English Exonyms - France

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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