Common name | johniman |
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Native name | Principatu de Múnegu (Monégasque) Principauté de Monaco (French) |
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Conventional long name | Principality of Monaco |
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Image coat | Coat of Arms of Monaco.svg |
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Map caption | |
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National motto | "Deo Juvante"(Latin) "With God's Help" |
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National anthem | Hymne Monégasque |
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Capital | Monaco |
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Largest settlement type | Most populated quartier |
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Largest settlement | Monte Carlo |
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Official languages | French is the only official language. Monégasque, Italian and English are also widely spoken and understood. (See Languages of Monaco) |
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Government type | Constitutional monarchy Principality |
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Leader title1 | Prince |
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Leader title2 | Minister of State |
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Leader title3 | President of the National Council |
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Leader name1 | Albert II |
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Leader name2 | Michel Roger |
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Leader name3 | Stéphane Valeri |
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Area km2 | 2.02 |
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Area sq mi | 0.78 |
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Area rank | 232nd |
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Area magnitude | 1 E6 |
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Percent water | 0.0 |
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Population estimate | 30,586 |
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Population estimate year | 2010 |
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Population estimate rank | 211th |
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Population density km2 | 15,142 |
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Population density sq mi | 39,217 |
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Population density rank | 1st |
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Population census | 35,352 |
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Gdp ppp year | 2008 |
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Gdp ppp rank | 153rd |
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Gdp ppp per capita | $159,811 |
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Colspan | "7" style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"| Former municipality of Monaco |
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05 || monaco-ville || style | "text-align:right;"| 184,750 || style="text-align:right;"| 1,034|| style="text-align:right;"| 5597 || style="text-align:right;"| 19 || Old City with palace |
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Colspan | "7" style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"| Former municipality of Monte Carlo |
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01 || monte carlo/spélugues (bd. des moulins-av. de la madone)|| style | "text-align:right;"| 281,461 || style="text-align:right;"| 3,034 || style="text-align:right;"| 10779|| style="text-align:right;"| 20|| the casino and resort area |
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02 || la rousse/saint roman (annonciade-château périgord)|| style | "text-align:right;"| 105,215|| style="text-align:right;"| 3,223 || style="text-align:right;"| 30633|| style="text-align:right;"| 15|| in the northeast, incl. Le Ténao |
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03 || larvotto/bas moulins (larvotto-bd psse grace)|| style | "text-align:right;"| 328,479 || style="text-align:right;"| 5,443 || style="text-align:right;"| 16570|| style="text-align:right;"| 15|| eastern beach area |
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10 || saint michel (psse charlotte-park palace)|| style | "text-align:right;"| 142,223|| style="text-align:right;"| 3,807 || style="text-align:right;"| 26768|| style="text-align:right;"| 24|| central residential area |
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Colspan | "7" style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"| Former municipality of La Condamine |
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04 || la condamine || style | "text-align:right;"| 237,283 || style="text-align:right;"| 3,847 || style="text-align:right;"| 16213|| style="text-align:right;"| 27|| port area in the northwest |
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07 || la colle (plati-pasteur-bd charles iii)|| style | "text-align:right;"| 188,073 || style="text-align:right;"| 2,822 || style="text-align:right;"| 15005|| style="text-align:right;"| 15|| on the western border with Cap d'Ail |
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08 || les révoires (hector otto-honoré labande)|| style | "text-align:right;"| 75,747 || style="text-align:right;"| 2,515 || style="text-align:right;"| 33203|| style="text-align:right;"| 11|| containing the Jardin Exotique de Monaco |
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09 || moneghetti/ bd de belgique (bd rainier iii-bd de belgique) || style | "text-align:right;"| 107,056 || style="text-align:right;"| 3,003 || style="text-align:right;"| 28051 || style="text-align:right;"| 18|| |
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Colspan | "7" style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"| New land reclaimed from the sea |
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06 || fontvieille || style | "text-align:right;"| 324,157|| style="text-align:right;"| 3,292 || style="text-align:right;"| 10156|| style="text-align:right;"| 9|| started 1971 |
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11 || le portier || style | "text-align:right;"| 275,000(1) || style="text-align:right;"| - || style="text-align:right;"| -|| style="text-align:right;"| -|| plans put on hold by Prince Albert II in 2009 |
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|| monaco || style | "text-align:right;"| 1,974,444 || style="text-align:right;"| 32,020 || style="text-align:right;"| 16217|| style="text-align:right;"| 173|| |
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Colspan | "7" style="background:#fff;"|(1) Area not included in total, as it is only proposed |
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Date | September 2010 |
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Sport and entertainment
Formula One
Since 1929, the
Monaco Grand Prix has been held annually in the streets of Monaco. It is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious automobile races in the world. The erection of the
Circuit de Monaco takes six weeks to complete, and the removal after the race another three weeks. The circuit has many elevation changes and tight corners, along with a tunnel. This together with being incredibly narrow and tight makes it perhaps the most demanding
Formula One track. Only two drivers have ever crashed into the harbour, the most famous being
Alberto Ascari in the
1955 Monaco Grand Prix, just four days before losing his life at
Monza. The other was
Paul Hawkins, during the
1965 Monaco Grand Prix.
Monte Carlo Rally
The
Monte Carlo Rally has been held since 1911, having originally been held at the behest of Prince
Albert I and is, like the principality's Grand Prix, organised by the
Automobile Club de Monaco. It has long been considered to be one of the toughest and most prestigious events in
rallying and from 1973 to 2008 was the opening round of the
World Rally Championship.
Football (Soccer)
Monaco hosts two major football teams in the principality; men's football club
AS Monaco FC and women's football club OS Monaco. AS Monaco plays at the
Stade Louis II and competes in the
Ligue 1, the top division of
French football. The club is historically one of the most successful clubs in France. Because of the popular appeal of living in Monaco and the lack of income tax, many international stars have played for the club, such as
Marcelo Gallardo,
Jürgen Klinsmann,
Oliver Bierhoff,
George Weah,
John Collins,
Fernando Morientes,
Thierry Henry,
Fabien Barthez,
Rafael Márquez,
Javier Saviola,
David Trezeguet,
John Arne Riise,
Patrice Evra,
Shabani Nonda,
Emmanuel Adebayor,
Eiður Smári Guðjohnsen,
Jan Koller,
Victor Ikpeba, and
Park Chu-Young. The club reached the
UEFA Champions League Final in
2004, led by the likes of Morientes, Evra,
Akis Zikos, and
Ludovic Giuly, losing 3-0 to Portuguese team,
F.C. Porto. The Stade Louis II also plays host to the annual
UEFA Super Cup, which is played between the winners of the
UEFA Champions League and the
UEFA Europa League.
The women's team, OS Monaco, competes in the women's French football league system. The club currently plays in the local regional league deep down in the league system, however once played in the Division 1 Féminine in the 1994–95 season, but were quickly relegated. Current French women's international goalkeeper Sarah Bouhaddi had a short stint at the club before going to the Clairefontaine academy.
Rugby
Monaco's national rugby team, as of March 2010, is 91st in the
International Rugby Board rankings.
Other sports
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The
Monte Carlo Masters is currently held annually in neighbouring
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin,
France, as a professional tournament for men as part of
tennis'
ATP Masters Series. The tournament has been held since 1897.
Golf's
Monte Carlo Open was also held at the Monte Carlo Golf Club at Mont Agel in France between 1984 and 1992. Monaco has also
competed in the
Olympic Games, although, as of 2008, no athlete from Monaco has ever won an Olympic medal.
In 2009, the Tour de France, the world's premier bicycle race, started from Monaco with a 15 km closed-circuit individual time trial starting and finishing there on the first day (4 July) and the 182 km second leg starting there on the following day and ending in Brignoles, France.
Monaco also stage part of the Global Champions Tour (International Show-jumping). Acknowledged as the most glamorous of the series, Monaco will be hosting the world's most celebrated riders, including Monaco's own Charlotte Casiraghi, in a setting facing out over the world's most beautiful yachts, and framed by the Port Hercule and Prince's palace. In 2009, the Monaco stage of the Global Champions tour takes place between 25 June - 27 June.
The Monaco Marathon is the only marathon in the world to pass through three separate countries, those of Monaco, France and Italy. The 2010 event took place on March 21. Runners complete the race by returning to the Stade Louis II.Grand Prix is an annual international sports car race through Monte Carlo's elegant streets.
The Monaco Ironman 70.3 triathlon race is an annual event with over 1000 athletes competing and attracts top professional athletes from around the world. The race includes a 1.9 km swim, 90 km bike ride and 21.1 km run.
Education
Primary and secondary schools
Monaco has ten state-operated schools, including: seven nursery and primary schools; one secondary school,
Collège Charles III; one
lycée that provides general and technological training,
Lycée Albert 1er; and one lycée that provides vocational and hotel training,
Lycée technique et hôtelier de Monte-Carlo. There are also two grant-aided denominational private schools, including
Institution François d'Assise Nicolas Barré and
Ecole des Sœurs Dominicaines, and one international school, the International School of Monaco.
Colleges and universities
There is one university located in Monaco:
International University of Monaco
Demographics
Monaco's population is unusual in that the native Monegasques are a minority in their own country. The largest proportion of residents are French nationals (28%), followed by Monegasque (21.6%), Italians (19%), Anglos (7.5% UK & 1% USA), and Germans, Swiss, and Belgians (2.5% to 3% each); another 15% is labeled as "other" populations. A Monacoian is the term used to describe a person living in Monaco who is not a citizen of Monaco..
Religion
Christian
Roman Catholic
The official
religion is
Roman Catholicism, with freedom of other religions guaranteed by the constitution. There are five Roman Catholic parish churches in Monaco and one
cathedral, which is the seat of the
archbishop of Monaco. The diocese, which has existed since the mid-nineteenth century, was raised to an archbishopric in 1981 as the
Archdiocese of Monaco.
Anglican
There is one
Anglican church (
St. Paul's Church), located in the Avenue de Grande Bretagne in Monte Carlo. In 2007 this had a formal membership of 135 Anglicans resident in the principality, but was also serving a considerably larger number of Anglicans temporarily in the country, mostly as tourists. The church site also accommodates an English-language library of over 3,000 books. The church is part of the Anglican
Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe.
Jewish
The Association Culturelle Israélite de Monaco (founded 1948) is a converted house containing a
synagogue, a community Hebrew school, and a
kosher food shop, located in Monte Carlo. The community (approximately 1,500) mainly consists of retired Jews from Britain (40%) and North Africa. One third of the Jewish population there is
Ashkenazi, while the other two thirds are
Sephardic.
Security
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The wider defence of the nation is provided by
France. Monaco has no navy or air force, but on both a per-capita and per-area basis, Monaco has the largest police force (515 police officers for 32,000 people) and police presence in the world. Its police includes a specialist unit which operates patrol and surveillance boats. There is also a small military consisting of a (mainly ceremonial) bodyguard unit for the Prince and his palace called the
Compagnie des Carabiniers du Prince which numbers 112 officers and men and is equipped with modern weapons such as
M16 rifles and 9 mm pistols, and a militarized (and armed) fire and civil defence Corps.
The Compagnie des Carabiniers du Prince (Prince's Company of Carabiniers) is the main ceremonial unit of the military force of Monaco. It was created by Prince Honoré IV in 1817 for the protection of the Principality and the Princely family. The company numbers exactly 112 officers and men; while the NCOs and soldiers are local, the officers have generally served in the French Army. Together with the local fire service (Sapeurs-Pompiers), the Carabiniers form Monaco's total public forces. In addition to their guard duties, the company patrols the Principality's beaches and coastal waters, as well as duties around the Palace in Monaco-Ville.
Flag
The flag of Monaco is one of the world's oldest national flag designs. The flag of Monaco is identical to
that of Indonesia, except for the ratio of height to width.
Transport
Monaco is served by several train systems and the
Monaco - Fontvieille Heliport. The closest airport is
Côte d'Azur Airport in
Nice,
France. Some airlines marketed Monaco via Nice Airport.
See also
Association des Guides et Scouts de Monaco
Foreign relations of Monaco
* France–Monaco relations
List of radio stations in Monaco
List of rulers of Monaco
Microstate
Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
Music of Monaco
Oceanographic Museum
Postage stamps and postal history of Monaco
Prince's Palace of Monaco
Rail transport in Monaco
Repossi jewellers
Telecommunications in Monaco
The Princess Grace Hospital Centre
References
External links
; Government
Official Government Portal
Official website of the Prince's Palace of Monaco
Chief of State and Cabinet Members
; General information
Monaco from UCB Libraries GovPubs
History of Monaco: Primary documents
; Travel
Official website for Tourism
Your Monaco Monaco travel guide
Principality Monaco Principality Monaco travel and special offers site
maBoum.com Unofficial guide to what's on in Monaco
; Other
Order of the doctors of Monaco
French Monaco Web portail
La Principauté - Le premier journal d'actualité de Monaco
Gouv.mc
Monaco Today, a daily newsletter in English, Monaco247.com
Monaco247.com English news portal
The Monaco Times - a regular feature in The Riviera Times is the English language newspaper for the French - Italian Riviera and the Principality of Monaco provides monthly local news and information about business, art and culture, people and lifestyle, events and also the real estate market.
Monaco-IQ Monaco information and news aggregator
Monaco information portal
Monte-Carlo Italian Monte-Carlo unofficial portal
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