- France, officially French Republic, country of Western Europe, lined in the northeast by Belgium, Luxemburg and Germany!; in the East by Germany, Switzerland and Italy!; in the southeast by the Mediterranean Sea (Gulf of Lions) and the principality of Monaco!; in the southwest by Spain, principality of Andorra and the Bay of Biscay!; on the West by the Atlantic Ocean!; and in the northwest by La Manche and strait of the Straits of Dover, which separates France of United Kingdom and connects La Manche in the North Sea. France understands(includes) several islands of which the biggest is Corsica (8 569 km2) and ten possessions of ultramarine, scattered on the set(group) of the globe: Saint Pierre and Miquelon (the Atlantic Ocean the North), Guyana (South America), French Antilles (Martinique, Guadeloupe), Mayotte and Reunion (Indian Ocean), islands and archipelagoes of Oceania, in the Pacific Ocean French Polynesea, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna Islands), and the Southern lands and French Antarctica ( TAAF). The surface of metropolitan France is estimated(esteemed) between 543 965 km2 according to the cadastre and 551 695 km2 according to the national geographic Institute ( IGN ), according to geodesic measures, what places France in the 3-rd European row(rank) after Russia and Ukraine, and in the 48-th world row(rank). The capital, Paris, is most big city of the country.
|
|
