geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region - a demarcated area of the Earth

France, French Republic - a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe

Cote d'Azur, French Riviera - the French part of the Riviera

Alsace, Alsatia, Elsass - a region of northeastern France famous for its wines

Anjou - a former province of western France in the Loire valley

Aquitaine, Aquitania - a region of southwestern France between Bordeaux and the Pyrenees

Artois - a former province of northern France near the English Channel (between Picardy and Flanders)

Auvergne - a region in central France

Basse-Normandie, Lower-Normandy - a division of Normandy

Bourgogne, Burgundy - a former province of eastern France that is famous for its wines

Breiz, Bretagne, Brittany - a former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay

Centre - a low-lying region in central France

Champagne-Ardenne, Champagne - a region of northeastern France

Corse, Corsica - a region of France on the island of Corsica; birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte

Franche-Comte - a former province of eastern France

Gascogne, Gascony - a region of southwestern France

Haute-Normandie, Upper-Normandy - a division of Normandy

Ile-de-France - a region of north central France including Paris and the area around it

Languedoc-Roussillon - a region in south central France; named after the medieval dialect of French that was spoken there

Limousin - a region of central France west of the Auvergne mountains

Lorraine, Lothringen - an eastern French region rich in iron-ore deposits

Martinique - an island in the eastern Caribbean in the Windward Islands; administered as an overseas region of France

Mayenne - a department of northwestern France in the Pays de la Loire region

Midi-Pyrenees - a region in southwestern FRance

Nord-Pas-de-Calais - a region in northeastern France

Pays de la Loire - an agricultural region of western France on the Bay of Biscay

Picardie, Picardy - a region of northern France on the English Channel

Poitou, Poitou-Charentes - a low-lying region of west central France on the Bay of Biscay

Rhone-Alpes - a mountainous region of eastern France drained by the Rhone and Saone and Isere rivers

Provence - a former province of southeastern France; now administered with Cote d'Azur