polity French Fifth Republic: All Data

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France is a country located primarily in Western Europe. It also includes overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. The French state was established with the incoronation of Hugh Capet in 987. To distinguish the Republic from its predecessors of the same name, France is here defined as the French Fifth Republic that was established on 4 October 1958 by Charles de Gaulle under the Constitution of the Fifth Republic. The Fifth Republic emerged from the collapse of the Fourth Republic, replacing the former parliamentary republic with a semi-presidential (or dual-executive) system.

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1. Genealogy

French Fifth Republic : Genealogy

2. Maps of Political Control Over Time

French Fifth Republic : Map showing the initial year each territory was ruled by the polity French Fifth Republic : Map depicting the polity's ruler in power when each territory was first controlled French Fifth Republic : Maximal Extension of the Polity

3. Administrative Divisions

Departments of the French Fifth Republic in 1985 Regions of the French Fifth Republic in 2025

4. Monthly Summaries

French Fifth Republic : Monthly Summary of the Changes

5. Lists and Timelines

French Fifth Republic : List of Rulers French Fifth Republic : Timeline of Rulers

6. Rankings

French Fifth Republic : Top rulers ordered by largest reached area French Fifth Republic : Top rulers by territorial gain or loss in terms of area difference

7. Time Series

French Fifth Republic : Time Series of all Territorial Changes French Fifth Republic : time series of its population and area throughout history

8. All Cities mentioned in Territorial Changes

Agen Albertville (France) Aix-en-Provence Ajaccio Albertville (France) Amiens Angers Annecy Arras Auxerre Avesnes Bar-le-Duc Bastia Besançon Béziers Biarritz Bitche Bordeaux Bourges Bourmont Bouzonville Brest (France) Briey Brive-la-Gaillarde Caen Calais (France) Cambrai Cherbourg Clermont Clermont-Ferrand Colmar Commercy Dagsburg Dieppe Dijon Dunkirk Epinal Fénétrange Ferrette Forbach Grenoble Haguenau La Rochelle Le Havre Le Mans Ligny Lille Limoges Longwy Lorient Luxeuil Lyon Marseille Melun Metz Monaco Montbéliard Montpellier Mulhouse Murbach Nancy Nantes Nevers Nice Nîmes Orléans Paris Perpignan Poitiers Rappoltstein Reims Remiremont Rennes Roanne Rouen Saint-Brieuc Saint-Étienne Saverne Sélestat Stenay Strasbourg Tarbes Thionville Toul Toulon Toulouse Tours Troyes Vaudemont Verdun Versailles Vichy