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There's also a boundary between Guadeloupe and the Netherlands Antilles on Sint Maarten/ Saint-Martin. — Insta ntnood 14:28, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)
Should there be a redirect from Hexagone or l'hexagone? 216.227.122.37 06:10, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
The map on the head of the page is defintely not adequate. I mean, big cities like Montpellier or Rennes are not on the map even though very small cities like Cherbourg or Limoges are on it. Is it possible to change this map? Thank you.
Wouldn't the southernmost point of France including its overseas territories be a point on Kerguelen island, rather than Reunion? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.161.39.210 ( talk) 11:34, August 30, 2007 (UTC)
Is there a reason why there are no citations? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.86.115.220 ( talk) 23:20, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
Climate of France redirects to this page but is very moderate.(to a non-existant subsection #climate) but there is no mention of the climate on this page. Robhull ( talk) 14:37, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
I've cut the following from the article as, quite simply, unsourced trivia. Another user seems to disagree - so here it is. Please explain in some detail just how this bit is relevant to the Geography of France and provide some WP:RSs to support the content and I will willingly restore a referenced section. As it is, the mere existence of something on the opposite side of the Earth is quite irrelevant and doesn't belong here. Vsmith ( talk) 18:49, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
The land hemisphere—the half of the Earth with the most land—is centred on Nantes. Thus the antipodes of France are in the middle of the water hemisphere in the South Pacific. The only significant land mass antipodal to metropolitan France is the Chatham Islands of New Zealand, corresponding to an area north of Montpellier including much of the Cévennes National Park, though the antipodes of the uninhabited Bounty Islands are between Tours, Orléans, and Le Mans, and those of the likewise uninhabited Antipodes Islands are in Normandy, near Saint-Saëns outside Rouen.
However, French overseas possessions are widespread enough that Clipperton Island and Tromelin Island are passably close to being antipodal to each other, and several are antipodal to other countries. The Indonesian island of Buru, for example, finds its antipodes within French Guiana, as do a few smaller islands. The French Antarctic territory of Kerguelen is opposite the border between the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and the US state of Montana. New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands overlap Mauritania and southern Western Sahara, with the Mauritanian town of Zoueratte corresponding to the Isle of Pines. Wallis and Futuna are antipodal to Niger north of Niamey (spec. Féfandou near Ouallam).
In French Polynesia, the Marquesas are opposite central Ethiopia; the Society Islands of northern Sudan, with Tahiti close to antipodal with Al Dabbah on the Nile. The Austral Islands cover southern Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The Tuamotus cover a broad swath of Sudan, northern Eritrea, the Red Sea, and Saudi Arabia, with Khartoum antipodal to Rangiroa and Jeddah close to Tematangi. The Gambier Islands overlap Arabia, with Mangareva between Riyadh and Mecca.
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There's also a boundary between Guadeloupe and the Netherlands Antilles on Sint Maarten/ Saint-Martin. — Insta ntnood 14:28, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)
Should there be a redirect from Hexagone or l'hexagone? 216.227.122.37 06:10, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
The map on the head of the page is defintely not adequate. I mean, big cities like Montpellier or Rennes are not on the map even though very small cities like Cherbourg or Limoges are on it. Is it possible to change this map? Thank you.
Wouldn't the southernmost point of France including its overseas territories be a point on Kerguelen island, rather than Reunion? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.161.39.210 ( talk) 11:34, August 30, 2007 (UTC)
Is there a reason why there are no citations? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.86.115.220 ( talk) 23:20, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
Climate of France redirects to this page but is very moderate.(to a non-existant subsection #climate) but there is no mention of the climate on this page. Robhull ( talk) 14:37, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
I've cut the following from the article as, quite simply, unsourced trivia. Another user seems to disagree - so here it is. Please explain in some detail just how this bit is relevant to the Geography of France and provide some WP:RSs to support the content and I will willingly restore a referenced section. As it is, the mere existence of something on the opposite side of the Earth is quite irrelevant and doesn't belong here. Vsmith ( talk) 18:49, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
The land hemisphere—the half of the Earth with the most land—is centred on Nantes. Thus the antipodes of France are in the middle of the water hemisphere in the South Pacific. The only significant land mass antipodal to metropolitan France is the Chatham Islands of New Zealand, corresponding to an area north of Montpellier including much of the Cévennes National Park, though the antipodes of the uninhabited Bounty Islands are between Tours, Orléans, and Le Mans, and those of the likewise uninhabited Antipodes Islands are in Normandy, near Saint-Saëns outside Rouen.
However, French overseas possessions are widespread enough that Clipperton Island and Tromelin Island are passably close to being antipodal to each other, and several are antipodal to other countries. The Indonesian island of Buru, for example, finds its antipodes within French Guiana, as do a few smaller islands. The French Antarctic territory of Kerguelen is opposite the border between the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and the US state of Montana. New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands overlap Mauritania and southern Western Sahara, with the Mauritanian town of Zoueratte corresponding to the Isle of Pines. Wallis and Futuna are antipodal to Niger north of Niamey (spec. Féfandou near Ouallam).
In French Polynesia, the Marquesas are opposite central Ethiopia; the Society Islands of northern Sudan, with Tahiti close to antipodal with Al Dabbah on the Nile. The Austral Islands cover southern Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The Tuamotus cover a broad swath of Sudan, northern Eritrea, the Red Sea, and Saudi Arabia, with Khartoum antipodal to Rangiroa and Jeddah close to Tematangi. The Gambier Islands overlap Arabia, with Mangareva between Riyadh and Mecca.
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