FRANCE

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A member of the G8 group of leading industrialised countries, it is ranked as the world's fifth largest and Europe's second largest economy by nominal GDP France has a mixed economy which combines extensive private enterprise with substantial state enterprise Important aerospace industry led by the European consortium Airbus, and has its own national spaceport, the Centre Spatial Guyanais. Financial services, banking and the insurance sector are vital part of the economy ; Paris stock exchange market, AXA, BNP Paribas Leading agricultural producer and exporter ; world's third biggest exporter of agricultural products; 3.5% of population , 4.2% of GDP Ranked as the first tourist destination in the world, ahead of the United States and China ; 37 sites inscribed in UNESCO's World Heritage List