France, officially the French Republic, is a state in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islandslocated on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its main ideals expressed in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. The French Republic is defined as indivisible, secular, democratic and social by its constitution. France is one of the mostdeveloped countries and possesses the fifth largest economy by nominal GDP and ninth largest economy by purchasing power parity.
