France
- Alpes : Alps
- Bretagne : Brittany
- Bourgogne : Burgundy
- Corse : Corsica, English uses local Corsican and Italian name
- Côte d'Azur : The French Riviera
- Dunkerque : Dunkirk
- Gascogne : Gascony
- Golfe de Gascogne : Bay of Biscay
- Lyon : now historically Lyons
- Marseille : now historically Marseilles
- Normandie : Normandy
- Ouessant : island of Ushant, also Ouessant
- Picardie : Picardy
- Pyrénées : Pyrenees
- Reims : Rheims
- Rhin : Rhine
- Savoie : Savoy
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