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Charente - Maritime is a department on the southwestern ___MASK76___ of France named after the Charente River . Nice (; Niçard , classical norm , or "", nonstandard , ) is the fifth most populous city in ___MASK46___ and the capital of the Alpes - Maritimes " département ". The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits , with a population of about 1 million on an area of . Located in the French Riviera , on the south east ___MASK76___ of ___MASK46___ on the Mediterranean Sea , at the foot of the ___MASK57___ , Nice is the second - largest French city on the Mediterranean ___MASK76___ and the second - largest city in the Provence - Alpes - Côte d ' Azur region after ___MASK99___ . Nice is about 13 kilometres ( 8 miles ) from the principality of Monaco , and its airport is a gateway to the principality as well . Lyon or ( more archaically ) Lyons ( or ) is a city in east - central ___MASK46___ , in the Auvergne - Rhône - Alpes region , about from ___MASK22___ and from ___MASK99___ . Inhabitants of the city are called " Lyonnais ". The euro ( sign : €; code : EUR ) is the official currency of the eurozone , which consists of 19 of the member states of the European Union : Austria , ___MASK1___ , ___MASK36___ , Estonia , Finland , France , Germany , Greece , ___MASK68___ , Italy , Latvia , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Malta , the Netherlands , Portugal , ___MASK50___ , Slovenia , and Spain . The currency is also officially used by the institutions of the European Union and four other European countries , as well as unilaterally by two others , and is consequently used daily by some 337 million Europeans . Outside of Europe , a number of overseas territories of EU members also use the euro as their currency . ___MASK6___ ( Gascon Occitan : "") is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France . La Rochelle is a city in southwestern ___MASK46___ and a seaport on the ___MASK88___ , a part of the Atlantic Ocean . It is the capital of the Charente - Maritime department . ___MASK46___ , officially the French Republic , is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories . The European , or metropolitan , area of ___MASK46___ extends from the ___MASK29___ to the ___MASK93___ and the North Sea , and from the Rhine to the ___MASK74___ . Overseas ___MASK46___ include French Guiana on the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic , Pacific and Indian oceans . ___MASK46___ spans and had a total population of almost 67 million people as of January 2017 . It is a unitary semi - presidential republic with the capital in Paris , the country ' s largest city and main cultural and commercial centre . Other major urban centres include Marseille , Lyon , Lille , Nice , Toulouse and Bordeaux . An island or isle is any piece of sub - continental land that is surrounded by water . Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets , skerries , cays or keys . An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait , and a small island off the ___MASK76___ may be called a holm . A grouping of geographically or geologically related islands is called an archipelago , e . g . the Philippines . ___MASK11___ is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of ___MASK77___ . ___MASK11___ is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north , the ___MASK74___ to the west , and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . To the east and southeast , ___MASK11___ is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains , the Ural River , the Caspian and Black Seas , and the waterways of the Turkish Straits . Yet the non - oceanic borders of ___MASK11___  a concept dating back to classical antiquity  are arbitrary . The primarily physiographic term " continent " as applied to ___MASK11___ also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent ' s current overland boundaries . Turkey , officially the Republic of Turkey ( Turkish : ), is a transcontinental country in ___MASK77___ , mainly in Anatolia in Western ___MASK26___ , with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe . Turkey is a democratic , secular , unitary , parliamentary republic with a diverse cultural heritage . Turkey is bordered by eight countries : Greece to the west ; Bulgaria to the northwest ; Georgia to the northeast ; Armenia , the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan and Iran to the east ; and Iraq and Syria to the south . The Aegean Sea is to the west , the Black Sea to the north , and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . The Bosphorus , the Sea of Marmara , and the Dardanelles , which together form the Turkish Straits , divide Thrace and Anatolia ; they also separate Europe and ___MASK26___ . Turkey ' s location has given it geopolitical and strategic importance throughout history . Fouras is a commune in the Charente - Maritime department in the Nouvelle - Aquitaine region in southwestern ___MASK46___ . It lies 34 km south of La Rochelle . ___MASK22___ ( French : ) is the capital and most populous city of France . It has an area of and a population in 2013 of 2 , 229 , 621 within its administrative limits . The city is both a commune and department , and forms the centre and headquarters of the Île - de - France , or ___MASK22___ Region , which has an area of and a population in 2014 of 12 , 005 , 077 , comprising 18 . 2 percent of the population of France . French Guiana ( pronounced or ), officially called Guiana , is an overseas department and region of ___MASK46___ , located on the north Atlantic ___MASK76___ of ___MASK45___ in the Guyanas . It borders Brazil to the east and south , and Suriname to the west . Its area has a very low population density of only 3 inhabitants per km , with half of its 244 , 118 inhabitants in 2013 living in the metropolitan area of Cayenne , its capital . By land area , it is the second largest region of ___MASK46___ and the largest outermost region within the European Union . Syria , officially known as the Syrian Arab Republic (""), is a country in Western ___MASK26___ , bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west , Turkey to the north , Iraq to the east , Jordan to the south , and Israel to the southwest . Syria ' s capital and largest city is Damascus . Lille is a city in northern ___MASK46___ , in French Flanders . On the Deûle River , near ___MASK46___ ' s border with ___MASK1___ , it is the capital of the Hauts - de - ___MASK46___ region and the prefecture of the Nord department . Toulouse is the capital city of the southwestern French department of Haute - Garonne , as well as of the Occitanie region . The city lies on the banks of the River Garonne , from the ___MASK29___ , from the ___MASK74___ , and from Paris . It is the fourth - largest city in France with 466 , 297 inhabitants in January 2014 . The Toulouse Metro area is , with 1 312 304 inhabitants as of 2014 , France ' s 4th metropolitan area after Paris , Lyon and Marseille and ahead of Lille and Bordeaux . Fort Énet is a fortification in the Pertuis d ' Antioche in Charente - Maritime , ___MASK46___ . It is located on the `` Pointe de la Fumée '' , the roadway extending from the city of Fouras , between Fouras and Île - d ' Aix , and can be accessed from there at low tide . Fort Énet formed a line of fortification with Fort Boyard and Fort de la Rade on Île - d ' Aix , designed to protect the arsenal of Rochefort from Royal Navy incursions . The building of the fort was started in 1810 by Napoleon I , following the devastating 1809 Battle of the Basque Roads . The Fort can be reached on foot at low tide , and can be visited . Fort Enet is listed as a Monument Historique . It is indexed in the Base Mérimée , a database of the French architectural patrimony maintained by the French Ministry of Culture , under the reference PA00132807 . The ___MASK74___ is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth ' s surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ". Île de Ré ( variously spelled " Rhé ", " Rhéa " or " Rhea "; in English Isle of Rhé ) is an island off the west ___MASK76___ of France near La Rochelle , on the northern side of the Pertuis d ' Antioche strait . Its highest point has an elevation of . It is long and wide . The Île de Ré bridge , completed in 1988 , connects it to La Rochelle on the ___MASK9___ . The ___MASK29___ ( pronounced ) is a sea connected to the ___MASK74___ , surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land : on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia , on the south by North Africa , and on the east by the Levant . The sea is sometimes considered a part of the ___MASK74___ , although it is usually identified as a separate body of water . Île - d ' Aix is a commune in the Charente - Maritime department off the west ___MASK76___ of France . It occupies the territory of small island of Île d ' Aix in the Atlantic . It is a popular place for tourist day - trips during the summer months . Charente ( Saintongeais : " Chérente ", Occitan : " Charanta ") is a department in southwestern ___MASK46___ , in the Nouvelle - Aquitaine region , named after the Charente River , the most important river in the department , and also the river beside which the department ' s two largest towns , Angoulême and Cognac , are sited . The ___MASK56___ is a marginal sea of the ___MASK74___ located between Great Britain , Scandinavia , Germany , the Netherlands , Belgium , and France . An epeiric ( or " shelf ") sea on the European continental shelf , it connects to the ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north . It is more than long and wide , with an area of around . The Pertuis d ' Antioche (" Passage of Antioch ") is a strait on the Atlantic ___MASK76___ of Western France , between two islands , Île de Ré and Île d ' Oléron , on the one side , and on the other side the continental ___MASK76___ between the cities of La Rochelle and the naval arsenal of Rochefort . The Pertuis d ' Antioche owes its name to the similarity of the contour of its coastline to that of the Mediterranean sea ' s north - eastern area between ___MASK36___ , Syria and Turkey , which has the famous ancient city of Antioch at its center . The ___MASK93___ (" the Sleeve " [ hence ] " Sea of Brittany " " British Sea "), also called simply the Channel , is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France , and joins the southern part of the North Sea to the rest of the ___MASK74___ . ___MASK36___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK36___ , is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean . It is located south of Turkey , west of Syria and Lebanon , northwest of Israel and Palestine , north of Egypt , and southeast of Greece . The ___MASK3___ (, , ) is a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss ___MASK57___ , forms part of the Swiss - Austrian , Swiss - Liechtenstein , Swiss - German and then the Franco - German border , then flows through the Rhineland and eventually empties into the North Sea in the Netherlands . The largest city on the river ___MASK3___ is Cologne , Germany , with a population of more than 1 , 050 , 000 people . It is the second - longest river in Central and Western Europe ( after the Danube ), at about , with an average discharge of about .