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Free France geography quiz: 49 trivia questions with explained answers about French regions, departments, rivers, mountains and natural wonders. Easy to hard, no sign-up.
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How many regions has France had since 2016? Why does Corsica use the numbers 2A and 2B? Which country does France share its longest border with? This quiz travels across mainland France and its overseas territories: regions and their capitals, departments, rivers, mountains, islands, volcanoes and iconic landscapes, from the Dune du Pilat to the Verdon Gorge. Every answer is explained, whether you are revising, planning a trip or simply curious about France.
This quiz currently has 49 questions, ranging from easy to hard, available in French, English and Spanish when the Spanish translation is available.
Warm up before the quiz with these 9 trivia questions and their explained answers: click a question to reveal the answer.
Answer: 13. The territorial reform merged the 22 former metropolitan regions into 13, for example Alsace, Lorraine and Champagne-Ardenne into Grand Est. With the 5 overseas regions, France has 18 regions in all.
Answer: Toulouse. Nicknamed ‘the Pink City’ for its bricks, Toulouse is also Europe's aerospace capital: Airbus planes are assembled there. The Occitanie region was born in 2016 from the merger of Midi-Pyrénées and Languedoc-Roussillon.
Answer: Mont Ventoux. At 1,910 m, Mont Ventoux rises alone above the plains, so it can be seen from far away. Its bare summit, covered in white stones, looks like snow even in midsummer, and the mistral wind there sometimes blows at more than 200 km/h.
Answer: Étretat. The chalk cliffs of the Alabaster Coast fascinated the painters Monet and Courbet. In Maurice Leblanc's novels, the Hollow Needle hid the treasure of the kings of France… and Arsène Lupin's lair!
Answer: Strasbourg. Strasbourg is also home to the European Parliament and the Council of Europe, making it one of the capitals of Europe. Its Grande Île, with the cathedral and the Petite France district, is a UNESCO site.
Answer: 101. 96 in metropolitan France and 5 overseas: Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Réunion and Mayotte, which became the 101st in 2011. When they were created in 1790, departments were drawn so that anyone could reach the main town within a day on horseback.
Answer: Monte Cinto. At 2,706 m, Monte Cinto towers over an island nicknamed ‘the mountain in the sea’: more than twenty peaks there exceed 2,000 m. The famous GR 20 hiking trail, said to be one of the toughest in Europe, crosses it from north to south.
Answer: The Landes forest. In the 19th century this land was marsh and dunes. To drain it, maritime pines were planted, especially after a law of 1857: the result is a forest of about a million hectares, used for timber and once for resin.
Answer: Rouen. Rouen is the capital, but the regional council sits in Caen: the two cities have shared the institutions since Upper and Lower Normandy merged in 2016. Joan of Arc was burned in Rouen in 1431.
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