French America (French : Amérique française ) 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 include communities in all provinces of Canada (especially in New Brunswick , where francophones are roughly one third of the population),[ 1] Saint Pierre et Miquelon , Haiti , Saint Martin , Saint Barthélemy , Saint Lucia , Martinique , and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean; French Guiana (Overseas region of France) in South America. Also there minorities of French speakers in part of the United States (New England , Louisiana , Florida ), 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.
Countries and French possessions [ edit ]
This is a list of countries and French possessions in the Americas having the French language as official or majority language. The data of each place are based in the 2012 - 2013 Census.
Country
Population
Area (km²)[ a]
GDP (nominal)
GDP (nominal) per capita
Canada
35,427,524[ 2] (of which about 7,000,000 people are Francophones. See Languages of Canada )
9,984,670
$1.769 trillion[ 3]
$49,838[ 3]
Clipperton
0
Dominica
72,660 (the number of French speakers is unknown)
750
$14,166[ 4]
$7,022[ 4]
Haiti
9,996,731[ 5]
27,750
$1,242[ 6]
$758[ 6]
Saint Lucia
173,765
617
$1.239 billion[ 7]
$7,769[ 7]
Collectivity of Saint-Martin (Fr)[ 8]
36,286
53.2
Guadeloupe (Fr)
405,739[ 9] [ note 1]
1,628
€19,810 [ 10]
French Guiana (Fr)
250,109[ 9]
83,534
€15,416 [ 10]
Martinique (Fr)
386,486[ 9]
1,128
€21,527 [ 10]
Saint Barthélemy (Fr)
9,035[ 11]
25[ 12]
Saint Pierre and Miquelon (Fr)
6,080[ 9] [ note 1]
242
€26,073[ 13]
Total
More than 18,336,891 (excludes speakers of English and other languages not French of Canada)
10,100,126
$24.340
$36,738
Members and corresponding diasporas [ edit ]
See also [ edit ]
French flags of the Americas
References [ edit ]