this video is made possible by ting lower your monthly phone bill and get a free NUMBER_TOKEN credit by following the link that's down in the description this is france now i know what you're thinking if you live in spain italy switzerland germany belgium the uk or god forbid within france itself then you already know that you're not very far away from france and if you live in somewhere like north america asia australia or south america then you know that you live pretty far away from france except that that second part isn't really true because the france i showed you at the beginning isn't really the entirety of france in reality france is everywhere across the world like literally everywhere here's france and north america here's france and south america and the caribbean including this island right here that's divided between france and the netherlands meaning that france and the netherlands actually do share a border it's just not in europe it's in the caribbean here's france closer to mexico here's france around madagascar here's france in the indian ocean and here's france and the pacific ocean with all these different locations across the globe you're probably not as far away from france as you may have thought if you don't live in europe inspired by a map i found created by a reddit user named all hail madame let's take a look at how far away you really are from france colored in black is france itself within any of the red zones you're unfortunately less than a thousand kilometers away from sovereign french territory meaning that you could pretty much begin hearing french at nearly any minute areas like nova scotia new brunswick quebec maine venezuela brazil madagascar mozambique and south africa are pretty much all just as far away from actual sovereign france as germany or austria within the orange zone you're less than NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN kilometers away from france which includes the entire northeastern united states most of mexico the entire caribbean and a whole lot of africa these zones keep radiating out until we're left with this empty patch here across east asia within this zone you're pretty safe because you're more than NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN kilometers away from any french territory and it's the furthest possible area away from france you can get anywhere on the planet spanning across most of china north korea the japanese island of hokkaido and far eastern russia now the various parts of france that exist all over the world outside of europe that make all of this possible are known as overseas france and it's this other part of france that makes france a true global NUMBER_TOKENst century great power all together these various islands and land masses outside of europe add NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN square kilometers of territory to the french republic which is NUMBER_TOKEN of france's total land area and is roughly the same size as either north korea or bulgaria it's huge and nearly NUMBER_TOKEN million people live across it all which is about how many people live in the u.s state of kansas and it represents about four percent of the entire french population oh yeah and that's the thing they're all citizens of france
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