France
France (French: [fʁɑ̃s]), officially the French Republic (French: République française [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a transcontinental country comprising territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. 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 the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. France spans 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi) and has a total population of 66.7 million. 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. 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. 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 nearly all the other colonies became independent in the 1960s with minimal controversy and typically retained close economic and military connections with France. 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. France is a developed country with the world's sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP and ninth-largest by purchasing power parity. In terms of aggregate household wealth, it ranks fourth in the world. France performs well in international rankings of education, health care, life expectancy, and human development. France remains a great power in the world, 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). 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.
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Business Trip Reports - France
報告書番号 | Trip Year and Month | Country | Purpose | 関連プログラム |
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H30-0279 | 2018-10-2018-11 | Burkina Faso, France | アフリカ流域管理プロジェクトの現地検討会参加、SATREPSブルキナの技術調整会議参加、パリ生態環境科学研究所(iEES-Paris)との共同研究打合せ | Environment and Natural Resource Management |
H30-0178 | 2018-09-2018-10 | France | 国際甘藷技術者会議(ISSCT)農業機械及び栽培分野の合同ワークショップへの出席と発表 | Environment and Natural Resource Management |
H30-0098 | 2018-06-2018-08 | France | 1.サバクトビバッタの飛翔と卵生産に関する室内実験の実施(病害虫防除)、2.サバクトビバッタのRNA抽出法の検討(目的基礎研究) | Stable Agricultural Production, Information Analysis |
H30-0041 | 2018-05-2018-09 | Germany, France | CGIARシステム理事会出席及び情報収集分析 | Information Analysis |
H30-0058 | 2018-06-2018-06 | France, Tanzania | 1.RICE CRP 独立運営会議への出席(依頼出張)、2.実証サイト栽培試験準備、テクニカルコミッティーの開催 | Stable Agricultural Production |