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- Disputes: maritime boundary dispute with Canada (St. Pierre and Miquelon);
- Madagascar claims Bassas da India, Europa Island, Glorioso Islands,
- Juan de Nova Island, and Tromelin Island; Comoros claims Mayotte; Mauritius
- claims Tromelin Island;
- Seychelles claims Tromelin Island; Suriname claims part
- of French Guiana; territorial claim in Antarctica (Adelie Land)
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- Climate: generally cool winters and mild summers, but mild winters
- and hot summers along the Mediterranean
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- Terrain: mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in north and west;
- remainder is mountainous, especially Pyrenees in south, Alps in east
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- Natural resources: coal, iron ore, bauxite, fish, timber, zinc,
- potash
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- Land use: 32% arable land; 2% permanent crops; 23% meadows and pastures;
- 27% forest and woodland; 16% other; includes 2% irrigated
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