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Aerial view of Saint-Tropez, with Pampelonne beach in background and the citadel and the port in the foreground Citadel of Saint-Tropez Map of Saint-Tropez (c. 1680) In 599 BC, the Phocaeans from Ionia founded Massilia (present-day Marseille) and established other coastal mooring sites in the area.
The area known as metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, as well as from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. As of 2023, France is divided into eighteen administrative regions, of which thirteen are in metropolitan France (twelve on the continent, plus Corsica) and five are overseas.
Southern France, also known as the south of France or colloquially in French as le Midi, [1] [2] is a geographical area consisting of the regions of France that border the Atlantic Ocean south of the Marais Poitevin, [3] Spain, the Mediterranean Sea and Italy.
Pampelonne is the kind of beach considered a Saint-Tropez beach by most people. [2] It is a long, mostly sandy beach, located about 5 km south-east to Saint-Tropez. Only half of the beach belongs to the commune of Saint-Tropez, but famous beach clubs – strictly speaking located in Ramatuelle – often use the term Saint-Tropez beach.
A bypass route makes it possible to avoid the city center from the south when arriving from Trans-en-Provence and to get to the hospital in the north of the city more quickly. The city is located 869 km away from Paris , 141 km from Marseille , 89 km from Nice , 86 km from Toulon , 30 km from Fréjus , 105 km from Digne-les-Bains and about 35 ...
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Var (French: ⓘ, Occitan:) is a department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France.It is bordered on the east by the Alpes-Maritimes department; to the west by Bouches-du-Rhône; to the north of the river Verdon by the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department; and to the south by the Mediterranean Sea.
ISO 3166-2:FR is the entry for France in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.