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The A4 near Auve in the Marne department. The A4 Autoroute, also known as autoroute de l'Est (English: Motorway of the East ), is a French autoroute that travels 482 km (300 mi) between the cities of Paris and Strasbourg. It forms parts of European routes E25 and E50. It is France's second longest after the A10 autoroute .
TVG stands for train à grande vitesse, which is French for "train of great speed"), and is the name of France's high-speed rail service. France is the most visited country in the world, receiving over 79 million foreign tourists annually (including business visitors, but excluding people staying less than 24 hours in France). [4] Economic rank
The autoroute ( French: [otoʁut] ⓘ, highway or motorway) system in France consists largely of toll roads (76% of the total). It is a network of 11,882 km (7,383 mi) of motorways as of 2014. On road signs, autoroute destinations are shown in blue, while destinations reached through a combination of autoroutes are shown with an added autoroute ...
Simplified physical map. The geography of France consists of a terrain that is mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in the north and west and mountainous in the south (including the Massif Central and the Pyrenees) and the east (the highest points being in the Alps ). Metropolitan France has a total size of 551,695 km 2 (213,011 sq mi ...
Regions of FranceRégions ( French) France is divided into eighteen administrative regions ( French: régions, singular région [ʁeʒjɔ̃] ), of which thirteen are located in metropolitan France (in Europe ), while the other five are overseas regions (not to be confused with the overseas collectivities, which have a semi-autonomous status). [1]
Cartography of France. The French Sanson family was a major contributor to cartographic maps from the 17th century onwards. Pictured above: Sanson and Jaillot's decorative map of the world on a double hemisphere projection from 1691. The history of French cartography can be traced to developments in the Middle Ages.
Blanc : communes rurales. English (en): Urban areas of France in 2010, broken down by communes: Red: urban communes which are also urban poles of a urban area. Orange: other urban communes in a single urban area. Yellow: urban communes linked to at least two urban areas. White: rural communes. Date.
Français : Carte administrative vierge de la France destinée à la géolocalisation, avec régions et départements distingués. Échelle approximative : 1:3 000 000 English: Blank administrative map of France for geo-location purpose, with regions and departements distinguished.