french region
Noun
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A geographical subdivision of France (synset 108959335)
is a type of: geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region - a demarcated area of the Earthspecific instances:
- cote d'azur, french riviera - the French part of the Riviera
- alsace, alsatia, elsass - a region of northeastern France famous for its wines
- anjou - a former province of western France in the Loire valley
- aquitaine, aquitania - a region of southwestern France between Bordeaux and the Pyrenees
- artois - a former province of northern France near the English Channel (between Picardy and Flanders)
- auvergne - a region in central France
- basse-normandie, lower-normandy - a division of Normandy
- bourgogne, burgundy - a former province of eastern France that is famous for its wines
- breiz, bretagne, brittany - a former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay
- centre - a low-lying region in central France
- champagne, champagne-ardenne - a region of northeastern France
- corse, corsica - a region of France on the island of Corsica; birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte
- franche-comte - a former province of eastern France
- gascogne, gascony - a region of southwestern France
- haute-normandie, upper-normandy - a division of Normandy
- ile-de-france - a region of north central France including Paris and the area around it
- languedoc-roussillon - a region in south central France; named after the medieval dialect of French that was spoken there
- limousin - a region of central France to the west of the Auvergne mountains
- lorraine, lothringen - an eastern French region rich in iron-ore deposits
- martinique - an island in the eastern Caribbean in the Windward Islands; administered as an overseas region of France
- mayenne - a department of northwestern France in the Pays de la Loire region
- midi-pyrenees - a region in southwestern France
- nord-pas-de-calais - a region in northeastern France
- pays de la loire - an agricultural region of western France on the Bay of Biscay
- picardie, picardy - a region of northern France on the English Channel
- poitou, poitou-charentes - a low-lying region of west central France on the Bay of Biscay
- rhone-alpes - a mountainous region of eastern France drained by the Rhone and Saone and Isere rivers
- provence - a former province of southeastern France; now administered with Cote d'Azur
is a part of: france, french republic - a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe
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