Editing Economy of France (section)

==Regional economy==
{{Main|List of French regions and overseas collectivities by GDP}}

[[File:Nominal GDP per capita, 2015 Eurostat France.png|thumb|left|Nominal GDP per capita, 2015 Eurostat]]

The economic disparity between French regions is not as high as that in other European countries such as the UK or Italy and higher than in countries like Sweden or Denmark, or even Spain. However, Europe's wealthiest and second largest regional economy, Ile-de-France (the region surrounding Paris), has long profited from the capital city's economic hegemony.

The most important ''régions'' are Île-de-France (Europe's 4th regional economy), [[Rhône-Alpes]] (Europe's 5th largest regional economy thanks to its services, high-technologies, chemical industries, wines, tourism), [[Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur]] (services, industry, tourism and wines), [[Nord-Pas-de-Calais]] (European transport hub, services, industries) and [[Pays de la Loire]] (green technologies, tourism). Regions like [[Alsace]], which has a rich past in industry (machine tool) and currently stands as a high income service-specialised region, are very wealthy without ranking very high in absolute terms.

The rural areas are mainly in [[Auvergne (region)|Auvergne]], Limousin, and [[Centre-Val de Loire]], and wine production accounts for a significant proportion of the economy in [[Aquitaine]] ([[Bordeaux wine|Bordeaux (or claret)]]), [[Burgundy wine|Burgundy]], and [[champagne (wine region)|champagne]] produced in [[Champagne-Ardennes]].
[[File:Käferberg - Affoltern - Kloten Flughafen - Uetlibergturm IMG 1559.jpg|thumb|240x240px|[[Rhône-Alpes]], Europe's 5th largest regional economy. In the past mining, especially coal mining was an important sector, particularly around [[Saint-Étienne]], although this has declined since the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rhone Alpes Economy |url=http://www.french-property.com/regions/rhone_alpes/economy/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318061505/http://www.french-property.com/regions/rhone_alpes/economy/ |archive-date=2013-03-18 |access-date=2013-09-06 |publisher=French-property.com}}</ref>]]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Rank
!Region
!GDP <br />(millions of <br />euros, 2015)<ref name=":02">{{Cite web|title=Gross domestic product (GDP) at current market prices by NUTS 2 regions|url=https://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=nama_10r_2gdp&lang=en|access-date=20 August 2020|publisher=Eurostat|archive-date=18 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200818022005/http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=nama_10r_2gdp&lang=en|url-status=live}}</ref>
!GDP per capita <br />(euros, 2015)<ref name=":02" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Average annual population to calculate regional GDP data (thousand persons) by NUTS 3 regions|url=https://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=nama_10r_3popgdp&lang=en|access-date=20 August 2020|publisher=Eurostat|archive-date=12 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812080051/http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=nama_10r_3popgdp&lang=en|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|1
|[[Île-de-France|Île de France]]
|671,048
|55,433
|-
|2
|[[Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes]]
|250,197
|31,666
|-
|3
|[[Nouvelle-Aquitaine]]
|163,140
|27,527
|-
|4
|[[Occitania (administrative region)|Occitanie]]
|159,326
|27,497
|-
|5
|[[Hauts-de-France]]
|157,316
|26,170
|-
|6
|[[Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur]]
|154,081
|30,709
|-
|7
|[[Grand Est]]
|151,880
|27,317
|-
|8
|[[Pays de la Loire]]
|109,965
|29,482
|-
|9
|[[Normandy]]
|91,810
|27,495
|-
|10
|[[Brittany (administrative region)|Brittany]]
|91,406
|27,684
|-
|11
|[[Bourgogne-Franche-Comté]]
|74,074
|26,258
|-
|12
|[[Centre-Val de Loire]]
|70,230
|27,226
|-
|
|''[[Réunion]]''
|18,373
|21,559
|-
|
|''[[Guadeloupe]]''
|9,724
|22,509
|-
|
|''[[Martinique]]''
|9,289
|24,516
|-
|13
|[[Corsica]]
|8,761
|26,629
|-
|
|''[[French Guiana]]''
|4,441
|16,777
|-
|
|''[[Mayotte]]''
|2,309
|9,755
|}