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mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francia_metropolitana" title="Francia metropolitana – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Francia metropolitana" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fransa_metropoliyas%C4%B1" title="Fransa metropoliyası – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Fransa metropoliyası" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoat-kok_p%C3%BAn-th%C3%B3%CD%98" title="Hoat-kok pún-thó͘ – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Hoat-kok pún-thó͘" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%8F_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%8B%D1%96" title="Метраполія Францыі – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Метраполія Францыі" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%8D%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%8F_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%8B%D1%96" title="Мэтраполія Францыі – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Мэтраполія Францыі" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%AB%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%B8" title="मेट्रोपॉलिटन फ्रांस – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="मेट्रोपॉलिटन फ्रांस" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%A7%E0%BE%A5%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A2%E0%BD%93%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A6%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A1%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%82%E0%BE%B2%E0%BD%BC%E0%BD%84%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%81%E0%BE%B1%E0%BD%BA%E0%BD%A2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%86%E0%BD%BA%E0%BD%93%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%94%E0%BD%BC%E0%BC%8D" title="ཧྥ་རན་སི་ཡི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་ཆེན་པོ། – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="ཧྥ་རན་སི་ཡི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་ཆེན་པོ།" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>བོད་ཡིག</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontinentalna_Francuska" title="Kontinentalna Francuska – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Kontinentalna Francuska" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7a_metropolitana" title="França metropolitana – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="França metropolitana" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaulohang_Pransiya" title="Kaulohang Pransiya – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Kaulohang Pransiya" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitn%C3%AD_Francie" title="Metropolitní Francie – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Metropolitní Francie" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_m%C3%A9tropolitaine" title="France métropolitaine – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="France métropolitaine" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_m%C3%A9tropolitaine" title="France métropolitaine – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="France métropolitaine" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prantsusmaa_emamaa" title="Prantsusmaa emamaa – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Prantsusmaa emamaa" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B7%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE_%CE%93%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%AF%CE%B1" title="Μητροπολιτική Γαλλία – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Μητροπολιτική Γαλλία" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francia_metropolitana" title="Francia metropolitana – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Francia metropolitana" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%88eflanda_Francio" title="Ĉeflanda Francio – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Ĉeflanda Francio" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitar_Frantzia" title="Metropolitar Frantzia – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Metropolitar Frantzia" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%87_%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%BE%D9%84" title="فرانسه متروپل – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="فرانسه متروپل" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_m%C3%A9tropolitaine" title="France métropolitaine – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="France métropolitaine" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francia_metropolitana" title="Francia metropolitana – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Francia metropolitana" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%94%84%EB%9E%91%EC%8A%A4_%EB%B3%B8%ED%86%A0" title="프랑스 본토 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="프랑스 본토" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A5%D5%BF%D6%80%D5%B8%D5%BA%D5%B8%D5%AC%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%96%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%BD%D5%AB%D5%A1" title="Մետրոպոլյան Ֆրանսիա – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Մետրոպոլյան Ֆրանսիա" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontinentalna_Francuska" title="Kontinentalna Francuska – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Kontinentalna Francuska" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prancis_Metropolitan" title="Prancis Metropolitan – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Prancis Metropolitan" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francia_metropolitana" title="Francia metropolitana – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Francia metropolitana" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A6%D7%A8%D7%A4%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%98%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%AA" title="צרפת המטרופוליטנית – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="צרפת המטרופוליטנית" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franzia_metropolitana" title="Franzia metropolitana – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Franzia metropolitana" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladin</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francijas_metropole" title="Francijas metropole – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Francijas metropole" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDemynin%C4%97_Pranc%C5%ABzija" title="Žemyninė Prancūzija – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Žemyninė Prancūzija" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eur%C3%B3pai_Franciaorsz%C3%A1g" title="Európai Franciaország – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Európai Franciaország" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perancis_Metropolitan" title="Perancis Metropolitan – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Perancis Metropolitan" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_m%C3%A9tropolitaine" title="France métropolitaine – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="France métropolitaine" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%88%E3%83%AD%E3%83%9D%E3%83%AA%E3%83%86%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8C" title="フランス・メトロポリテーヌ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="フランス・メトロポリテーヌ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Frankrik" title="Metropolitan Frankrik – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Metropolitan Frankrik" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_m%C3%A9tropolitaine" title="France métropolitaine – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="France métropolitaine" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_m%C3%A9tropolitaine" title="France métropolitaine – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="France métropolitaine" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7a_metropolitana" title="França metropolitana – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="França metropolitana" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%B9%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%82%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%97%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%80_%E0%A8%AB%E0%A8%BC%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%82%E0%A8%B8" title="ਮਹਾਂਨਗਰੀ ਫ਼ਰਾਂਸ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਮਹਾਂਨਗਰੀ ਫ਼ਰਾਂਸ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%B9%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%B9%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3" title="میٹروپولیٹن فرانس – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="میٹروپولیٹن فرانس" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francja_metropolitalna" title="Francja metropolitalna – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Francja metropolitalna" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7a_Metropolitana" title="França Metropolitana – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="França Metropolitana" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C8%9Ba_metropolitan%C4%83" title="Franța metropolitană – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Franța metropolitană" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8" title="Метрополия Франции – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Метрополия Франции" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li 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data-file-width="326" data-file-height="351" /></a><figcaption>Map of Metropolitan France</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Metropolitan France</b> (<a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">France métropolitaine</i> or <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">la Métropole</i></span>), also known as <b>European France</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is the area of <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> which is geographically in <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>. This collective name for the European <a href="/wiki/Regions_of_France" title="Regions of France">regions of France</a> is used in everyday life in France but has no administrative meaning, with the exception of only Metropolitan France being part of the <a href="/wiki/Schengen_Area" title="Schengen Area">Schengen Area</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Indeed, the <a href="/wiki/Overseas_departments_and_regions_of_France" title="Overseas departments and regions of France">overseas regions</a> have exactly the same <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_France" title="Administrative divisions of France">administrative status</a> as the metropolitan regions. Metropolitan France comprises mainland France and <a href="/wiki/Corsica" title="Corsica">Corsica</a>, as well as nearby <a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_France#Islands_of_metropolitan_France" title="List of islands of France">French islands</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a>, the <a href="/wiki/English_Channel" title="English Channel">English Channel</a> (<a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">la Manche</i>), and the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea" title="Mediterranean Sea">Mediterranean Sea</a>. Its borders have undergone significant <a href="/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_France" title="Territorial evolution of France">changes over the centuries</a>, particularly in the east, but have remained unaltered since 1947. </p><p>In contrast, <a href="/wiki/Overseas_France" title="Overseas France">overseas France</a> (<i>France d'outre-mer</i>) is the collective name for all the French departments and territories outside <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>. Metropolitan and overseas France together form the French Republic. Metropolitan France accounts for 82.0% of the land territory, 3.3% of the <a href="/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone" title="Exclusive economic zone">exclusive economic zone</a> (EEZ), and 95.9% of the population of the French Republic. Some small parts of France (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Cerdanya" title="Cerdanya">Cerdanya</a>) are a part of the <a href="/wiki/Iberian_Peninsula" title="Iberian Peninsula">Iberian Peninsula</a>. </p><p>In overseas France, a person from metropolitan France is often called a <i>métro</i>, short for <i>métropolitain</i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Metropolitan_France&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The term "metropolitan France" dates from the country's <a href="/wiki/Colony" title="Colony">colonial</a> period (from the 16th to the 20th centuries), when France was referred to as <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">la Métropole</i></span> (literally "the Metropolis"), as distinguished from its colonies and protectorates, known as <i>les colonies</i> or <i>l'Empire</i>. Similar terms existed to describe other European colonial powers (e.g. "metropolitan Britain", "España metropolitana"). This application of the words "metropolis" and "metropolitan" came from <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a> "<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Metropolis" title="Metropolis">metropolis</a></i></span>" (from <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc-Grek" style="font-style: normal;">μήτηρ</span></span> <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn">mētēr</i></span> "mother" and <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc-Grek" style="font-style: normal;">πόλις</span></span> <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn">pólis</i></span> "city, town"), which was the name for a city-state that created colonies across the Mediterranean (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Marseille" title="Marseille">Marseille</a> was a colony of the city-state of <a href="/wiki/Phocaea" title="Phocaea">Phocaea</a>; therefore Phocaea was the "metropolis" of Marseille). By extension "metropolis" and "metropolitan" came to mean "motherland", a nation or country as opposed to its colonies overseas. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Paris_from_the_Arc_de_Triomphe,_17_October_2019.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Paris_from_the_Arc_de_Triomphe%2C_17_October_2019.jpg/300px-Paris_from_the_Arc_de_Triomphe%2C_17_October_2019.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Paris_from_the_Arc_de_Triomphe%2C_17_October_2019.jpg/450px-Paris_from_the_Arc_de_Triomphe%2C_17_October_2019.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Paris_from_the_Arc_de_Triomphe%2C_17_October_2019.jpg/600px-Paris_from_the_Arc_de_Triomphe%2C_17_October_2019.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5674" data-file-height="3192" /></a><figcaption>Paris, metropolitan France</figcaption></figure> <p>Today, some people<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too-vague attribution or weasel words. (July 2019)">who?</span></a></i>]</sup> in <a href="/wiki/Overseas_France" title="Overseas France">Overseas France</a> object to the use of the term <i>la France métropolitaine</i> due to its colonial history. They prefer to call it "the European territory of France" (<b>le territoire européen de la France</b>), as the <a href="/wiki/Treaties_of_the_European_Union" title="Treaties of the European Union">Treaties of the European Union</a> do.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Likewise, they oppose treating overseas France and metropolitan France as separate entities. For example, <a href="/wiki/Institut_national_de_la_statistique_et_des_%C3%A9tudes_%C3%A9conomiques_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (France)">INSEE</a> used to calculate its statistics (demography, economy, etc.) for metropolitan France only, and to analyze separate statistics for the overseas departments and territories. People in the overseas departments have opposed this separate treatment, arguing that the then four overseas departments were fully part of France.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>As a result, since the end of the 1990s INSEE has included the four overseas departments in its figures for France (such as total population or GDP). The fifth overseas department, <a href="/wiki/Mayotte" title="Mayotte">Mayotte</a>, has been included in the figures for France since the mid-2010s too. INSEE refers to metropolitan France and the five overseas departments as <i>la France entière</i> ("the whole of France"). "The whole of France" includes the five overseas departments, but does not include the other overseas collectivities and territories that have more autonomy than the departments. Other branches of the French administration may have different definitions of what <i>la France entière</i> is. For example, in contrast to INSEE, when the <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_the_Interior_(France)" title="Minister of the Interior (France)">Ministry of the Interior</a> releases election results, they use the term <i>la France entière</i> to refer to the entire French Republic, including all of overseas France, and not just the five overseas departments. </p><p>Since INSEE now calculates statistics for <i>la France entière</i>, this practice has spread to international institutions. For instance, the French GDP published by the <a href="/wiki/World_Bank" title="World Bank">World Bank</a> includes metropolitan France and the five overseas departments. The World Bank refers to this total as "France"; it does not use the phrase "the whole of France", as INSEE does. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Statistics">Statistics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Metropolitan_France&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Statistics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Metropolitan France covers a land area of 543,940 km<sup>2</sup> (210,020 sq mi),<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while <a href="/wiki/Overseas_France" title="Overseas France">overseas France</a> covers a land area of 119,396 km<sup>2</sup> (46,099 sq mi),<sup id="cite_ref-French_Republic_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-French_Republic-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for a total of 663,336 km<sup>2</sup> (256,115 sq mi) in the French Republic (excluding <a href="/wiki/Ad%C3%A9lie_Land" title="Adélie Land">Adélie Land</a> in <a href="/wiki/Antarctica" title="Antarctica">Antarctica</a> where sovereignty is suspended since the signing of the <a href="/wiki/Antarctic_Treaty_System" title="Antarctic Treaty System">Antarctic Treaty</a> in 1959). Thus, metropolitan France accounts for 82.0% of the French Republic's land territory. </p><p>At sea, the <a href="/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone" title="Exclusive economic zone">exclusive economic zone</a> (EEZ) of metropolitan France covers 333,691 km<sup>2</sup> (128,839 sq mi), while the EEZ of <a href="/wiki/Overseas_France" title="Overseas France">Overseas France</a> covers 9,825,538 km<sup>2</sup> (3,793,661 sq mi), for a total of 10,159,229 km<sup>2</sup> (3,922,500 sq mi) in the French Republic (excluding Adélie Land).<sup id="cite_ref-searoundus_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-searoundus-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thus, metropolitan France accounts for 3.3% of the French Republic's EEZ. </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/Institut_national_de_la_statistique_et_des_%C3%A9tudes_%C3%A9conomiques_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (France)">INSEE</a>, 65,250,000 people lived in metropolitan France as of January 2021, while 2,785,000 lived in overseas France, for a total of 68,035,000 inhabitants in the French Republic.<sup id="cite_ref-French_Republic_2_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-French_Republic_2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thus, metropolitan France accounts for 95.9% of the French Republic's population. </p><p>In the second round of the <a href="/wiki/2017_French_presidential_election" title="2017 French presidential election">2017 French presidential election</a>, 35,467,327 French people cast a ballot (meaning a <a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">turnout</a> of 74.56%). 33,883,463 of these (95.53% of the total voters) cast their ballots in metropolitan France (turnout: 76.26%), 1,003,910 (2.83% of the total voters) cast their ballots in overseas France (turnout: 53.59%), and 579,954 (1.64% of the total voters) cast their ballots in foreign countries (French people living abroad; turnout: 45.84%).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_of_France" class="mw-redirect" title="National Assembly of France">French National Assembly</a> is made up of 577 deputies, 539 of whom (93.4% of the total) are elected in metropolitan France, 27 (4.7% of the total) in overseas France, and 11 (1.9% of the total) by French citizens living in foreign countries. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hexagon">Hexagon</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Metropolitan_France&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Hexagon"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hexagone.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Hexagone.png/220px-Hexagone.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Hexagone.png/330px-Hexagone.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Hexagone.png/440px-Hexagone.png 2x" data-file-width="557" data-file-height="557" /></a><figcaption><i>l'Hexagone</i> illustrated by overlaying the outline of mainland France with the hexagon on the 1988 Charles de Gaulle commemorative <a href="/wiki/French_franc" title="French franc">1 franc</a> coin. Going counterclockwise, the sides of the hexagon are: 1. the <a href="/wiki/English_Channel" title="English Channel">Channel</a> coast, 2. the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic" class="mw-redirect" title="Atlantic">Atlantic</a> coast, 3. the <a href="/wiki/Pyrenees" title="Pyrenees">Pyrenees</a> (border with <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>), 4. the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean" class="mw-redirect" title="Mediterranean">Mediterranean</a> coast, 5. the eastern border (<a href="/wiki/French_Alps" title="French Alps">Alps</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jura_mountains" class="mw-redirect" title="Jura mountains">Jura</a> and <a href="/wiki/Upper_Rhine" title="Upper Rhine">Upper Rhine</a>; <a href="/wiki/Monaco" title="Monaco">Monaco</a> to <a href="/wiki/Karlsruhe" title="Karlsruhe">Karlsruhe</a>), and 6. the northeastern border (German Rhineland, Belgium, and Luxembourg; Karlsruhe to <a href="/wiki/Dunkirk" title="Dunkirk">Dunkirk</a>).</figcaption></figure> <p>Legislators in 2023 voted to use the name <i><b>l'Hexagone</b></i> ("the <a href="/wiki/Hexagon" title="Hexagon">Hexagon</a>") to refer to what had previously been known as metropolitan France in an effort to move away from colonial language.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The image of France as a hexagon first appeared in French geography texts of the 1850s.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mainland or Continental France (French: <i>la France continentale</i>), or just "the mainland" (French: <i>le continent</i>), does not include the French <a href="/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon" title="Saint Pierre and Miquelon">islands in the Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_France#Atlantic_coast" title="List of islands of France">English Channel</a>, or <a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_France#Mediterranean_coast" title="List of islands of France">Mediterranean Sea</a>, the largest of which is Corsica. In Corsica, people from mainland France are referred to as <i>les continentaux</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Metropolitan_France&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_France" title="Territorial evolution of France">Territorial evolution of France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_colonial_empire" title="French colonial empire">French colonial empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mainland" title="Mainland">Mainland</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Metropolitan_France&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span 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reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Without <a href="/wiki/Corsica" title="Corsica">Corsica</a>, metropolitan France is also known as <b>l'Hexagone</b> ("<b>the <a href="/wiki/Hexagon" title="Hexagon">Hexagon</a></b>").</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">French <a href="/wiki/Land_registration" title="Land registration">Land Register</a> data, which exclude lakes, ponds and <a href="/wiki/Glacier" title="Glacier">glaciers</a> larger than 1 km<sup>2</sup> (0.39 sq mi) as well as the estuaries of rivers. <a href="/wiki/Institut_national_de_l%27information_g%C3%A9ographique_et_foresti%C3%A8re" title="Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière">French National Geographic Institute</a> data, which includes bodies of water, gives a value of 551,695 km<sup>2</sup> (213,011 sq mi) for the land area of metropolitan France.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Metropolitan_France&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">(<a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">Territoire européen de la France</i>) <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output 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(August 2024)">bare URL</span></a></i>]</sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-French_Republic-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-French_Republic_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Land area of the four old overseas departments (<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2864136#consulter">[1]</a>), Mayotte, the overseas collectivities, and New Caledonia (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/2045658/my_oldcol_01.pdf">page 21</a>), the French Southern and Antarctic Lands and the Scattered Islands (<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://observatoire-outre-mer.interieur.gouv.fr/site/layout/set/print/content/download/166/1067/file/Tdb_TAAF_Novembre17.pdf">[2]</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180619190042/http://observatoire-outre-mer.interieur.gouv.fr/site/layout/set/print/content/download/166/1067/file/Tdb_TAAF_Novembre17.pdf">Archived</a> 2018-06-19 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>), and Clipperton (<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://agriculture.gouv.fr/telecharger/44764?token=428075c480768259a6a7d05a971137ea">[3]</a>).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-searoundus-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-searoundus_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.seaaroundus.org/data/#/eez.aspx">"Sea Around Us – Fisheries, Ecosystems and Biodiversity"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2018-06-20</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Sea+Around+Us+%E2%80%93+Fisheries%2C+Ecosystems+and+Biodiversity&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seaaroundus.org%2Fdata%2F%23%2Feez.aspx&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMetropolitan+France" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-French_Republic_2-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-French_Republic_2_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Population of Metropolitan France: <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/1893198/estim-pop-nreg-sexe-gca-1975-2021.xls">[4]</a>. The population of all five overseas departments totaled 2,172,000 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/1893198/estim-pop-nreg-sexe-gca-1975-2021.xls">[5]</a> in January 2021. The population of the overseas collectivities amounted to 613,000 inhabitants (Saint-Pierre and Miquelon <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/3545753?sommaire=3292701">[6]</a>, Saint-Barthélemy <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/3545753?sommaire=3292701">[7]</a>, Saint-Martin <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/3545753?sommaire=3292701">[8]</a>, French Polynesia <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2122700">[9]</a>, Wallis et Futuna <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2121453">[10]</a>, New Caledonia <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.isee.nc/population/demographie">[11]</a>). The total population of the overseas departments and territories of France is estimated at 2,785,000.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Elections/Les-resultats/Presidentielles/elecresult__presidentielle-2017/(path)/presidentielle-2017/index.html">"Résultats de l'élection présidentielle 2017"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_the_Interior_(France)" title="Minister of the Interior (France)">Minister of the Interior</a></i> (in French). <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet of France">Government of France</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2018-06-20</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Minister+of+the+Interior&rft.atitle=R%C3%A9sultats+de+l%27%C3%A9lection+pr%C3%A9sidentielle+2017&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.interieur.gouv.fr%2FElections%2FLes-resultats%2FPresidentielles%2Felecresult__presidentielle-2017%2F%28path%29%2Fpresidentielle-2017%2Findex.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMetropolitan+France" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPostollec2023" class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Postollec, Julie (2023-05-24). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/l-assemblee-nationale-abandonne-le-terme-metropole-juge-colonial-dans-un-texte-de-loi-1398894.html">"L'Assemblée nationale abandonne le terme 'métropole', jugé colonial, dans un texte de loi"</a>. <i>La premiere: France TV</i> (in French).</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=La+premiere%3A+France+TV&rft.atitle=L%27Assembl%C3%A9e+nationale+abandonne+le+terme+%27m%C3%A9tropole%27%2C+jug%C3%A9+colonial%2C+dans+un+texte+de+loi&rft.date=2023-05-24&rft.aulast=Postollec&rft.aufirst=Julie&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fla1ere.francetvinfo.fr%2Fl-assemblee-nationale-abandonne-le-terme-metropole-juge-colonial-dans-un-texte-de-loi-1398894.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMetropolitan+France" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Peter Sahlins, "Natural Frontiers Revisited: France's Boundaries since the Seventeenth Century", <i>The American Historical Review</i>, Vol. 95, No. 5 (Dec., 1990), p. 1451</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <p><br /> </p><p><span class="geo-inline-hidden noexcerpt"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Metropolitan_France&params=46_00_N_2_00_E_type:country_source:kolossus-cawiki"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">46°00′N</span> <span class="longitude">2°00′E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">46.000°N 2.000°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">46.000; 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