France

France, the largest country in Western Europe, bounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the Alps and the Pyrenees, has since long provided a geographic, economic, and linguistic bridge between northern and southern Europe.It is Europe’s most important agricultural producer and one of the world’s leading industrial powers.

Physical Location

• Roughly hexagonal in outline, its continental territory is bordered on the northeast by Belgium and Luxembourg, on the east by Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, on the south by the Mediterranean Sea, Spain, and Andorra, on the west by the Bay of Biscay, and on the northwest by the ....