Founded along the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees mountain range on the border with Spain, Aquitaine is one of the 26 regions of France....

The current administrative region of Auvergne is larger than the historical province of Auvergne, and includes provinces and areas that historically w...

The region includes three departments, Calvados, Manche and Orne, that cover the part of Normandy traditionally termed "Lower Normandy" lying west of ...

The Bay of Biscay lies along the western coast of France from Brest south to the Spanish border, it is a gulf of the North Atlantic Ocean....

The region of Bretagne is made up of 80% of the former duchy and province of Brittany. The remaining 20% of Brittany is the Loire-Atlantique departmen...

Its capital is Orléans, although its largest city is Tours. The main feature of Centre is the Loire Valley. It includes the rich, fertile vall...

Champagne-Ardenne iis one of the 27 regions of France. It is located in the northeast of the country, bordering Belgium, and consists of four departme...

Although Corsica is the fourth largest island of France it is considered one of the 26 régions of France, although strictly speaking Corsica is...

The term French West Indies refers to the four territories presently under French sovereignty in the Caribbean: the two overseas departments of Guadel...

As part of France, Guadeloupe is part of the European Union; hence, as for most EU countries, its currency is the euro. However, Guadeloupe does not f...

This division continues to provoke controversy, and some continue to call for regrouping of the two. However, the name Haute-Normandie existed prior t...

Hautes-Alpes is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It consists of the southeast of the former p...

Despite the name change, Ile-de-France is still popularly referred to by French people as the Region Parisienne ("Paris Region") or RP. Ninety percent...

Being a former province of France Languedoc is continued in the modern-day régions of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrenees in the south of Fr...

As part of France, Martinique is part of the European Union, and its currency is the euro. Its official language is French, although almost all of its...

The term was first used by Jules Dumont d'Urville in 1832 to denote an ethnic and geographical grouping of islands distinct from Polynesia and Microne...

Nord-Pas de Calais has a border with Belgium and is one of the 26 regions of France. It is an extremely densely populated region with some 4 million i...

Normandy is situated along the coast of France south of the English Channel between Brittany (to the west) and Picardy. It is a geographical region co...

Other examples of "artificially created" regions include Rhone-Alpes, which was created as the region for Lyon, and Midi-Pyrenees, which was created a...

The region of Picardy is considered by some to be an artificial entity, with the south of the Oise department lying inside the metropolitan area of Pa...

The region of Picardy is considered by some to be an artificial entity, with the south of the Oise department lying inside the metropolitan area of Pa...

Poitou-Charentes is an administrative region in central western France comprising four departments: Charente, Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres an...

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur is one of the 26 regions of France made up of the former French province of Provence, the former papal territory of A...

The Pyrenees are a range of mountains in southwest Europe that form a natural border between France and Spain....

Rhone-Alpes is located in the east of France. To the north are the French regions of Bourgogne (Burgundy) and Franche-Comte, to the west it borders th...

Savoy on the western flank of the Alps that emerged following the collapse of the Frankish Kingdom of Burgundy is a region of Europe....