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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Barbières ( French pronunciation: [baʁbjɛʁ] ; Occitan : Barbèira ) is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France .
Fremont (named for John C. Frémont, American explorer, military officer and politician of French-Canadian descent) Gallia County (Latin for Gaul, Roman name for France) Gallipolis, Ohio, largest city of Gallia County; Girard (named for Stephen Girard, French-born American banker, philanthropist and slave owner) Grand Prairie Township
The Greek geographer Strabo [9] located the Lusones near the Tajo headwaters, whereas the historian Appian [10] places them along the Ebro. [11] In fact, their lands were located in the Aragonese region along the middle Ebro, on the Moncayo range (Latin: Mons Chaunus) between the Queiles and Huecha rivers, occupying the western Zaragoza and most of Soria, stretching to the northeastern fringe ...
Dynamic map of the European frontiers of France from 985 to 1947. This article describes the process by which metropolitan France - that part of France that is located in Europe, excluding its various overseas territories - came to consist of the territory it does today. Its current borders date from 1947.
The result of this is French-speaking Europe: France, Wallonia, Brussels, and French-speaking Switzerland, with their regional languages (see following map). Languages of France . Wallonia is in the NE, containing almost the whole Walloon language (dark green), a small part of the Picard language (light green to the West), and another small ...
Belgium, [a] officially the Kingdom of Belgium, [b] is a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe.Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the south, and the North Sea to the west.
Africa has 61 international tripoints (the highest number of international tripoints), followed by Asia with 51, Europe with 48, South America with 13, and North America with two. Oceania has no international tripoints by virtue of being almost entirely island countries with no land borders.
The Iberian Peninsula (IPA: / aɪ ˈ b ɪər i ə n / eye-BEER-ee-ən), [a] also known as Iberia, [b] is a peninsula in south-western Europe.Mostly separated from the rest of the European landmass by the Pyrenees, it includes the territories of Peninsular Spain [c] and Continental Portugal, comprising most of the region, as well as the tiny adjuncts of Andorra, Gibraltar, and, pursuant to the ...