is a country whose territory consists of in , as well as . A member of the (formerly G8) leading industrialised countries, as of 2014 , it is ranked as the world's and the EU's second-largest economy by . With 31 of the 500 biggest companies in the world in 2015, Fran. .
Before being officially catalogued in 1772, the Kerguelen Islands appear as the "Ile de Nachtegal" on 's 1754 map entitled Carte des Terres Australes comprises entre le Tropique du Capricorne et le Pôle Antarctique où se voyent les nouvelles découvertes faites en 1739 au Sud du Cap de Bonne Esperance ('Map of the Southern Lands contained between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Pole, where the new discoveries made in 1739 to the south of the C.
[pdf] The French Southern and Antarctic Lands have formed a (an overseas territory) of since 1955. Formerly, they were administered from by an administrateur supérieur assisted by a secretary-general; since December 2004, however, their administrator has been a , currently , with headquarters in on Island.
[pdf] 
