French people living outside France ( ''French'': ''Français établis hors de France'') are French citizens living outside the current territory of the

French Republic France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...

. At the end of 2019, the French presence abroad was estimated at more than 2.5 million people. They had the right to vote in the 2021 French consular elections. Since 2012, French people living outside France have been represented in the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...

by eleven

members of parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

elected in the eleven

constituencies for French residents overseas The constituencies for French residents overseas (French: ''Circonscriptions législatives des Français établis hors de France'') are eleven constituencies, each electing one member of the National Assembly. They were created by the 2010 redist ...

."Redécoupage électoral - 11 députés pour les Français de l'étranger"
, ''Le Petit Journal'', 22 October 2009

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French diaspora

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