The country of France can be divided into five geographic regions.
To make the geography (if not the choice) simpler, we've divided the country into just five Paris and its vicinity (known to the French as the Ile-de-France); the Northeast (Picardy, Champagne-Ardennes, Lorraine, Alsace, Burgundy, and the Jura); the Northwest (Normandy, Brittany, and the Loire Valley); the Southeast (Savoie, the Rhone Valley, Provence, the Cete d'Azur, and Corsica); and the South?­west (Berry-Limousin, P??rigord, the Atlantic Coast, the Pyr???­n??es, and Languedoc-Roussillon).