France métropolitaine
France métropolitaine , la Métropole for short , German metropolitan France or Metropolitan France (former ISO-3166-1 abbreviation: FX or FXX), is called the motherland of France , that is, the part of France belonging to the European continent, which is the French mainland and the islands off its coast in the Atlantic , English Channel and Mediterranean , including Corsica .
The France métropolitaine is compared to the France d'outre-mer . This is made up of the overseas departments and regions (DOM-ROM) French Guiana , Guadeloupe , Martinique , Réunion and Mayotte as well as the overseas territories (COM) Saint-Barthélemy , Saint-Martin , Saint-Pierre and Miquelon , Wallis and Futuna , French Polynesia , plus New Caledonia and the French southern and Antarctic regions with special status .
The metropolitan France extends over an area of 543,963 km². This represents around 85.9 percent of the total area of the national territory of France. With 63,928,608 inhabitants (January 2014), the population is 97.1 percent of the population of the national territory of France.
France continentale
The designation France continentale (continental France) is used for European France excluding Corsica, for example by the national geographic institute, Institut géographique national (IGN).
Individual evidence
- ^ Evolution de la population . Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (Insee). Retrieved May 20, 2014.