France is the largest country in Western Europe, with an area of 551,500 square kilometers and a population over of 60 million people.

Geographically in the south you will find the Pyrenees mountains, rising to the 3,404 meters high which form the frontier with Spain and, to the east, the Alps which separate France form Italy and Switzerland, and the French Alps to the north form the most extensive ski slopes in Europe. Mont Blanc, Europe's highest mountain, is 4,807 meters high.

Paris is one of the greatest cities and most important urban regions of Europe and the world: with a population of 2,116,000 people and 10,925,000 in the Ile de France region including the peripheral towns of Caen, Rouen, Le Havre, Amiens, Rheims, Orleans and Tours.