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The Rhine (, , ) is a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of ___MASK64___ 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 river Rhine 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 . ___MASK90___ is the capital city of the southwestern French department of Haute - Garonne , ___MASK37___ well ___MASK37___ of the Occitanie region . The city lies on the banks of the River Garonne , from the ___MASK29___ , from the Atlantic Ocean , and from Paris . It is the fourth - largest city in France with 466 , 297 inhabitants in January 2014 . The ___MASK90___ Metro area is , with 1 312 304 inhabitants ___MASK37___ of 2014 , France ' s 4th metropolitan area after Paris , ___MASK42___ and Marseille and ahead of Lille and Bordeaux . ___MASK9___ is a city in northern ___MASK75___ , in French Flanders . On the Deûle River , near ___MASK75___ ' s border with Belgium , it is the capital of the Hauts - de - ___MASK75___ region and the prefecture of the Nord department . ___MASK56___ is a city in France , on the Sarthe River . Traditionally the capital of the province of Maine , it is now the capital of the Sarthe department and the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of ___MASK56___ . ___MASK56___ is a part of the Pays de la Loire region . ___MASK42___ or ( more archaically ) Lyons ( or ) is a city in east - central France , in the Auvergne - Rhône - Alpes region , about from Paris and from Marseille . Inhabitants of the city are called " Lyonnais ". ___MASK98___ ( pronounced or ), officially called Guiana , is an overseas department and region of ___MASK75___ , located on the north Atlantic coast of ___MASK19___ 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 ___MASK75___ and the largest outermost region within the European Union . The Grand - Ouest is a geographical area of ___MASK75___ that encompasses Brittany and ___MASK52___ . Arnage is a commune in the ___MASK100___ department in the region of Pays - de - la - ___MASK31___ in north - western France . ___MASK100___ is a French department situated in the " Grand - Ouest " of the country . It is named after the River ___MASK100___ , which flows from ___MASK93___ of ___MASK56___ to just north of Angers . ___MASK50___ is a city in western ___MASK75___ , about ___MASK59___ of Paris . It is chef - lieu of the Maine - et - Loire department and was , before the French Revolution , the capital of the province of Anjou . The inhabitants of both the city and the province are called " Angevins ". The commune of ___MASK50___ proper , without the metropolitan area , is the third most populous in northwestern ___MASK75___ after Nantes and Rennes and the 17th in ___MASK75___ . The ___MASK29___ ( pronounced ) is a sea 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 sea is sometimes considered a part of the Atlantic Ocean , although it is usually identified as a separate body of water . The ___MASK80___ (" 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 Atlantic Ocean . The euro ( sign : €; code : EUR ) is the official currency of the eurozone , which consists of 19 of the member states of the ___MASK41___ : Austria , Belgium , Cyprus , Estonia , Finland , France , Germany , Greece , Ireland , Italy , Latvia , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Malta , the Netherlands , Portugal , Slovakia , Slovenia , and Spain . The currency is also officially used by the institutions of the ___MASK41___ 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 . ___MASK20___ ( Gascon Occitan : "") is a ___MASK62___ city on the Garonne River in the ___MASK39___ department in southwestern France . The ___MASK12___ 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 ". ___MASK25___ ( French : ) is the capital and ___MASK32___ 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 ___MASK25___ 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 term cult usually refers to a social group defined by their religious , spiritual , or philosophical beliefs , or common interest in a particular personality , object or goal . The term 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 cult is a social group with socially deviant or novel beliefs and practices , although ___MASK63___ 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 " cult " has always been controversial because it is ( in a pejorative sense ) considered a subjective term , used ___MASK37___ 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 . ___MASK23___ (; Niçard , classical norm , or "", nonstandard , ) is the fifth ___MASK32___ populous city in France and the capital of the Alpes - Maritimes " département ". The urban area of ___MASK23___ 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 coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea , at the foot of the Alps , ___MASK23___ 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 . ___MASK23___ is about 13 kilometres ( 8 miles ) from the principality of ___MASK7___ , and its airport is a gateway to the principality as well . ___MASK26___ is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia . ___MASK26___ is bordered by the ___MASK3___ to the north , the Atlantic Ocean to the west , and the ___MASK29___ to the south . To the east and southeast , ___MASK26___ is generally considered as separated from ___MASK76___ 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 ___MASK26___  a concept dating back to classical antiquity  are arbitrary . The primarily physiographic term " continent " as applied to ___MASK26___ also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent ' s current overland boundaries . The ___MASK73___ is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain , Scandinavia , ___MASK6___ , the Netherlands , Belgium , and France . An epeiric ( or " shelf ") sea on the European continental shelf , it connects to the ocean through the ___MASK80___ in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north . It is more than long and wide , with an area of around . A republic ( from ) is a sovereign state , country , or government which is organized with a form of government in which power resides in elected individuals representing the citizen body and government leaders exercise power according to the rule of law . In modern times , the definition of a republic commonly refers to a government which excludes a monarch . Currently , 147 of the world ' s 206 sovereign states use the word " republic " ___MASK37___ 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 " republic " in their names . ___MASK75___ , officially the French Republic , is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories . The European , or metropolitan , area of ___MASK75___ extends from the ___MASK29___ to the ___MASK80___ and the North Sea , and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean . Overseas ___MASK75___ include French Guiana on the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic , Pacific and Indian oceans . ___MASK75___ 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 .