Area
- Total area: 674,843 km2
- (Whole territory of the French Republic, including all the overseas departments and territories, but excluding the disputed French territory of Terre Adélie in Antarctica)
- Metropolitan France: 551,695 km2
- (Metropolitan - i.e. European - France only, French National Geographic Institute data)
- Metropolitan France: 543,965 km2
- (Metropolitan - i.e. European - France only, French Land Register data, which exclude lakes, ponds, glaciers larger than 1 km2
, and estuaries)
- (Metropolitan - i.e. European - France only, French Land Register data, which exclude lakes, ponds, glaciers larger than 1 km2
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