France.

France has been greatly influenced due to this country's location, size, and power. France is located in Western Europe, bordering the Bay of Biscay and the English Channel. To find France on a map, the exact coordinates are 46 00 N and 2 00 E. This reasonably large country in roughly 547,030 square miles, and to better understand its size, France is slightly less then twice the size of Colorado. The terrain includes mostly flat plains, which dominates northern France, …showed first 75 words of 1623 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1623 total…by a preponderance of small shops, and most stores are still privately owned, small-scale variety, despite a growing rend toward big department stores and supermarkets. France is one of the world's largest and greatest trading nations, and its foreign commerce includes a wide variety of goods. Leading components typically are electrical and specialized machinery, passenger vehicles, aircraft, power-generating equipment, iron and steel, cereals, office machines and data processing equipment, alcoholic beverages, organic, chemicals, and textiles.