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The Republic of France is located in western Europe. France is located at the English Channel (just across the United Kingdom) and bordering the Atlantic Ocean, the Pas-de-Calais, the Bay of Biscay. Neighbouring countries are Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Spain and Italy. In the Pyrenees also bordering to Andorra. Monaco is located in the south at the Mediterranean and is a separate state with strong ties to France. The island of Corsica (where Napoleon was born) is situated in the Mediterranean and is also part of France. The capital of France, Paris, by far the largest city in the country, followed by Lyon and Marseille in the south. The famous regions are Normandy, Dordogne, Burgundy, Alsace, Languedoc, Loire Valley, Provence, Brittany and the southern Côte d'Azur. The French government also includes the overseas departments: Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique and Reunion, "collectivités territoriales" Îles et Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Mayotte, and four overseas territories: New Caledonia, Vanuatu, French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna . France also claimed a part of Antarctica: Adelieland. Well-known sights in France are: Arles, Nimes, Mont-Saint-Michel in Brittany, the Alps, the Jura mountains, the Pyrenees and the city of Paris. In the capital, the most famous sights are the Eiffel Tower, Montparnasse, the banks of the River Seine, the Louvre with the Mona Lisa, Centre Pompidou, the Latin Quarter and Montmartre neighborhoods, the Champs Elysees, the Arc de Triomph, and the Sacre Coeur the Nôtre Dame.

Winter is a collective term for all types of sports that are on ice or snow. So skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, biathlon, skating, bobsleigh, curling, ice hockey ga and so on. Skiing is ride on snow or a kunstskibaan using one or more "planks", skis, which at the feet (shoes) are confirmed *. That sounds more complicated than it is. Actually it's just the two battens down a mountainside. Snowboarding is a sport where you stand on a board with vastgemaakte shoes descends on a snowy mountainside or piste. The snowboarding was invented by a surfer, who thought you with a different kind of board like a wave of the mountain had to be. Actually there is only since the 70s. And you should see it now: it is hugely popular. Cross-country skiing is a sort of glide and anticipate slats. Or put it another way, skating on cross country skis. These are longer and thinner than skis used in skiing. In addition to the skis do you need sticks to you to continue. There are two different ways to cross-country skiing. You have the classic style, where you essentially marketing with the skis, supported by the poles. You 'runs' than with the skis. The "free style" similar to the schaatstechniek; you get sideways with, or sometimes without, poles. Cross-country skiing you can do on a trail, which is called a track. In the classical technique that two tracks. For the free style ga you have made a smooth trail. Biatlon is actually a kind of cross, which you must geweerschieten on a goal. At certain points on the trail the athlete must stop and shoot a goal. Do you target, that means you lose time, because usually there is an additional circle walked / geskate again for your mag.

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