (20th)
Gini (2013)		30.1[6] medium
HDI (2014)		0.888[7] very high · 22nd
Currency		Euro (EUR)[X] CFP franc (XPF)[XI]
Time zone		CET[XII] (UTC+1)
•	Summer (DST)	CEST[XIII] (UTC+2)
Date format		dd/mm/yyyy
Drives on the		right
Calling code		+33[XIV]
ISO 3166 code		FR
Internet TLD		.fr[XV]

France (French: [fʁɑ̃s]), officially the French Republic (French: République française [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is atranscontinental sovereign state comprising territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories.^[XVI] The European, or metropolitan, area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. Overseas France include French Guiana on theSouth American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. France spans 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi)^[1] and has a total population of 66.7 million.^[VI][8] It is a unitary semi-presidential republic with the capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. During the Iron Age, what is now metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls, a Celtic people. The area was annexed in 51 BC by Rome, which held Gaul until 486, when the Germanic Franks conquered the region and formed the Kingdom of France.

France emerged as a major European power in the Late Middle Ages, with its victory in the Hundred Years' War (1337 to 1453) strengthening state-building and political centralisation. During the Renaissance, French culture flourished and a global colonial empire was established, which by the 20th century would be the second largest in the world.^[9]The 16th century was dominated by religious civil wars between Catholics and Protestants (Huguenots). France became Europe's dominant cultural, political, and military power under Louis XIV.^[10] In the late 18th century, the French Revolution overthrew the absolute monarchy, established one of modern history's earliest republics, and saw the drafting of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which expresses the nation's ideals to this day.

In the 19th century Napoleon took power and established the First French Empire, whose subsequent Napoleonic Wars shaped the course of continental Europe. Following the collapse of the Empire, France endured a tumultuous succession of governments culminating with the establishment of the French Third Republic in 1870. France was a major participant in the First World War, from which it emerged victorious, and was one of the Allied Powers in the Second World War, but came under occupation by the Axis Powers in 1940. Following liberation in 1944, a Fourth Republic was established and later dissolved in the course of the Algerian War. The Fifth Republic, led by Charles de Gaulle, was formed in 1958 and remains to this day. Algeria and the colonies in Indochina became independent in the 1950s after long, bloody wars. Nearly all the other colonies became independent in the 1960s with minimal controversy and typically retained close economic and military connections with France. Since the second half of the 20th century, France is a driving force of European integration, along with its ally Germany.

France has long been a global centre of art, science, and philosophy. It hosts Europe's fourth-largest number of cultural UNESCO World Heritage Sites and receives around 83 million foreign tourists annually, the most of any country in the world.^[11] France is a developed country with the world's sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP^[12] and ninth-largest by purchasing power parity.^[13] In terms of aggregate household wealth, it ranks fourth in the world.^[14] France performs well in international rankings of education, health care, life expectancy, and human development.^[15][16]France remains a great power in the world,^[17] being a founding member of the United Nations, where it serves as one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, and a founding and leading member state of the European Union (EU).^[18] It is also a member of the Group of 7, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and La Francophonie.

September- USA

May- Mexico

April-Japan

                                                                   

March-Thailand

February- Cuba

  

 

January-Norway

 

 December- South Africa

South Africa

Country in Africa

South Africa is a country on the southernmost tip of the African continent, marked by several distinct ecosystems. Inland safari destination Kruger National Park is populated by big game. The Western Cape offers beaches, lush winelands around Stellenbosch and Paarl, craggy cliffs at the Cape of Good Hope, forest and lagoons along the Garden Route, and the city of Cape Town, beneath flat-topped Table Mountain.

Capitals: Pretoria, Cape Town, Bloemfontein

Currency: South African rand

President: Jacob Zuma

Population: 52.98 million (2013) World Bank

Official languages: English, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu, Southern Sotho,More

November-Canada

                                 

The geography of Canada describes the geographic features of Canada, the world's second largest country in total area.

Situated in northern North America (constituting 41% of the continent's area), Canada spans a vast, diverse territory between the North Pacific Ocean to the west and the North Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Arctic Ocean to the north (hence the country's motto "From sea to sea"), with the United States to the south (contiguous United States) and northwest (Alaska). Greenland is to the northeast; off the southern coast of Newfoundland lies Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, an overseas collectivity of France. Since 1925, Canada has claimed the portion of the Arctic between 60°W and 141°W longitude to the North Pole; however, this claim is contested.^[1] While the magnetic North Pole lies within the Canadian Arctic territorial claim as of 2011, recent measurements indicate it is moving towards Siberia.^[2]

Covering 9,984,670 km² or 3,855,100 sq mi (land: 9,093,507 km² or 3,511,023 sq mi; freshwater: 891,163 km ²or 344,080 sq mi), Canada is slightly less than three-fifths as large as Russia and slightly smaller than Europe. In total area, Canada is slightly larger than both the U.S. and China; however, Canada ranks fourth in land area(i.e. total area minus the area of lakes and rivers)—China is 9,326,410 km² (3,600,950 sq mi) and the U.S. is 9,161,923 km² (3,537,438 sq mi)^[3]

The population of Canada, some 35,749,600 as of April 2015, is concentrated in the south in proximity to its border with the contiguous U.S.; with a population density of 3.5 people per square kilometre (9.1/sq mi), it is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world. The northernmost settlement in Canada—and in the world—is Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Alert (just north of Alert, Nunavut) on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island at 82°30′N 62°19′W, just 834 kilometres (518 mi) from the North Pole.

Canada

Country in North America

Canada is a North American country stretching from the U.S. in the south to the Arctic Circle in the north. Major cities include massive Toronto, west coast film centre Vancouver, French-speaking Montréal and Québec City, and capital city Ottawa. Canada's vast swaths of wilderness include lake-filled Banff National Park in the Rocky Mountains. It's also home to Niagara Falls, a famous group of massive waterfalls.

Capital: Ottawa

Dialing code: +1

Population: 35.16 million (2013) World Bank

Prime minister: Justin Trudeau

Currency: Canadian dollar

Provinces: Ontario, British Columbia, Québec, Alberta, More

Continent	North America
Region	Northern America
Coordinates	60°00′N 95°00′W
Area	Ranked 2nd
• Total	9,984,671 km2 (3,855,103 sq mi)
• Land	91.08%
• Water	8.92%
Coastline	202,080 km (125,570 mi)
Borders	8,893 km
Highest point	Mount Logan, 5,959 m (19,551 ft)
Lowest point	Atlantic Ocean, Sea Level
Longest river	Mackenzie River, 4,241 km (2,635 mi)
Largest lake	Great Bear Lake 31,153 km2 (12,028 sq mi)
Climate	temperate in south to subarctic or arctic in north
Terrain	mostly plains with mountains in west and lowlands in southeast
Natural Resources	iron ore, nickel, zinc, copper, gold,lead, molybdenum, potash, diamonds, silver, fish, timber, wildlife, coal,petroleum, natural gas, hydropower
Natural Hazards	permafrost, cyclonic storms,tornadoes, forest fires
Environmental Issues	air and water pollution, acid rains

October - France

  

                                               Louvre Museum                                           Eiffel Tower

Located In Europe

France

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the country. For other uses, see France (disambiguation).

French Republic République française  (French)
Flag National emblem
Motto: "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" (French) "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem: "La Marseillaise" MENU 0:00
Territory of the French Republic[I]
Location of  metropolitan France, the European part of France  (dark green) – in Europe  (green & dark grey) – in the European Union  (green)
Capital and largest city		Paris 48°51.4′N 2°21.05′E
Official language and national language		French[II]
Demonym		French
Government		Unitarysemi‑presidential constitutional republic
•	President	François Hollande
•	Prime Minister	Manuel Valls
•	President of the Senate	Gérard Larcher
•	President of the National Assembly	Claude Bartolone
Legislature		Parliament
•	Upper house	Senate
•	Lower house	National Assembly
Establishment
•	Francia unified	486
•	Treaty of Verdun[III]	August 843
•	Republic established	22 September 1792
•	Founded the EEC[IV]	1 January 1958
•	Current constitution[V]	4 October 1958
Area
•	Total	643,801 km2[VI][1](41st) 248,600 sq mi
•	Metropolitan France(IGN)	551,695 km2[VII](50th) 213,010 sq mi
•	Metropolitan France(Cadastre)	543,940.9 km2[VIII][2](50th) 210,026 sq mi
Population
•	Total 2016​ estimate	66,736,000[VI][3](20th)
•	Metropolitan France June 2016 estimate	64,590,000[4] (22nd)
•	Density	116/km2[IX] (89th) 301/sq mi
GDP (PPP)		2015 estimate
•	Total	$2.647 trillion (10th)
•	Per capita	$41,181[5] (24th)
GDP (nominal)		2015 estimate
•	Total	$2.422 trillion (6th)
•	Per capita	$37,675[5] (20th)
Gini (2013)		30.1[6] medium
HDI (2014)		0.888[7] very high · 22nd
Currency		Euro (EUR)[X] CFP franc (XPF)[XI]
Time zone		CET[XII] (UTC+1)
•	Summer (DST)	CEST[XIII] (UTC+2)
Date format		dd/mm/yyyy
Drives on the		right
Calling code		+33[XIV]
ISO 3166 code		FR
Internet TLD		.fr[XV]

France (French: [fʁɑ̃s]), officially the French Republic (French: République française [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is atranscontinental sovereign state comprising territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories.^[XVI] The European, or metropolitan, area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. Overseas France include French Guiana on theSouth American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. France spans 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi)^[1] and has a total population of 66.7 million.^[VI][8] It is a unitary semi-presidential republic with the capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. During the Iron Age, what is now metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls, a Celtic people. The area was annexed in 51 BC by Rome, which held Gaul until 486, when the Germanic Franks conquered the region and formed the Kingdom of France.

France emerged as a major European power in the Late Middle Ages, with its victory in the Hundred Years' War (1337 to 1453) strengthening state-building and political centralisation. During the Renaissance, French culture flourished and a global colonial empire was established, which by the 20th century would be the second largest in the world.^[9]The 16th century was dominated by religious civil wars between Catholics and Protestants (Huguenots). France became Europe's dominant cultural, political, and military power under Louis XIV.^[10] In the late 18th century, the French Revolution overthrew the absolute monarchy, established one of modern history's earliest republics, and saw the drafting of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which expresses the nation's ideals to this day.

In the 19th century Napoleon took power and established the First French Empire, whose subsequent Napoleonic Wars shaped the course of continental Europe. Following the collapse of the Empire, France endured a tumultuous succession of governments culminating with the establishment of the French Third Republic in 1870. France was a major participant in the First World War, from which it emerged victorious, and was one of the Allied Powers in the Second World War, but came under occupation by the Axis Powers in 1940. Following liberation in 1944, a Fourth Republic was established and later dissolved in the course of the Algerian War. The Fifth Republic, led by Charles de Gaulle, was formed in 1958 and remains to this day. Algeria and the colonies in Indochina became independent in the 1950s after long, bloody wars. Nearly all the other colonies became independent in the 1960s with minimal controversy and typically retained close economic and military connections with France. Since the second half of the 20th century, France is a driving force of European integration, along with its ally Germany.

France has long been a global centre of art, science, and philosophy. It hosts Europe's fourth-largest number of cultural UNESCO World Heritage Sites and receives around 83 million foreign tourists annually, the most of any country in the world.^[11] France is a developed country with the world's sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP^[12] and ninth-largest by purchasing power parity.^[13] In terms of aggregate household wealth, it ranks fourth in the world.^[14] France performs well in international rankings of education, health care, life expectancy, and human development.^[15][16]France remains a great power in the world,^[17] being a founding member of the United Nations, where it serves as one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, and a founding and leading member state of the European Union (EU).^[18] It is also a member of the Group of 7, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and La Francophonie.

September - Brazil

                

Located in South America
Brazil occupies a large area along the eastern coast of South America and includes much of the continent's interior, sharing land borders with Uruguay to the south; Argentina and Paraguay to the southwest; Bolivia and Peru to the west;Colombia to the northwest; and Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and France (French overseas region of French Guiana) to the north. It shares a border with every South American country except Ecuador and Chile.
Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world, and third largest in the Americas, with a total area of 8,515,767.049 km²(3,287,956 sq mi), including 55,455 km² (21,411 sq mi) of water. It spans four time zones.  Brazil is the only country in the world that has the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn running through it. It is also the only country to have contiguous territory both inside and outside the tropics. Brazilian topography is also diverse and includes hills, mountains, plains, highlands, and scrublands. Much of the terrain lies between 200 metres (660 ft) and 800 metres (2,600 ft) in elevation. The main upland area occupies most of the southern half of the country.  The northwestern parts of the plateau consist of broad, rolling terrain broken by low, rounded hills.  Brazil has a dense and complex system of rivers, one of the world's most extensive, with eight major drainage basins, all of which drain into the Atlantic.^[146] Major rivers include the Amazon (the world's second-longest river and the largest in terms of volume of water), the Paraná and its major tributary the Iguaçu (which includes the Iguazu Falls), the Negro, São Francisco, Xingu, Madeira and Tapajós rivers.

Capital City: Brasilia

Largest City: Sau Paulo

National Language: Portuguese

Currency: Real (R$)

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October - France

November - Canada

December - South America

January - Norway

February - Cuba

March - Thailand

April - Japan

May - Mexico

June - U.S.A.

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