French America


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, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Haiti, Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Lucia, Martinique, and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean; French Guiana in South America. Also there are minorities of French speakers in part of the United States, 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 Hispanic America and 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.
CountryPopulationArea GDP GDP per capita
Clipperton Island 06
Dominica72,660750$14,166$7,022
French Guiana 250,10983,534€15,416
Guadeloupe 405,7391,628€19,810
Haiti9,996,73127,750$12.942 billion$758
Martinique 386,4861,128€21,527
New Brunswick 747,10172,907$394,819 million$47,443
Quebec 8,164,3611,542,056$394,819 million$47,443
Saint Barthélemy 9,03525
Saint Lucia173,765617$1.239 billion$7,769
Saint Martin 36,28653.2
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 6,080242€26,073
Total20,248,3531,730,696$24,340$36,738

Members and corresponding diasporas