Map of France

France is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 46.0° N, 2.0° E. It shares land borders with 8 countries — Andorra, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, Spain and Switzerland — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, France is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

France shares land frontiers with the following 8 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

France covers about 543,908 km² (210,004 sq mi). That makes it the 48th-largest country in the world by area and the 3rd-largest in Europe, larger by area than 42 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 66,351,959, the 22nd-largest in the world and the 4th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 9.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, France has an average population density of about 122 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 4th by population and 3rd by area.

The seat of government is Paris, and the official currency is the Euro (EUR, €), and the main official language is French. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes time zones UTC-10:00, UTC-09:30, UTC-09:00, UTC-08:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00, UTC+04:00, UTC+05:00, UTC+10:00, UTC+11:00 and UTC+12:00.

France carries the ISO country codes FR and FRA, dials on the international calling code +33 and uses the .fr internet domain.

France shares its land borders with 8 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Germany (capital Berlin, about 83,491,249 people), Italy (capital Rome, about 58,927,633 people), Spain (capital Madrid, about 49,315,949 people), Belgium (capital Brussels, about 11,825,551 people), Switzerland (capital Bern, about 9,082,848 people), Luxembourg (capital Luxembourg, about 681,973 people), Andorra (capital Andorra la Vella, about 88,406 people) and Monaco (capital Monaco, about 38,423 people).

By area, France is larger than 8 of these neighbours and smaller than 0 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 46.0° N, 2.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing France within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Paris. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

France lies about 5,106 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

France spans 14 time zones, from UTC-10:00 to UTC+12:00, reflecting the spread of its territory across the globe. Each is expressed as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); where a country covers several zones, the official local time can differ from one part of it to another.

The official currency is the Euro (EUR, €).

The official language is French, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +33 and websites commonly use the .fr internet domain.

In short, France is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 8 countries. Its capital is Paris. France has a population of about 66,351,959 and covers around 543,908 km² (210,004 sq mi), ranking it 22nd in the world by population and 48th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for France.

The flag of France is composed of three equal vertical bands of blue, white and red.

The flag of France is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.