美國加州已超越法國成爲全球第六大經濟體

California is now the sixth-largest economy in the world, surpassing France, thanks to a robust state economy and strong U.S. dollar.

由於當地經濟增長強勁、美元走強，加利福尼亞州現已超越法國，成爲世界第六大經濟體。

California was the world's eighth-largest economy in 2014, Irena Asmundson, chief economist of the California Department of Finance, said in a phone interview last Friday. That's slightly larger than France's gross domestic product.

在上週五的一則電話採訪中，加州財政部首席經濟學家伊雷娜·艾斯門德遜表示，該州2015年的地區生產總值達到2.46萬億美元。這一數字略高於法國同期的國內生產總值。

France is the world's seventh-largest economy with a growth domestic product of $2.42 trillion, and India is the eighth-largest with $2.09 trillion, according to the latest International Monetary Fund data.

根據國際貨幣基金組織的最新數據，法國是世界上第七大經濟體，國內生產總值達到了2.42萬億美元，印度是第八大經濟體，國內生產總值達到了2.09萬億美元。

The only countries with higher GDP output than California now are the US as a whole, China, Japan, Germany and the UK.

目前，GDP產出高於加州的國家只有美國、中國、日本、德國和英國。

California is home to diverse strong economies, including Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Manufacturing and agriculture have performed well despite a severe drought, Asmundson said.

艾斯門德遜表示，加州擁有強勁、多元的經濟，包括硅谷和好萊塢。儘管遭遇嚴重的乾旱，但該州的製造業和農業表現良好。

According to Bloomberg, California is home to four of the 10 largest companies in the world, including Facebook and Google parent company, Alphabet Inc.

據彭博社報道，全球最大的10家企業中有4家總部位於加州，其中包括臉書和谷歌的母公司Alphabet。

The most populous U.S. state has outpaced the rest of the country on job growth, California's finance department said in its June bulletin. Gross state product was $2.46 trillion in 2015, with 4.1 percent of growth in real terms, it added.

加州財政部門在其6月公報中指出，加州的就業增長爲全美最高，並稱加州2015年GDP爲2.46萬億美元，實質增長4.1%。

U.S. gross domestic product grew by 2.4 percent in 2015. Growth slowed to 0.8 percent in the first quarter of 2016.

2015年美國GDP增長2.4%，2016年第一季的增速放緩至0.8%。