Map of France
Open France on the map — framed on the country itself, not on every far-off island it holds — and look at it by population density, by the historical maps of its region, or with the open data below.
Facts
As the source states them, in the source’s own words.
| Capital | Paris |
|---|---|
| Area | 551,695 km² |
| Currency | EUR (Euro) |
| Languages | French |
Source: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0. Licence: ODbL 1.0, public domain.
Historical maps
IntMap’s historical maps of the regions this outline lies in, on every date the map draws them. A region is a frame on the map, not a statement that France existed then: the names on each map are the ones the historical records give.
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Dated events in this outline
Events of IntMap’s war record dated to a place inside today’s outline of France. Each links to the page of its calendar day, which opens the map on that day.
- 1914
Battle of the Frontiers — the French plan of attack fails in a month
World War I · IntMap’s war record
7 August → - 1914
Battle of Mulhouse — the first French attack of the war, into Alsace
World War I · IntMap’s war record
7 August → - 1914
Battle of Lorraine — the French Second Army is thrown back from Morhange and Sarrebourg
World War I · IntMap’s war record
14 August → - 1914
Le Cateau — the British stand and fight to break contact during the retreat
World War I · IntMap’s war record
26 August → - 1914
- 1914
First Battle of the Aisne — both sides dig in, and the trench line is born
World War I · IntMap’s war record
13 September → - 1914
The Race to the Sea — each army tries to outflank the other northwards until the coast stops both
World War I · IntMap’s war record
17 September → - 1914
First Battle of Champagne — the first attempt to break a continuous trench line, in winter
World War I · IntMap’s war record
20 December → - 1915
Neuve-Chapelle — the first planned British offensive, and the first hurricane bombardment
World War I · IntMap’s war record
10 March → - 1915
Second Battle of Artois — six weeks of attacks below Vimy Ridge
World War I · IntMap’s war record
9 May → - 1915
Battle of Loos — the British Army’s largest attack of 1915
World War I · IntMap’s war record
25 September → - 1915
Third Battle of Artois — the autumn offensive gains two kilometres
World War I · IntMap’s war record
25 September → - 1915
Second Battle of Champagne — the largest French offensive of 1915
World War I · IntMap’s war record
25 September → - 1915
The Chantilly conference — the Allies agree to attack together on every front in 1916
World War I · IntMap’s war record
8 December → - 1916
- 1916
- 1916
Fromelles — the worst twenty-four hours in Australian military history
World War I · IntMap’s war record
19 July → - 1917
- 1917
Vimy Ridge — the four Canadian divisions attack together for the first time and take the ridge
World War I · IntMap’s war record
9 April → - 1917
The Nivelle Offensive — its failure sets off mutinies in half the French army
World War I · IntMap’s war record
16 April → - 1917
The French Army mutinies — half the divisions of the French army refuse to attack again
World War I · IntMap’s war record
25 April → - 1917
- 1917
The Supreme War Council is set up at Versailles — one command for the whole Allied war at last
World War I · IntMap’s war record
7 November → - 1917
Cambrai — the first mass tank attack, and the first German counter-attack to take it all back
World War I · IntMap’s war record
20 November → - 1918
- 1918
The Paris Gun — Paris is shelled from 120 kilometres away for four and a half months
World War I · IntMap’s war record
23 March → - 1918
The Doullens conference — with the front breaking, Foch is given command of all the Allied armies in France
World War I · IntMap’s war record
26 March → - 1918
Operation Georgette on the Lys — «with our backs to the wall», the second German blow of the spring
World War I · IntMap’s war record
7 April → - 1918
Third Battle of the Aisne — the Germans cross the Chemin des Dames and reach the Marne again
World War I · IntMap’s war record
27 May → - 1918
Cantigny — the first American offensive of the war, one village wide
World War I · IntMap’s war record
28 May → - 1918
Belleau Wood — the first sustained American action of the war
World War I · IntMap’s war record
1 June → - 1918
Le Hamel — Monash times infantry, tanks, guns and aircraft to the minute and it takes 93
World War I · IntMap’s war record
4 July → - 1918
The Second Battle of the Marne — the last German offensive of the war
World War I · IntMap’s war record
15 July → - 1918
- 1918
Amiens — «the black day of the German Army», and the first day of the Hundred Days
World War I · IntMap’s war record
8 August → - 1918
Second Battle of the Somme — the ground lost in March is retaken in a fortnight
World War I · IntMap’s war record
21 August → - 1918
Saint-Mihiel — the first offensive by an American army
World War I · IntMap’s war record
12 September → - 1918
The Meuse–Argonne offensive — 1.2 million Americans, the largest battle in United States history
World War I · IntMap’s war record
26 September → - 1918
The St Quentin Canal — the Hindenburg Line is broken along its whole depth
World War I · IntMap’s war record
29 September → - 1918
- 1940
- 1940
The armistice is signed in the same railway carriage as the German surrender of 1918
World War II · IntMap’s war record
22 June → - 1942
St Nazaire — a destroyer is rammed into the only dock on the Atlantic coast that could take the Tirpitz
World War II · IntMap’s war record
28 March → - 1942
The Dieppe raid — 3,600 of 6,000 lost in nine hours, and every lesson of it used on D-Day
World War II · IntMap’s war record
19 August → - 1944
- 1944
The battle for Caen — a first-day objective that takes two months and leaves the city in ruins
World War II · IntMap’s war record
6 June → - 1944
Oradour-sur-Glane — 643 people are killed and the village is left as it was found
World War II · IntMap’s war record
10 June → - 1944
Operation Cobra breaks the Normandy stalemate in six days
World War II · IntMap’s war record
25 July → - 1944
The Falaise pocket closes on the German army in Normandy
World War II · IntMap’s war record
12 August → - 1944
- 1944
Montélimar — the attempt to trap the German Nineteenth Army retreating up the Rhône
World War II · IntMap’s war record
21 August → - 1944
The Atlantic pockets — Lorient, Saint-Nazaire and La Rochelle are bypassed and hold out until the German surrender
World War II · IntMap’s war record
1 September → - 1945
Operation Nordwind — the last German offensive in the west, into Alsace on New Year’s Day
World War II · IntMap’s war record
1 January → - 1945
The Colmar pocket is cleared and France is whole again for the first time since 1940
World War II · IntMap’s war record
20 January → - 1945
The unconditional surrender is signed at Reims at 02:41, to take effect on the eighth
World War II · IntMap’s war record
7 May → - 1973
The Paris Peace Accords — a ceasefire in place, the Americans leave, and both armies stay where they stand
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
27 January → - 1995
Open data about France
The datasets IntMap may share about France, each under its own terms. The values are in one file: api/v1/countries/FRA.json
airports
Public domain, ODbL 1.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike
Credit: OurAirports, Country facts — mledoze/countries (capital, currency, languages, land borders, UN membership, demonym; ODbL 1.0, build time only)
country-facts
ODbL 1.0, public domain · Requires: credit · share-alike
Credit: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0
health
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike · non-commercial
Credit: WHO Global Health Observatory — UHC service coverage index & IHR SPAR (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO), World Bank Open Data
language
public domain, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit
Credit: CIA World Factbook, Language identity, genealogical classification and endangerment status — Glottolog (CC BY 4.0)
mobility
ODbL 1.0, public domain, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike
Credit: OpenFlights — airline route database (country-pair route counts for the pandemic simulator; snapshot of June 2014, no longer updated; ODbL 1.0), OurAirports, World Bank Open Data, Country facts — mledoze/countries (capital, currency, languages, land borders, UN membership, demonym; ODbL 1.0, build time only)
religion
public domain · Requires: nothing
What this page states
The outline, the name and the code are Natural Earth’s (admin-0, public domain), the set IntMap’s map draws countries from. The map opens on the frame the app’s country search uses for it: the country itself, not every far-off island it holds.
A historical map is listed when its region’s frame overlaps this outline. It is listed for the place, not for the country: the borders on it are what the historical records draw.
An event is listed when the point the war record gives it falls inside this outline — a fact about the point, not about which state held the place at the time.
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