The most visited country in the world, and its territory spans twelve time zones through its overseas departments.
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France
French Republic
Europe
ยท Western Europe
0Population
551.7Kkmยฒ of land
$40.49KGDP / person
ParisCapital
- ISO codes
- FR ยท FRA
- Density
- 122 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- French
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Dial code
- +33
- Internet domain
- .fr
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 46.6960ยฐ N, 2.5520ยฐ E
- Demonym
- French
- UN region
- Western Europe
- Economy
- Developed region: G7
- Income group
- High income: OECD
- Total GDP
- $2.72T
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 8
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By the numbers
How France stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
21st
of 242 ยท 0.87% of world population
Land area
50th
of 242 ยท 0.37% of world land
GDP per person
40th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
88th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about France
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 67,059,887 people, the 21st largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.87 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 551,695 kmยฒ, making it the 50th largest country here - about 6 times the size of Portugal.
Population density is about 122 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Paris, at 48.87ยฐ N, 2.33ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 9,904,000.
Shares land borders with 8 countries: Andorra, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Luxembourg (and 3 more).
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Europe/Paris.
The currency is the Euro (EUR, symbol โฌ).
The official language is French.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Europe/Paris
--:--:--
UTC+02:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Paris
รle-de-France
48.8686ยฐ N, 2.3314ยฐ E
9.9M
2
Lyon
Rhรดne-Alpes
45.7720ยฐ N, 4.8281ยฐ E
1.42M
3
Marseille
Provence-Alpes-Cรดte-d'Azur
43.2919ยฐ N, 5.3731ยฐ E
1.4M
4
Lille
Nord-Pas-de-Calais
50.6519ยฐ N, 3.0781ยฐ E
1.04M
5
Toulouse
Midi-Pyrรฉnรฉes
43.6219ยฐ N, 1.4480ยฐ E
847K
6
Bordeaux
Aquitaine
44.8520ยฐ N, 0.5970ยฐ W
803K
7
Rouen
Haute-Normandie
49.4304ยฐ N, 1.0800ยฐ E
532.56K
8
Strasbourg
Alsace
48.5800ยฐ N, 7.7500ยฐ E
439.97K
9
Nantes
Pays de la Loire
47.2104ยฐ N, 1.5900ยฐ W
438.54K
10
Montpellier
Languedoc-Roussillon
43.6104ยฐ N, 3.8700ยฐ E
327.25K
๐ Peaks
Mont Blanc
4,806 m
๐งญ Worth the trip
Paris
City
The Eiffel Tower was meant to be dismantled after twenty years; it survived because it made a useful radio mast.
Land neighbours
8 countries share a border with France.