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French America (French: Amérique française), 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 (especially in New Brunswick, where francophones are roughly one third of the population), Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy, Martinique, Guadeloupe (which are all of them parts of France to this day), Saint Lucia and Haiti among North America and the Caribbean; and French Guiana in South America. Also there are minorities of French speakers in part of the United States (New England (especially Maine) and Louisiana, the Dominican Republic, Dominica, Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago.

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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.

Since French is a Romance language, French America is sometimes considered to be part of Latin America, but this term more often refers to Ibero-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.

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