Information about France

Climate of France:

• metropolitan France: generally cool winters and mild summers, but mild winters and hot summers along the Mediterranean
• occasional strong, cold, dry, north-to-northwesterly wind known as mistral French Guiana: tropical
• hot, humid
• little seasonal temperature variation Guadeloupe and Martinique: subtropical tempered by trade winds
• moderately high humidity
• rainy season (June to October)
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Terrain of France:

• low and nearly level sandy coral islands with narrow fringing reefs that have developed at the top of submerged volcanic mountains, which in most cases rise steeply from the ocean floor

France also has such useful resources as: metropolitan France: coal, iron ore, bauxite, zinc, uranium, antimony, arsenic, potash, feldspar, fluorspar, gypsum, timber, fish; French Guiana: gold deposits, petroleum, kaolin, niobium, tantalum, clay.