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France officially the French Republic is a country hose metropolitan territory is located in Western Europe, and that is rther made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and North Sea, and from the Rhine River to the Atlantic Ocean. French people often refer to Metropolitan France as l'Hexagone (the "Hexagon") because of its geographical shape.
France is bordered by Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, S itzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra, and Spain. In some of its overseas parts, France also shares land borders ith Brazil, Suriname, and the Netherlands Antilles. France is also linked to the United Kingdom via the Channel Tunnel, hich passes underneath the English Channel.
The French Republic is a democracy hich is organized as a unitary semi-presidential republic. It is a highly dloped country ith the fifth-largest economy in the orld in 2005.[2] Its main ideals are expressed in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. France is one of the founding members of the European Union, and has the largest land area of all members. France is also a founding member of the United Nations. It is one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council ielding veto po er, and it is also one of only eight ackno ledged nuclear po ers. 老师
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