France
France is a country with which almost every traveller has a relationship. Many dream of its joie de vivre shown by the countless cafés, picturesque villages and world-famous gastronomy.Map | Satellite | Directions |
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Paris
Paris, the cosmopolitan capital of France, is one of the largest agglomerations in Europe, with 2.2…Lyon
Lyon is the capital of the French administrative region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, created by a 2016 merger of Rhône-Alpes with Auvergne.Nice
Nice is a large city in France on the French Riviera.Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is a large region in southeastern France.Destinations
Île-de-France
Île-de-France is the compact region immediately surrounding Paris.Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur is the most popular holiday region in the south of France.Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nouvelle-Aquitaine is the largest region of France.Brittany
Brittany is a diverse region in northwestern France and a historic country with a distinct identity, sharing much of its Celtic heritage with Cornwall and Wales.Grand-Est
More than any other region of France, Grand-Est has been shaped by continual waves of settlement, invasion and border changes.Hauts-de-France
Hauts-de-France is the northernmost region of France, located to the north of the French capital Paris and situated on the English Channel at the point closest to England.Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is a region of east-central France, created in 2016 through administrative reorganisation from Burgundy and Franche-Comté.Pays de la Loire
The Pays de la Loire is an extensive region of north-western France to the west and south-west of Paris, separated from it by the adjoining region of Centre-Val de Loire with which it shares many affinities.Centre-Val de Loire
Centre-Val de Loire is a large inland region of central France located to the south-west of the French capital Paris.Corsica
Corsica is an island and a region with special constitutional status of France in the Mediterranean Sea, southeast of mainland France and west of Italy.France
- Location: Europe
- Population: 64,800,000
- Latitude of center: 46.77° or 46° 46' 12" north
- Longitude of center: 2.9° or 2° 54' east
- Elevation: 543 meters (1781 feet)
- Capital: Paris
- Area: 547,030 km² (211,209 miles²)
- Languages: French, Arpitan, Breton, Corsican, Catalan, Basque and Occitan (post 1500)
- Currency: Euro (EUR)
- Phone code: 33
- Internet domain: .fr
- Neighbors: Andorra, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, Spain and Switzerland
- GeoNames ID: 3017382
Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Frankryk
- Akan: Frɛnkyeman
- Albanian: Franca
- Albanian: Francë
- Amharic: ፈረንሣይ
- Amharic: ፈረንሳይ
- Arabic: فرنسا
- Aragonese: Franzia
- Armenian: Ֆրանսիա
- Assamese: ফ্ৰান্স
- Asturian: Francia
- Azerbaijani: Fransa
- Bambara: Faransi
- Basque: Frantzia
- Bavarian: Frankreich
- Belarusian: Францыя
- Bengali: ফ্রান্স
- Bosnian: Francuska
- Breton: Bro-C'hall
- Breton: Frañs
- Bulgarian: Франция
- Burmese: ပြင်သစ်
- Catalan: França
- Cebuano: Pransiya
- Central Khmer: បារាំង
- Central Kurdish: فەڕەنسا
- Chinese: 法国
- Chuvash: Франци
- Cornish: Pow Frenk
- Cornish: Pow Frynk
- Corsican: Francia
- Croatian: Francuska
- Czech: Francie
- Danish: Frankrig
- Dhivehi: ފަރަންސޭސިވިލާތް
- Dutch: Frankrijk
- Dzongkha: ཕརཱནསི
- Esperanto: Francio
- Esperanto: Francujo
- Estonian: Prantsusmaa
- Ewe: Frans nutome
- Faroese: Frakland
- Finnish: Ranska
- French: France
- French: République Française
- Fulah: Farayse
- Galician: Francia
- Ganda: Bufalansa
- Georgian: საფრანგეთი
- German: Frankreich
- Greek: Γαλλία
- Gujarati: ફ્રાઁસ
- Gujarati: ફ્રાંસ
- Haitian: Frans
- Hausa: Faransa
- Hebrew: צרפת
- Hindi: फ़्राँस
- Hindi: फ़्रांस
- Hindi: फ्रांस
- Hungarian: Franciaország
- Icelandic: Frakkland
- Ido: Francia
- Iloko: Francia
- Indonesian: Perancis
- Indonesian: Prancis
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Francia
- Irish: An Fhrainc
- Italian: Francia
- Japanese: フランス
- Japanese: フランス共和国
- Kalaallisut: Frankrigi
- Kannada: ಫ್ರಾನ್ಸ್
- Kashmiri: फ्रांस
- Kashubian: Francëjô
- Kazakh: Франция
- Kikuyu: Ubaranja
- Korean: 프랑스
- Kurdish: Fransa
- Kölsch: Frankrish
- Ladino: Fransia
- Lao: ຝລັ່ງ
- Latin: Francia
- Latin: Francogallia
- Latvian: Francija
- Limburgan: Frankriek
- Lingala: Falansia
- Lingala: Falánsɛ
- Lithuanian: Prancūzija
- Lojban: fasygu'e
- Lombard: Francja
- Low German: Frankriek
- Luba-Katanga: Nfalanse
- Luxembourgish: Frankräich
- Macedonian: Франција
- Malagasy: Frantsa
- Malay (macrolanguage): Perancis
- Malayalam: ഫ്രാന്സ്
- Maltese: Franza
- Manx: Yn Rank
- Marathi: फ्रान्स
- Min Dong Chinese: Huák-guók
- Mongolian: Франц
- Mongolian: Франц улс
- Nepali (macrolanguage): फ्रान्स
- North Ndebele: Furansi
- Northern Sami: Frankriika
- Norwegian: Frankrike
- Norwegian Bokmål: Frankrike
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Frankrike
- Novial: Fransia
- Occitan (post 1500): França
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܦܪܢܣܐ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Francland
- Oriya (macrolanguage): ଫ୍ରାନ୍ସ
- Ossetian: Франц
- Persian: فرانسه
- Piemontese: Fransa
- Polish: Francja
- Portuguese: França
- Pushto: فرانسه
- Quechua: Fransiya
- Quechua: Fransya
- Romanian: Franța
- Romansh: Frantscha
- Rundi: Ubufaransa
- Russian: Франция
- Sango: Farânzi
- Sanskrit: फ्रांस
- Sardinian: Frantza
- Scots: Fraunce
- Scottish Gaelic: An Fhraing
- Serbian: Француска
- Serbo-Croatian: Francuska
- Sichuan Yi: ꃔꇩ
- Sicilian: Francia
- Sinhala: ප්රංශය
- Slovak: Francúzsko
- Slovenian: Francija
- Somali: Faransiis
- Somali: Faransiiska
- Spanish: Francia
- Swahili (macrolanguage): Ufaransa
- Swedish: Frankrike
- Tagalog: Pransya
- Tahitian: Farāni
- Tajik: Фаронса
- Tamil: பிரான்ஸ்
- Telugu: ఫ్రాన్స్
- Tetum: Fransa
- Thai: ประเทศฝรั่งเศส
- Thai: ฝรั่งเศส
- Tibetan: ཕ་རཱན་སི།
- Tigrinya: ፈረንሳይ
- Tok Pisin: Pranis
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Falanisē
- Turkish: Fransa
- Udmurt: Франция
- Uighur: فرانسىيە
- Ukrainian: Франція
- Upper Sorbian: Francoska
- Urdu: فرانس
- Uzbek: Франция
- Venetian: Franzsa
- Vietnamese: Pháp
- Vlaams: Vrankriek
- Vlax Romani: Franchiya
- Volapük: Fransän
- Waray (Philippines): Fransya
- Welsh: Ffrainc
- Western Frisian: Frankryk
- Yoruba: Orílẹ́ède Faranse
- Zulu: i-France
- Republic of France
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