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France: Country in Western Europe
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. It also includes overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north, Germany to the north east, Switzerland to the east, Italy and Monaco to the south east, Andorra and Spain to the south, and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the north west. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Its eighteen integral regions span a combined area of 643,801 km2 (248,573 sq mi) and have a total population of 68.4 million as of January 2024. France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre; other major urban areas include Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Lille, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Nantes and Nice.

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Brazil and France launch diesel-powered submarine [Video]

Brazil and France launch diesel-powered submarine

The launch is part of a Prosub program launched by French president Nicolas Sarkozy and Lula da Silva in 2008. Macron and his Brazilian counterpart also announced a plan to invest 1 billion euros in..

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France 'doesn't rule out' requisitions for war production to aid Ukraine

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Macron says IS branch carried out Moscow attack, group had attempted attacks in France

Credit: FRANCE 24 English     Duration: 01:36Published
France marks 100 years of decree expanding girls' education [Video]

France marks 100 years of decree expanding girls' education

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France raises terror alert level following Moscow attack, threats to schools

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Increasing timber theft in France causing ecological disaster

Authorities are tracking down the looters, who are responsible for ecological disasters by cutting down trees.

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French PM promises to track down hackers who sent threatening messages to schools [Video]

French PM promises to track down hackers who sent threatening messages to schools

The messages were sent via hacked digital workspaces to students and parents and included beheading videos

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France greenhouse gas emissions fall 4.8% in 2023 [Video]

France greenhouse gas emissions fall 4.8% in 2023

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World recycling day: What's the situation in France? [Video]

World recycling day: What's the situation in France?

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Netherlands select France's Naval Group for submarines deal [Video]

Netherlands select France's Naval Group for submarines deal

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Macron Warns War May Be the Only Road to Peace [Video]

Macron Warns War May Be the Only Road to Peace

Macron Warns War , May Be the Only , Road to Peace. On March 14, French President Emmanuel Macron said that Europe should be prepared for war, claiming that Russia will not stop with Ukraine. On..

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Macron STILL doesn't rule out sending troops to Ukraine [Video]

Macron STILL doesn't rule out sending troops to Ukraine

French President Emmanuel Macron says 'all options are possible' in Ukraine, although the current situation doesn't require them

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'This is a non-binding vote but important for the French President Emmanuel Macron' [Video]

'This is a non-binding vote but important for the French President Emmanuel Macron'

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French parliament to vote on Macron's Ukraine strategy [Video]

French parliament to vote on Macron's Ukraine strategy

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Those behind France cyber attack 'basically a bunch of kids having fun' [Video]

Those behind France cyber attack 'basically a bunch of kids having fun'

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'France is not the only country to have concluded a bilateral agreement with Ukraine' [Video]

'France is not the only country to have concluded a bilateral agreement with Ukraine'

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Cyberattack of ‘Unprecedented Intensity’ Stuns France, Days After US Govt. Suffered Outage| Oneindia [Video]

Cyberattack of ‘Unprecedented Intensity’ Stuns France, Days After US Govt. Suffered Outage| Oneindia

French government institutions faced unprecedented cyberattacks, months before the Paris Olympics. Suspicions toward Russia emerged, but no conclusive attribution was made. Hacker groups, including..

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French state services hit by cyberattacks of 'unprecedented intensity' [Video]

French state services hit by cyberattacks of 'unprecedented intensity'

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Several dead, missing after storms batter southern france [Video]

Several dead, missing after storms batter southern france

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French parliament to debate Ukraine aid [Video]

French parliament to debate Ukraine aid

Credit: FRANCE 24 English     Duration: 01:16Published
Will France leglaise assisted dying? [Video]

Will France leglaise assisted dying?

Credit: FRANCE 24 English     Duration: 03:17Published
'Facing up to death': France's Macron announces bill for assisted dying [Video]

'Facing up to death': France's Macron announces bill for assisted dying

Credit: FRANCE 24 English     Duration: 01:32Published
Three dead as storms batter France [Video]

Three dead as storms batter France

Three people have died and four remain missing as storm Monica hits Gard in south eastern France.

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Seven reported missing after severe weather hits southeast France [Video]

Seven reported missing after severe weather hits southeast France

Seven people have been reported missing after severe weather hit a large part of southeastern France overnight Saturday.

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