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The Taj Mahal, an Indian landmark, was completed in 1653.

OFFICIAL NAME: Republic of India, Bharat

FORM OF GOVERNMENT: Federal republic

CAPITAL: New Delhi

POPULATION: 1,296,834,042

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Hindi, English, 21 others

MONEY: Rupee

AREA: 1,269,345 square miles (3,287,590 square kilometers)

MAJOR MOUNTAIN RANGE: Himalaya

MAJOR RIVERS: Ganges, Yamuna, Indus, Brahmaputra

India is part of the continent of Asia. Most of India forms a peninsula, which means it is surrounded by water on three sides. The world's highest mountain range, the Himalaya, rises in the north. The southeast is bordered by the Bay of Bengal, and the southwest is bordered by the Arabian Sea.

India's terrain varies widely, from the Thar Desert in the west to jungles in the northeast. A fertile area called the Ganges Plain covers much of northern India. This formation was created from soil that was deposited by rivers running from the Himalaya. In some places, this layer of silt is over 25,000 feet (7,620 meters) deep.
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PEOPLE & CULTURE

Society throughout India is divided into social ranks, called castes. Caste is determined by birth and there is almost no way to change it. High castes include priests, landowners, and soldiers. So-called Untouchables have no caste and do the most menial jobs.

India is a very spiritual country. It has no official religion, but more than 80 percent of Indians are Hindu. About 13 percent are Muslim. Other religions include Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism, which all began in India.

For thousands of years, since the Hindu religion first evolved, respect for animal life has been an important part of Indians' beliefs. Cows in particular are sacred and cannot be harmed. They are even allowed to wander through city streets, which often causes traffic jams!

India's varied climate zones support about 65,000 animal species, including elephants, pythons, river dolphins, and rhinos, and 12,000 types of flowering plants. It is the only country in the world with both lions and tigers. It's also a bird watcher's paradise.

On the coast of the Bay of Bengal is the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest. Here, tigers swim in the same rivers as dolphins, sea turtles, sharks, and saltwater crocodiles. This unique landscape is constantly under threat as sea levels rise and humans hunt illegally and clear trees for firewood.

The Himalaya mountains provide a home for some of India's rarest animals and plants. The most elusive animal is the snow leopard. Bears and black buck live lower down, and in the northeast, the tiger and one-horned rhinoceros can be found.

GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY

India's parliamentary government was inherited from the British. After independence in 1947, one party, the Congress Party, and one family, the Nehru family, dominated politics in India for decades. Now, however, many parties compete for elected positions.

India's economy is growing so fast that experts predict it will soon become one of the world's leading markets. Indians are hard workers. And though many are poorly educated, there are many others who are highly trained college graduates.

India's earliest known civilization arose about 5,000 years ago on the Indus River in what is now Pakistan. Archaeologists uncovered the remains of two huge cities with brick houses, piped water, and sewer systems. Nobody knows why, but these cities, called Harappa and Mohenjo Daro, were abandoned in 1700 B.C.

The Aryan people were farmers from Central Asia who arrived in India around 1500 B.C. They spoke Sanskrit, one of the world's oldest known languages. The Vedic Scriptures, writings that form the basis of the Hindu religion, were written during the Aryan reign.

In the 200-year reign of the Gupta Empire, starting in the fourth century A.D., arts, crafts, and sciences flourished. During this time, the Indian astronomer Aryabhatta determined that the Earth revolved around the sun. This was long before the Western world accepted the theory.

Beginning in the 16th century, following a series of invasions by Muslim forces, a Mongol leader named Babur founded the Mongol Empire. The Mongols oversaw a golden age of art, literature, and architecture in India between 1527 and 1707. They built roads, mosques, gardens, and enormous tombs, including the grand Taj Mahal.

In the late 1400s, Europeans arrived in India and began setting up trading companies. In 1757, Britain gained control over most of the country. Uprisings against British rule began in 1856. In 1920, the famous Mahatma Gandhi began nonviolent protests to push the British out. In 1947, India had independence.

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The origins of the festival date back to 1852 when the city was going through hard times of flooding and unrest. On the 8th of December, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a statue of the Virgin Mary was going to be unveiled at the top of a big hill in Lyon. Due to the bad weather, the statue couldn’t be delivered. Instead, as the night came and the weather calmed, the people of Lyon put candles in their window. This lit up whole areas of the city, and became a yearly tradition.

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This is a map of Europe. Click on France to explore some French cities!

Drag the name of the cities to the correct place on the map.

Bordeaux

Paris

Nantes

Biarritz

Toulouse

Ajaccio

Lyon

Marseille

Strasbourg

Nice

Calais

Rouen

Lille

Bravo! To learn some fun facts about each cities click on the capital of France.

Paris

Strasbourg

Nantes

Bordeaux

Lyon

Biarritz

Toulouse

Marseille

Nice

Ajaccio

Calais

Lille

Rouen

Click on a city to find out some fun facts.

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Strasbourg

Nantes

Bordeaux

Lyon

Biarritz

Toulouse

Marseille

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Ajaccio

Calais

Lille

Rouen

- The Louvre is the world's biggest art museum. - The Eiffel Tower is not the most visited monument in Paris. - Did you know there is one dog for every 7 Parisians? - The French army still use carrier pigeons.

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- It is only 21 miles away from England.- Since the 19th century Calais specialises in the lace industry.- You can take the lift up 78 metres to the top of the Belfry of the Town Hall for panoramic and unspoiled views of Calais. - Charles De Gaulle was married in the building's wedding hall back in 1921 in a civil ceremony.

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- Lille is a true "college town," with over 100,000 of its inhabitants being students!- There is a free zoo very near to the city center, the Parc Zoologique, where you can see over 70 different species of animals.- It is renowned for its summer markets, festivals and concerts. The most famous event is the Braderie de Lille, the largest flea market in all of Europe.

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- The Big Clock Street, Rue du Gros, became the first pedestrian street in France in 1971.- The Notre-Dame cathedrale of Rouen with its 151 metres high spire is the 4th tallest cathedrale in the world.- The cathedrale Tour de Beurre (the Butter tower) has an amazing carillon of 55 church bells.- The old historic town of Rouen is very famous for its half-timbered houses. There are around 2,000 of these traditional buildings and half have been restaured.

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- It has changed nationality between French and German four times because of the multiple wars. - Strasbourg is important in France but it is also a European centre. - France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise", actually comes from Strasbourg. - It is the capital of Christmas, and this tradition dates back to 1570.

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- It has 362 historic monuments, with some dating back to Roman times. - It took 45 years to build the Place de la Bourse. - The Miroir d'eau (Water Mirror) in Bordeaux is the world's largest reflecting pool. It's 3,450 sqm. - The rue Sainte-Catherine in Bordeaux, a 1.2 km long street, is one of the longest pedestrian streets in Europe.

- It was originally created in 1870 for local fishermen. - Biarritz was made fashionable after 1854 by Napoleon III and his Spanish empress, Eugénie. - Visited by Queen Victoria, Edward VII, and Alfonso XIII of Spain, Biarritz began to call itself "the queen of resorts and the resort of kings." - The town is a popular resort for windsurfers and surfers.

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- Jules Verne was a famous writer from Nantes. - The Gallo and Breton languages are spoken in the city. - Nantes's twin town in the UK is Cardiff (Wales).

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- Toulouse is 2000 years old. - It is known as the "Pink City" because most buildings in the city used coloured bricks. - The University of Toulouse is one of the oldest in Europe, founded in 1229. - Toulouse was founded 4th century BC by Celtic people called the Volques Tectosages.

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- It is the oldest city in France. It was founded 2,600 years ago by Greeks from Focea (now called Phocaea in Turkey). - It has 2 300 days of sunshine per year. - Marseille has the biggest commercial port in France. - It is the city of soap. Production of soap started in the Middle Ages, because there was a surplus of raw materials, like olive oil and soda.

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- Lyon is part of the UNESCO's World Heritage. - The famous French chef Paul Bocuse has kept his 3 stars in the Michelin guide for now over 51 years, making his restaurant L'Auberge du Pont de Collonges the oldest and most renown restaurant in France. - The Petit Prince's father (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ) was born in Lyon. It is the 4th most translated book in the World. - Lyon has 400 secret passageways.

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- Nice was named after a Greek goddess, Nike (Victory). - Every year in February, the carnival of Nice is a colourful and festive event. - It is the 5th most populated city in Frnace, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse. - A lot of rich and famous people have a holiday home in Nice, that is not a myth!- Nice only joined France in 1860.

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- It is the capital city of Corsica, the fourth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. - Although Corsica is located closer to the Italian mainland and Sardinia, it is a part of France since 1768. - Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio in 1769 just after the city became the capital of Corsica. - Ajaccio became the first French town to be liberated from the German occupation during WW II.

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People lived in what is now France more than 100,000 years ago. The Gauls, a Celtic people, migrated to the area about 1200 . By about 50 bce the ancient Romans had conquered the region, which they called Gaul.

As the Roman Empire weakened, German tribes invaded Gaul. The Franks were the strongest of those tribes, and they gave France its name. The greatest Frankish ruler was Charlemagne, who came to power in 768 ce. By the early 800s Charlemagne's empire covered most of western Europe. When Charlemagne died, however, his empire was divided into three parts. After 843 the western section became known as the kingdom of France.

Wars over Land and Religion

In 1066 the French duke of Normandy conquered England. Because of that connection to France, English kings later claimed parts of France for themselves. This led to many battles between the two countries.

One particularly difficult period was the Hundred Years' War, which began in 1337. France was close to defeat when a peasant girl named Joan of Arc led the French army to victory. By the end of the war in 1453, the English had lost nearly all of their land in France.

During the 1500s Protestantism spread across Roman Catholic France. Wars broke out between Protestants (known as Huguenots) and Roman Catholics. Peace came in 1598 when King Henry IV signed the Edict of Nantes, which granted Protestants some rights.

French Revolution and Napoleon

During the 1600s France became the greatest power in Europe. Louis XIV, who reigned from 1643 to 1715, raised the power of the king to new heights. In the 1700s, however, France lost a series of costly foreign wars. At home, political disorder and public anger resulted in the French Revolution in 1789. This uprising by the French people led to the end of the French monarchy. After the revolution France became a republic.

After a period of weak government, France fell into the hands of General Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799. He named himself emperor of France in 1804. Napoleon set out to conquer Europe. He was finally defeated in 1815. Afterward the monarchy was restored, but it fell in 1870. France once again became a republic.

World Wars

Germany invaded France in 1914, at the beginning of World War I. France and its allies narrowly defeated Germany during that war. Less than 30 years later, however, Germany again invaded France, during World War II. Part of the French army, called the Free French, escaped to England under General Charles de Gaulle. Free French, U.S., and British forces drove the Germans out of France in 1944.

Postwar France

In the 1950s and 1960s France lost two colonies- Vietnam and Algeria- that it had controlled for many years. Nevertheless, France's political and economic power grew. In 1993 France became one of the original members of the European Union (EU).

France faced economic difficulties at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. Many people were out of work, and the government spent more than it took in from taxes and other sources. Leaders from different political parties tried to address those problems.

The country faced another problem in 2015 when it suffered two major terrorist attacks. More than 140 people were killed and hundreds of others were injured in the attacks. On July 14, 2016, another major attack took place in the southeastern city of Nice.

The president at the time, François Hollande, announced in December 2016 that he would not seek reelection. That made him the first French president since World War II to decline to run for reelection.

The first round of voting in the next presidential election took place in April 2017. The candidates of the main political parties were eliminated in that round of voting. Instead, the two candidates to advance to a runoff were Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. Macron had never before held an elected office. He did not belong to an established political party. Rather, he was the leader of a new political movement called En Marche! (On the Move!). Le Pen was the leader of the National Front party. Le Pen wanted to limit France's role in the EU and to severely restrict immigration. Macron wanted France to have closer ties to the rest of the EU. In the runoff election on May 7, 2017, Macron won easily. At age 39, he was the youngest person elected president of France. In 2018 and 2019 Macron faced many protests from people who were unhappy with his plans to raise certain taxes. Also in 2019, a fire damaged a large part of the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. The cathedral was one of the most famous buildings in Europe, and it had stood for more than 850 years. Macron vowed to rebuild the church.

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Ooh la la! Ready for the lowdown on one of Europe's most amazing countries? Then check out our fascinating facts about France ...

Official Name: French Republic
Form of government: Republic
Capital: Paris
Population: 67, 092, 056
Official languages: French
Monetary unit: Euro
Area: 543,965 square kilometres
Major mountain ranges: Alps, Pyrenees, Massif Central
Major rivers: Seine, Rhine and Rhône

The largest country in Western Europe, France has long been a gateway between the continent's northern and southern regions. Its lengthy borders touch Germany and Belgium in the north, the Atlantic Ocean in the west, and the Pyrenees mountains and Spain in the south. It also borders the Mediterranean sea in the southeast, and the Alps, Switzerland and Italy in the east.

France has a very diverse landscape. There are beautiful beaches on the southeast coast, home to the French Riviera, and towering mountains in the south and east, where the snow-capped French Alps rise to the sky. Europe's tallest peak, Monte Blanc, is found in the French Alps, standing at a massive 4,810m tall!

Wide, fertile plains dominate most of the north and west, making France the agricultural epicentre of Europe. The sprawling, forested plateau of the Massif Central - a range of ancient mountains and extinct volcanoes - occupies France"s southern interior.

France has lots of land area to provide habitat for a wide variety of plants and animals. More than 25 percent of its territory is covered with forest, and another 50 percent is countryside or farmland.

Lowland forests are home to deer and wild boar, while the woodlands of the Alps and Pyrenees provide refuge for rare chamois antelope, ibex, brown bears and alpine hares, among many other species. The Mediterranean coastline is a stopover for millions of migrating African birds, too, including flamingos, vultures, egrets and bee-eaters.

The French government has made a broad commitment to preserving open spaces and the wildlife they contain. In fact, about ten percent of the country has been set aside as national or regional parklands and nature reserves.

There is evidence that early relatives of humans first settled in France nearly two million years ago. By 300,000 B.C., Neanderthals arose there, and by 40,000 B.C., Cro-Magnons had arrived.

Over time, Celtic tribes from central Europe moved into the region, and when the Romans occupied the territory in the second century B.C., they named it Gaul. Julius Caesar established full Roman control over Gaul in 51 B.C., but by 400 A.D. Rome was in decline. Gaul was attacked by neighbouring tribes, including Visigoths, Vandals and the Germanic Franks, from which France would eventually get its name. In 843 a treaty created the territory of West Francia, which would later become France.

Over the next thousand years, West Francia was ruled by a series of powerful kings. Several wars were fought over who would rule France, including the Hundred Years War, from 1337 to 1453. In 1789, a violent period of change called the French Revolution began, eventually ending in the overthrow of the monarchy.

Napoleon Bonaparte, a general during the French Revolution, declared himself leader of France in 1799. He began a campaign of wars with neighbouring countries, and built a large French empire that ruled over much of continental Europe. But France's domination in Europe came to an end in 1815, when Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo.

France later suffered great losses in both and World War II. It has since emerged, though, as an important and prosperous world power.

France is one of the oldest nations on Earth and the most ethnically diverse country in Europe. These deep and broad influences have made France a world leader throughout history in different aspects of culture, including cuisine, philosophy, music, art, film, fashion, literature and sport.

Over the years, France has been through many political crises. Its current government is a combination of presidential and parliamentary systems. The president is elected by the people and is head of state. A prime minister, chosen by the president, works with the elected parliament to pass laws.

France is among the world's largest economies. The country produces many items that other countries buy, including its most famous products - wine and cheese. Other exports include automobiles, electronics and clothing. Tourism is also a huge industry in France. More than 80 million people visit the country every year, more than any other country on Earth!

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Map of France: National Geographic Maps. Eiffel Tower on a sunny day, Paris: Silvian Tomescu, Dreamstime. Beach at the French Rivieria: Lucian Milasan, Dreamstime. Arc de Triomphe viewed from the Champs-Élysées, Paris: Giancarlo Liguori, Dreamstime. Colourful flowers in the Tuileries Garden, Paris: Victorua, Dreamstime. Glass pyramid entrance to the Louvre, Paris: Lsantilli, Dreamstime. French Alps and Palace of Versailles: Getty Images UK

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