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Capital city:
Paris
Ethnic groups:
Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities
 overseas departments: black, white, mulatto, East Indian, Chinese, Amerindian
Religions:
Roman Catholic 83%-88%, Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim 5%-10%, unaffiliated 4%b overseas departments: Roman Catholic, Protestant, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, pagan
Languages:
French (official) 100%, rapidly declining regional dialects and languages (Provencal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish)
 overseas departments: French, Creole patois, Mahorian (a Swahili dialect)
Population:
65,312,249 (July 2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 21
note:the above figure is for metropolitan France and five overseas regions; the metropolitan France population is 62,814,233
Age structure:
0-14 years: 18.5% (male 6,180,905/female 5,886,849)
 15-64 years: 64.7% (male 21,082,175/female 21,045,867)
 65 years and over: 16.8% (male 4,578,089/female 6,328,834) (2011 est.)
Median age:
total: 39.9 years
 male: 38.4 years
 female: 41.5 years (2011 est.)