French America (), sometimes called Franco-America, in contrast to Anglo-America, is the French-speaking community of people and their diaspora, notably those tracing back origins to New France, the early French colonization of the Americas. The Canadian province of Quebec is the centre of the community and is the point of origin of most of French America. It also includes communities in all provinces of Canada (especially in New Brunswick, where francophones are roughly one third of the population), Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy, Martinique, Guadeloupe (which are all of them parts of France to this day), Saint Lucia and Haiti among North America and the Caribbean; and French Guiana in South America. Also there are minorities of French speakers in part of the United States (New England (especially Maine) and Louisiana, the Dominican Republic, Dominica, Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago.
The Ordre des francophones d'Amérique is a decoration given in the name of the community to its members. It can also be described as the Francophonie of the Americas.
Since French is a Romance language, French America is sometimes considered to be part of Latin America, but this term more often refers to Ibero-America, or simply the Americas south of the United States.
Countries, administrative divisions, and French possessions This is a list of countries, administrative divisions, and French possessions in the Americas having the French language as an official language or where a French-based creole language is commonly spoken. The data of each place are based in the 2012–2013 census.
+ Place Population Area (km2) GDP (nominal) GDP (nominal) per capita (France) 0 6 – – 72,660The number of French speakers is unknown. 750 $485 million $7,860 (France) 244,118Populations légales 2013: Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble, INSEE 83,534 €15,416 (France) 402,119Figure without the territories of Saint Martin and Saint Barthélemy detached from Guadeloupe on 22 February 2007. 1,628 €19,810 9,996,731 27,750 $12.942 billion $758 (France) 385,551 1,128 €21,527 (Canada) 747,101Only 1/3 of the population are francophone. 72,907 $31.974 billion $47,443 (Canada) 8,164,361 1,542,056 $394.819 billion $47,443 (France) 9,279 25 173,765 617 $1.239 billion $7,769 Saint Martin (France) 35,594 53.2 $599 million $21,921 (France) 6,057 242 $215 million €26,073 Total 20,237,336Total population of the territories. Actual number of Francophones is lower. 1,730,696
Members and corresponding diasporas French Canadians Acadians Québécois Franco-Ontarian Franco-Newfoundlander French Americans New England French Cajuns French Louisianians French Polynesian Americans African Diaspora Africadians French Caribbean Haitians (diaspora) French Guianese Creoles Mounn koulè Alabama Creole people Arkansas Creoles Ark-La-Tex Creoles Cane River Creoles Louisiana Creole people St. Landry Parish Creoles Mississippi Creoles
See also
Francophone / Francophonie Franco-American relations French colonization of the Americas French colonial empire Acadia French Louisiana New France Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Martin Saint Barthelemy Guadeloupe French Guiana Clipperton Island Martinique American French Caribbean Creoles (with French lexifiers) Louisiana Creole Haitian Creole French Antillean Creole Louisiana French Caribbean French Canada (History of Quebec)
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