Cook Countyâs deeply flawed assessment system is a source of vexation for many commercial property owners, said Elizabeth Holland, CEO of the Chicago-based commercial real estate company Abbell Associates, which owns property all over the Midwest.
France spans 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi) and has a total population of 66.7 million. It is a unitary semi-presidential republic with the capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre.
By 1900 it was the second-largest colonial empire in the world behind the British Empire. Including metropolitan France, the total amount of land under French sovereignty reached nearly 13 million kmÂ² (5,000,000 sq. miles) with a population of 110 million people in 1939.apoleon III doubled the area of the French overseas Empire; he established French rule in New Caledonia, and Cochinchina, established a protectorate in Cambodia (1863); and colonized parts of Africa.