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c. 93 million (Full or partial French ancestry and citizenship worldwide) |
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 France
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66,736,000 (Including all the overseas departments)(2016) |
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 United States
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10,329,465 (Includes French Canadian Americans) |
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 Argentina
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6,800,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Canada
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5,077,215 (2011 Census) |
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 Chile
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700,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Brazil
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500,000–1,000,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Uruguay
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300,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Peru
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255,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Italy
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250,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Switzerland
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158,862 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Germany
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126,739 (French citizens) |
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 United Kingdom
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126,049 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Madagascar
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124,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Belgium
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123,076 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Australia
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118,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Morocco
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100,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The French (French: Français) are an ethnic group and nation who are identified with the country of France. This connection may be legal, historical, or cultural.
French people descend mostly from peoples of Latin (Romans, Occitans, Ligurians) and Celtic origin (Gauls, Bretons), and peoples of Germanic origin (Franks, which is a minority per genetic evidence but whose ethnonym survived to be applied to modern French), France has long been a patchwork of local customs and regional differences, and while most French people speak the French language as their mother tongue, languages like Norman, Occitan, Catalan, Auvergnat, Corsican, Basque, French Flemish, Franconian and Breton remain spoken in some regions.
Modern French society can be considered a melting pot. From the middle of the 19th century, it experienced a high rate of inward migration and the government, defining France as an inclusive nation with universal values, advocated assimilation through which immigrants were expected to adhere to French values and cultural norms. Nowadays, while the government has let newcomers retain their distinctive cultures since the mid-1980s and requires from them a mere integration, French citizens still equate their nationality with citizenship as does French law.
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