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Product Name: France in Brief
Product Description
Area
551,000 sq. km
Largest country in Western Europe (almost one fifth of the total area of the European Union), with a vast maritime zone (exclusive economic zone extending over 11 million sq. km).
Relief
- Plains cover two thirds of the total area.
- Principal mountain ranges: the Alps (of which the highest peak, Mont Blanc, rising to 4,807 meters, is the highest mountain in Western Europe), Pyrénées, Jura, Ardennes, Massif Central and Vosges.
- Coastline: Bordered by four bodies of water : North Sea, English Channel, Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea; France has 5,500 km of coastline.
Climate
Three types: Oceanic in the West
Mediterranean in the South
Continental in Central and Eastern France
Environment
- Farms and forests cover 48 million hectares, i.e. 82% of the total area of France.
- Some 26% of French territory is covered by forests, ranking France third in the European Union for the amount of forestland, behind Sweden and Finland.
- France possesses 136 different kinds of trees - an exceptional diversity for a European country - and the wildlife population is on the rise: in 20 years, the deer population has doubled and the number of roe deer has tripled.
In order to conserve and develop France's natural heritage, the government has established:
- 7 national parks,
- 132 nature reserves,
- 463 designated areas for protected species,
- 389 protected coastal areas,
- France also has 35 regional nature parks covering more than 7% of the country.
&euro28.8 billion are allocated for the protection of the environment -€ 469 per inhabitant.
Three quarters of this goes on wastewater management and waste disposal.
France is party to many international treaties and conventions concerning the environment, among them United Nations agreements on climate, biodiversity and desertification.
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