This is a list of airports in France, grouped by department and sorted by commune.
France, officially the French Republic, is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands. The area known as Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean.
France is divided into 27 administrative regions, of which 22 are in metropolitan France (21 on the continent, plus the territorial collectivity of Corsica) and five are overseas. The regions subdivided into 101 numbered departments which are, in turn, subdivided into 342 arrondissements (districts), 4,032 cantons, and 36,781 communes (municipalities).
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