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Hi ! I am French and I wan’t to correct you in the « economy » chapter. The French are the second best economy of Europe, UK are the 3. And the French are the 5 best PIB of the world, thanks for video.
@@legalak1578 En fait, le Royaume uni et la France, au fil des années et de la variation de leur monnaie, switchent régulièrement,quant au niveau mondial, l'inde est passée très récemment devant, reléguant notre pays au 6ème voire 7ème rang mondial...
Très bonne vidéo, ça fait plaisir de voir quelqu’un d’un pays étranger parler de mon pays. D’habitude, les étrangers sont là à sortir « Hon hon, j’aime la baguette au fromage » en parlant de nous, ou d’éternel perdants militairement parlant, mais toi tu a parlé de la France d’une façon neutre, et ça fait plaisir à entendre ! Encore merci pour la vidéo, à plus !
As a french person, I'd like to thank you for this really interesting video and for the effort put on saying all the french word in French. French are usually rude to people who make mistakes, yet your effort is really appreciable.
I am French and I have several answers why France is the most visited country on Earth. 1. The historic monuments (history is litteraly everywhere in France. You can visit castles, old city centers, important places like Normandy's landing...) 2. The ski tourism 3. The beach tourism (a lot of northern europeans come in France to benefit of the sun, especially in the Mediterranean bay) 4. The cultural events (we have a lot of associations and museum which organize festivals often globally popular like Cannes festival. Personnaly, I am a fan of La Machine, an association based in Nantes which make big robots well animated. 😉 ) 5. The nature (we have many natural parks with their own biodiversity. It's a good trick for hiking). 6. The health tourism (we have too balnear sources and other places where people can cure themselves) 7. The diplomatic and business power of France (international organizations and entreprise needs to travel abroad most of time. As we have several headquarters (UNESCO, Interpol, FIFA...), they're attracting many peoples) 8. The gastronomy (Need I to explain? 😁) 9. The transports, especially trains. When you arrive in an airport in France, it's easy to move to another place thanks to the train and to the bus. If needed, it's possible to do carpooling with applications like Blablacar. So, when you arrive in France, you can easily visit the rest of the country. 10. Basically, the geographic position. We are at the intersection of West Europe, so logically, we are crossed by many travellers who want to travel abroad, even if their final destination is not France. Thank you for your work. It's very detailled and it's always a pleasure to see its country from an outside point of view. ^^
And also because we count as tourist every traveller who just use France as a relay to go to another place (ex : a Belgian travelling to Spain by car). Still we can be proud to be a very popular destination.
L'Espagne et l'Italie gonflent énormément nos chiffres par les touristes anglais, belges et allemands qui passent en bagnole chez nous. Ils sont comptés dans les stats. C'est de la triche mais les pouvoirs publics peuvent plus vraiment faire marche arrière puisque sans ça on serait plus premiers, c'est pas bon pour les bulletins ^^
France is like a micro-continent ; a huge diversity on a limited surface. You can travel a few miles and change everything: landscape, architecture, climate, food and even language ❤
As a French, I would encourage visitors to not stop at Paris! Many foreigners only think of Paris when they think of France, but it is not the only place worth visiting, and dare I say not even the best one!
Fun facts about France: -France's longest border is shared with Brazil -France has the world's largest EEZ -France has the most time zones in the world : 13 -France is the only country in the world located on 5 different continents (or 6 if you count Antartica)
For having studied in detail France's geography, it's like a videogame. You go from one "biome" to another and each of them have unique landscape and rich and unique culture. And there's around 50 different ones.
That's very true. You can spend a life time travelling in France, tasting, smelling and seeing different worlds... It's like a continent in a country... No even talking about the overseas... Open world video game is a very good analogy...
Kudos for your French accent. Close to perfection. Why do people visit France ? Because its culture is a brilliant mix between North European efficiency and mediterranean "Joie de vivre". (Dutch person speaking, who spent half a century in France)
That is an interesting take. Do you see fundamental differences between Northern French people and Southern French people? I am from the Northern part of France and I have to say that Southern France doesn't quite feel like home for me, since absolutely nothing here feels even remotedly Mediterrean. I feel more closer to Belgians than to Southern France. But part of my family is Belgian, that may be why. :D
France is also partly african culturaly today : you may look at people clothes outside during a saturday afternoon etc... There is the influence of food and music as well...
France is beautiful because of mild weather , diverse geography, fine taste in every thing like cuisin, beautiful language,cultura and so on is a Unique country. Greetings from Colombia
Well, we are quite far from the northern European efficiency... despite the fact that the northern half of France being located at the latitudes of Austria or southern Germany, we still are culturally lot closer to, say, Italy, than to the germanic countries
Paul's accent is close to perfection? Hardly so. I know he's a linguist and he studied french, but like most english native speakers his vowels sound odd, and he still struggles with our /r/ sound which is perfectly understandable don't get me wrong.
Gracias Eduardo but you have also a wonderful country....
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As a Moroccan national who studied and lived in France for many years and also visited many European countries, I can safely say that France is one of the most beautiful countries in Europe if not the most beautiful. France is the most diverse European country. Diversity in landscapes, cuisines, cultures, populations and climate. When it comes to Europe, many countries are beautiful and worth visiting but if someone has no choice but to visit one and only one European country then France is the way to go.
Hi ! Bonjour ! I live in one the French overseas regions mentionned in the video, Martinique. And as such, I thought that I could, perhaps, add a few things that could be interesting. - Geographically, the island of Martinique is relatively small.(1 128 km² and around 64 km long.) However, it is very lush and filled with many beaches as well. In terms of fauna, it is notable for a remarkable concentration of hummingbirds (Colibri in French), which are often used as a symbol of the Island. As for it's proximity to other countries, from Martinique, the island-country of St.Lucia can be seen and, on really sunny days, you can even see the island-country of Dominica (not the same as the Dominican republic, btw 🇩🇲/🇩🇴), just behind St-Lucia.(🇱🇨) It should be noted that, despite being French, the Island isn't included in the E.U's Schengen area, which allows European citizens to travel freely, without passport or other border checks between the E.U's internal borders. That's also the case for all of France's oversea territories as well. - Culturally, the majority of the island's population is comprised of descendants of black slaves. In fact, one the bigger cities here, Schoelcher, is named after Victor Schoelcher, who is often recognized as the man responsible for the abolishment of slavery in France in 1848.(For good this time, since it has been abolished earlier in 1794 but Napoleon I reinstated it in 1802.) So slavery is a touchy subject here, especially given that the descendants of white colonists (Béké as they're called here.) from way back then, are still, today among the island's richest citizens. - Economically, it is one of France's poorest territories (when compared to other French territories, it's still above the economic standards of it's area.). As of 2020, it was among the three poorest ones in fact along with Réunion and Corsica. Though, it is still the second richest island of the "lesser Antilles", with a GDP of around 9 billion USD. One it's main products is Rum which is mainly exported towards, mainly metropolitan France and from there, the rest of Europe and, to a lesser extent, North America. - If you ever visit, I would recommend the Garden of Balata, on the heights of Fort-De-France, Martinique's capital city. It's a great place to see the variety of the island's flora. But there's also other places of interest like : The town of St-Pierre which was devastated by a volcanic eruption In 1902, one of the most devastating of the 20th century, claiming the lives of 30 000 people and left only 2 survivors, one of whom was in his prison cell at the time ; The town of Le Diamant (The Diamond), which has a giant rock in the shape of, you guessed it, a diamond 💎, and that rock was also a vessel of the British Navy at some point, seriously, they even named it "H.M.S Diamond Rock." and put cannons on top of it. And that's about it. I just wanted to add some information about one the French oversea territories, since they're often really forgotten about in discussions regarding France.(Even in Metropolitan France itself.) But the value of these territories shouldn't be underestimated, not only from an economic standpoint (Granted, still not as comparable as Metropolitan France but often, still above the surrounding foreign territories) but more importantly, from a strategic standpoint given that they're the reason why France has the largest ZEE in the World. If you've read that far, I hope you learned something of value. Au revoir ! 🇫🇷
@@gt-ttb_jean9992 C'est drôle, parce qu'on m'a toujours dit que c'était parce que l'impératrice Joséphine, venant d'une famille de colons Békés, qui aurait eu donc un intérêt à rétablir l'esclavage, le lui aurait suggéré. Et, bien qu'on ne puisse pas vraiment savoir ce que Mme de Beauharnais en pensait vraiment.(même si, en faisant quelques recherches de plus,(Wikipédia, mais ça marche quand même.) il semblerait qu'elle ait pu être assez sympathique à des courants abolitionnistes vis à vis de l'esclavage.) Il est quand même bien plus logique que, Napoléon l'ait fait pour calmer les Anglais. Donc, merci de m'avoir apporté certainement, l'explication la plus logique à ce sujet, que je n'avais malgré tout, jamais entendu avant 😅. En y pensant, c'est vraiment regrettable qu'ils aient détruits la statue de l'impératrice, à Fort de France.
@@arthurgaudin3924 Ça semblait logique après tout, mais, il faut parfois se souvenir que l'histoire a souvent ses nuances complexes. Et je pense que c'est aussi vrai pour notre chère Impératrice. En histoire, les choses ne sont pas toujours aussi simples qu'on pourrait le penser. Enfin, j'imagine, je ne suis pas historien 😅.
I'm not french, but I feel french a lot because I grew up near Paris and never stopped visiting that country. Paris is so far the most incredible city I had the chance to visit, but as some other comments said, there's much more than Paris in France. Although some English speaking countries love to hate France, it's a fact that in some areas nothing can beat the prestige of France.
Even to us French people, we sometimes love to hate our own country. This is how we are, and why foreign people LOVE our country but HATE its people: we aren't ever satisfied with what we have, how we have it, and so on. We forever find a way to complain. This isn't a problem when we are in France. But it is a problem when we are traveling worldwide and show the rest of the world how we are. We love perfection and if we may reach it for our land, we can't "for us".
@@Shamanix000 As a French, the way we seem to hate ourselves and our country is on our genes. It’s a strength : never being satisfied and always staying united.
@@jamesm.9285 One of her most helpful videos is this one (Understanding Fast Spoken French): th-cam.com/video/pLH7rCiAoWM/w-d-xo.html I also like the "Easy French" channel and all of the other Easy Languages channels.
Excellent video. I will share it with my students (I teach French) so they can watch it outside of class. I think France is a popular destination for the country image in general, but also because as you mentioned in your video it is in the center of Western Europe: many visitors would probably visit several countries during their trip, and France would most often be one of them. And also because "France" rhymes with "vacances" :))
I think one of the reasons why tourism is such a big part of the French economy is due to the Tour de France, the way it is filmed shows just enough of the country to appeal to the curiosity of the viewers. Such great marketing 😂
I'm French and i think we're the most visited country becasue you can do pretty much anything you want in France. Want to go to the beach ? You can. To the moutain ? Done. The city ? Easy. Just a nice walk in the forrest ? Any time. A museum or very old historical place ? Pick an era. And bonus point, whatever you do, wherever you go, you will find good food and good wine.
As a French I didn’t know we were the most visited country in the world, especially as I’m not from Paris, we have a huge tendency to live among ourselves, friends, family and that’s it. The last winter I organised a huge party at a ski resort for a birthday celebration. we were drunk as fuck, trying jump off the road with our cars and at the end a lot of strangers joined us to party ! Danish, Austrian mainly, they said they had the best time in their life because they would have ended up arrested by the police. My point is we have a huge freedom here that is not cliché like in the USA but still impressive, I think we forget it so easily.
I am a french from one of the overseas collectivities, more specifically the one in North America. It's surface is only about 244m square and in clear days we can see our Canadian neighbors house a few dozen km away xD Also we are the only Boreal forest of France, our weather and biodiversity is quite unique to France.
The greatest prestige of France is its history, it is simply incredible, more battles won (in front of the USA), an angel of the Lord intervened in its geopolitics (Saint Joan of Arc defeated the English who had invaded almost the entire country, she was only 17 years old)...
As a French, I think my country is the mot visited because of our architechture, our history, our art and the most important, our food ! hope if you guys come see France, you'll enjoy it ! Your video was awesome, thank you very much, that was good
I'm french and to answer your question there is already other people on comments that told all the importants points so I will not repeat them. But france is a beautiful and unique country with a lot of totally différents landscapes, monuments etc etc . Btw great video. I learned the unesco part that I didn't know before.
A good and interesting video, thank you Paul. As a French person and a Norman, I would like to say that our Mont-Saint-Michel is one of the most visited sites in France, countless Japanese people visit it, among other nationalities, and if you go there in August you will hardly hear a full French sentence there! I have read a lot of comments here that explain why France is so popular with tourists. All countries have interesting monuments, history, food; we may have a little bit more? We also have varied landscapes and a rather good road system. Finally, we ARE in the middle of Europe 🙂
@@Ysundeneth It's not how you solve this problem fellow britain folk : what is sold on the Mont St Michel ? Britain's cultural goods. We ripped you off haha, but I mean it's yours if yo want to, we are only gonna take the money haha
Merci pour cette vidéo. I’m french and I know how lucky I was to born in such a country. Previous comments widely explained why France remains one of the more attractive country to visit. I lived for 30 years in Paris then left to the Alps and finally came to the Atlantic Ocean in Loire Atlantic. I don’t really understand the french peoples they don’t like France. Maybe it’s simply because they don’t know it and its diversity of landscapes and choices of living. Or maybe some of them like wilde wide areas we don’t really have but in French Guyane and Réunion. France is rich of a multilingual and multi origin Culture and even today, diversity is part of France IMHO. I didn’t learn anything new but it’s a good recall for me. Thanks again!
I there from France! Super quality video, I loved it. A few comments though: - there is another main river that should be drawn: the Rhin, at the border with Germany. It has a tremendous historical legacy and is a major piece of the energy infrastructure with "run-of-the-river" dams. - a likely explanation of the tourism attractivity is due to the central position of France: many people come to France and then go elsewhere (after visiting or not), or must travel through France to reach Iberian peninsula from all other countries of Europe and symmetrically. Thanks for your quality content!
My favorite story in French history is that time the papacy was centered in the southern French town of Avignon. I literally don't have the time or space to talk about it here, but Ryan Reeves did a whole video about the Avignon Papacy a few years back. It's incredible.
From France: nice video! To answer your question, I think that, in France there is a diversity of landscapes, of cultures behind a unite culture. From Teahupoo to Paris, crossing Brittany and Savoie Mountains! Also there is decades and century of history!
Excellent video man. Lots of comments already on why we are the most visited country in the world (culture, landscape diversity, geographic location, food and wine,...). I'll add that, as many comments suggest, it's actually so funny how people like to joke on us, because we're known to be proud and somewhat susceptible (which is mainly true, not gonna lie ^^), but there's a famous saying in French: "qui aime bien, châtie bien", which could be roughly translated as "you love as much as you tease". I've travelled a lot around the world, and I can confirm I've almost always encountered friends from every nationalities toward french in general ❤️
As a French from Paris, I totally agree the fact that there is a lot of immigrants of old colonies (mostly arabic countries). I see also a lot of Chineses in Paris (13e)... And by the way, there is a lot of tourists wearing 'french bérets' in Paris. The ones who wears that are 99.9% of the time tourists.
Interresting of this country is also, how this language was created. Firstly celtic Gauls, nextly Romans (due to this It is Romance language) and lastly, german Franks (for this word France comes). Also, in Latin and in Anciend, aswell as in modern Greek exists word Galia, which means France. It is same in name of language. About Me, My association before I have known much about France not just from this video only is just about Paris city, but only littlebid, nextly about french Chanson, french wines and that was all. Also, I was in France I think 8 years ago and also in Paris too. It is very interresting country.
Thank you, just on point is that french is not made firstly from Gaulish. Gaul was populated by some celtic speaking peoples, who spoke totally different languages from french. These languages have been totally extincted. Also there had been other non celtic peoples, ligurians, greeks on the mediterranean shores, vasconic peoples in the south west... and before the celts invaded, the whole of « gaul » was speaking non celtic languages which we have unfortunally no traces now. The Basque language is the only remaining of the languages that existed before the conquest of much of the lands by the celts from central Europe.
The Latin word Gallia means Gaul, not France. Fun fact: the Latin word gallia also means cock (rooster for the Americans). That’s why this animal is the emblem of France.
Very good video 👍 I am French and I live in the city of Tours in the Centre Val de Loire. I think that France is the most visited country in the world for several reasons. The first one is that already there are several forms of tourism (cultural tourism, seaside tourism, mountain tourism, green tourism and entertainment tourism), and in these 5 tourism, France excels. Cultural tourism : -Paris with its monuments and architecture. -The numerous castles, villages and other monuments throughout France. (For example as I said I live in Tours in the Centre Val de Loire which is a region known for having a lot of beautiful castles, the Loire Castles). Seaside tourism : -the beaches in the south of France are very popular especially with German and English tourists but also with the French themselves. -But there are also the Atlantic, Breton and Norman beaches which are mostly visited by French people. Mountain tourism : -the Alps Mountains are very popular with tourists again English and German during the winter periods. Green tourism : -France has a lot of forest and national parks that attract many people who want to get closer to nature. -France has many beautiful and diverse landscapes. Amusement tourism: -France has a lot of amusement parks, including the most famous Disneyland Paris, which is visited by many tourists, both French and foreign. -France also has other important parks such as the Asterix park, the Futuroscope, the Puy-du-Fou, the Aix-en-Provence park, etc. I think that it is the accumulation of all these forms of tourism that make France the most visited country in the world.
Interesting video but you forger some incredible places. Le Bassin d'Arcachon is a legendary one in Nouvelle Aquitaine, Les Landes are so beautifull with all the surf beach and in Occitanie is perfect for all her beach also and her palms everywere :). But nice job thank you!
@@rb026 Same, metropolitan french. Guyana, Réunion, Miquelon, Guadeloupe and countless others are as french as Grand-Est, Paris or Burgundy. It's a shame people think they're colonies
I'm french, but I just want to add a little fact about the TGV, and more specifically one of it's line, the one going to the east (brown on the map at 9:50) What is today known as Lorraine as for quite some time been divided around two cities, Nancy and Metz, their rivalities dating back to the Duchy of Lorraine and the tree bishopric (everything could cause a war declaration, a war even happened over a basket of apple the "guerre de la hottée de pommes"). Metz grew more than Nancy until the franco-prussian war of 1870 resulting in the annexation of Moselle (where Metz is located) which made Nancy the new capital of Region and the new home of most alsacian and mosellan that didn't want to live under german rule (which also made of Nancy a city capable of culturally competing with Paris). Nowadays both cities are similarly sized and the rivality is as strong as ever, as such a lot of infrastructures are placed in the middle, as it will help one over the other, and this is why the TGV station of lorraine ("la gare lorraine TGV") is located is an extremly unpopulated area (it take close to 30 minutes to get to it from both towns)
I'm sure arabic is more widely spoken in France today, than many regional languages you talked about. And arabic has a major influence on modern french today : toubib (doctor), chouïa (a bit), kif-kif (equal), etc..
@@romaingillet2526 ça dépend des régions en fait je vis dans une ville de 30 000 habitants en Provence et y’a au moins 1/3 qui parle arabe. Donc le propos de Moïse est pour moi juste factuel et de loin d’ailleurs
Toubib, chouïa or kif-kif are outdated terms. My grand-mother, born in 1934, used them, I haven’t heard them since 15 years. But you'r right, there's many people who speak Arabic fluently, due to their origines. Most than regional languages. Nobody teaches regional languages yet, except in Occitanie.
@@LeVraiCG7 oui, cest vrai les gens qui arrivent en France ont plutôt tendance à s'installer directement, plutôt que de continuer plus loin dans les terres... En même temps la région paca est très urbanisée par rapport aux autres.
"Major influence on modern french today" Nope lmao. What are you even saying. If colonizers are not speaking the autochtone's language, how is that the French's fault?
I can't imagine how many non-Euro people's heads exploded when listing the countries bordering France. - They're all together?!!! - Always have been. ·shoots·
Hello. I am french and I think you have sumed up our country the best it was possible to do in 11 minutes, I would not have done better. Just one mistake I think, the referendums on New Caledonia independance were not overwhelmingly in favor of staying french. The last one was but it was boycotted by the independantists. The second one was 53-47 in favor of staying french which is a close result.
Hi! You forgot to mention the catalan language and culture of Rosselló region (Roussillon), wich its main city is Perpinyà (Perpignan). It belonged to Catalonia until 1659. Although it has a strong connection with occitan culture, they are not occitan people but catalan. Thx!
Catalonia was created by Frenchmen. And Catalan comes from Langue d'Oc, meaning it comes from occitan. You can check the catalan language's branch on the internet, linguists found it comes from occitan. Makes sense, the French stopped the umayads and helped the spanish all throughout the Reconquista.
I'm French! Thx for this video! We are the most country visited in the world thx to Paris but also for many reason: Foods, landscapes, castles, history, and the loving spirit!
Italy too is transcontinental due to Pantelleria and Lampedusa which are in Africa And Russia too Then Spain, Denmark, Portugal, Norway, Netherlands, Greece and UK are also transcontinental
@@GEOfocusChannel And you could have added that France has the largest EEZ in the world (or 2nd behind USA depending on how you count) 😉 Funny fact : on the french wiki it says 2nd, on the english wiki it says 1st 😋
France is the second biggest country in Europe if we exclude Russia and Turkey since most of their territories lie in Asia, also as the agricultural exports indicate, France happens to be an extremely fertile black soil land
Russia is the biggest even if you only include it's European bits. Most of it's population also lives on European side. Siberia is basically it's colony.
@@Olivier-GM Ukraine is the "Incredible Shrinking Country"...it lost a lot of territory which went back to Russia it belonged to historically anyway....
@@Olivier-GM actually france is bigger than ukraine since543.940 km² is the size of continental france only, if you add drom-tom and corsica you reach 672.000 km² so larger than ukraine
Great video. What I know is that France connects to the UK with the world's longest undersea transport tunnel to London(France's sixth-largest city) . English is a hybrid language of French, 1-2 thirds depending on your opinion. Also, my country has been at war with France longer than any other nation in human history. Although peaceful now with the exception of France accusing the UK of making itself too economically attractive, especially after Brexit. However what I didn't know about France, some of the islands were allowed to vote in their elections I've never heard, are they populous?
all territories of France can vote for the presidential or legislative elections. Everyone is represented at the National Assembly. For the population, Réunion is by far the most populous with 860,000 inhabitants followed by Guadeloupe with 370,000 inhabitants, Martinique (350,000), Guyane and Mayotte (300,000 each), French Polynesia (280,000), New Caledonia (270,000), Saint-Martin (35,000), Wallis and Futuna (11,000), Saint-Barthélémy (10,000) and Saint-pierre et Miquelon (6,000). The other French territories are mostly unihnabited except some military or scientific personnel.
@@lioneldemun6033 only Mali is refusing the French support, preferring the support of the Russian, and African countries can do as they want, if they prefer the neocolonialism of China or Russia, it's their choice, but they better not come back crying to the west in a few decade that Russia and China had just taken their natural resources and left without helping the local population as they did in Sri Lanka
Hello Jamie, I agree with @@leosimon241 , french overseas are all in the french parliament, wich makes the huge difference with the english overseas territories. Just as an example, Mayotte decided to stay in France while the 3 other Mahori islands decided to be independant. Mayotte actually is the most prosperous territory in the Mozambique Channel, making it a major destination for illegal immigration. I believe you'd ask today to the Mayotte population if they want to leave France, they'd be 95% against such a silly idea. Today, all Mahori people and further many african people try to cross the sea to come to Mayotte and become a french citizen. But you'll still find some african trolls explaining that France is still to this day an imperialist power and Putin is a god 😉 About England, just trying to tickle you : England in fact is nothing more than an old french colony (Honi soit qui mal y pense - Dieu et mon Droit : you see what I mean), the first colony to get its independance. Since that time, we fight against each other, mostly today on a rugby field, for a long time 1 against 4, but now Italy tries to help us, and soon Ireland and Scotland. See you soon in 2023 RWC 😂
"France accusing the uk of making itself too economically attractive" is a delusion of brexiters and tabloïds. People don't speak at all about uk, only about political measures. What you see on tabloïds that make you feel french people are as obsessed with england than england is obsessed with france and french people isn't a reality, sorry. I though the tragedy of Liverpool would have taught more the britons about the veracity and honesty of this kind of press but still not it seems. People don't hate you here as well
Great video! 😊 2 things: 1- At the very same second you mentionned the TGV my phone got a notification from the TGV company's app (SNCF) lol, I do not get them often so the chance of it happening was low and it made me laugh. 2- You forgot to mention the French Southern Territories? 5 uninhabited islands in the Indian Ocean + a slide of Antarctica.
I'm french and why France is the most visited country in the World? It's because its location in Europea, its weather and its opened mind to every people in the world. Of course things to see in France in each cities and villages are an big plus ^^ And Bravo for your video on France. Really well resumed.
the diversity of food, landscapes, activities at every time of the year, and historical impact for sure...Thats why our country is the most visited i guess
Guys who come to visit France 🇫🇷 which is my country, please stop thinking only about Paris and go visit some other breathtaking places 🙃 You won’t regret it at all
The truth about France being the most visited country is that, is counted as oversea visitor anyone who spend a night in the country, meaning that tourists from Germany, UK, the Netherlands, that are going to southern Europe through France and stop only for one night, are part of the millions of visitors . So, as we learn in geography lessons here, and though history and culture make it very attractive, the key for our country is its central position between northern and southern Europe .
Yeah as a French person I have to admit it's true, it makes the difference. It's why France is actually 3rd worldwide in terms of tourism revenues (money spent by tourists), after USA and Spain. But 3rd is already very high tbh, there is really a lot to see.
What is Tourist: Is anyone who travels to places other than the one in which is his habitual residence, outside of their everyday environment, for a period of at least one night but not more than one year and whose usual purpose is different from the exercise of any remunerated activity in the place to which he goes. This is the most widely used definition internationally. If you leave Lyon to visit Prague and you spend a night in a hotel let's say in Munich you would be counted as a tourist, it is not exclusive to France.
Great video ! A great deal of information dealt in just 11 minutes and everything is exact. My take on the success of french tourism is this : we have the perfect array of assets, we have everything. We have beaches, mountains, historical monuments, prehistorical sites, wine, food, cultural life both modern and traditional. And all of this is conveniently accessible to the citizens of the biggest and richest economic zone of the world. It's a really fortunate situation.
France’s population is currently around 68 million inhabitants, not 65 million as was mentioned in this video. Also another error he made was about the actual size of France in terms of Geography. France has about 640,000 KM2 and is second largest economy in Europe after Germany. France is also has the most powerful military in Europe after Russia.
The most powerful military in Europe after Russia? I think you could even say before Russia, given what we’ve seen in Ukraine in the last few months, about the state and the competence of the Russian military...!
@@GEOfocusChannel these are not territories, but an integral part of France. it's like posting the the geographical size of the U.S. but failing to include Hawaii and Alaska as they are an integral part of the U.S. (states not territories like Puerto Rico)
Salut ! :) What I think makes people want to visit France is that its very diverse on many aspects, which gives things to like to a lot of people! Of course Paris brings a lot of tourists, but most of the time, people who visited other parts of France loved it. I a foreigner who is planning to come to France is reading my comment, don't hesitate to visit other major cities like Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse or Nice! You'll like it for sure 😉 And in addition, Parisians are known to be meaner than in the rest of France haha Don't hesitate to come, we'll welcome you!!!
Nice Video ! As a French living in the South Est of France i think the main tourist attractions are obviously Paris, for the effeil tower, l'Arc de Thriomhpe etc.. But in the SE is most likely the beach, and sometimes the Pays Catalan, is a part of France where the Ispanic cultule as we know of Espagna : Corrida, Bodega( an event often in summer where it basically consists of drinking until you are in a daze) and Les Arene de Nimes( not realy in the catalan region) are realy nice to visit, maybe not in summer like this one but late september is good, nice weather not to hot but not to cold either Oh and nice french accent btw
Geographically, France is also a giant european road transportation hub, between north and south, and west and east, UK, Spain, Germany and North of Europe, with sea connections through its mediterranean harbor to north Africa and even Asia through Suez channel in Egypt, and even up to americas through it's Atlantic coast.
As a French person, I believe what makes France the most visited country in the world is the fact that wou can find a lot of types of tourism: of course, the cultural aspect is very important, you can easily spend a week in Paris just to see the most iconic monuments, but there are also La côte d'Azur ( the mediteranien coast), the Alpes and Pyrénées that bring a lot of tourists, especially European ones. For example, when I'm on holidays and I go skiing, I hear German, English, Belgian people, even if they spend hours in their car to go there
Saying France is the most visited country in the world may be a bit of a fraud : it is said the figure includes tourists from Northern Europe driving through to holiday in Spain or Italy... and back! By the way, "Garonne" takes only one "r" (French people are notoriously finicky about spelling!) Fun fact : the French president is also a prince! The princedom of Andorra is historically shared between the French ruler and the bishop of Burgos in Spain. As a linguist, you could also have mentioned catalan as one of the romance languages spoken in France. Great job though!
Not bishop of Burgos but of La Seo de Urgel! ANd the french president is also: * grand maître de l'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur, (Grand Master of the National Order of the Legion of Honor) * grand maître de l'ordre national du Mérite,(Grand Master of the National Order of Merit) * "premier et unique chanoine honoraire de l'église romaine de Saint-Jean de Latran" (first and only Honorary Canon of the Roman Church of St. John Lateran) * protecteur de l'Institut de France, de l'Académie française et du domaine national de Chambord.(Protector of the Institut de France, the Académie française and the national domain of Chambord.)
How about those crossing germany to go to Prague, Polland or sweden ? How about our campsites full of nederlands and germans ppl ? For a brit, crossing france to spain is a matter of few hour, if they choose to rest , it's often they want to add a short visit to a place they like , on the road.
Small comment from France ! I left a like because the video was good. And to answer your last question, I think it is because the ''hexagon'' has been a crossroad for centuries and as such we have many people from other cultures have been in France and seen some beauty in our culture. And we built our reputation on this.
Idk why we're the most visited country in the world. Maybe it's this romantic and cool image surrounding France that makes people curious! Is it the diversity? Is it the monuments? Is it for French people? Is it for art and famous brands? Is it for Paris? Idk, tell me
As a french person, i approve this video! I think that my country is the most visited because of the very particular atmosphere and the variety of the landscapes
i think my country are higly visited because of our impotance in a lot of period in history and our print on actual superpower. we have created a lot of things in a lot of different domaine, if you have any passion , you have a lot of chance to be passionated by a french inventor or any french things. thx for this good video about my country !
Hello ! Thanks for your video that was really interesting. I am French and I was born and raise in Martinique. I would just like to add that each overseas regions has creole as their language. The language was born from the mix of the french and african languages as a mean of understanding between the slave and the settlers. And is different in each island, because of first the origin of the slaves and second because of the distance that separate them. Today Creole refer to a language as much as a culture or an ethnic group. Thanks again for your video and have a nice day !
It's weird calling our major "fleuve" a "river", in french a "river" is a very small watercourse, rivers flow into "fleuve" which are much larger "river" and finally the "fleuve" flow into the sea/ocean so here's a french word that doesn't exist in english : "fleuve" : a large watercourse which end in sea/ocean
I think France is the most visited country because it's quite small and diverse. In just a few hours, you can travel from the coast, to the mountains and to Paris in Metropolitan France. There are also many attracting spots like beaches (ocean and sea) , mountain (ski), volcanos, ... French regions are very different from one to another so you feel like you are in a completely different country when you travel from one region to another. And of course, France culture is shown all around the globe through cinema, publicity,... France has an image of the romantic luxurious Paris and it attracts tourists
Why France ? Food, food and food (And wine). That is one of the things french people living abroad miss the most ; it is almost impossible to find acceptable cheese and bread abroad
He says France have territories in ALMOST all continents... but? It's the only country in the world in every continents ! Africa : La Réunion ; Mayotte ; Îles Éparses de l'océan Indien ; Domaines français de Sainte-Hélène North America :Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon ; Saint-Martin ; Saint-Barthélémy ; Guadeloupe ; Martinique ; Ile de Clipperton South America : Guyane Oceania : Nouvelle-Calédonie ; Wallis-et-Futuna ; Polynésie française Asia : Domaine national français en Terre Sainte Antarctic : Archipel des Kerguelen ; Archipel des Crozet ; Saint-Paul-et-Amsterdam ; Terre Adélie And obviously Europe : France So, did he make a mistake ? Am i wrong ?
That’s valid, but claims to Antarctica aren’t internationally recognized, so they’re debatable. And the sites in the Holy Land are debatable. I think it’s more accurate to say that France owns the property, but doesn’t have jurisdiction over the territory. Calling them national domains is more symbolic.
We lack a real territory in Asia. "Domaine national français en Terre Sainte" isn't a French territory (I have been there btw) but a "private property" owned by French government.
I knew about the overseas territories (or rather "colonies" as the non-French call them), because they are on the Euro bills! One minor nitpick: in Alsace-Lorraine they don't speak "a Germanic language" but a German dialect. I don't know how intelligible it is with standard German, because even though I've visited, everybody just spoke French with me. The region was very contested between Germany and France between 1871 and 1945 and changed hands a lot of times, but Germany does not claim it anymore. The changes after WW2 turning to German-French friendship are rather amazing, it's rare to see such cases of reconciliation in history.
Hi Great vid. Just a slight correction on the corsican history, the island was ruled by Genoa kingdom until 1735 when Corsica published its Déclaration d'Indépendance written by Pascuale Paoli mainly, which alongside Constitution is considered as the first in modern world and will be used by French to create their own.
I m French, and according to me, if my country is the most visited country in the world, it is because this is a perfect country for tourism. There is so much very different landscapes, a big culture, a well balanced climate, you can make everything in term of activities (ski and jetski in the same week). You have so much historical and attractive monuments to visits (Tour Eiffel, Arc de Triomphe, Prehistorical caves, Museums, well knowns restaurants, cities, castles, moutain villages, campains). In addition to that, this is a rich and peaceful country, it’s not dangerous (some thieves in Paris but except of this, no real danger). And the last thing, is that in France, there is lot of cultures different. French culture but also arabic culture, asian culture, african culture, italian culture ect... And last but not least, in every region, you can discover a new part of French culture. In East, in mountains, ou will find cheeses, strong alcohols, raclette, ski..., in North, you will find the .. North french culture, and the ”Chtis”’who are really different of South french people. In south, at Marseille for example, that will be clearly more ”exotic”, a different accent, beach, sun with hight temperature, boats sweeter alcohols, fishs ... In the the West, you will find the ”Bretagne” culture, with a different food, a lot of alcohol, a lot of fish, and ”crêpes” (very good food from Bretagne), a different accent to, beachs and cliffs And in the middle, campain, long green spaces, a really good meat, a lot of fruits and vegetables, good alcohol, a lot of farmers and fields. (Sorry for my english speaking)
@@Alexis-zx9ep J’vis à Paris j’ai pas de problèmes. Faut juste pas faire le con à se balader dans des ruelles cheloues seul la nuit. Y’a des problèmes c’est sûr, mais encore une fois faut être objectif. Compare la France aux Etats-Unis, à l’Angleterre, au Brésil, aux pays d’Afrique. Et même en Espagne, mon frère a passé un an à Madrid, il a eu + de problèmes là bas que toute sa vie à Paname. En terme de sécurité on est bien. Même si bien sûr l’insécurité monte en France et faut faire quelque chose.
@@raphi92i19 tu as nuancé le propos j'allais pas non plus dire que Paris c'est pavela mais il y a quand même un peu de danger mais je te remercie de ta réponse
There's no country like France anyhwere in the world. As you travel around France you see that most of Europe's major cultures share a border with the country. Brittany and its links to Britain, the Nord and French Flanders with its similarities (linguistic, cultural and architectural) with the Dutch, Alsace-Lorraine and its resemblance to Germany, the Apls and its similarity to Switzerland, Alpes-Cote d'Azur with Italy and the Basque country and its strong ties and resemblance to Spain. There is no other country that provides that sort of diversity anywhere in the world.
Well, as a French, who lived in the north part of the France, more precisely, the Picardie Region ( Yes you must understand that Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardie ARE NOT the same cringe region, it was a bad idea to unified us into 1 region, even if we are totally different),more precisely the Somme department ( that all of you knows because of WW1, and i personnaly found, even more than 100 years later, a loot of artifact dated of the WWI like shells, bullets, helmets, etc ), i think that France is the most visited country of the world because of us culture yes, but also because of us History, i must repeat that France have the most largest battle count in the world, and the most biger Winrate of this sames battle. I must also said that it's because we have conquered litteraly the world, and even today, we can see that our influence stay in this ex conquered areas. We have colonized most of the actual USA, they fertiles Land of Canada, conquered and democratised Europe, colonized a big part of north Africa, have put a feet in Asia with the Indochina colony, etc. Everywhere we were, everywhere we stay, but nowhere we go for the futur. Because i will conclude my commentary in this fact, that maybe will answer to certain people why France will die, it is because of a massive immigration, that we cannot turn into French people because they won't be French, and also because we don't want, by us self, be French, because of a long, slow but sure, death of the Fench culture because of this same immigration, who imported peoples in France, who dont want to become French, and be assimilated. So, in final, you accept a conflict between cultures in your own country and also because of demographic much more stong for them, than the original french natives, and then be replaced by this sames new arrived ones peoples...Thats why, you all, are spectator, of the death, of a Old giant who litteraly make this world...with more than 2500 years of History...
as a french citizen, i think overseas territories are important, since it allows us to have a military presence all over the wolrd with large EEZ, which allows us to have nuclear submarines all over the world
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Hi ! I am French and I wan’t to correct you in the « economy » chapter.
The French are the second best economy of Europe, UK are the 3. And the French are the 5 best PIB of the world, thanks for video.
@@legalak1578 En fait, le Royaume uni et la France, au fil des années et de la variation de leur monnaie, switchent régulièrement,quant au niveau mondial, l'inde est passée très récemment devant, reléguant notre pays au 6ème voire 7ème rang mondial...
Très bonne vidéo, ça fait plaisir de voir quelqu’un d’un pays étranger parler de mon pays. D’habitude, les étrangers sont là
à sortir « Hon hon, j’aime la baguette au fromage » en parlant de nous, ou d’éternel perdants militairement parlant, mais toi tu
a parlé de la France d’une façon neutre, et ça fait plaisir à entendre !
Encore merci pour la vidéo, à plus !
As a french person, I'd like to thank you for this really interesting video and for the effort put on saying all the french word in French. French are usually rude to people who make mistakes, yet your effort is really appreciable.
why am I watching that..? I know my country ! actually it's pretty well explained !
I am French and I have several answers why France is the most visited country on Earth.
1. The historic monuments (history is litteraly everywhere in France. You can visit castles, old city centers, important places like Normandy's landing...)
2. The ski tourism
3. The beach tourism (a lot of northern europeans come in France to benefit of the sun, especially in the Mediterranean bay)
4. The cultural events (we have a lot of associations and museum which organize festivals often globally popular like Cannes festival. Personnaly, I am a fan of La Machine, an association based in Nantes which make big robots well animated. 😉 )
5. The nature (we have many natural parks with their own biodiversity. It's a good trick for hiking).
6. The health tourism (we have too balnear sources and other places where people can cure themselves)
7. The diplomatic and business power of France (international organizations and entreprise needs to travel abroad most of time. As we have several headquarters (UNESCO, Interpol, FIFA...), they're attracting many peoples)
8. The gastronomy (Need I to explain? 😁)
9. The transports, especially trains.
When you arrive in an airport in France, it's easy to move to another place thanks to the train and to the bus. If needed, it's possible to do carpooling with applications like Blablacar.
So, when you arrive in France, you can easily visit the rest of the country.
10. Basically, the geographic position. We are at the intersection of West Europe, so logically, we are crossed by many travellers who want to travel abroad, even if their final destination is not France.
Thank you for your work. It's very detailled and it's always a pleasure to see its country from an outside point of view. ^^
bien argumenté!
J’avoue
And also because we count as tourist every traveller who just use France as a relay to go to another place (ex : a Belgian travelling to Spain by car).
Still we can be proud to be a very popular destination.
@@cpp3221 He literally said it. Just learn to read. Point 9. Damned low IQ...
L'Espagne et l'Italie gonflent énormément nos chiffres par les touristes anglais, belges et allemands qui passent en bagnole chez nous. Ils sont comptés dans les stats. C'est de la triche mais les pouvoirs publics peuvent plus vraiment faire marche arrière puisque sans ça on serait plus premiers, c'est pas bon pour les bulletins ^^
France is like a micro-continent ; a huge diversity on a limited surface. You can travel a few miles and change everything: landscape, architecture, climate, food and even language ❤
The language fact make me be sceptic....
@@nicofrance8468 , so basically you're telling me that you don't know France.
Fair enough.
@@jbogren You talk about accents or really differents langages ?
In France I ear french and arab, French in France, arab in suburb.
@@jbogren There are languages in Bretagne and Corsica but the French is still the most important. Btw thanks for all your compliments 😊
@Tsar_Nicolas_II why ?
As a French, I would encourage visitors to not stop at Paris! Many foreigners only think of Paris when they think of France, but it is not the only place worth visiting, and dare I say not even the best one!
Rpz Grenoble
@@rb026 c une blague ? J'espère
@@lo_qc non
@@rb026 et bah
@@rb026 You mean gauchiste land
Fun facts about France:
-France's longest border is shared with Brazil
-France has the world's largest EEZ
-France has the most time zones in the world : 13
-France is the only country in the world located on 5 different continents (or 6 if you count Antartica)
Antarctica doesn't belong to France or any country for that matter there are claims only
@@lioneldemun6033 Antartica belongs to us French
@@christophermichaelclarence6003 you are completely deluded my poor 🐸
@@lioneldemun6033 no just a part who was discovered by a French
@@zertox7351 Claimed but not part of France
it always fascinates people when I tell them that France's longest border is with Brasil :D
Actually it is. Guiana is our French Overseas Territory
It's true.
... And the only land border between France and Low Countries stands in the Carribeans (St. Martin/Marteen island).
true if you don't count antartica
@@elbentos7803 the Netherlands you mean
For having studied in detail France's geography, it's like a videogame. You go from one "biome" to another and each of them have unique landscape and rich and unique culture. And there's around 50 different ones.
That soooo f*king truue
That's very true. You can spend a life time travelling in France, tasting, smelling and seeing different worlds... It's like a continent in a country... No even talking about the overseas...
Open world video game is a very good analogy...
Kudos for your French accent. Close to perfection. Why do people visit France ? Because its culture is a brilliant mix between North European efficiency and mediterranean "Joie de vivre". (Dutch person speaking, who spent half a century in France)
That is an interesting take. Do you see fundamental differences between Northern French people and Southern French people?
I am from the Northern part of France and I have to say that Southern France doesn't quite feel like home for me, since absolutely nothing here feels even remotedly Mediterrean. I feel more closer to Belgians than to Southern France. But part of my family is Belgian, that may be why. :D
France is also partly african culturaly today : you may look at people clothes outside during a saturday afternoon etc... There is the influence of food and music as well...
France is beautiful because of mild weather , diverse geography, fine taste in every thing like cuisin, beautiful language,cultura and so on is a Unique country. Greetings from Colombia
Well, we are quite far from the northern European efficiency... despite the fact that the northern half of France being located at the latitudes of Austria or southern Germany, we still are culturally lot closer to, say, Italy, than to the germanic countries
Paul's accent is close to perfection? Hardly so. I know he's a linguist and he studied french, but like most english native speakers his vowels sound odd, and he still struggles with our /r/ sound which is perfectly understandable don't get me wrong.
As a French people, we are always taught in school that there is five important rivers, even if the last one is not 100% French, there is « Le Rhin »
Yes, we had several discussions with Germany regarding le Rhin 1😆. Now its clear
Alsace rpz
I am from spain and i visited 4 Times France and its one of the most beautiful countries in the world
Mejores vecinos🇫🇷❤️🇪🇸
i'm french and Spain is one of my favorite country too !
Muchas gracias !
Merci beaucoup ! 🇫🇷♥️🇪🇸
Gracias Eduardo but you have also a wonderful country....
As a Moroccan national who studied and lived in France for many years and also visited many European countries, I can safely say that France is one of the most beautiful countries in Europe if not the most beautiful.
France is the most diverse European country. Diversity in landscapes, cuisines, cultures, populations and climate. When it comes to Europe, many countries are beautiful and worth visiting but if someone has no choice but to visit one and only one European country then France is the way to go.
Hi !
Bonjour !
I live in one the French overseas regions mentionned in the video, Martinique.
And as such, I thought that I could, perhaps, add a few things that could be interesting.
- Geographically, the island of Martinique is relatively small.(1 128 km² and around 64 km long.)
However, it is very lush and filled with many beaches as well.
In terms of fauna, it is notable for a remarkable concentration of hummingbirds (Colibri in French), which are often used as a symbol of the Island.
As for it's proximity to other countries, from Martinique, the island-country of St.Lucia can be seen and, on really sunny days, you can even see the island-country of Dominica (not the same as the Dominican republic, btw 🇩🇲/🇩🇴), just behind St-Lucia.(🇱🇨)
It should be noted that, despite being French, the Island isn't included in the E.U's Schengen area, which allows European citizens to travel freely, without passport or other border checks between the E.U's internal borders.
That's also the case for all of France's oversea territories as well.
- Culturally, the majority of the island's population is comprised of descendants of black slaves. In fact, one the bigger cities here, Schoelcher, is named after Victor Schoelcher, who is often recognized as the man responsible for the abolishment of slavery in France in 1848.(For good this time, since it has been abolished earlier in 1794 but Napoleon I reinstated it in 1802.)
So slavery is a touchy subject here, especially given that the descendants of white colonists (Béké as they're called here.) from way back then, are still, today among the island's richest citizens.
- Economically, it is one of France's poorest territories (when compared to other French territories, it's still above the economic standards of it's area.).
As of 2020, it was among the three poorest ones in fact along with Réunion and Corsica.
Though, it is still the second richest island of the "lesser Antilles", with a GDP of around 9 billion USD.
One it's main products is Rum which is mainly exported towards, mainly metropolitan France and from there, the rest of Europe and, to a lesser extent, North America.
- If you ever visit, I would recommend the Garden of Balata, on the heights of Fort-De-France, Martinique's capital city.
It's a great place to see the variety of the island's flora.
But there's also other places of interest like : The town of St-Pierre which was devastated by a volcanic eruption In 1902, one of the most devastating of the 20th century, claiming the lives of 30 000 people and left only 2 survivors, one of whom was in his prison cell at the time ; The town of Le Diamant (The Diamond), which has a giant rock in the shape of, you guessed it, a diamond 💎, and that rock was also a vessel of the British Navy at some point, seriously, they even named it "H.M.S Diamond Rock." and put cannons on top of it.
And that's about it.
I just wanted to add some information about one the French oversea territories, since they're often really forgotten about in discussions regarding France.(Even in Metropolitan France itself.)
But the value of these territories shouldn't be underestimated, not only from an economic standpoint (Granted, still not as comparable as Metropolitan France but often, still above the surrounding foreign territories) but more importantly, from a strategic standpoint given that they're the reason why France has the largest ZEE in the World.
If you've read that far, I hope you learned something of value.
Au revoir ! 🇫🇷
Plein de choses oui merci
Napoléon a restauré l'esclavage pour faire la paix avec les anglais même si dans les fait il n'était plus vraiment apliqué
@@gt-ttb_jean9992
C'est drôle, parce qu'on m'a toujours dit que c'était parce que l'impératrice Joséphine, venant d'une famille de colons Békés, qui aurait eu donc un intérêt à rétablir l'esclavage, le lui aurait suggéré.
Et, bien qu'on ne puisse pas vraiment savoir ce que Mme de Beauharnais en pensait vraiment.(même si, en faisant quelques recherches de plus,(Wikipédia, mais ça marche quand même.) il semblerait qu'elle ait pu être assez sympathique à des courants abolitionnistes vis à vis de l'esclavage.)
Il est quand même bien plus logique que, Napoléon l'ait fait pour calmer les Anglais.
Donc, merci de m'avoir apporté certainement, l'explication la plus logique à ce sujet, que je n'avais malgré tout, jamais entendu avant 😅.
En y pensant, c'est vraiment regrettable qu'ils aient détruits la statue de l'impératrice, à Fort de France.
@@achaastheoneaboveall2732 je pensais aussi que ça n'était qu'un caprice de Joséphine
@@arthurgaudin3924
Ça semblait logique après tout, mais, il faut parfois se souvenir que l'histoire a souvent ses nuances complexes.
Et je pense que c'est aussi vrai pour notre chère Impératrice.
En histoire, les choses ne sont pas toujours aussi simples qu'on pourrait le penser.
Enfin, j'imagine, je ne suis pas historien 😅.
I'm not french, but I feel french a lot because I grew up near Paris and never stopped visiting that country.
Paris is so far the most incredible city I had the chance to visit, but as some other comments said, there's much more than Paris in France.
Although some English speaking countries love to hate France, it's a fact that in some areas nothing can beat the prestige of France.
Even to us French people, we sometimes love to hate our own country. This is how we are, and why foreign people LOVE our country but HATE its people: we aren't ever satisfied with what we have, how we have it, and so on. We forever find a way to complain. This isn't a problem when we are in France. But it is a problem when we are traveling worldwide and show the rest of the world how we are.
We love perfection and if we may reach it for our land, we can't "for us".
@@Shamanix000 As a French, the way we seem to hate ourselves and our country is on our genes. It’s a strength : never being satisfied and always staying united.
@@offaris2905 I can't agree more. Genes but also culture, I suppose. We are born to love perfection (arts, culture, social, ...).
@@Shamanix000 Et c’est pour cela que nous vivons dans le plus beau pays du monde n’est-pas ?
@@offaris2905 Tout à fait. Ou en tout cas on y travaille. :)
Just when I've started to learn French again. Perfect timing Paul! 👏 😄 🇫🇷
I have found the "Comme une Française" TH-cam channel helpful for learning French.
@@tmhc72_gtg22c Oui, moi aussi! Ç'est une chaîne excellente.
@@jamesm.9285 One of her most helpful videos is this one (Understanding Fast Spoken French): th-cam.com/video/pLH7rCiAoWM/w-d-xo.html
I also like the "Easy French" channel and all of the other Easy Languages channels.
Good luck bro And don't give up, French is wonderful!
@Mickael D. Olivier I totally get what you're saying, but that uniqueness just makes the language so much more beautiful and enjoyable. :D Thanks!
Excellent video. I will share it with my students (I teach French) so they can watch it outside of class.
I think France is a popular destination for the country image in general, but also because as you mentioned in your video it is in the center of Western Europe: many visitors would probably visit several countries during their trip, and France would most often be one of them.
And also because "France" rhymes with "vacances" :))
Let's not forget to mention local languages such as "Créole" spoken in most the overseas Régions . Each of the Région has its own Créole.
Also polysenisan languages like Tahitian
I think one of the reasons why tourism is such a big part of the French economy is due to the Tour de France, the way it is filmed shows just enough of the country to appeal to the curiosity of the viewers. Such great marketing 😂
As a French woman, I advise you to stop going to Paris and instead visit the provincial cities and the overseas departments, you will learn more.
I'm French and i think we're the most visited country becasue you can do pretty much anything you want in France. Want to go to the beach ? You can. To the moutain ? Done. The city ? Easy. Just a nice walk in the forrest ? Any time. A museum or very old historical place ? Pick an era. And bonus point, whatever you do, wherever you go, you will find good food and good wine.
As a French I didn’t know we were the most visited country in the world, especially as I’m not from Paris, we have a huge tendency to live among ourselves, friends, family and that’s it.
The last winter I organised a huge party at a ski resort for a birthday celebration. we were drunk as fuck, trying jump off the road with our cars and at the end a lot of strangers joined us to party ! Danish, Austrian mainly, they said they had the best time in their life because they would have ended up arrested by the police.
My point is we have a huge freedom here that is not cliché like in the USA but still impressive, I think we forget it so easily.
I am a french from one of the overseas collectivities, more specifically the one in North America.
It's surface is only about 244m square and in clear days we can see our Canadian neighbors house a few dozen km away xD
Also we are the only Boreal forest of France, our weather and biodiversity is quite unique to France.
The greatest prestige of France is its history, it is simply incredible, more battles won (in front of the USA), an angel of the Lord intervened in its geopolitics (Saint Joan of Arc defeated the English who had invaded almost the entire country, she was only 17 years old)...
As a French, I think my country is the mot visited because of our architechture, our history, our art and the most important, our food ! hope if you guys come see France, you'll enjoy it !
Your video was awesome, thank you very much, that was good
I'm french and to answer your question there is already other people on comments that told all the importants points so I will not repeat them. But france is a beautiful and unique country with a lot of totally différents landscapes, monuments etc etc . Btw great video. I learned the unesco part that I didn't know before.
Même en tant que français ça fait pas de mal ce genre de vidéos ^_^
A good and interesting video, thank you Paul. As a French person and a Norman, I would like to say that our Mont-Saint-Michel is one of the most visited sites in France, countless Japanese people visit it, among other nationalities, and if you go there in August you will hardly hear a full French sentence there!
I have read a lot of comments here that explain why France is so popular with tourists. All countries have interesting monuments, history, food; we may have a little bit more? We also have varied landscapes and a rather good road system. Finally, we ARE in the middle of Europe 🙂
The middle of western Europe. Not Europe
Will you ever stop gloating about Le Mont St Michel ?! We make better cider in Brittany, anyway :P
@@Ysundeneth It's not how you solve this problem fellow britain folk : what is sold on the Mont St Michel ? Britain's cultural goods. We ripped you off haha, but I mean it's yours if yo want to, we are only gonna take the money haha
@@Ysundeneth That is very debatable! ;-) And we even make perry cider, hah!
@@lisamartin9831 In your wildest dreams... Sour grapes and all ;-)
Merci pour cette vidéo. I’m french and I know how lucky I was to born in such a country. Previous comments widely explained why France remains one of the more attractive country to visit. I lived for 30 years in Paris then left to the Alps and finally came to the Atlantic Ocean in Loire Atlantic. I don’t really understand the french peoples they don’t like France. Maybe it’s simply because they don’t know it and its diversity of landscapes and choices of living. Or maybe some of them like wilde wide areas we don’t really have but in French Guyane and Réunion. France is rich of a multilingual and multi origin Culture and even today, diversity is part of France IMHO.
I didn’t learn anything new but it’s a good recall for me. Thanks again!
Merci ! Vive la France, Vive la République !
I there from France!
Super quality video, I loved it. A few comments though:
- there is another main river that should be drawn: the Rhin, at the border with Germany. It has a tremendous historical legacy and is a major piece of the energy infrastructure with "run-of-the-river" dams.
- a likely explanation of the tourism attractivity is due to the central position of France: many people come to France and then go elsewhere (after visiting or not), or must travel through France to reach Iberian peninsula from all other countries of Europe and symmetrically.
Thanks for your quality content!
I giggled at the Sane river 😄😄🙈 Great video!
My favorite story in French history is that time the papacy was centered in the southern French town of Avignon. I literally don't have the time or space to talk about it here, but Ryan Reeves did a whole video about the Avignon Papacy a few years back. It's incredible.
Comment on peut ne pas être fier de notre pays ? Vive la France !
From France: nice video! To answer your question, I think that, in France there is a diversity of landscapes, of cultures behind a unite culture. From Teahupoo to Paris, crossing Brittany and Savoie Mountains!
Also there is decades and century of history!
Excellent video man.
Lots of comments already on why we are the most visited country in the world (culture, landscape diversity, geographic location, food and wine,...).
I'll add that, as many comments suggest, it's actually so funny how people like to joke on us, because we're known to be proud and somewhat susceptible (which is mainly true, not gonna lie ^^), but there's a famous saying in French: "qui aime bien, châtie bien", which could be roughly translated as "you love as much as you tease". I've travelled a lot around the world, and I can confirm I've almost always encountered friends from every nationalities toward french in general ❤️
As a French from Paris, I totally agree the fact that there is a lot of immigrants of old colonies (mostly arabic countries).
I see also a lot of Chineses in Paris (13e)...
And by the way, there is a lot of tourists wearing 'french bérets' in Paris. The ones who wears that are 99.9% of the time tourists.
I’m French and impressed by the info you gave! Some I didn’t even know 😅
Very precise video, nice job!
Interresting of this country is also, how this language was created. Firstly celtic Gauls, nextly Romans (due to this It is Romance language) and lastly, german Franks (for this word France comes).
Also, in Latin and in Anciend, aswell as in modern Greek exists word Galia, which means France. It is same in name of language.
About Me, My association before I have known much about France not just from this video only is just about Paris city, but only littlebid, nextly about french Chanson, french wines and that was all.
Also, I was in France I think 8 years ago and also in Paris too. It is very interresting country.
Thank you, just on point is that french is not made firstly from Gaulish. Gaul was populated by some celtic speaking peoples, who spoke totally different languages from french. These languages have been totally extincted. Also there had been other non celtic peoples, ligurians, greeks on the mediterranean shores, vasconic peoples in the south west... and before the celts invaded, the whole of « gaul » was speaking non celtic languages which we have unfortunally no traces now. The Basque language is the only remaining of the languages that existed before the conquest of much of the lands by the celts from central Europe.
@@fablb9006 Oh yeah, that's true. I know, that Gaulish language was celtic language.
The Latin word Gallia means Gaul, not France. Fun fact: the Latin word gallia also means cock (rooster for the Americans). That’s why this animal is the emblem of France.
@@fablb9006 Dan la langue française il y a quelques mots gaulloi(Celt)
nhyfhyt56(ce n est pas mon mot de passe) environ 80, ce qui est totalement insignifiant.
Very good video 👍
I am French and I live in the city of Tours in the Centre Val de Loire.
I think that France is the most visited country in the world for several reasons. The first one is that already there are several forms of tourism (cultural tourism, seaside tourism, mountain tourism, green tourism and entertainment tourism), and in these 5 tourism, France excels.
Cultural tourism :
-Paris with its monuments and architecture.
-The numerous castles, villages and other monuments throughout France.
(For example as I said I live in Tours in the Centre Val de Loire which is a region known for having a lot of beautiful castles, the Loire Castles).
Seaside tourism :
-the beaches in the south of France are very popular especially with German and English tourists but also with the French themselves.
-But there are also the Atlantic, Breton and Norman beaches which are mostly visited by French people.
Mountain tourism :
-the Alps Mountains are very popular with tourists again English and German during the winter periods.
Green tourism :
-France has a lot of forest and national parks that attract many people who want to get closer to nature.
-France has many beautiful and diverse landscapes.
Amusement tourism:
-France has a lot of amusement parks, including the most famous Disneyland Paris, which is visited by many tourists, both French and foreign.
-France also has other important parks such as the Asterix park, the Futuroscope, the Puy-du-Fou, the Aix-en-Provence park, etc.
I think that it is the accumulation of all these forms of tourism that make France the most visited country in the world.
Interesting video but you forger some incredible places. Le Bassin d'Arcachon is a legendary one in Nouvelle Aquitaine, Les Landes are so beautifull with all the surf beach and in Occitanie is perfect for all her beach also and her palms everywere :).
But nice job thank you!
Thanks for adding those!
FINALLY someone that doesn’t refer to our land as « colonies »
Yeah I’m metropolitan french and we don’t consider our overseas territory as colonies but as a full part of the country
It must be strangers, we never say that in the metropolitan part...
@@rb026 Same, metropolitan french. Guyana, Réunion, Miquelon, Guadeloupe and countless others are as french as Grand-Est, Paris or Burgundy. It's a shame people think they're colonies
But that a neocolony
@@marlene97280 no it isn’t. It’s a region, as french as Mainland France.
I'm french, but I just want to add a little fact about the TGV, and more specifically one of it's line, the one going to the east (brown on the map at 9:50)
What is today known as Lorraine as for quite some time been divided around two cities, Nancy and Metz, their rivalities dating back to the Duchy of Lorraine and the tree bishopric (everything could cause a war declaration, a war even happened over a basket of apple the "guerre de la hottée de pommes"). Metz grew more than Nancy until the franco-prussian war of 1870 resulting in the annexation of Moselle (where Metz is located) which made Nancy the new capital of Region and the new home of most alsacian and mosellan that didn't want to live under german rule (which also made of Nancy a city capable of culturally competing with Paris).
Nowadays both cities are similarly sized and the rivality is as strong as ever, as such a lot of infrastructures are placed in the middle, as it will help one over the other, and this is why the TGV station of lorraine ("la gare lorraine TGV") is located is an extremly unpopulated area (it take close to 30 minutes to get to it from both towns)
I'm sure arabic is more widely spoken in France today, than many regional languages you talked about. And arabic has a major influence on modern french today : toubib (doctor), chouïa (a bit), kif-kif (equal), etc..
I agree, but only in overseas regions, no? Maybe also sometimes in big cities like Paris and Marseille
@@romaingillet2526 ça dépend des régions en fait je vis dans une ville de 30 000 habitants en Provence et y’a au moins 1/3 qui parle arabe. Donc le propos de Moïse est pour moi juste factuel et de loin d’ailleurs
Toubib, chouïa or kif-kif are outdated terms. My grand-mother, born in 1934, used them, I haven’t heard them since 15 years.
But you'r right, there's many people who speak Arabic fluently, due to their origines. Most than regional languages. Nobody teaches regional languages yet, except in Occitanie.
@@LeVraiCG7 oui, cest vrai les gens qui arrivent en France ont plutôt tendance à s'installer directement, plutôt que de continuer plus loin dans les terres...
En même temps la région paca est très urbanisée par rapport aux autres.
"Major influence on modern french today"
Nope lmao.
What are you even saying. If colonizers are not speaking the autochtone's language, how is that the French's fault?
As a french, I would like to say that your video is very accurate and well-done!
I can't imagine how many non-Euro people's heads exploded when listing the countries bordering France.
- They're all together?!!!
- Always have been. ·shoots·
Could you explain me please
Hello. I am french and I think you have sumed up our country the best it was possible to do in 11 minutes, I would not have done better. Just one mistake I think, the referendums on New Caledonia independance were not overwhelmingly in favor of staying french. The last one was but it was boycotted by the independantists. The second one was 53-47 in favor of staying french which is a close result.
Hi! You forgot to mention the catalan language and culture of Rosselló region (Roussillon), wich its main city is Perpinyà (Perpignan). It belonged to Catalonia until 1659. Although it has a strong connection with occitan culture, they are not occitan people but catalan. Thx!
@@antoni-olafsabater9729 also the franco-provençal language we have in common with switzerland and Italy (Aosta, Piedmont and Apulia)
And catalonia was created by the french 😉
Catalonia was created by Frenchmen.
And Catalan comes from Langue d'Oc, meaning it comes from occitan.
You can check the catalan language's branch on the internet, linguists found it comes from occitan.
Makes sense, the French stopped the umayads and helped the spanish all throughout the Reconquista.
Good to see Rouen when you talk about Normandie. I wasn t excpecting that clicking on the video
I'm French! Thx for this video!
We are the most country visited in the world thx to Paris but also for many reason:
Foods, landscapes, castles, history, and the loving spirit!
Italy too is transcontinental due to Pantelleria and Lampedusa which are in Africa
And Russia too
Then Spain, Denmark, Portugal, Norway, Netherlands, Greece and UK are also transcontinental
Yes, some other European countries are transcontinental to varying degrees. France is on 5 continents, which is why I emphasized it.
@@GEOfocusChannel And you could have added that France has the largest EEZ in the world (or 2nd behind USA depending on how you count) 😉
Funny fact : on the french wiki it says 2nd, on the english wiki it says 1st 😋
France is the second biggest country in Europe if we exclude Russia and Turkey since most of their territories lie in Asia, also as the agricultural exports indicate, France happens to be an extremely fertile black soil land
Ukraine is bigger than France
And Ukraine (603 548 km² vs 543 940 km²) :)
Russia is the biggest even if you only include it's European bits. Most of it's population also lives on European side. Siberia is basically it's colony.
@@Olivier-GM Ukraine is the "Incredible Shrinking Country"...it lost a lot of territory which went back to Russia it belonged to historically anyway....
@@Olivier-GM actually france is bigger than ukraine since543.940 km² is the size of continental france only, if you add drom-tom and corsica you reach 672.000 km² so larger than ukraine
Excellente présentation ! Merci
Great video. What I know is that France connects to the UK with the world's longest undersea transport tunnel to London(France's sixth-largest city) . English is a hybrid language of French, 1-2 thirds depending on your opinion. Also, my country has been at war with France longer than any other nation in human history. Although peaceful now with the exception of France accusing the UK of making itself too economically attractive, especially after Brexit. However what I didn't know about France, some of the islands were allowed to vote in their elections I've never heard, are they populous?
all territories of France can vote for the presidential or legislative elections. Everyone is represented at the National Assembly. For the population, Réunion is by far the most populous with 860,000 inhabitants followed by Guadeloupe with 370,000 inhabitants, Martinique (350,000), Guyane and Mayotte (300,000 each), French Polynesia (280,000), New Caledonia (270,000), Saint-Martin (35,000), Wallis and Futuna (11,000), Saint-Barthélémy (10,000) and Saint-pierre et Miquelon (6,000). The other French territories are mostly unihnabited except some military or scientific personnel.
@@lioneldemun6033 only Mali is refusing the French support, preferring the support of the Russian, and African countries can do as they want, if they prefer the neocolonialism of China or Russia, it's their choice, but they better not come back crying to the west in a few decade that Russia and China had just taken their natural resources and left without helping the local population as they did in Sri Lanka
@@leosimon241 the woke West is finished my Gallic friend
Hello Jamie, I agree with @@leosimon241 , french overseas are all in the french parliament, wich makes the huge difference with the english overseas territories.
Just as an example, Mayotte decided to stay in France while the 3 other Mahori islands decided to be independant. Mayotte actually is the most prosperous territory in the Mozambique Channel, making it a major destination for illegal immigration. I believe you'd ask today to the Mayotte population if they want to leave France, they'd be 95% against such a silly idea. Today, all Mahori people and further many african people try to cross the sea to come to Mayotte and become a french citizen. But you'll still find some african trolls explaining that France is still to this day an imperialist power and Putin is a god 😉
About England, just trying to tickle you : England in fact is nothing more than an old french colony (Honi soit qui mal y pense - Dieu et mon Droit : you see what I mean), the first colony to get its independance. Since that time, we fight against each other, mostly today on a rugby field, for a long time 1 against 4, but now Italy tries to help us, and soon Ireland and Scotland. See you soon in 2023 RWC 😂
"France accusing the uk of making itself too economically attractive" is a delusion of brexiters and tabloïds. People don't speak at all about uk, only about political measures. What you see on tabloïds that make you feel french people are as obsessed with england than england is obsessed with france and french people isn't a reality, sorry. I though the tragedy of Liverpool would have taught more the britons about the veracity and honesty of this kind of press but still not it seems.
People don't hate you here as well
Great video! 😊 2 things:
1- At the very same second you mentionned the TGV my phone got a notification from the TGV company's app (SNCF) lol, I do not get them often so the chance of it happening was low and it made me laugh.
2- You forgot to mention the French Southern Territories? 5 uninhabited islands in the Indian Ocean + a slide of Antarctica.
I’d love a more in-depth video on the parts of France that are not geographically in Europe.
Hey, missing Massif of Vercors bitween massif central and Alpes. Nice vidéo. Enjoy.
You're prononcing the french names really well
You have a really good pronounciation of french words (Champagne, quiche, Normandie etc...) congratulations!
I'm french and why France is the most visited country in the World?
It's because its location in Europea, its weather and its opened mind to every people in the world.
Of course things to see in France in each cities and villages are an big plus ^^
And Bravo for your video on France. Really well resumed.
the diversity of food, landscapes, activities at every time of the year, and historical impact for sure...Thats why our country is the most visited i guess
Guys who come to visit France 🇫🇷 which is my country, please stop thinking only about Paris and go visit some other breathtaking places 🙃 You won’t regret it at all
Merci de raconter l'histoire de notre nation 🇨🇵
It's a cool video but here we mostly talk about the 5 french rivers (fleuves) including the Rhine too
The truth about France being the most visited country is that, is counted as oversea visitor anyone who spend a night in the country, meaning that tourists from Germany, UK, the Netherlands, that are going to southern Europe through France and stop only for one night, are part of the millions of visitors . So, as we learn in geography lessons here, and though history and culture make it very attractive, the key for our country is its central position between northern and southern Europe .
Yeah as a French person I have to admit it's true, it makes the difference. It's why France is actually 3rd worldwide in terms of tourism revenues (money spent by tourists), after USA and Spain. But 3rd is already very high tbh, there is really a lot to see.
It's true, but it works x)
What is Tourist:
Is anyone who travels to places other than the one in which is his habitual residence, outside of their everyday environment, for a period of at least one night but not more than one year and whose usual purpose is different from the exercise of any remunerated activity in the place to which he goes.
This is the most widely used definition internationally.
If you leave Lyon to visit Prague and you spend a night in a hotel let's say in Munich you would be counted as a tourist, it is not exclusive to France.
@@zied6456 Yeah
why does I feel this is almost all of my middle school geo class, this is quite all I remember from it
Great video ! A great deal of information dealt in just 11 minutes and everything is exact.
My take on the success of french tourism is this : we have the perfect array of assets, we have everything. We have beaches, mountains, historical monuments, prehistorical sites, wine, food, cultural life both modern and traditional. And all of this is conveniently accessible to the citizens of the biggest and richest economic zone of the world. It's a really fortunate situation.
9:21, Reunion Island at the back ! Best overseas department ;)
France’s population is currently around 68 million inhabitants, not 65 million as was mentioned in this video. Also another error he made was about the actual size of France in terms of Geography.
France has about 640,000 KM2 and is second largest economy in Europe after Germany. France is also has the most powerful military in Europe after Russia.
The total area I mentioned in the video was for Metropolitan France, not all of France’s transcontinental territories. I specified that in the video.
The most powerful military in Europe after Russia?
I think you could even say before Russia, given what we’ve seen in Ukraine in the last few months, about the state and the competence of the Russian military...!
@@GEOfocusChannel these are not territories, but an integral part of France.
it's like posting the the geographical size of the U.S. but failing to include Hawaii and Alaska as they are an integral part of the U.S. (states not territories like Puerto Rico)
Salut ! :)
What I think makes people want to visit France is that its very diverse on many aspects, which gives things to like to a lot of people! Of course Paris brings a lot of tourists, but most of the time, people who visited other parts of France loved it.
I a foreigner who is planning to come to France is reading my comment, don't hesitate to visit other major cities like Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse or Nice! You'll like it for sure 😉
And in addition, Parisians are known to be meaner than in the rest of France haha
Don't hesitate to come, we'll welcome you!!!
Nice Video ! As a French living in the South Est of France i think the main tourist attractions are obviously Paris, for the effeil tower, l'Arc de Thriomhpe etc.. But in the SE is most likely the beach, and sometimes the Pays Catalan, is a part of France where the Ispanic cultule as we know of Espagna : Corrida, Bodega(
an event often in summer where it basically consists of drinking until you are in a daze) and Les Arene de Nimes( not realy in the catalan region) are realy nice to visit, maybe not in summer like this one but late september is good, nice weather not to hot but not to cold either
Oh and nice french accent btw
Why is it the most visited country in the world? Easy. The uncanny diversity of landscapes and cultures and stuff in such a small area.
Geographically, France is also a giant european road transportation hub, between north and south, and west and east, UK, Spain, Germany and North of Europe, with sea connections through its mediterranean harbor to north Africa and even Asia through Suez channel in Egypt, and even up to americas through it's Atlantic coast.
everyone will think im weird but
*i think france is shaped as an pentagon*
On dit on exagone
@@nhyfhyt56cenestpasmonmotde23 kool, but it looks a lot like a pentagon in my opinion
As a French person, I believe what makes France the most visited country in the world is the fact that wou can find a lot of types of tourism: of course, the cultural aspect is very important, you can easily spend a week in Paris just to see the most iconic monuments, but there are also La côte d'Azur ( the mediteranien coast), the Alpes and Pyrénées that bring a lot of tourists, especially European ones. For example, when I'm on holidays and I go skiing, I hear German, English, Belgian people, even if they spend hours in their car to go there
Saying France is the most visited country in the world may be a bit of a fraud : it is said the figure includes tourists from Northern Europe driving through to holiday in Spain or Italy... and back!
By the way, "Garonne" takes only one "r" (French people are notoriously finicky about spelling!)
Fun fact : the French president is also a prince! The princedom of Andorra is historically shared between the French ruler and the bishop of Burgos in Spain.
As a linguist, you could also have mentioned catalan as one of the romance languages spoken in France.
Great job though!
Even if it's true, there are tons of nothern families from UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany or Denmark who stay in France during summer holidays.
Not bishop of Burgos but of La Seo de Urgel! ANd the french president is also:
* grand maître de l'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur, (Grand Master of the National Order of the Legion of Honor)
* grand maître de l'ordre national du Mérite,(Grand Master of the National Order of Merit)
* "premier et unique chanoine honoraire de l'église romaine de Saint-Jean de Latran" (first and only Honorary Canon of the Roman Church of St. John Lateran)
* protecteur de l'Institut de France, de l'Académie française et du domaine national de Chambord.(Protector of the Institut de France, the Académie française and the national domain of Chambord.)
@@jmt97400 my misrake!
How about those crossing germany to go to Prague, Polland or sweden ? How about our campsites full of nederlands and germans ppl ?
For a brit, crossing france to spain is a matter of few hour, if they choose to rest , it's often they want to add a short visit to a place they like , on the road.
Small comment from France ! I left a like because the video was good. And to answer your last question, I think it is because the ''hexagon'' has been a crossroad for centuries and as such we have many people from other cultures have been in France and seen some beauty in our culture. And we built our reputation on this.
Thanks! I’m glad you liked it! 👍🏼
Idk why we're the most visited country in the world. Maybe it's this romantic and cool image surrounding France that makes people curious! Is it the diversity? Is it the monuments? Is it for French people? Is it for art and famous brands? Is it for Paris? Idk, tell me
all oh these
As a french person, i approve this video! I think that my country is the most visited because of the very particular atmosphere and the variety of the landscapes
i think my country are higly visited because of our impotance in a lot of period in history and our print on actual superpower. we have created a lot of things in a lot of different domaine, if you have any passion , you have a lot of chance to be passionated by a french inventor or any french things. thx for this good video about my country !
"notre impuissance dans de nombreuses période" hein?? de quoi tu parle
Hello , im from Guadeloupe and you forget to talk about us when you mention regionnal language (Créole ).
Great video nonetheless ! :)
Hello ! Thanks for your video that was really interesting.
I am French and I was born and raise in Martinique. I would just like to add that each overseas regions has creole as their language.
The language was born from the mix of the french and african languages as a mean of understanding between the slave and the settlers. And is different in each island, because of first the origin of the slaves and second because of the distance that separate them.
Today Creole refer to a language as much as a culture or an ethnic group.
Thanks again for your video and have a nice day !
It's weird calling our major "fleuve" a "river", in french a "river" is a very small watercourse, rivers flow into "fleuve" which are much larger "river" and finally the "fleuve" flow into the sea/ocean
so here's a french word that doesn't exist in english : "fleuve" : a large watercourse which end in sea/ocean
Love your videos. Keep it up
I think France is the most visited country because it's quite small and diverse. In just a few hours, you can travel from the coast, to the mountains and to Paris in Metropolitan France. There are also many attracting spots like beaches (ocean and sea) , mountain (ski), volcanos, ... French regions are very different from one to another so you feel like you are in a completely different country when you travel from one region to another. And of course, France culture is shown all around the globe through cinema, publicity,... France has an image of the romantic luxurious Paris and it attracts tourists
Why France ? Food, food and food (And wine).
That is one of the things french people living abroad miss the most ; it is almost impossible to find acceptable cheese and bread abroad
I'm French, really good and detailed video. Well done dude.
Thank you, Paul, for another high-quality fascinating video! We love you ❤️❤️❤️
He says France have territories in ALMOST all continents... but? It's the only country in the world in every continents !
Africa : La Réunion ; Mayotte ; Îles Éparses de l'océan Indien ; Domaines français de Sainte-Hélène
North America :Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon ; Saint-Martin ; Saint-Barthélémy ; Guadeloupe ; Martinique ; Ile de Clipperton
South America : Guyane
Oceania : Nouvelle-Calédonie ; Wallis-et-Futuna ; Polynésie française
Asia : Domaine national français en Terre Sainte
Antarctic : Archipel des Kerguelen ; Archipel des Crozet ; Saint-Paul-et-Amsterdam ; Terre Adélie
And obviously Europe : France
So, did he make a mistake ? Am i wrong ?
That’s valid, but claims to Antarctica aren’t internationally recognized, so they’re debatable.
And the sites in the Holy Land are debatable. I think it’s more accurate to say that France owns the property, but doesn’t have jurisdiction over the territory. Calling them national domains is more symbolic.
We lack a real territory in Asia. "Domaine national français en Terre Sainte" isn't a French territory (I have been there btw) but a "private property" owned by French government.
I'm french and ihappy how you talk about my country thank you son much
Ah yes, shares its border with 8 countries but has the longest border with B R A Z I L
I knew about the overseas territories (or rather "colonies" as the non-French call them), because they are on the Euro bills! One minor nitpick: in Alsace-Lorraine they don't speak "a Germanic language" but a German dialect. I don't know how intelligible it is with standard German, because even though I've visited, everybody just spoke French with me. The region was very contested between Germany and France between 1871 and 1945 and changed hands a lot of times, but Germany does not claim it anymore. The changes after WW2 turning to German-French friendship are rather amazing, it's rare to see such cases of reconciliation in history.
Je vis à la Réunion. 🤗 (Et ne vous inquiétez pas la vie sur une île c'est bien. On a de l'eau, de l' électricité et Internet.)
Hi Great vid. Just a slight correction on the corsican history, the island was ruled by Genoa kingdom until 1735 when Corsica published its Déclaration d'Indépendance written by Pascuale Paoli mainly, which alongside Constitution is considered as the first in modern world and will be used by French to create their own.
i just scrolled down a bit and i love to see just how many french are in the top xD thanks for making this video ! (ps, i am also a fellow french,
I m French, and according to me, if my country is the most visited country in the world, it is because this is a perfect country for tourism. There is so much very different landscapes, a big culture, a well balanced climate, you can make everything in term of activities (ski and jetski in the same week). You have so much historical and attractive monuments to visits (Tour Eiffel, Arc de Triomphe, Prehistorical caves, Museums, well knowns restaurants, cities, castles, moutain villages, campains).
In addition to that, this is a rich and peaceful country, it’s not dangerous (some thieves in Paris but except of this, no real danger). And the last thing, is that in France, there is lot of cultures different. French culture but also arabic culture, asian culture, african culture, italian culture ect...
And last but not least, in every region, you can discover a new part of French culture. In East, in mountains, ou will find cheeses, strong alcohols, raclette, ski..., in North, you will find the .. North french culture, and the ”Chtis”’who are really different of South french people. In south, at Marseille for example, that will be clearly more ”exotic”, a different accent, beach, sun with hight temperature, boats sweeter alcohols, fishs ...
In the the West, you will find the ”Bretagne” culture, with a different food, a lot of alcohol, a lot of fish, and ”crêpes” (very good food from Bretagne), a different accent to, beachs and cliffs
And in the middle, campain, long green spaces, a really good meat, a lot of fruits and vegetables, good alcohol, a lot of farmers and fields.
(Sorry for my english speaking)
Paris pas dangereux...
@@Alexis-zx9ep J’vis à Paris j’ai pas de problèmes.
Faut juste pas faire le con à se balader dans des ruelles cheloues seul la nuit.
Y’a des problèmes c’est sûr, mais encore une fois faut être objectif. Compare la France aux Etats-Unis, à l’Angleterre, au Brésil, aux pays d’Afrique. Et même en Espagne, mon frère a passé un an à Madrid, il a eu + de problèmes là bas que toute sa vie à Paname.
En terme de sécurité on est bien. Même si bien sûr l’insécurité monte en France et faut faire quelque chose.
@@raphi92i19 tu as nuancé le propos j'allais pas non plus dire que Paris c'est pavela mais il y a quand même un peu de danger mais je te remercie de ta réponse
@@Alexis-zx9ep Avec plaisir, une réponse argumentée est toujours la bienvenue avec moi
There's no country like France anyhwere in the world. As you travel around France you see that most of Europe's major cultures share a border with the country. Brittany and its links to Britain, the Nord and French Flanders with its similarities (linguistic, cultural and architectural) with the Dutch, Alsace-Lorraine and its resemblance to Germany, the Apls and its similarity to Switzerland, Alpes-Cote d'Azur with Italy and the Basque country and its strong ties and resemblance to Spain. There is no other country that provides that sort of diversity anywhere in the world.
More diverse : Russia, China, India,the US,
As diverse as France : Italy, Spain, the UK ( including oversea territories),Brazil, Mexico,CND...
@@lioneldemun6033 Lol.
Very interesting video!
Well, as a French, who lived in the north part of the France, more precisely, the Picardie Region ( Yes you must understand that Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardie ARE NOT the same cringe region, it was a bad idea to unified us into 1 region, even if we are totally different),more precisely the Somme department ( that all of you knows because of WW1, and i personnaly found, even more than 100 years later, a loot of artifact dated of the WWI like shells, bullets, helmets, etc ), i think that France is the most visited country of the world because of us culture yes, but also because of us History, i must repeat that France have the most largest battle count in the world, and the most biger Winrate of this sames battle. I must also said that it's because we have conquered litteraly the world, and even today, we can see that our influence stay in this ex conquered areas. We have colonized most of the actual USA, they fertiles Land of Canada, conquered and democratised Europe, colonized a big part of north Africa, have put a feet in Asia with the Indochina colony, etc. Everywhere we were, everywhere we stay, but nowhere we go for the futur. Because i will conclude my commentary in this fact, that maybe will answer to certain people why France will die, it is because of a massive immigration, that we cannot turn into French people because they won't be French, and also because we don't want, by us self, be French, because of a long, slow but sure, death of the Fench culture because of this same immigration, who imported peoples in France, who dont want to become French, and be assimilated. So, in final, you accept a conflict between cultures in your own country and also because of demographic much more stong for them, than the original french natives, and then be replaced by this sames new arrived ones peoples...Thats why, you all, are spectator, of the death, of a Old giant who litteraly make this world...with more than 2500 years of History...
"Réveillez-vous Picards!".
@@ommsterlitz1805faire cesession pas une bonne idée, on est pas dutout autonome 🤣🤣🤣
as a french citizen, i think overseas territories are important, since it allows us to have a military presence all over the wolrd with large EEZ, which allows us to have nuclear submarines all over the world
Et aussi pour la pêche
Merci pour cette vidéo même si je parle pas anglais
It's now the 2nd biggest economy in Europe having just surpassed the UK.