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Mont-Saint-Michel[3] (French pronunciation: [lə mɔ̃ sɛ̃ miʃɛl]; Norman: Mont Saint Miché; English: Saint Michael 's Mount) is a tidal island and mainland commune in Normandy, France. The island [4] lies approximately one kilometre (one-half nautical mile) off France's north-western coast, at the mouth of the Couesnon River near ...
Carcassonne. (board game) Piatnik Budapest Kft. (Hungary) Carcassonne (/ ˌkɑːrkəˈsɒn /) is a tile-based German-style board game for two to five players, designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and published in 2000 by Hans im Glück in German and by Rio Grande Games (until 2012) and Z-Man Games (currently) [2] in English. [3]
The Loire (/ lwɑːr / LWAR, US also / luˈɑːr / loo-AR, French: [lwaʁ] ⓘ; Occitan: Léger [ˈledʒe]; Arpitan: Lêre; Breton: Liger; Latin: Liger) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world. [4] With a length of 1,006 kilometres (625 mi), [2] it drains 117,054 km 2 (45,195 sq mi), more than a fifth of France's land ...
Ain, Saône. The Rhône (/ roʊn / ROHN, French: [ʁon] ⓘ) [ 1 ] is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and Southeastern France before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea (Gulf of Lion).
The Seine (/ seɪn, sɛn / sayn, sen, [ 1 ]French: [sɛn] ⓘ) is a 777-kilometre-long (483 mi) river in northern France. [ 2 ] Its drainage basin is in the Paris Basin (a geological relative lowland) covering most of northern France. [ 3 ] It rises at Source-Seine, 30 kilometres (19 mi) northwest of Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres ...
lyon.fr. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Lyon[ c ] is the third-most populous city of France, at the centre of its second-largest urban area. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, 391 km ...
This is a list of rivers that are at least partially in France. The rivers are grouped by sea or ocean. The rivers flowing into the sea are sorted along the coast. Rivers flowing into other rivers are listed by the rivers they flow into.
A topographic map of the Republic, excluding all the overseas departments and territories Simplified physical map. The geography of France consists of a terrain that is mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in the north and the west and mountainous in the south (including the Massif Central and the Pyrenees) and the east (the country's highest points being in the Alps).