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| 1 | Toulon ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 43.1222 / 5.93 | Toulon (; Provençal: Tolon (classical norm), Touloun (Mistralian norm)) is a city in southern France and a large military harbour on the Mediterranean coast, with a major French naval base. Located in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, Toulon is the capital of the Var department (...) | |
| 2 | Gare d'Austerlitz ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 48.8416 / 2.3661 | The Gare d'Austerlitz (Austerlitz Station), officially Paris-Austerlitz, is one of the six large terminus railway stations in Paris. It is situated on the left bank of the Seine in the southeastern part of the city, in the 13th arrondissement (...) | |
| 3 | La Ciotat ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 43.1735 / 5.6052 | La Ciotat is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southern France. It is part of the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis. La Ciotat is located to the east of Marseille at an equal distance from Marseille and Toulon (...) | |
| 4 | Gare de Toulon ![]() FeatureType : railwaystation Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 43.1285 / 5.9296 | Gare de Toulon is a railway station serving the city Toulon, Var department, southeastern France. It is situated on the Marseille–Ventimiglia railway. (...) | |
| 5 | Draguignan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 201 Lat/Lng : 43.5403 / 6.4667 | Draguignan is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, in southeastern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department and self-proclaimed "capital of Artillery" and "Porte du Verdon". The city is from St. Tropez, and from Nice. (...) | |
| 6 | Saint-Raphaël, Var ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 43.4252 / 6.7684 | Saint-Raphaël is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Immediately to the west of Saint-Raphaël lies another, older, town called Fréjus, and together they form an urban agglomeration known as Fréjus Saint-Raphaël (...) | |
| 7 | Fréjus ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 43.433 / 6.737 | Fréjus is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. It neighbours Saint-Raphaël, effectively forming one town. The north of the commune forms part of the Estérel Massif (...) | |
| 8 | Guadeloupe ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 16.25 / -61.5833 | Guadeloupe (; ; Antillean Creole: Gwadloup) is an insular region of France located in the Leeward Islands, part of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. Administratively, it is an overseas region consisting of a single overseas department (...) | |
| 9 | Chantilly, Oise ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 54 Lat/Lng : 49.1932 / 2.4652 | Chantilly is a commune in the Oise department in the valley of the Nonette in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. Surrounded by Chantilly Forest, the town of 11,000 inhabitants falls within the metropolitan area of Paris. It lies 38.4 km (23 (...) | |
| 10 | Marseille ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 43.2963 / 5.3699 | Marseille (; , ; Marseilles;) is the second-largest city of France. The main city of the historical province of Provence, today it is the capital of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (...) | |
| 11 | Lièpvre ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 287 Lat/Lng : 48.2731 / 7.283 | Lièpvre is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. A monastery was built here in the eighth century by Saint Fulrad, who filled it with relics of Saint Cucuphas and Saint Alexander. (...) | |
| 12 | Tarbes ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 318 Lat/Lng : 43.2307 / 0.0726 | Tarbes is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region of southwestern France. It is the capital of Bigorre. It has been a commune since 1790. It was known as Turba or Tarba in Roman times. Tarbes is part of the historical region of Gascony (...) | |
| 13 | Saint-Tropez ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 43.2733 / 6.6396 | Saint-Tropez (; ' in Provençal dialect) is a town on the French Riviera, west of Nice in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France. Saint-Tropez was a military stronghold and fishing village until the beginning of the 20th century (...) | |
| 14 | Mont Ventoux ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 1880 Lat/Lng : 44.1739 / 5.2772 | Mont Ventoux (Ventor in Provençal) is a mountain in the Provence region of southern France, located some 20 km northeast of Carpentras, Vaucluse. On the north side, the mountain borders the Drôme département. At 1,909m, it is the highest mountain in the region and has been nicknamed the "Beast of (...) | |
| 15 | France ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 48.8567 / 2.3508 | France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to (...) | |
| 16 | Cherbourg-Octeville ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 49.6389 / -1.6161 | Cherbourg-Octeville is a city and former commune situated at the northern end of the Cotentin peninsula in the northwestern French department of Manche. It is a subprefecture of its department, and was officially formed when the commune of Cherbourg absorbed Octeville on 28 February 2000 (...) | |
| 17 | Fougères ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 112 Lat/Lng : 48.3525 / -1.1986 | Fougères (; ; Gallo: Foujerr) is a commune and a sub-prefecture of the Ille-et-Vilaine department in the region of Brittany, northwestern France. Its inhabitants are called the Fougerais. In a 2014 census, Fougères had 20,189 inhabitants (...) | |
| 18 | Sardinia ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 669 Lat/Lng : 40.0865 / 9.0198 | Sardinia (; , /, Sassarese: Sardhigna, Gallurese: Saldigna, Catalan: Sardenya, Tabarchino: Sardegna) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily and before Cyprus). It is located west of the Italian Peninsula and to the immediate south of the French island of Corsica (...) | |
| 19 | French Riviera ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 43.365 / 6.8497 | The French Riviera (known in French as the ; ; literal translation "Coast of Azure") is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France. There is no official boundary, but it is usually considered to extend from Cassis or Toulon on the west to the France–Italy border in the east, where (...) | |
| 20 | Provence ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 315 Lat/Lng : 43.5 / 5.5 | Provence (; ; Prouvènço) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône River to the west to the Italian border to the east, and is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south (...) | |
| 21 | November 2015 Paris attacks ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 48.8619 / 2.3468 | The November 2015 Paris attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks that took place on Friday, 13 November 2015 in Paris, France and the city's northern suburb, Saint-Denis. Beginning at 21:16 CET, three suicide bombers struck outside the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, during a football (...) | |
| 22 | Hyères ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 43.1199 / 6.1316 | Hyères , Provençal Occitan: Ieras in classical norm, or Iero in Mistralian norm) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. The old town lies from the sea clustered around the Castle of Saint Bernard, which is set on a hill (...) | |
| 23 | Ajaccio ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 41.9433 / 8.7369 | Ajaccio is a French commune, prefecture of the department of Corse-du-Sud, and head office of the Collectivité territoriale de Corse (capital city of Corsica). It is also the largest settlement on the island. Ajaccio is located on the west coast of the island of Corsica, southeast of Marseille (...) | |
| 24 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 433 Lat/Lng : 44.0992 / 6.0175 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (; ; ; PACA) is one of the 18 administrative regions of France. Its capital is Marseille. The region is roughly coterminous with the former French province of Provence, with the addition of the following adjacent areas: the former papal territory of Avignon, known as (...) | |
| 25 | 1982–83 French Division 1 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 47.7868 / 3.5887 | FC Nantes won Division 1 season 1982/1983 of the French Association Football League with 58 points. (...) | |
| 26 | Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles ![]() FeatureType : railwaystation Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 43.3035 / 5.3798 | Marseille – Saint-Charles is the main railway station and intercity bus station of Marseille. It is the southern terminus of the Paris–Marseille railway. It opened on 8 January 1848, having been built for the PLM on the land of the Saint Charles Cemetery (...) | |
| 27 | Toulon Cathedral ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 43.1217 / 5.9342 | Toulon Cathedral , also known as Sainte-Marie-Majeure, is a Roman Catholic church located in Toulon, in the Var department of France. The cathedral is a national monument. Construction of the church began in the 11th century and finished in the 18th century (...) | |
| 28 | Sanary-sur-Mer ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 43.118 / 5.8014 | Sanary-sur-Mer is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. It is located in coastal Provence on the Mediterranean Sea from Toulon and from Marseille. It can be reached from Paris by TGV train in less than 4 hours (...) | |
| 29 | Alpes-Maritimes ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 374 Lat/Lng : 43.8781 / 7.2233 | Alpes-Maritimes (; ; , "Maritime Alps") is a department of France located in the extreme southeast corner of the country, near the border with Italy and on the Mediterranean coast. Part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, it had a population of 1,080,771 in 2013 (...) | |
| 30 | 1983–84 French Division 1 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 47.7868 / 3.5887 | Girondins de Bordeaux won Division 1 season 1983/1984 of the French Association Football League with 54 points. (...) | |
| 31 | 1984–85 French Division 1 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 47.7868 / 3.5887 | Girondins de Bordeaux won Division 1 season 1984/1985 of the French Association Football League with 59 points. (...) | |
| 32 | Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 43.6833 / 7.3333 | Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat , Italian: San Giovanni Capo Ferrato) is a commune of the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France. It is located on a peninsula next to Beaulieu-sur-Mer and Villefranche-sur-Mer and extends out to Cap Ferrat (...) | |
| 33 | Aniche ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 50.3306 / 3.2519 | Aniche is a commune in the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. The commune, located in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais mining area, long lived on the mining of coal with fourteen pits on its territory (...) | |
| 34 | Vichy France ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 249 Lat/Lng : 46.1667 / 3.4 | Vichy France is the common name of the French State (État français) headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. Evacuated from Paris to Vichy in the unoccupied "Free Zone" (zone libre) in the southern part of metropolitan France which included French Algeria, it remained responsible for (...) | |
| 35 | French Foreign Legion ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 110 Lat/Lng : 43.2925 / 5.5534 | The French Foreign Legion (FFL; , L.É.) is a military service branch of the French Army established in 1831. Legionnaires are highly trained infantry soldiers and the Legion is unique in that it was, and continues to be, open to foreign recruits willing to serve in the French Armed Forces (...) | |
| 36 | Sophia Antipolis ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 168 Lat/Lng : 43.6155 / 7.055 | Sophia Antipolis is a European technology park. Much of the park falls within the commune of Valbonne, which lies northwest of Antibes and southwest of Nice, France. Created in 1970–1984, it houses primarily companies in the fields of computing, electronics, pharmacology and biotechnology (...) | |
| 37 | Le Mourillon ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 43.1071 / 5.9319 | Le Mourillon is a neighbourhood to the east of the French city of Toulon, near the entrance to the Rade or roadstead. It was once a fishing village, and then became the home of many of the officers of the French fleet and to part of the naval dockyard (...) | |
| 38 | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Marseille ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 90 Lat/Lng : 43.2867 / 5.37 | The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Marseille (Latin: Archidioecesis Massiliensis; French: Archidiocèse de Marseille) is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved January 4, 2017 GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow (...) | |
| 39 | École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées Bretagne ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 87 Lat/Lng : 48.4199 / -4.4721 | The École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées de Bretagne often referred as ENSTA Bretagne formerly ENSIETA is one of the 207 French engineering schools accredited on 1 September 2017 to deliver engineering diplomas (French grande école of engineering) (...) | |
| 40 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Coutances ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 97 Lat/Lng : 49.0475 / -1.4442 | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Coutances (–Avranches) (Latin: Dioecesis Constantiensis (–Abrincensis); French: Diocèse de Coutances (–Avranches)) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in France. Its mother church is the Cathedral of Coutance in the commune of Coutances in France (...) | |
| 41 | 1991–92 French Division 1 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 47.7868 / 3.5887 | Olympique de Marseille won Division 1 season 1991/1992 of the French Association Football League with 58 points. (...) | |
| 42 | Allemagne-en-Provence ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 422 Lat/Lng : 43.7831 / 6.0078 | Allemagne-en-Provence is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Unlike the other French town called Allemagne, which changed its name to Fleury-sur-Orne in 1916 during World War I, Allemagne-en-Provence has kept its name (...) | |
| 43 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayeux ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 55 Lat/Lng : 49.2777 / -0.7065 | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayeux and Lisieux (Latin: Dioecesis Baiocensis et Lexoviensis; French: Diocèse de Bayeux et Lisieux) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The diocese is coextensive with the Department of Calvados and is a suffragan to the Archdiocese of Rouen, which is (...) | |
| 44 | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Aix ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 212 Lat/Lng : 43.5325 / 5.4514 | The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Aix-en-Provence and Arles (Latin: Archidioecesis Aquensis in Gallia et Arelatensis; French: Archidiocèse d'Aix-en-Provence et Arles; Occitan Provençal: Archidiocèsi de Ais de Provença e Arle or Archidioucèsi de z'Ais e Arle) is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of (...) | |
| 45 | Montmeyan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 480 Lat/Lng : 43.6475 / 6.0639 | Montmeyan (Mount-Meyan in Provençal language of Mistralian norm and Montmejan in classical norm) is a commune (municipality), located in the department of Var, in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, southeastern France. (...) | |
| 46 | Gare d'Antibes ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 43.5858 / 7.1197 | Antibes is a railway station located in Antibes, Alpes-Maritimes, southern France. The station is located on the Marseille–Ventimiglia railway. The train services are operated by SNCF. (...) | |
| 47 | Authon, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1159 Lat/Lng : 44.2392 / 6.1272 | Authon is a French commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of south-eastern France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as Authoniers or Authonières. (...) | |
| 48 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Digne ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 608 Lat/Lng : 44.0914 / 6.2364 | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Digne (Latin: Dioecesis Diniensis; French: Diocèse de Digne) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. Erected in the 4th century as the Diocese of Digne, the diocese has been known as the Diocese of Digne (–Riez–Sisteron) since 1922 (...) | |
| 49 | Toulon Opera ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 43.1242 / 5.9325 | The Toulon Opera (L'opéra de Toulon), inaugurated on 1 October 1862, is the second-largest opera house in France, after the Palais Garnier in Paris, although it opened thirteen years before the Garnier. The inaugural performance was Les Mouquetaires de la reine, a comic opera by Fromental Halévy, (...) | |
| 50 | Lac de Sylans ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 592 Lat/Lng : 46.162 / 5.6666 | Lac de Sylans is a lake at Le Poizat in the Ain department, France. It is significant for the ruins of one of the 19th century's largest ice harvesting factories and the occasional outflow of water in two directions. (...) | |
| 51 | Canal de Marseille ![]() FeatureType : river Elevation : 190 Lat/Lng : 43.6661 / 5.4942 | The Canal de MarseilleNot to be confused with the canal de Marseille au Rhône, used for navigation or with the canal de Provence, which is the second source of drinking water for Marseille is a major source of drinking water for the city of Marseille, the largest city in Provence, France (...) | |
| 52 | Église de la Madeleine (Aix-en-Provence) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 204 Lat/Lng : 43.5294 / 5.4516 | The Église de la Madeleine is a Roman Catholic church in Aix-en-Provence. (...) | |
| 53 | Demarcation line (France) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 49.4274 / 2.9064 | The French Demarcation line was the boundary line marking the division of Metropolitan France into the territory occupied and administered by the German Army (Zone occupée) in the northern and western part of France and the Zone libre (Free zone) in the south during World War II (...) | |
| 54 | Ancient Diocese of Carpentras ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 87 Lat/Lng : 44.05 / 5.05 | Carpentras (Lat. dioecesis Carpentoratensis) was a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the Provence region (later part of France), from the later Roman Empire until 1801. It was part of the ecclesiastical province under the Metropolitan, the Archbishop of Arles (...) | |