France!

France!

History
1. The villages on the west coast consisted of small,simple huts clustered around a large multchambered tombs.
2. Neolithic people built villages of timber homes along the Atlantic coast.
3. People lived in what now France more than 100,000 years ago.
4. The idea for a very long cycling race across France came from Geo Lefevre, a writer for the sports newspaper L'Auto.
  1. Sixty riders entered the 1903 Tour de France, but only 21 actually finished the race.
Natural resources
1. Grapes
  1. potatoes
    1. Peaches
      1. Lemons
      2. Barley
        Corn
      3. Wheat
Geography
1. Central France is covered in plains and rolling hills.
  1. France is the largest country in the western Europe covering 212,935 square miles.
  2. The English channel boarders France to the northwest,and to the northeast are Belgium and Luxembourg.
2. Along France's southern coast, the tiny country of Monaco occupies less than 1 square mile
  1. France shares borders with Belgium,Luxembourg,Germany,Switzerland,Italy,Spain.
Places to visit
1. PARIS! You can visit the Eiffel Tower in France
  1. THE LOWRE MUSEUM! It has a huge triangle in the middle great for photos.
2. THE CITY OF LIFE! There are shops made for cheese and meat.
  1. THE LAVENDER FIELDS! Everyone says that it is SO beautiful and very rare
People And Culture
1. The Population Is Surpassed 60 million in the early 21st century.
2. As a result France has not lost as many people as other European countries.
3. French is one of the most spoken languages
  1. The population is very diverse
4. Religious observance plays an important part in MANY french people.
  1. It has the largest population in Western European
5. Many people are catholic

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