The total area covered by France is 674,843 square kilometer. Metropolitan France covers an area of 551,695 square kilometer. Metropolitan France includes Corsica. The overseas departments and overseas territories are an integral part of the French Republic. The overseas departments of France are scattered around the world. In the overseas departments, a person from Metropolitan France is called a métro.
The French Colonies of Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana in the Caribbean and Reunion in the Indian Ocean became departments d'outre-mer (Overseas Departments) or DOMs under the 1946 Constitution of the Fourth Republic
With 674,843 square kilometers, France is the 40th - largest country of the world. Areawise, it can be said that France would fit 13 times into Canada.
The second largest Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the world is located in France that covers an area of 11,035,000 square kilometers. The Exclusive Economic Zone is the term given to the seazone over which a state has special rights as far as exploration and the use of marine resources is concerned. A state's EEZ covers a distance of about 200 nautical miles out from the coast. The EEZ of France is ahead of the EEZ of Australia and just behind the EEZ of the United States. The land area of the French Republic is only 0.45 % of the total land area on Earth. The EEZ of France covers approximately 8% of the total surface of all the EEZs of the world.
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