In the V1 expanded timeline (via Traveller:2300) France reintegrates lots of former colonies into the French Union after the Twilight War, including parts of North Africa and Central/South America, until it's virtually an empire in everything but name. Generally speaking though, there's more of large countries breaking up into smaller ones (China and Germany being the most significant ones).
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