Presentation By:

Akshay Chopra (2005)

Jatin Mittal (2021)

Kartik Choudhary (2051)

Shravika Khandelwal (2304)

Pallavi Mandal (2269)

F r a n c o p h o n e

C o u n t r i e s

Capital: Port Villa

Population: 224,564

Gained Independence

from France & UK in 1980

R e p u b l i c

o f V a n u a t uMotto: 'In God We Stand'

Culture: Divided into three major cultural regions.

•In the north, wealth is established by how much one

can give away.

•In the centre, more traditional Melanesian cultural

systems dominate.

•In the south, a system involving grants of title with

associated privileges has developed

Pigs, particularly those with rounded tusk, are

considered a symbol of wealth.

Musical Instruments: consist mostly of idiophones:

drums of various shape and size

Religion: Christianity is the predominant religion in

Vanuatu.

Cuisine: Incorporates Fish and Root Vegetables

majorly - Most food is cooked using hot stones or

through boiling and steaming; very little food is fried.

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Capital: Brazzaville

Population: 4,366,266

Gained independence

from France on August

15, 1960.

D e mo c r a t i c

R e p u b l i c o f

C o n g o•Ethinic Groups:

Kongo 48%, Sangha 20%, M’Bochi 12%,

Teke 17%, Europeans and other 3%.

•Religion: Catholic 50.5%, Protestant

40.2%, Muslim 1.3%, Animism 2.2%

Baha'i 0.4%, other 2.2%

•One of the country's most famous and

imposing landmarks, Nyiragongo is a live

volcano that is situated on the eastern

border of the Democratic Republic of the

Congo.

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Capital: Vientiane

Population: 6,500,000

Gained Independence

from France on 22nd

October,

L a o P e o p l e 's

D e mo c r a t i c

R e p u b l i c •Ethnic Group: 55% Lao, 11% Khmu, 8%

Hmong, 26% others

•Of the people of Laos 67% are Theravada

Buddhist, 1.5% are Christian, and 31.5%

are other or unspecified

•One of the most charming cities in south-

east Asia, Luang Prabang is the most

popular tourist attraction in Laos. A

collection of golden-roofed

temples, wooden houses and crumbling

French provincial buildings fill the main

roads. At dawn, monks from the various

monasteries walk through the streets

collecting alms of rice.4 FRANCOPHONE COUNTRIES

Wa l l o n i a

Capital: Namur

Population: 3,546,329

Celebrate every 3rd

Sunday of September

as the Celebration Day.

•Known as Wallonie in French.

•Predominantly French-Speaking southern region

of Belgium.

•It is governed as the Walloon Region which

makes up 55% of the territory of Belgium.

•Borders with Flanders & Netherland in the

North, France in south & west, and Germany&

Luxembourg to the east.

•Georges Lemaitre, a Wallonia citizen, is

credited with proposing the Big Bang Theory of

the origin of the universe in 1927.

•Wallonia has about 3,350 properties listed as

monuments, sites, architectural complexes or

archaeological sites, of which over 150 are

recognized by the Region as exceptional

heritage. 5 FRANCOPHONE COUNTRIES

Capital: Aosta

Population: 126,933

95% population is

Italian.

A o s t a

V a l l e y• It is the smallest, least populous, and

densely populated region of Italy.

• Adopted French as official language in

1536, three years before France itself.

• Home to the highest elevated vineyards

in all of Europe.

• Tourism is one of the strongest points of

the region’s economy. The valley’s

natural beauty, its peaceful atmosphere in

summer and snow in winter have allowed

the development of a flourishing tourism

industry centered on winter sports.

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