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Call me a pedant, but that's not strictly true! Bits of France are on other continents, such as Martinique in the West Indies. Uniquely, the nation includes these colonies as France proper, which means we have bits of the EU that are nowhere near Europe.

Indeed, these people wouldn't dream of saying "one thousand nine hundred and eleven". Although people at that time referred to years up to 1909 as "nineteen hundred and (1-9)", I'm sure they switched to "nineteen eleven" at the start of that decade.