France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. It also includes overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north, Germany to the north east, Switzerland to the east, Italy and Monaco to the south east, Andorra and Spain to the south, and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the north west. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Its eighteen integral regions span a combined area of 643,801 km² (248,573 sq mi) and have a total population of 68.4 million as of January 2024. France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre; other major urban areas include Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Lille, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Nantes and Nice.

फ़्रान्स या फ्रांस पश्चिम यूरोप में स्थित एक देश है किन्तु इसका कुछ भूभाग संसार के अन्य भागों में भी हैं। पेरिस इसकी राजधानी है। यह यूरोपीय संघ का सदस्य है। क्षेत्रफल की दृष्टि से यह यूरोप महाद्वीप का सबसे बड़ा देश है, जो उत्तर में बेल्जियम, लक्ज़मबर्ग, पूर्व में जर्मनी, स्विट्ज़रलैण्ड, इटली, दक्षिण-पश्चिम में स्पेन, पश्चिम में अटलांटिक महासागर, दक्षिण में भूमध्यसागर तथा उत्तर पश्चिम में इंग्लिश चैनल द्वारा घिरा है। इस प्रकार यह तीन ओर सागरों से घिरा है।