Country
France
Also Known As French Republic
Western Europe
France, officially the French Republic, is a country primarily located in Western Europe. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Its capital is Paris. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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PopulationJanuary 2026 estimate. Population Estimate Year Area (sq km)Total area including metropolitan France and overseas France. Classification
Sovereignty Status France
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Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes is a region of France.
Source Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes (Wikipedia)
Grand Est is a region of France.
Source Grand Est (Wikipedia)
Source Marseille (Wikipedia)
Occitanie is a region of France.
Source Occitanie (Wikipedia)
Pays de la Loire is a region of France.
Source Pays de la Loire (Wikipedia)
Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur is a region of France.
Source Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (Wikipedia)
Source Strasbourg (Wikipedia)
Source Alps (Wikipedia)
Source Toulouse (Wikipedia)
Source Western Europe (Wikipedia)
Bordered By Water
Source Lake Geneva (Wikipedia)
Source North Sea (Wikipedia)
Has Capital
Paris, Cities Paris is the capital of France.
Source Paris (Wikipedia)
Long-Form Articles
Rivers Through Territory
The Rhine defines much of the Franco-German border.
Source Rhine (Wikipedia)
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- Also in Agriculture and Farming Atlas: CGIAR, found there there.
- Also in Agriculture and Farming Atlas: Charles Thibault, nationals include there.
- Also in Agriculture and Farming Atlas: INRAE, found there there.
- Also in Agriculture and Farming Atlas: World Organisation for Animal Health, found there there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Arc de Triomphe, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Carcassonne, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Centre Pompidou, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Chartres Cathedral, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Chateau de Chambord, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Chateau de Chenonceau, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Chateau de Fontainebleau, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Chateau de Vincennes, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Chateau Gaillard, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Completion of the Eiffel Tower, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Ecole des Beaux-Arts, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Eiffel Tower, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Elysee Palace, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Four Seasons Hotel George V, Paris, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Galeries Lafayette Paris, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Gare de Lyon, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Gare du Nord, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Gustave Eiffel, nationals include there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Haussmann's Renovation of Paris, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Hotel de Crillon, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Hotel de Ville, Paris, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Hotel Negresco, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: International Council on Monuments and Sites, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: International Union of Architects, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Louvre Palace, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Maison La Roche, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Mont-Saint-Michel, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Notre-Dame de Paris, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Notre-Dame du Haut, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Notre-Dame Fire and Restoration, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Palace of Fontainebleau, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Palace of Versailles, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Palais Bourbon, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Palais Garnier, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Publication of Towards a New Architecture, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Ritz Paris, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: The 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Decoratifs, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: The Louvre, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Tour First, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: UNESCO World Heritage Centre, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Unite d'Habitation, Marseille, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: Villa Savoye, part of this there.
- Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: World Heritage Convention Adopted, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: A Burial at Ornans, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Andre Derain, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Apocalypse Tapestry, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Auguste Rodin, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Berthe Morisot, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Cambrai Madonna, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Camille Claudel, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Camille Pissarro, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Centre Pompidou, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Chartres Cathedral, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Claude Debussy, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Claude Monet, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Coppelia, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Edgar Degas, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Edouard Manet, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Eiffel Tower, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Eugene Atget, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Eugene Delacroix, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Georges Braque, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Georges Seurat, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Giselle, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Gustave Courbet, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Gustave Doré, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Gustave Moreau, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Henri Cartier-Bresson, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Henri Matisse, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Impression, Sunrise, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Jacques-Louis David, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Jean-Honoré Fragonard, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Jupiter and Thetis, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: La Joconde nue, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Liberty Leading the People, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Louvre, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Marcel Duchamp, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Maurice Ravel, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Notre-Dame de Paris, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Palais Garnier, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Paul Cezanne, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Petrushka, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Rohan Hours, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Sarah Bernhardt, nationals include there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: The Death of Young Bara, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: The Embarkation for Cythera, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: The Gleaners, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: The Green Table, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: The Romans in their Decadence, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: The Son of a Migrant from Syria, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: The Waltz (Camille Claudel), part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Tower (Keith Haring), part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Villa Savoye, part of this there.
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Wall of Love, part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: Accor SA, part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: Agence France-Presse, part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: Air France-KLM S.A., part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: Air Liquide S.A., part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: AXA SA, part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: BNP Paribas S.A., part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: Compagnie de Saint-Gobain S.A., part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: Danone S.A., part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: Deberny & Peignot, part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: Eagle Football Group, part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: Electricite de France (EDF), part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: Engie, part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: Henri Fayol, nationals include there.
- Also in Business Atlas: Kering SA, part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: Klepierre SA, part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: L'Oreal, part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: LVMH, part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: Michelin, part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: Orange Business, part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: Orange S.A., part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: Rémy Cointreau, part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: Renault, part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: Sanofi, part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: TotalEnergies SE, part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield SE, part of this there.
- Also in Business Atlas: Veolia Environnement S.A., part of this there.
- Also in Computing Atlas: Alain Colmerauer, nationals include there.
- Also in Computing Atlas: Bernard Chazelle, nationals include there.
- Also in Computing Atlas: Bernard Vauquois, nationals include there.
- Also in Computing Atlas: Bertrand Meyer, nationals include there.
- Also in Computing Atlas: Colette Rolland, nationals include there.
- Also in Computing Atlas: Maurice Nivat, nationals include there.
- Also in Computing Atlas: Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, nationals include there.
- Also in Computing Atlas: Patrick Cousot, nationals include there.
- Also in Computing Atlas: Serge Abiteboul, nationals include there.
- Also in Earth and Environment Atlas: Alexandre Brongniart, nationals include there.
- Also in Earth and Environment Atlas: Georges Cuvier, nationals include there.
- Also in Earth and Environment Atlas: Jacques Cousteau, nationals include there.
- Also in Earth and Environment Atlas: Katia Krafft, nationals include there.
- Also in Earth and Environment Atlas: Maurice Krafft, nationals include there.
- Also in Earth and Environment Atlas: Rene Just Hauy, nationals include there.
- Also in Economics Atlas: Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, nationals include there.
- Also in Economics Atlas: Francois Quesnay, nationals include there.
- Also in Economics Atlas: Group of Eight (G8), has member there.
- Also in Economics Atlas: Jean-Baptiste Say, nationals include there.
- Also in Economics Atlas: Léon Walras, nationals include there.
- Also in Energy Atlas: Plan Messmer, part of this there.
- Also in Film and Media Atlas: Agnes Varda, nationals include there.
- Also in Film and Media Atlas: Alice Guy-Blache, nationals include there.
- Also in Film and Media Atlas: Auguste and Louis Lumiere, nationals include there.
- Also in Film and Media Atlas: Etienne-Jules Marey, nationals include there.
- Also in Film and Media Atlas: Georges Melies, nationals include there.
- Also in Film and Media Atlas: Louis Daguerre, nationals include there.
- Also in Film and Media Atlas: Nicephore Niepce, nationals include there.
- Also in Health and Wellness Atlas: Institut Pasteur, found there there.
- Also in Health and Wellness Atlas: Louis Pasteur, nationals include there.
- Also in History Atlas: Battle of the Somme, the location of this there.
- Also in Home, Crafts and Hobbies Atlas: Barthelemy Thimonnier, nationals include there.
- Also in Language Atlas: French, part of this there.
- Also in Literature Atlas: Alternate History, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Literature Atlas: City Mysteries, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Literature Atlas: Conte, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Literature Atlas: Fantastique, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Literature Atlas: Histoires Tragiques, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Literature Atlas: Libertine Novel, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Literature Atlas: Merveilleux Scientifique, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Literature Atlas: Problem Play, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Literature Atlas: Recit, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Literature Atlas: Roman a These, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Literature Atlas: Roman-fleuve, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Literature Atlas: Slice of Life, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Literature Atlas: Vignette, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Literature Atlas: Well-Made Play, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Mathematics Atlas: Adrien-Marie Legendre, nationals include there.
- Also in Mathematics Atlas: Alphonse de Polignac, nationals include there.
- Also in Mathematics Atlas: Augustin-Louis Cauchy, nationals include there.
- Also in Mathematics Atlas: Camille Jordan, nationals include there.
- Also in Mathematics Atlas: Claude-Louis Navier, nationals include there.
- Also in Mathematics Atlas: Evariste Galois, nationals include there.
- Also in Mathematics Atlas: Henri Poincare, nationals include there.
- Also in Mathematics Atlas: Jacques Hadamard, nationals include there.
- Also in Mathematics Atlas: Joseph Oesterle, nationals include there.
- Also in Mathematics Atlas: Pierre de Fermat, nationals include there.
- Also in Mathematics Atlas: Pierre-Simon Laplace, nationals include there.
- Also in Mathematics Atlas: Rene Descartes, nationals include there.
- Also in Mathematics Atlas: Sophie Germain, nationals include there.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Achille Mbembe, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Alain Badiou, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Antun Maqdisi, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Blaise Pascal, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Charlotte Casiraghi, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Denis Diderot, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Edmund Burke, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Emmanuel Levinas, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Ferdinand de Saussure, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Frantz Fanon, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Gabriel Marcel, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Georges Politzer, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Gersonides, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Gilles Deleuze, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Guy Hocquenghem, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Henri Bergson, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Isabelle Stengers, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Jacques Derrida, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Jacques Lacan, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Jean Baudrillard, is where this subject originated.
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- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Jean-Godefroy Bidima, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Jean-Paul Sartre, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Julia Kristeva, is where this subject originated.
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- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Louis Althusser, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Luce Irigaray, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Mary Wollstonecraft, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Michel de Montaigne, is where this subject originated.
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- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Michel Malherbe, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Michel Weber, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Mohammed Arkoun, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Montesquieu, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Nicolas de Condorcet, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Paul Ricoeur, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Paulin Hountondji, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Peter Abelard, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Pierre Duhem, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Roger Kempf, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Roland Barthes, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Sidi Mohamed Barkat, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Simone de Beauvoir, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Simone Weil, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Tony Duvert, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Tran Duc Thao, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Philosophy Atlas: Voltaire, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Political Atlas: France, the same subject.
- Also in Science Atlas: Academie des Sciences, part of this there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Adolphe d'Archiac, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Adolphe-Theodore Brongniart, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Adrien-Marie Legendre, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Albert Fert, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Albert Gaudry, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Alfred Des Cloizeaux, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Alfred Lacroix, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Andre Lwoff, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Andre Martinet, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Antoine Lavoisier, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Antoine Meillet, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Auguste Daubree, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Augustin-Louis Cauchy, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Barbara Romanowicz, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Charles Barrois, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Charles Richet, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Curie Institute, part of this there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Ecole Polytechnique, part of this there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Edouard de Verneuil, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Emile Benveniste, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Emmanuel de Margerie, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Evariste Galois, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Francois Jacob, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Gerard Paul Deshayes, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Henri Lebesgue, nationals include there.
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- Also in Science Atlas: Institut Pasteur, part of this there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Jacques Monod, nationals include there.
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- Also in Science Atlas: Joachim Barrande, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Luc Montagnier, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Marcellin Berthelot, nationals include there.
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- Also in Science Atlas: Michel Breal, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Paul Langevin, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Philippe Nozieres, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Pierre de Fermat, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Pierre Duhem, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Pierre Pruvost, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Pierre-Simon Laplace, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Rene Descartes, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Sadi Carnot, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Urbain Le Verrier, nationals include there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Xavier Le Pichon, nationals include there.
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- Also in Society and Culture Atlas: Auguste Comte, nationals include there.
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- Also in Society and Culture Atlas: Michel Callon, nationals include there.
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- Also in Society and Culture Atlas: Pierre Clastres, nationals include there.
- Also in Society and Culture Atlas: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, nationals include there.
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- Also in Society and Culture Atlas: Simone de Beauvoir, nationals include there.
- Also in Space and Astronomy Atlas: ArianeGroup, part of this there.
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- Also in Space and Astronomy Atlas: Claudie Haignere, nationals include there.
- Also in Space and Astronomy Atlas: CNES, part of this there.
- Also in Space and Astronomy Atlas: Dark, part of this there.
- Also in Space and Astronomy Atlas: European Space Agency, part of this there.
- Also in Space and Astronomy Atlas: European Space Research Organisation, part of this there.
- Also in Space and Astronomy Atlas: Eutelsat, part of this there.
- Also in Space and Astronomy Atlas: Exotrail, part of this there.
- Also in Space and Astronomy Atlas: HyPrSpace, part of this there.
- Also in Space and Astronomy Atlas: Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planetologie, part of this there.
- Also in Space and Astronomy Atlas: Jean-Loup Chretien, nationals include there.
- Also in Space and Astronomy Atlas: Latitude (company), part of this there.
- Also in Space and Astronomy Atlas: MaiaSpace, part of this there.
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- Also in Space and Astronomy Atlas: Sirius Space Services, part of this there.
- Also in Space and Astronomy Atlas: Sodern, part of this there.
- Also in Space and Astronomy Atlas: Thales Alenia Space, part of this there.
- Also in Space and Astronomy Atlas: Thomas Pesquet, nationals include there.
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- Also in Space and Astronomy Atlas: Unseenlabs, part of this there.
- Also in Sport and Games Atlas: Alain Prost, nationals include there.
- Also in Sport and Games Atlas: Bernard Hinault, nationals include there.
- Also in Sport and Games Atlas: Comite National Olympique et Sportif Francais (CNOSF), part of this there.
- Also in Sport and Games Atlas: Didier Assaraf, nationals include there.
- Also in Sport and Games Atlas: Fan Hui, nationals include there.
- Also in Sport and Games Atlas: Federation Francaise de Football (FFF), part of this there.
- Also in Sport and Games Atlas: FMJD (World Draughts Federation), part of this there.
- Also in Sport and Games Atlas: Jacques Anquetil, nationals include there.
- Also in Sport and Games Atlas: Jean-Claude Killy, nationals include there.
- Also in Sport and Games Atlas: Laure Manaudou, nationals include there.
- Also in Sport and Games Atlas: Laurent Fignon, nationals include there.
- Also in Sport and Games Atlas: Leon Marchand, nationals include there.
- Also in Sport and Games Atlas: Marc Tastet, nationals include there.
- Also in Sport and Games Atlas: Martin Fourcade, nationals include there.
- Also in Sport and Games Atlas: Nikola Karabatic, nationals include there.
- Also in Sport and Games Atlas: Sebastien Loeb, nationals include there.
- Also in Sport and Games Atlas: Teddy Riner, nationals include there.
- Also in Sport and Games Atlas: Tony Estanguet, nationals include there.
- Also in Sport and Games Atlas: Xavier Lesage, nationals include there.
- Also in Sport and Games Atlas: Zinedine Zidane, nationals include there.
- Also in Technology and Engineering Atlas: Alphonse Beau de Rochas, nationals include there.
- Also in Technology and Engineering Atlas: Gustave Eiffel, nationals include there.
- Also in Technology and Engineering Atlas: Joseph Marie Jacquard, nationals include there.
- Also in Transport Atlas: Alstom, part of this there.
- Also in Transport Atlas: Andre Citroen, nationals include there.
- Also in Transport Atlas: Ferdinand de Lesseps, nationals include there.
- Also in Transport Atlas: International Union of Railways, part of this there.
- Also in Transport Atlas: Louis Bleriot, nationals include there.
- Also in Transport Atlas: Louis Renault, nationals include there.
- Also in Transport Atlas: Sud Aviation, part of this there.
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Infobox, capital
Paris
Infobox, area
632,702.3 km2 (244,287.7 sq mi)
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69,081,996
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France is a country primarily located in Western Europe. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest.
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Lake Geneva is a deep lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France.
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The Alps are found in the following countries: Austria (28.7% of the range's area), Italy (27.2%), France (21.4%), Switzerland (13.2%), Germany (5.8%), Slovenia (3.6%), Liechtenstein (0.08%) and Monaco (0.001%).
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the United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France
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Strasbourg (Wikipedia)
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Toulouse (Wikipedia)
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Nantes (Wikipedia)
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Rhine (Wikipedia)
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After that, the Rhine defines much of the Franco-German border.
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