Varanise

**Varanise** e dua na matanitu e dua na vanua e tiko taumada ena Tokalau Iurope kei na vica na ki veimatanitu tani veiyasana kei na yasana. Na vanua Korolevu Varanise e lako mai na Wasawasa Mediterranean ki na Vakavalagi Jenala kei na Wasawasa Vualiku, kei na Rhine ki na Wasa Atalanitika. Sa iyalayala mai vei Belijiki, Lukesepuaki kei Jamani ki na vualiku tokalau, Suwitisiladi kei Itali ki na tokalau, kei Andora kei Sipeni ki na ceva. Na lewawasa ki veimatanitu tani e oka kina na Varanise Guiana ena Ceva Amerika kei na vica na yanuyanu ena Wasa Atalanitika, Pasifika kei Wasa Vakaidia. Na vanua e 18 kina na matanitu e tiko kina na veivanua bibi eso (e lima na ka toka ki veimatanitu tani) yalataki e dua na iwasewase cokovata ni 643,801 na kilomita (248,573 sq mi) kei na iwiliwili taucoko ni 67,020,000. E Varanise e dua na unitary ni veiqatitaka ka kena iusutu Parisi, na siti levu duadua ena vanua kei na valenivolavola ni veivoli. Eso tale na vanua cakacaka wili kina Lyon, Maseli, Tolosa, Bodo, Lille and Nice.

Sa tu dede o Varanise ena dua na valenivolavola e cakacakaniliga, vakadidike, ka filosofi. E tu kina na iwiliwili levu duadua ni vuravura ena ikalima ni UNESCO Vuravura ni Iyau Vanua ka sa ikoya na kena liutaki na saravanua, ciqomi ni lewe 83 milioni na vulagi tani, ia kevaka e wili ena bogi ni bera na lewenivanua saravanua, sa yaco ko Varanise me ikaono ni matanitu e vuravura ka 138 e milioni na bogi, daku America, Jaina, Sipeni, Itali kei Matanitu Cokovata. Na Varanise e dua na matanitu e tara cake na ikavitu ni vanua vakailavo e vuravura ena ga GDP, kei ikatini e levu cake mai na PPP. E dau vakayacora vakavinaka o Varanise na vakaitutu ni vuli, qaravi ni bula, bula expectancy, kei tamata vakatorocaketaki. E vakatokai o Varanise me dua na kaukauwa cecere ena veika raraba, me dua vei ira na lima na lewe ni Matabose Kei Vuravura Veitaqomaki veimatanitu vata kei na kaukauwa ni veto kei na dua na ituvaki nukilia-iyaragi. Oqo e dua na nodra itutu na lewe ni ilawalawa ni duavata ena Cokovata Vakaiurope kei na Eurozone, kei na dua na lewe ni iwasewase ni 7, Vualiku Atalanitika Veidinadinati Mataisoqosoqo (North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO), Tuvanaka ni vakayagataki ni veika vakailavo kei veivakatorocaketaki (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD), na Vulavula Volitaka Mataisoqosoqo (World Trade Organization, WTO), kei La Francophonie. 
## Keokarafi

### Vanua kei iyalayala

The vast majority of France's territory and population is situated in Western Europe and is called Metropolitan France, to distinguish it from the country's various overseas polities. It is bordered by the Northern Sea in the north, the English Channel in the northwest, the Atlantic Ocean in the west and the Mediterranean sea in the southeast. Its land borders consist of Belgium and Luxembourg in the northeast, Germany and Switzerland in the east, Italy and Monaco in the southeast, and Andorra and Spain in the south and southwest. With the exception of the northeast, most of France's land borders are roughly delineated by natural boundaries and geographic features: to the south and southeast, the Pyrenees and the Alps and the Jura, respectively, and to the east, the Rhine river. Due to its shape, France is often referred to as ** ("The Hexagon"). Metropolitan France includes various coastal islands, of which the largest is Corsica. Metropolitan France is situated mostly between latitudes 41° and 51° N, and longitudes 6° W and 10° E, on the western edge of Europe, and thus lies within the northern temperate zone. Its continental part covers about 1000&nbsp;km from north to south and from east to west.

France has several overseas regions across the world, which are organized as follows:

* In South America: French Guiana.
* In the Atlantic Ocean: Saint Pierre and Miquelon and, in the Antilles: Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Martin and Saint Barthélemy.
* In the Pacific Ocean: French Polynesia, the special collectivity of New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna and Clipperton Island.
* In the Indian Ocean: Réunion island, Mayotte, Kerguelen Islands, Crozet Islands, St. Paul and Amsterdam islands, and the Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean
* In the Antarctic: Adélie Land.

France has land borders with Brazil and Suriname via French Guiana and with the Kingdom of the Netherlands through the French portion of Saint Martin.

Metropolitan France covers , the largest among European Union members. France's total land area, with its overseas departments and territories (excluding Adélie Land), is , 0.45% of the total land area on Earth. France possesses a wide variety of landscapes, from coastal plains in the north and west to mountain ranges of the Alps in the southeast, the Massif Central in the south central and Pyrenees in the southwest.

Due to its numerous overseas departments and territories scattered across the planet, France possesses the second-largest Exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the world, covering 11,035,000&nbsp;km2 (4,260,000&nbsp;mi2), just behind the EEZ of the United States, which covers 11,351,000&nbsp;km2 (4,383,000&nbsp;mi2), but ahead of the EEZ of Australia, which covers 8,148,250&nbsp;km2 (4,111,312&nbsp;mi2). Its EEZ covers approximately 8% of the total surface of all the EEZs of the world.

## Bula vakailavo
A member of the Group of Seven (formerly Group of Eight) leading industrialized countries, as of 2018, it is ranked as the world's tenth largest and the EU's second largest economy by purchasing power parity. France joined 11 other EU members to launch the euro in 1999, with euro coins and banknotes completely replacing the French franc (₣) in 2002.

France has a mixed economy that combines extensive private enterprise with substantial state enterprise and government intervention. The government retains considerable influence over key segments of infrastructure sectors, with majority ownership of railway, electricity, aircraft, nuclear power and telecommunications. It has been relaxing its control over these sectors since the early 1990s. The government is slowly corporatising the state sector and selling off holdings in France Télécom, Air France, as well as in the insurance, banking, and defense industries. France has an important aerospace industry led by the European consortium Airbus, and has its own national spaceport, the *[[:en:Centre_Spatial_Guyanais|Centre Spatial Guyanais]]*.

As of 2009, the World Trade Organization (WTO) reported France was the world's sixth largest exporter and the fourth largest importer of manufactured goods. As of 2016, the World Factbook ranked France seventh largest exporter. In 2008, France was the third largest recipient of foreign direct investment among OECD countries at $118&nbsp;billion, ranking behind Luxembourg (where foreign direct investment was essentially monetary transfers to banks located there) and the United States ($316&nbsp;billion), but above the United Kingdom ($96.9&nbsp;billion), Germany ($25&nbsp;billion), or Japan ($24&nbsp;billion). In the same year, French companies invested $220&nbsp;billion outside France, ranking France as the second largest outward direct investor in the OECD, behind the United States ($311&nbsp;billion), and ahead of the UK ($111&nbsp;billion), Japan ($128&nbsp;billion) and Germany ($157&nbsp;billion).

Financial services, banking and the insurance sector are an important part of the economy. Three largest financial institutions cooperatively owned by their customers are located in France. The Paris stock exchange is an old institution, created by Louis XV in 1724. In 2000, the stock exchanges of Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels merged into Euronext. In 2007, Euronext merged with the New York stock exchange to form NYSE Euronext, the world's largest stock exchange. Euronext Paris, the French branch of the NYSE Euronext group is Europe's 2nd largest stock exchange market, behind the London Stock Exchange.

France is a member of the Eurozone (around 330 million consumers) which is part of the European Single Market (more than 500 million consumers). Several domestic commercial policies are determined by agreements among European Union (EU) members and by EU legislation. France introduced the common European currency, the Euro in 2002.

French companies have maintained key positions in the insurance and banking industries: AXA is the world's largest insurance company. The leading French banks are BNP Paribas and the Crédit Agricole, ranking as the world's first and sixth largest banks in 2010 (by assets), while the Société Générale group was ranked the world's eighth largest in 2009.

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