France
France, the largest country in Europe, is bordered to
the north by the English Channel (La Manche), the northeast
by Belgium and Luxembourg, the east by Germany, Switzerland
and Italy, the south by the Mediterranean (with Monaco
as a coastal enclave between Nice and the Italian frontier),
the southwest by Spain and Andorra, and the west by
the Atlantic Ocean. The island of Corsica, southeast
of Nice, is made up of two départements. The country
offers a spectacular variety of scenery, from the mountain
ranges of the Alps and Pyrenees to the attractive river
valleys of the Loire, Rhône and Dordogne and the flatter
countryside in Normandy and on the Atlantic coast. The
country has some 2,900km (1,800 miles) of coastline.
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