Talk:Geography of France

Boundary

There's also a boundary between Guadeloupe and the Netherlands Antilles on Sint Maarten/Saint-Martin. — Instantnood 14:28, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)

France also shares boundaries with Brazil and Suriname at French Guiana (Guyane). — Instantnood 11:42, May 10, 2005 (UTC)

Guadeloupe no longer has a boundary - St Martin was split from Guadeloupe and isn't part of France proper any more. Bazonka (talk) 15:20, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

St Martin has split from Guadeloupe but is still a French Collectivity. Don't know what you mean by France proper anyway. Blastwizard (talk) 18:53, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Guadeloupe is part of France in the same way that Paris is part of France - it's like Hawaii being part of the USA. (That's what I meant by France proper.) On the other hand, St Martin belongs to France, but is not part of it - like Puerto Rico belonging to the USA, or the Falkland Islands belonging to UK. Bazonka (talk) 09:57, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Saint-Martin is a COM, and as such is considered as an internal division of France. If you don't consider Saint-Martin as a part of France and want to remove it from the article, you will have to remove the other COMs from the article, you can try this, but I bet the consensus will be against this move. Comparing French administrative subdivisions, with UK or US subdivisions or overseas possessions is probably not the right way, like you can't compare counties in the UK and States in the US as these are clearly not equivalent. Blastwizard (talk) 15:13, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Hexagone or l'hexagone

Should there be a redirect from Hexagone or l'hexagone? 216.227.122.37 06:10, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

No that's a French perspective, it is good to mention the nickname but after all it is a French nickname and hexagon is spelled without an e at the end in English and it is the English Wikipedia. Blastwizard 07:28, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Inadequate map

The map on the head of the page is defintely not adequate. I mean, big cities like Montpellier or Rennes are not on the map even though very small cities like Cherbourg or Limoges are on it. Is it possible to change this map? Thank you.

Southernmost point

Wouldn't the southernmost point of France including its overseas territories be a point on Kerguelen island, rather than Reunion? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.161.39.210 (talk) 11:34, August 30, 2007 (UTC)

Yes (or maybe even the South Pole), but Kerguelen is part of an overseas territory - it belongs to France, but is not part of it. Reunion, on the other hand, is an overseas department, and so is actually part of France. (This page only shows the extremes of France proper.)Bazonka (talk) 15:34, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Citations?

Is there a reason why there are no citations? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.86.115.220 (talk) 23:20, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Climate of France

Climate of France redirects to this page but is very moderate.(to a non-existant subsection #climate) but there is no mention of the climate on this page. Robhull (talk) 14:37, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Removed unsourced antipoides conetent

I've cut the following from the article as, quite simply, unsourced trivia. Another user seems to disagree - so here it is. Please explain in some detail just how this bit is relevant to the Geography of France and provide some WP:RSs to support the content and I will willingly restore a referenced section. As it is, the mere existence of something on the opposite side of the Earth is quite irrelevant and doesn't belong here. Vsmith (talk) 18:49, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

==Antipodes==

The land hemisphere—the half of the Earth with the most land—is centred on Nantes. Thus the antipodes of France are in the middle of the water hemisphere in the South Pacific. The only significant land mass antipodal to metropolitan France is the Chatham Islands of New Zealand, corresponding to an area north of Montpellier including much of the Cévennes National Park, though the antipodes of the uninhabited Bounty Islands are between Tours, Orléans, and Le Mans, and those of the likewise uninhabited Antipodes Islands are in Normandy, near Saint-Saëns outside Rouen.

However, French overseas possessions are widespread enough that Clipperton Island and Tromelin Island are passably close to being antipodal to each other, and several are antipodal to other countries. The Indonesian island of Buru, for example, finds its antipodes within French Guiana, as do a few smaller islands. The French Antarctic territory of Kerguelen is opposite the border between the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and the US state of Montana. New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands overlap Mauritania and southern Western Sahara, with the Mauritanian town of Zoueratte corresponding to the Isle of Pines. Wallis and Futuna are antipodal to Niger north of Niamey (spec. Féfandou near Ouallam).

In French Polynesia, the Marquesas are opposite central Ethiopia; the Society Islands of northern Sudan, with Tahiti close to antipodal with Al Dabbah on the Nile. The Austral Islands cover southern Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The Tuamotus cover a broad swath of Sudan, northern Eritrea, the Red Sea, and Saudi Arabia, with Khartoum antipodal to Rangiroa and Jeddah close to Tematangi. The Gambier Islands overlap Arabia, with Mangareva between Riyadh and Mecca.

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