'''France''' officially the French Republic (French: République française), is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western [[Europe]] and several overseas regions and territories.The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered by [[Belgium]], [[Luxembourg]] and [[Germany]] to the northeast, [[Switzerland]], [[Monaco]], and [[Italy]] to the east, and [[Andorra]] and [[Spain]] to the south.  The overseas territories include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana French Guiana] in South America and several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. The country's 18 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_France integral regions] (five of which are situated overseas) span a combined area of 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi) and a total population of 67.06 million (as of 2020).[10]  France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris Paris], the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. Other major urban areas include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon Lyon], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marseille Marseille], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toulouse Toulouse], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordeaux Bordeaux], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille Lille] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice Nice]. France, including its overseas territories, has the most number of time zones of any country, with a total of 12.