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France, officially the French Republic (République française), 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 Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean, it also owns the island of Corsica in the Mediterranean and a few islands in the Pacific. It is a unitary semi-presidential republic with the capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre.