France has undergone many constitutional changes and is difficult to answer. The earliest known unification of the Frankian ( Germanic) tribes was during the reign of Clovis I, starting in 481. The treaty of Verdun in 843 split the Frankish Empire into 3 parts, which were unified under the Capetian dynasty as the Kingdom of France in 987. The current France we know today was created in 1958. This means France (in its name) is as old as 1035 years, or as young as 64 years.
France is a representative democracy and one of the world's largest 10 superpowers, both in terms of military and economic power. It is the world's top tourist destination, putting it ahead of both Spain and the United States in the number of people who visit. Because of this, it is one of the largest melting pots of culture in the world.
The French Fifth Republic is the current republican government of France. It began on 2 December 1958.
The French Fourth Republic was the republican government of France between 1946 and 1958, governed by the fourth republican constitution.
The Provisional Government of the French Republic (gouvernement provisoire de la République française or GPRF) was an interim government of Free France between 1944 and 1946 following the liberation of continental France after Operations Overlord and Dragoon, and lasted until the establishment of the French Fourth Republic.
Vichy France is the common name of the French State headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II.
The French Third Republic was the system of government adopted in France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940 after France's defeat by Nazi Germany in World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government in France.
The Second French Empire was the Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870, between the Second Republic and the Third Republic, in France.
The French Second Republic was a short-lived republican government of France between the 1848 Revolution and the 1851 coup by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte which initiated the Second Empire.
The July Monarchy was a liberal constitutional monarchy in France under King Louis-Philippe starting with the July Revolution (or Three Glorious Days) of 1830 and ending with the Revolution of 1848.
The Bourbon Restoration was the period of French history following the first fall of Napoleon in 1814, and his final defeat in the Hundred Days in 1815, until the July Revolution of 1830.
The First French Empire, officially the French Empire, was the empire of Napoleon Bonaparte of France.
The French First Republic was the government of France from the fall of the monarchy in 1792 until the declaration of the First French Empire in 1804.
The Kingdom of France (Old French: Reaume de France, Middle French: Royaulme de France, French: Royaume de France) was a medieval and early modern monarchy in Western Europe.
West Francia (or the Kingdom of the West Franks) was the western part of the Carolingian Empire, and the predecessor to the Kingdom of France.
The Frankish Kingdom, also called the Kingdom of the Franks, or Frankia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe.
Gaul was the name given by the Romans to the territories where the Celtic Gauls (Latin: Galli, French: Gaulois) lived, including present France, from the Iron Age through the Roman period.
The country of France is 1543 years old, founded in the year 481.