The CIA reports the total as 643,801 km2 (248,573 sq mi).ĭuring the Iron Age, what is now metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls, a Celtic people. Adding these give the total shown here for the entire French Republic. Source gives area of metropolitan France as 551,500 km2 (212,900 sq mi) and lists overseas regions separately, whose areas sum to 89,179 km 2 (34,432 sq mi). France, including its overseas territories, has the most number of time zones of any country, with a total of 12 time zones. Other major urban areas include Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille and Nice. France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. The country's 18 integral regions (five of which are situated overseas) span a combined area of 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi) and a total population of 67.02 million ( as of July 2019). The overseas territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. It is bordered by Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast, Switzerland and Italy to the east, and Andorra and Spain to the south. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. France ( French: ( listen)), officially the French Republic ( French: République française, pronounced ( listen)), is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories.
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