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France, [ a] officially the French Republic, [ b] is a country located primarily in Western Europe. It also includes overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, [ X] giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.
Page Eight is a 2011 British political thriller, written and directed for the BBC by the British dramatist David Hare, his first film as director since the 1989 film Strapless. [ 1] The cast includes Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Michael Gambon, Tom Hughes, Ralph Fiennes, and Judy Davis. The film was followed by Turks & Caicos (2014) and Salting ...
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The Alliance of Sahel States (AES/ASS [4] [5] [6] [a]) is a confederation [9] formed between Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso.It originated as a mutual defense pact created on 16 September 2023 following the 2023 Nigerien crisis, in which the West African political bloc ECOWAS threatened to intervene militarily to restore civilian rule after a coup in Niger earlier that year.
English Wikipedia (marked blue in the graph) is the most-read version of Wikipedia, accounting for 48% of the website's global traffic as of 2021. The English Wikipedia is the most edited Wikipedia's language version of all time. The English Wikipedia reached 4,000,000 registered user accounts on 1 April 2007, [ 23] over a year since the ...
The French Wikipedia ( French: Wikipédia en français) is the French-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. This edition was started on 23 March 2001, two months after the official creation of Wikipedia. [1] It has 2,626,660 articles as of 4 August 2024, making it the fourth-largest Wikipedia overall, after the English ...
1991 (15th Session) The Eiffel Tower ( / ˈaɪfəl / ⓘ EYE-fəl; French: Tour Eiffel [tuʁ ɛfɛl] ⓘ) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower from 1887 to 1889. Locally nicknamed " La dame de fer " (French for "Iron Lady ...
The French Riviera, known in French as the Côte d'Azur ( IPA: [kot dazyʁ]; Provençal: Còsta d'Azur, IPA: [ˈkwɔstɔ daˈzyʀ]; lit. ' Azure Coast' ), is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France. There is no official boundary, but it is considered to be the coastal area of the Alpes-Maritimes department, extending from ...