MONACO is a country so rarely represented in international sport that you’d be forgiven for not realising it has a national anthem. It does not take part in the majority of team sports, and is represented in football only by club side AS Monaco, in France’s Ligue 1. Every time the Monegasque Ferrari sensation wins a race, the anthem of the principality – Hymne Monegasque – is played alongside the Italian anthem representing the car manufacturer. The language is taught in schools in Monaco, but very few people in the principality still speak it. French is the only official language of Monaco and by far the most commonly spoken.

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