Pluto is in France.
France ( [ fʁɑ̃s ] ) , officially the French Republic ( [ ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz ] ) , is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories . Pluto ( minor-planet designation : 134340 Pluto ) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt , a ring of bodies beyond Neptune . Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 and was originally considered to be the ninth planet from the Sun . Pluto is the largest and second-most-massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object directly orbiting the Sun .