France lies in the heart of Europe with a total area of 551000 square kilometers and a population of 57,500,000.French borders on Italy,Switzerland and Monaco in the east and Germany,Belgium and Luxembourg in the northeast and Spain,Andorra in the Southwest and England to the Northwest.French is symmetrical hexagon.Its three sides are near sea and three sides are near land.Its boundary line is 5300 kilometers and coastline is about 3120 kilometers.Basically French is a plain country.80% of its territory is plain and hill.Plain land at an elevation of below 250 meters is about 60% of its total areas.Hills between 200 to 250 are about 20% while more than 500 is about 20%.The terrain is low in northwest and high in southeast.
French is the first tourism country in the world.In this romantic country,you can enjoy famous snacks and grape wine,at the same time you can also enjoy beautiful rural scenery or significant Medieval castle or the joy of skiing in snowcap Alps or you may swim in the attractive blue sea and feel the glamour of this romantic capital which is filled with cultural and modern taste.
When talking about France,we can’t ignore the culture of French food and drink.The food and drink in France enjoys a long lasting fame for its long history,various and dainty kinds,and unique character.Its cooking skills are the second to none among the western style food,of which the French feel proud.More than half of great cooks in the European first class of large restaurants are Frenchmen From the emperor Louis fourteen in the history France has formed an important and continuously developing banquet foreign policy.These well-arranged delicacies and cakes are called French style banquet.Two hundred dishes can be put on the table once.What the Frenchmen like most are snails and frog legs.The rarest dishes are goose livers,and the common home dish is fried beefsteak with threadlike potato.In terms of drink,what the French like most is grape wine.When they have a meal,they will pay much attention to the match of dainty cakes and wine ,such as meat with red grape wine .fish with white grape wine and so on.Besides Frenchmen are fond of cheese Cheeses with different taste reach more than 400.It’s consumption quantity ranks first in the world,therefore France was given the name of “ Kingdom of Cheese”.