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France: map and facts
France is in Western Europe. It has about 68.7 million people (2025), the 23rd largest population. It covers 643,801 km², the 42nd largest by area. That is about 107 people per km². Its highest point is Mont Blanc, at 4,806 m. The longest river on its map is the Rhine, 1,233 km from source to mouth.
Facts
- Population: 68,720,337 (2025, World Bank)
- Area: 643,801 km² (UN Demographic Yearbook)
- Capital: Paris
- Highest point: Mont Blanc, 4,806 m (Wikidata)
- Forest: 32.9% of the land (2024, World Bank)
Rivers
The longest rivers on the map of France, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):
- Rhine: 1,233 km
- Loire: 1,006 km
- Meuse: 950 km
- Rhone: 812 km
- Seine: 777 km
- Garonne: 575 km
- Moselle: 544 km
- Marne: 514 km
- Lot: 485 km
- Dordogne: 483 km
Also on the map: Saone, Doubs, Tarn, Vienne, Durance, Yonne, Ariege, Maroni, Litani and Scheldt.
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Mont Blanc: 4,806 m (its highest point)
- Piton des Neiges: 3,070 m
- Pic de Coma Pedrosa: 2,942 m
- Monte Cinto: 2,706 m
- Puy de Sancy: 1,885 m
- Cret de la Neige: 1,718 m
- La Soufriere: 1,467 m
- Montagne Pelée: 1,397 m
Mountain ranges: Alps, Pyrenees, Ardennes, Jura Mountains, Tumuc-Humac Mountains and Vosges Mountains.
Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Comoro Islands, Lesser Antilles, Mascarene Islands, Brittany, Massif Central, Normandy and Riviera.
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): farmland 28.3%, savanna 18.7%, evergreen broadleaf forest 13.6%, wooded savanna 8.8%, mixed forest 7%, grassland 6.3%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): plains 55%, hills 27.9%, mountains 14.4%, plateaus 2.3%.
Forests covered 32.9% of its land in 2024, up from 26.8% in 1990 (World Bank).
Minerals and fuels
- World #5 in silica sand among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #6 in mica among the countries USGS lists (2025)
Neighbours
France shares land borders with Andorra, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, Spain, Suriname and Switzerland on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 data release (doi:10.5066/P1WKQ63T). Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
- Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.
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