France
France is in Western Europe, with its capital at Paris and an area of about 551,695 km². Explore its flag, anthem, population, GDP ranking, government, natural resources, provinces and major cities on an interactive 3D globe.
- Official name
- French Republic
- Capital
- Paris
- Region
- Europe · Western Europe
- Area
- 551,695 km²
- Languages
- French
- Currencies
- Euro (EUR)
- Government
- Unitary semi-presidential republic
- Natural resources
- metropolitan France: coal, iron ore, bauxite, zinc, uranium, antimony, arsenic, potash, feldspar, fluorspar, gypsum, timber, arable land, fish; French Guiana: gold deposits, petroleum, kaolin, niobium, tantalum, clay
- Industries
- machinery, chemicals, automobiles, metallurgy, aircraft, electronics, textiles, food processing, tourism
- Main exports
- aircraft, cars, packaged medicine, gas turbines, vehicle parts/accessories
First-level divisions (101)
- 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
- Haut-Rhin
- Haute-Corse
- Haute-Garonne
- Haute-Loire
- Haute-Marne
- Haute-Saône
- Haute-Savoie
- Haute-Vienne
- Hautes-Alpes
- Hautes-Pyrénées
- Hauts-de-Seine
- Hérault
- Ille-et-Vilaine
- Indre
- Indre-et-Loire
- Isère
- Jura
- Landes
- Loir-et-Cher
- Loire
- Loire-Atlantique
- Loiret
- 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
- Pyrenees-Atlantics
- Pyrénées-Orientales
- Rhône
- Saône-et-Loire
- Sarthe
- Savoie
- Seine-et-Marne
- Seine-Maritime
- Seine-Saint-Denis
- Somme
- Tarn
- Tarn-et-Garonne
- Territoire de Belfort
- Val-d'Oise
- Val-de-Marne
- Var
- Vaucluse
- Vendée
- Vienne
- Vosges
- Yonne
- Yvelines
- Martinique
- French Guiana
- Guadeloupe
- Mayotte
- Réunion
Major cities
- Paris (population 9,904,000)
- Lyon (population 1,423,000)
- Marseille (population 1,400,000)
- Lille (population 1,044,000)
- Nice (population 927,000)
- Toulouse (population 847,000)
- Bordeaux (population 803,000)
- Rouen (population 532,559)
- Strasbourg (population 439,972)
- Nantes (population 438,537)
- Metz (population 409,186)
- Grenoble (population 388,574)
- Toulon (population 357,693)
- Montpellier (population 327,254)
- Nancy (population 268,976)