APBI 2016

France ( French Republic ) • Unitary sovereign state & transcontinental country. Territory in western Europe & several overseas regions and territories. • European area of France extends from Mediterranean Sea to Channel and North Sea, and from Rhine to Atlantic Ocean. • Overseas France: French Guiana (South American) & islands in Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. • 66,736,000 inhabitants on 643,801 km 2 = 116/km 2 . • Capital = Paris: 2.2 (12) million inhabitants.