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2 days ago · The capital and by far the most important city of France is Paris, one of the world’s preeminent cultural and commercial centres.A majestic city known as the ville lumière, or “city of light,” Paris has often been remade, most famously in the mid-19th century under the command of Georges-Eugène, Baron Haussman, who was committed to Napoleon III’s vision of a modern city free of the ...
1 day ago · Topographic map of Alsace. Alsace has an area of 8,283 km 2, making it the smallest région of metropolitan France. It is almost four times longer than it is wide, corresponding to a plain between the Rhine in the east and the Vosges mountains in the west. It includes the départements of Haut-Rhin and Bas-Rhin (known previously as Sundgau and ...
- 8,280 km² (3,200 sq mi)
- FR-A
- Alsatian
- France
1 day ago · Lyon (Franco-Provençal: Liyon), formerly spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, 391 km (243 mi) southeast of Paris, 278 km (173 mi) north of Marseille, 113 km (70 mi) southwest of Geneva, 58 km (36 mi) northeast of Saint-Étienne.
- 47.87 km² (18.48 sq mi)
- France
- 162–349 m (531–1,145 ft)
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
5 days ago · Normandy, historic and cultural region of France encompassing the northern departments of Manche, Calvados, Orne, Eure, and Seine-Maritime and coextensive with the former province of Normandy. It was recreated as an administrative entity in 2016 with the union of the regions of Basse-Normandie and Haute-Normandie.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · The French colonial empire ( French: Empire colonial français) comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward. A distinction is generally made between the " First French colonial empire ", that existed until 1814, by which time most of it had been lost or sold ...
- French franc and various other currencies
- Colonial empire
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1 day ago · Europe, second smallest of the world’s continents, composed of the westward-projecting peninsulas of Eurasia (the great landmass that it shares with Asia). It occupies nearly one-fifteenth of the world’s total land area. The long processes of history marked it off as the home of a distinctive civilization.
1 day ago · Can you name the Name provinces of France!? Test your knowledge on this geography quiz and compare your score to others. Quiz by ZazzlesRules12
