metropolitan area
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A 2021 study found that 13.5% of 15 to 29-year-olds in metropolitan France were not in employment, education or training.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2022
Sebastien Lecornu, the minister for France's overseas territories, said 70 gendarmes had arrived earlier in the day, in addition to two squadrons that were deployed from metropolitan France unannounced, to help clear road blocks.
From Reuters • Nov. 30, 2021
Algeria also become a major wine exporter to metropolitan France.
From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2021
The legal disparity continued even after Algeria won independence, when hundreds of thousands of former colonial subjects from North Africa continued to arrive in metropolitan France.
From The Guardian • Nov. 27, 2018
Cross the Square, cut through Greek Street or Dean Street, and you are in—Paris, amid the clang, the gesture, and the alert nonchalance of metropolitan France.
From Nights in London by Burke, Thomas
