France Report

France Report

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 K\H.   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...