France Communications

Country Name: French Republic

Capital City: Paris

Population: 60,876,136 (2006)

Population Growth: 0.35% (2006)

Currency: euro (EUR)

Languages: French

Area: 547,030 sq km

Inflation Rate: 1.5% (2006 est.)

Unemployment Rate: 8.7% (December 2006)

Domain extension: .fr

COMMUNICATIONS OF FRANCE

Telephones - main lines in use:

38.433 million; 35.7 million (metropolitan France) (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

49,369,800; 48.058 million (metropolitan France) (2005)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 41, FM about 3,500 (this figure is an approximation and includes many repeaters), shortwave 2 (1998)

Television broadcast stations:

584 (plus 9,676 repeaters) (1995)

Internet country code:

metropolitan France - .fr; French Guiana - .gf; Guadeloupe - .gp; Martinique - .mq; Reunion - .re

Internet hosts:

3,149,008; 3,148,379 (metropolitan France) (2006)

Internet users:

29.945 million; 29.521 million (metropolitan France) (2006)

International dialing code: