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Capital: Paris
Area: 643.801 km2
Population: 66.6 millions (2014)
Language: French
Main airports in France:
Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG)
Nice Airport (NCE)
Lyon St Exupery Airport (LYS)
Marseille Airport (MRS)
Toulouse Blagnac Airport (TLS)
Mulhouse Euroairport (BSL/MLH/EAP)
Bordeaux Merignac Airport (BOD)
Nantes Airport (NTE)
Paris Beauvais Airport (BVA)
Lille Lesquin Airport (LIL)
UNESCO World Heritage Sites in France
- Abbey Church of Saint Savin sur Gartempe
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenai
- Roman and Romanesque Monuments of Arles
- Church and Hill of Vézelay
- Belfries of Belgium and France
- Bordeaux Port of the Moon
- Canal du Midi
- Amiens Cathedral
- Bourges Cathedral
- Chartres Cathedral
- Reims (Cathedral of Notre Dame, Former Abbey of Saint Remy and Palace of Tau)
- The Chausses and the Cévennes (Mediterranean agro pastoral Cultural Landscape)
- Historical Centre of Avignon (Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble and Avignon Bridge)
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
- Episcopal City of Albi
- From the Great Saltworks of Salins les Bains to the Royal Saltworks of Arc et Senans (the production of Open pan Salt)
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Le Havre, the city rebuilt by Auguste Perret
- Mont St Michel and its bay
- Palace and Park of Fontainebleau
- Palace and Park of Versailles
- Paris (Banks of the Seine)
- Nancy (Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d’Alliance)
- Pont du Gard
- Provins (Town of Medieval Fairs)
- Historic Site of Lyon
- Prehistoric pile dwellings around The Alps
- Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézere Valley
- Strasbourg (Grande Ile and Neustadt)
- Roman Theatre and its Surrondings and the Triumphal Arch of Orange
- The Loire Valley between Sully sur Loire and Chalonnes sur Loire
- Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Gulf of Porto (Calanques de Piana, Gulf of Girolata, Scandola Reserve)
- Lagoons of New Caledonia (Reef Diversity and Associated Ecosystems)
- The Pitons, Cirques and Remparts of Réunion Island
- Pyrénées – Mont Perdu
- Nord Pas de Calais Mining Basin
- Decorated Cave of Pont d’Arc (known as Grotte Chauvet – Pont d’Arc Ardèche)
- The Climats (Terroirs of Burgundy)
- Champagne Hillsides (Houses and Cellars)
- The Architectural Work of Le Courbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement)
- Taputapuatea in French Polynesia
UNESCO Tentative List
- Carnac Megalithic Sites
- Cathedral of St Denis
- Rouen (Cathedral, Saint Ouen Church, Saint Maclou Church)
- Vaux le Vicomte Castle
- Fortified Cities of the Low Countries of North Western France
- Vanois National Park
- Mont Blanc
- La Camargue
- Straight of Bonifacio
- Ecrins National Park
- Port Cros National Park
- Guérande Salt Marches
- Mediterranean Shore of Pyrenees Mountains
- Bay of Marseille
- Roman Narbonensian cities and area (Nimes, Arles, Glanum, Aqueducts and Via Domitia)
- Cerdagne Railway
- National Aerospace Research Centre
- Hangar Y
- Former Menier Chocolate Factory in Noisiel
- Cordouan Lighthouse
- Historic Centre of Sarlat
- Rochefort Arsenal and Fortifications of Charente River Estuary
- Marquesas Islands
- Puys volcanic mountains and Limagne fault line
- Nimes from antiquity to present
- Marittime Mercantour Transboundary Area (The Maritime Alps)
- Royal and Imperial Metz
- Volcanic and Forested areas of Martinique
- Allied landing beaches of Normandy
- World War One Cemeteries and Memorials
- Great Spas of Europe
- From Grande Ile to Neustadt, a European expression of urban development
- French Southern Lands National Nature Reserve
- The Mediterranean Alps
- Nice the new town born of tourism of the invention of the Riviera
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