About France

France is a country in Western Europe. France is the world's most popular destination with 78 million in 2006, which boasts dozens of attractions, like Paris, French Riviera, French Riviera, the Atlantic beaches, ski resorts in the Alps, the castles of the Loire, Brittany and Mont Saint Michel.

The Mediterranean in the south of France, the Principality of Monaco forming a small enclave. To the west, Francehas a long Atlantic coastline, while to the north lies the English Channel, the lies of the past near Frances England

France has four lowland areas north of the Seine, the Loire and the Garonne flows to the west and the Rhone, which flows from Lake Geneva to the Mediterranean.

France is home to an estimated 770,000 Buddhists after the French Buddhist Union, three quarters of them of Asian origin. The Dalai Lama has visitedFrance ten times since 1982, meeting with the city or officials of government and once with the President, the late Francois Mitterrand in 1993.

The French president is reforming his country more determined than many had expected more. France has advanced industrial economy and an efficient agricultural sector. He also produced some of the continents influential writers and thinkers from Descartes and Pascal in the 17th Century, Rousseau and Voltaire in the 18th, Baudelaire, Balzac,Flaubert in the 19th and Sartre and Camus in the 20th Century.

Start your next dream vacation in France more information online. Travel by car is probably the best way for France to explore, in complete freedom. Today, however, France is one of the most modern in the world and is a leader among European nations.