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The Ciron is a left tributary of the Garonne , in Gironde , Southwest France . A Bordeaux ___MASK74___ is any ___MASK74___ produced in the Bordeaux region of France , centred on the city of Bordeaux and covering the whole area of the Gironde ___MASK33___ , with a total vineyard area of over 120 , 000 hectares , making it the largest ___MASK74___ growing area in France . Average vintages produce over 700 million bottles of Bordeaux ___MASK74___ , ranging from large quantities of everyday ___MASK97___ ___MASK74___ , to some of the most expensive and prestigious wines in the world . The vast majority of ___MASK74___ produced in Bordeaux is red ( called " claret " in Britain ), with sweet white wines ( most notably Sauternes ), dry whites , and ( in much smaller quantities ) rosé and sparkling wines ( Crémant de Bordeaux ) collectively making up the remainder . Bordeaux ___MASK74___ is made by more than 8 , 500 producers or " châteaux ". There are 54 appellations of Bordeaux ___MASK74___ . The Atlantic ___MASK23___ is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth ' s ___MASK35___ and about 29 percent of its ___MASK41___ ___MASK35___ area . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ". France , officially the French ___MASK34___ , is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories . The European , or metropolitan , area of France extends from the Mediterranean ___MASK94___ to the English Channel and the North ___MASK94___ , and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean . Overseas France include French Guiana on the South American ___MASK58___ and several island territories in the Atlantic , Pacific and Indian oceans . France 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 . Toulouse is the ___MASK4___ city of the southwestern French ___MASK33___ of Haute - Garonne , as well as of the Occitanie region . The city lies on the banks of the ___MASK21___ Garonne , from the Mediterranean Sea , from the Atlantic Ocean , 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 . Gironde ( in Occitan " Gironda ") is a ___MASK33___ in the Nouvelle - Aquitaine region of southwest France . It is named for the Gironde estuary , a major waterway . The Bordeaux wine region is in the Gironde . The Garonne (; in Occitan , Catalan , Portuguese and Spanish : " Garona "; or " Garunna ") is a ___MASK21___ in southwest France and northern Spain , with a length of . It flows into the Atlantic Ocean at Bordeaux . The North ___MASK94___ is a marginal ___MASK94___ of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain , Scandinavia , Germany , the Netherlands , Belgium , and France . An epeiric ( or " shelf ") ___MASK94___ on the European continental shelf , it connects to the ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian ___MASK94___ in the north . It is more than long and wide , with an area of around . French Guiana ( pronounced or ), officially called Guiana , is an overseas ___MASK33___ and region of France , located on the north Atlantic coast of South America 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 France and the largest outermost region within the European Union . Europe is a ___MASK58___ that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia . Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north , the Atlantic Ocean to the west , and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . To the east and southeast , Europe is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains , the Ural ___MASK21___ , the Caspian and Black Seas , and the waterways of the Turkish Straits . Yet the non - oceanic borders of Europe  a concept dating back to classical antiquity  are arbitrary . The primarily physiographic term " ___MASK58___ " as applied to Europe also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the ___MASK58___ ' s current overland boundaries . Paris ( French : ) is the ___MASK4___ 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 ___MASK61___ and department , and forms the centre and headquarters of the Île - de - France , or Paris Region , which has an area of and a population in 2014 of 12 , 005 , 077 , comprising 18 . 2 percent of the population of France . The euro ( ___MASK36___ : €; code : EUR ) is the official currency of the eurozone , which consists of 19 of the member states of the European Union : Austria , Belgium , Cyprus , Estonia , Finland , France , Germany , Greece , Ireland , Italy , Latvia , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Malta , the Netherlands , ___MASK51___ , Slovakia , 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 . The Gironde is a navigable ___MASK12___ ( often falsely referred to as a ___MASK21___ ), in southwest France and is formed from the meeting of the rivers Dordogne and Garonne just downstream of the centre of Bordeaux . Covering around , it is the largest ___MASK12___ in western Europe . Lyon or ( more archaically ) Lyons ( or ) is a ___MASK91___ in east - central France , in the Auvergne - Rhône - Alpes region , about from Paris and from Marseille . Inhabitants of ___MASK80___ are called " Lyonnais ". Lille is a ___MASK91___ in northern France , in French Flanders . On the Deûle ___MASK21___ , near France ' s border with Belgium , it is the capital of the Hauts - de - France region and the prefecture of the Nord department . Nice (; Niçard , classical ___MASK22___ , or "", nonstandard , ) is the fifth most populous city in France and the ___MASK4___ of the Alpes - Maritimes " département ". The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits , with a population of about ___MASK81___ million on an area of . Located in the French Riviera , on the south east coast of France on the Mediterranean ___MASK94___ , at the foot of the Alps , Nice is the second - largest French city on the Mediterranean coast and the second - largest city in the Provence - Alpes - Côte d ' Azur region after Marseille . Nice is about 13 kilometres ( 8 miles ) from the principality of Monaco , and its airport is a gateway to the principality as well . The English ___MASK6___ (" the Sleeve " [ hence ] " ___MASK94___ of Brittany " " British ___MASK94___ "), also called simply the ___MASK6___ , is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France , and joins the southern part of the North ___MASK94___ to the rest of the Atlantic Ocean . Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain , is a ___MASK62___ largely located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe , with two large archipelagos , the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean ___MASK94___ and the Canary Islands off the North African Atlantic coast , two cities Ceuta and Melilla in the North African mainland and several small islands in the Alboran ___MASK94___ near the Moroccan coast . Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean ___MASK94___ except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar ; to the north and northeast by France , Andorra , and the ___MASK72___ of Biscay ; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean . It is the only European country to have a border with an African country ( Morocco ) and its African territory accounts for nearly 5 % of its population , mostly in the Canary Islands but also in Ceuta and Melilla . The Mediterranean ___MASK94___ ( pronounced ) is a ___MASK94___ connected to the Atlantic Ocean , 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 ___MASK94___ is sometimes considered a part of the Atlantic Ocean , although it is usually identified as a separate body of water . A ___MASK34___ ( from ) is a sovereign state , country , or ___MASK98___ which is organized with a form of ___MASK98___ in which power resides in elected individuals representing the citizen body and ___MASK98___ leaders exercise power according to the rule of law . In modern times , the definition of a ___MASK34___ commonly refers to a ___MASK98___ which excludes a monarch . Currently , 147 of the world ' s 206 sovereign states use the word " ___MASK34___ " as part of their official names ; not all of these are republics in the sense of having elected governments , nor do all nations with elected governments use the word " ___MASK34___ " in their names . Bordeaux ( Gascon Occitan : "") is a ___MASK24___ ___MASK91___ on the Garonne ___MASK21___ in the Gironde department in southwestern France . The Rhine (, , ) is a European ___MASK21___ that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps , 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 ___MASK21___ Rhine is Cologne , Germany , with a population of more than 1 , 050 , 000 people . It is the second - longest ___MASK21___ in Central and Western Europe ( after the Danube ), at about , with an average discharge of about . A ___MASK21___ is a natural flowing watercourse , usually freshwater , flowing towards an ocean , sea , lake or another ___MASK21___ . In some cases a ___MASK21___ flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water . Small rivers can be referred to using names such as stream , creek , brook , rivulet , and rill . There are no official definitions for the generic term ___MASK21___ as applied to geographic features , although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size . Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location ; examples are " run " in some parts of the United States , " burn " in Scotland and northeast England , and " beck " in northern England . Sometimes a ___MASK21___ is defined as being larger than a creek , but not always : the language is vague . The ___MASK78___ ___MASK50___ usually refers to a social group defined by their religious , spiritual , or philosophical beliefs , or common interest in a particular personality , object or ___MASK56___ . The ___MASK78___ itself is controversial and has divergent definitions in popular culture and in academia and has been an ongoing source of contention among scholars across several fields of study . In the sociological classifications of religious movements , a ___MASK50___ is a social group with socially deviant or novel beliefs and practices , although this is often unclear . Other researchers present a less - organized picture of cults on the basis that cults arise spontaneously around novel beliefs and practices . The word " ___MASK50___ " has always been controversial because it is ( in a pejorative sense ) considered a subjective ___MASK78___ , used as an " ad hominem " attack against groups with differing doctrines or practices . Cults range in size from local groups with a few members to international organizations with millions .