Time zone: GMT + 1 hours
Location: Western Europe, southeast of the UK, bordering the Bay of Biscay and English Channel, between Belgium and Spain and bordering the Mediterranean Sea between Italy and Spain.
Capital: Paris
Currency: euro (currency code EUR)
Languages: French. Business language: French.
Airport authority contact information: Direction Générale de l´Aviation Civile, Paris. Telephone: +33 (0)1 58 09 43 21
Airports: In 2005 France had 477 airports, 281 of which have paved runways, the most significant of which are:
Agen La Garenne Airport
Aix les Bains Airport
Ajaccio Campo Dell Airport
Albi Le Sequestre Airport
Angers Airport
Anglet Airport
Angoulême Brie-Champniers Airport
Annecy Meythe Airport
Arles Airport
Armor Airport
Atlantique Airport
Avignon Caumont Airport
Basel Mulhouse Airport
Bastia Poretta Airport
Beauvais Tille Airport
Bellegarde Airport
Bergerac Roumaniere Airport
Beziers Vias Airport
Biard Airport
Biarritz Bayon Airport
Bordeaux Merignac Airport
Bourges Airport
Bourgogne Airport
Brest Guipavas Airport
Bron Airport
Calvi Catherine Airport
Camargue Airport
Cannes Mandelieu Airport
Carcassonne Salvaza Airport
Castres Mazamet Airport
Chabeuil Airport
Chambery A.L. Bains Airport
Champagne Airport
Charles De Gaulle Airport Paris
Charmeil Airport
Chavenay Airport
Cherbourg-Maupertus Airport
Clermont-Ferrand Aulnat Airport
Colmar-Houssen Airport
Cornouaille Airport
Côte D´Azur Airport
Côte D´Opale Airport
Deauville Saint Gatien Airport
Deols Airport
Dijon Bourgogne Airport
Dijon Longvic Airport
Epinal Mirecourt Airport
Figari Sud Corse Airport
Grenoble St. Geoirs Airport
La Rochelle Laleu Airport
Lannion Servel Airports
Le Havre Octeville Airports
Le Touquet Paris Plag Airport
Lille Lesquin Airports
Lourdes Tarbes International Airport
Lyon Satolas Airport
Marseille Provence Airport
Mende- Brenoux Airport
Metz Nancy Lorraine Airport
Montpellier Frejorgues Airport
Nantes Bougon Airport
Nice Cote d'Azur Airport
Paris De Gaulle Airport
Paris Orly Airport
Pau Uzein Airport
Rennes St Jacques Airport
Rouen Boos Airport
St. Brieuc Tremuson Airport
St. Etienne Boutheon Airport
Strasbourg Entzheim Airport
Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrennes Airport
Tavaux Airport
Tille Airport
Toulon Hyeres Aeroport
Toulouse Blagnac Airport
Valence Chabeuil Airport
Vatry Airport
Vias Airport
Vichy Charmeil Airport
