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{{Short description|French-speaking community of people}}

[[File:French America (orthographic projection).svg|thumb|right|Location map of French America.]]
'''French America''' ({{Lang-fr|Amérique française}}), sometimes called '''Franco-America''', in contrast to [[Place:Anglo-America|Anglo-America]], is the [[Social:French language|French-speaking]] community of [[Philosophy:Person|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 {{wipe|Canada}} (especially in New Brunswick, where francophones are roughly one third of the population),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/standard/themes/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?Temporal=2001&PID=62911&APATH=3&METH=1&PTYPE=55440&THEME=44&FOCUS=0&AID=0&PLACENAME=0&PROVINCE=0&SEARCH=0&GC=99&GK=NA&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&FL=0&RL=0&FREE=0&GID=431531 |title=Ethnic Origin (232), Sex (3) and Single and Multiple Responses (3) (2001 Census) |publisher=2.statcan.ca |access-date=2013-09-23 |archive-date=2017-01-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170101073454/http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/standard/themes/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?Temporal=2001&PID=62911&APATH=3&METH=1&PTYPE=55440&THEME=44&FOCUS=0&AID=0&PLACENAME=0&PROVINCE=0&SEARCH=0&GC=99&GK=NA&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&FL=0&RL=0&FREE=0&GID=431531 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy, Martinique, Guadeloupe (all are parts of France), Saint Lucia and Haiti in the Caribbean; French Guiana (overseas region of France) in South America. Also there are minorities of French speakers in part of the {{wipe|United States}} (New England, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, {{wipe|Texas}}, {{wipe|California}}, Illinois and New York), the Dominican Republic, [[Earth:Dominica|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.

Because French is a Romance language, French America is sometimes considered to be part of Latin America, but this term more often refers to [[Place:Hispanic America|Hispanic America]] and [[Place:Portuguese America|Portuguese 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.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
! Country
! Population
! Area (km<sup>2</sup>){{efn|Values listed in km².}}
! GDP (nominal)
! GDP (nominal) per capita
|-
| {{flagicon|Clipperton Island}} [[Earth:Clipperton Island|Clipperton Island]] (France)
| style="text-align: right" | 0
| style="text-align: right" | 6
| style="text-align: right" | 
| style="text-align: right" | 
|-
| {{flagicon|Dominica}} [[Earth:Dominica|Dominica]]
| style="text-align: right" | 72,660<ref name="Dominicapop" group="note">The number of French speakers is unknown.</ref>
| style="text-align: right" | 750
| style="text-align: right" | $485 million<ref name=imfDo2>{{cite web |url=http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2013/01/weodata/weorept.aspx?pr.x=54&pr.y=7&sy=2009&ey=2012&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=321&s=NGDPD%2CNGDPDPC%2CPPPGDP%2CPPPPC%2CLP&grp=0&a= |title=Dominica |publisher=International Monetary Fund |access-date=2013-04-18}}</ref>
| style="text-align: right" | $7,860<ref name=imfDo2/>
|-
| {{flagicon|French Guiana|local}} French Guiana (France)
| style="text-align: right" | 244,118<ref name=pop2013>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/2387611/ensemble.pdf Populations légales 2013: Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble], INSEE</ref>
| style="text-align: right" | 83,534
| style="text-align: right" | 
|-
| {{flagicon|Guadeloupe|local}} Guadeloupe (France)
| style="text-align: right" | 402,119<ref name=pop2013/><ref name="sans" group="note">Figure without the territories of Saint Martin and Saint Barthélemy detached from Guadeloupe on 22 February 2007.</ref>
| style="text-align: right" | 1,628
| style="text-align: right" | 
| style="text-align: right" | €19,810 <ref name="GDP"/>
|-
| {{flagicon|Haiti}} Haiti
| style="text-align: right" | 9,996,731<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/haiti/ |title=The World Factbook |publisher= Central Intelligence Agency |access-date= 22 May 2014}}</ref>
| style="text-align: right" | 27,750
| style="text-align: right" | $12.942 billion<ref name=imfHa2>{{cite web |url=http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2013/01/weodata/weorept.aspx?pr.x=58&pr.y=15&sy=2009&ey=2012&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=263&s=NGDPD%2CNGDPDPC%2CPPPGDP%2CPPPPC%2CLP&grp=0&a= |title=Haiti |publisher=International Monetary Fund |access-date=18 April 2013}}</ref>
| style="text-align: right" | $758<ref name=imfHa2/>
|-
| {{flagicon|Martinique|local}} Martinique (France)
| style="text-align: right" | 385,551<ref name=pop2013/>
| style="text-align: right" | 1,128 
| style="text-align: right" | 
| style="text-align: right" | €21,527<ref name=GDP/>
|-
| {{flagicon|New Brunswick}} New Brunswick ({{wipe|Canada}})
| style="text-align: right" | 747,101<ref name="NewBrunswickpop" group="note">Only 1/3 of the population are francophone.</ref>
| style="text-align: right" | 72,907
| style="text-align: right" | $31.974 billion<ref>{{Cite web|title=GDP (current US$) - Haiti {{!}} Data|url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations=HT|access-date=2021-08-28|website=data.worldbank.org}}</ref>
| style="text-align: right" | $47,443<ref name="imfCa2" />
|-
| {{flagicon|Quebec}} Quebec ({{wipe|Canada}})
| style="text-align: right" | 8,164,361
| style="text-align: right" | 1,542,056 
| style="text-align: right" | $394.819 billion<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.stat.gouv.qc.ca/statistiques/economie/comparaisons-economiques/internationales/index.html|title=Institut de la statistique Québec}}</ref>
| style="text-align: right" | $47,443<ref name="imfCa2">{{cite web|url=http://www.stat.gouv.qc.ca/statistiques/economie/comparaisons-economiques/internationales/index.html|title=Institut de la statistique Québec|publisher=International Monetary Fund}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagicon|Saint Barthélemy|local}} Saint Barthélemy (France)
| style="text-align: right" | 9,279<ref name=pop2013/>
| style="text-align: right" | 
| style="text-align: right" | 
|-
| {{flagicon|Saint Lucia}} Saint Lucia
| style="text-align: right" | 173,765
| style="text-align: right" | 617
| style="text-align: right" | $1.239 billion<ref name=imfSaL2>{{cite web |title=Saint Lucia |url=http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2012/01/weodata/weorept.aspx?pr.x=52&pr.y=15&sy=2009&ey=2012&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=362&s=NGDPD%2CNGDPDPC%2CPPPGDP%2CPPPPC%2CLP&grp=0&a= |publisher=International Monetary Fund |access-date=21 April 2012}}</ref>
| style="text-align: right" | $7,769<ref name=imfSaL2/>
|-
| {{flagicon|Collectivity of Saint Martin}} Saint Martin (France)
| style="text-align: right" | 35,594<ref name=pop2013/>
| style="text-align: right" | 53.2 
| style="text-align: right" | $599 million<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lorette |first=G. |date=March 2007 |title=Saint Barthélemy l'écorché |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0151-9638(07)91521-5 |journal=Annales de Dermatologie et de Vénéréologie |volume=134 |issue=3 |pages=305–307 |doi=10.1016/s0151-9638(07)91521-5 |pmid=17389865 |issn=0151-9638}}</ref>
| style="text-align: right" | $21,921<ref>{{Cite web |title=St. Martin (French part) GDP Per Capita 2011-2023 |url=https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/MAF/st-martin-french-part/gdp-per-capita |access-date=2023-03-19 |website=www.macrotrends.net}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagicon|Saint-Pierre and Miquelon|local}} Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France)
| style="text-align: right" | 6,057<ref name=pop2013/>
| style="text-align: right" | 242 
| style="text-align: right" | $215 million<ref>{{Cite web |title=Is Saint Pierre and Miquelon a poor country? {{!}} - CountryReports |url=https://www.countryreports.org/country/SaintPierreandMiquelon/economy.htm |access-date=2023-03-19 |website=www.countryreports.org}}</ref>
| style="text-align: right" | €26,073<ref name="pib-v">{{cite web |url=http://www.iedom.fr/IMG/pdf/cerom4_spm.pdf |title=Evaluation du PIB 2004 de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon – janvier 2007 |page=24 |access-date=8 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6EIX6F6dk?url=http://www.iedom.fr/IMG/pdf/cerom4_spm.pdf |archive-date=9 February 2013 }}</ref>
|-
! style="text-align: left" | Total
! style="text-align: right" | 20,237,336<ref name="totalpop" group="note">Total population of the territories. Actual number of francophones is lower.</ref>
! style="text-align: right" | 1,730,696
! style="text-align: right" |
! style="text-align: right" |
|}

==Members and corresponding diasporas==
*Acadia—(Acadians)
*Cajuns

==See also==
[[Image:French flags of America.jpg|thumb|250px|right|French flags of the Americas]]

{{div col|colwidth=25em}}
*American French
*Acadia
*Franco-American relations
*Francophone
*Francophonie
*Franco-Ontarian
*French Canadians
*French Americans
*French Creole
*French Antillean Creole
*French colonization of the Americas
*French language in the United States
*French Louisiana
*French West Indies
*Haiti
*French-based creole languages
*History of Quebec
*New England French
*Missouri French
*Colonial French
*New France
*Quebec
*Saint Pierre and Miquelon
*Cajun
*Louisiana
*Louisiana Creole
*Latin America
*French language in Canada
*Newfoundland French
*[[Place:French colonial empire|French colonial empire]]
{{div col end}}

==Notes==
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==References==
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{{Regions of the world}}

[[Category:Regions of the Americas]]



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