About France
France is located in western Europe next to the Bay of Biscay, English Channel and Mediterranean Sea. It’s the largest country in Western Europe, followed by Spain. It borders several European countries including Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Italy and Spain.
The terrain of France is mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in north and west. The remaining sections of France is mostly mountainous.
For example, the Alps are situated in the east, and the Pyrenees mountain range is in the south. The highest point in France is Mont Blanc at 4,810 meters in height, along its eastern border with Italy.
Capital city
Paris
Major Cities
| Bordeaux Cayenne Le Havre | Lyon Marseille St.-Denis |
Cities, towns and villages
| Agen Aix-en-Provence Ajaccio Amiens Angers Annecy Arras Auxerre Basse-terre Bastia Besançon Béziers Biarritz Bourges Brest Brive Caen Calais Cherbourg Clermont-Ferrand Dieppe Dijon Dzaoudzi Fort-de-France Grenoble Iracoubo Kourou La Rochelle Le Mans Lille Limoges Lorient | Melun Metz Montpellier Mulhouse Nancy Nantes Nevers Nice Nîmes Orléans Perpignan Pointe-à-Pitre Poitier Reims Rennes Roanne Rouen Roura Saint-Étienne Saint-Georges Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni Sinnamary St. Benoit St. Brieuc Strasbourg Tarbes Toulon Toulouse Tours Troyes Versailles Vichy |
Lakes, rivers and creeks
| Ariège Dordogne Doubs Durance Garonne Lake Geneva Loire Maas Marne Mosel | Rhin Rhône Sane Schelde Segre Seine Tarn Vienne Yonne |
Departments in France
| Ain Aisne Allier Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Alpes-Maritimes Ardèche Ardennes Ariège Aube Aude Aveyron Bas-Rhin Bouches-du-Rhône Calvados Cantal Charente Charente-Maritime Cher Corrèze Corse-du-Sud Côte-d’Or Côtes-d’Armor Creuse Deux-Sèvres Dordogne Doubs Drôme Essonne Eure Eure-et-Loir Finistère Gard Gers Gironde Haute-Corse Haute-Garonne Haute-Loire Haute-Marne Haute-Rhin Hautes-Alpes Haute-Saône Haute-Savoie Hautes-Pyrénées Haute-Vienne Hauts-de-Seine Hérault Ille-et-Vilaine Indre | Indre-et-Loire Isère Jura Landes Loire Loire-Atlantique Loiret Loir-et-Cher Lot Lot-et-Garonne Lozère Maine-et-Loire Manche Marne Mayenne Meurthe-et-Moselle Meuse Morbihan Moselle Nièvre Nord Oise Orne Paris Pas-de-Calais Puy-de-Dôme Pyrénées-Atlantiques Pyrénées-Orientales Rhône Saône-et-Loire Sarthe Savoie Seien-et-Marne Seine-Maritime Seine-Saint-Denis Somme Tarn Tarn-et-Garonne Territoire de Belfort Val-de-Marne Val-d’Oise Var Vaucluse Vendée Vienne Vosges Yonne Yvelines |
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