France topographic maps

Average elevation: 719 m

The climate of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department is a Mediterranean climate degrading by altitude and latitude. In fact, while in the lower valleys and flat lands of Haute-Provence an inland Mediterranean climate prevails, by contrast in the hills it is more mixed with the valley of the Ubaye…

Average elevation: 1,141 m

Average elevation: 387 m

Average elevation: 255 m

Average elevation: 325 m

Average elevation: 777 m

Average elevation: 89 m

Average elevation: 35 m

Enclosed by the city walls, the Rocher des Doms is a limestone elevation of Urgonian type, 35 metres high (and therefore safe from flooding of the Rhone which it overlooks) and is the original core of the city. Several limestone massifs are present around the commune (the Massif des Angles,…

Average elevation: 39 m

Average elevation: 48 m

Average elevation: 132 m

Average elevation: 44 m

Average elevation: 33 m

Average elevation: 116 m

Average elevation: 1,111 m

Average elevation: 268 m

Average elevation: 257 m

Average elevation: 291 m

Average elevation: 50 m

Average elevation: 507 m

Average elevation: 40 m

Average elevation: 152 m

Average elevation: 61 m

Average elevation: 149 m

Average elevation: 183 m

Average elevation: 225 m

Average elevation: 2 m

Average elevation: 659 m

Average elevation: 98 m

Many Moʻorean endemic species that have gone extinct or been extirpated. The Polynesian tree snails of the genus Partula were largely wiped out after the rosy wolf snail was introduced in 1977, although captive and small refuge populations on Tahiti still exist. In 2019 both Partula rosea and Partula varia…

Average elevation: 86 m

Average elevation: 264 m

Average elevation: 0 m

Average elevation: 278 m

Average elevation: 229 m

Average elevation: 146 m

Average elevation: 359 m

The city is located on the north end of the island, and was a port. Saint-Denis was "originally the main port of Réunion, but an artificial harbour at Le Port, on the northwest coast, replaced it in the 1880s, because of unpredictable winds and tides at Saint-Denis." The city includes some of the island's…

Average elevation: 722 m

Average elevation: 44 m

Average elevation: 224 m

Average elevation: 276 m

Average elevation: 13 m

Except for a few dozen houses on the slopes of the Bastille hill of Chartreuse, Grenoble is exclusively built on the alluvial plain of the rivers Isère and Drac at an altitude of 214 metres (702 ft). As a result, the city itself is extremely flat. Mountain sports are an important tourist attraction in summer…

Average elevation: 246 m

Average elevation: 576 m

Average elevation: 2 m

Average elevation: 4 m

Nantes is built on the Armorican Massif, a range of weathered mountains which may be considered the backbone of Brittany. The mountains, stretching from the end of the Breton peninsula to the outskirts of the sedimentary Paris Basin, are composed of several parallel ridges of Ordovician and Cadomian rocks.…

Average elevation: 26 m

Average elevation: 17 m

Average elevation: 67 m

Average elevation: 200 m

Average elevation: 23 m

Average elevation: 188 m

The first half of the 14th century was a prosperous period, despite the dismemberment in 1317 of the very large bishopric of Toulouse (which lost two thirds of its area and a large part of its income, a loss only partially compensated by its elevation to the rank of archbishopric), and the episode of the…

Average elevation: 155 m

Average elevation: 96 m

Average elevation: 144 m

Average elevation: 192 m

Average elevation: 190 m

At the end of the 1960s, the Orléans-la-Source [fr] neighbourhood was created, 12 kilometres (7 mi)to the south of the original commune and separated from it by the Val d'Orléans and the river Loiret (whose source is in the Parc Floral de la Source). This quarter's altitude varies from about 100 to 110 m…

Average elevation: 104 m

Average elevation: 39 m

Average elevation: 93 m

Average elevation: 112 m

Average elevation: 33 m

Average elevation: 263 m

Average elevation: 207 m

Average elevation: 67 m

Average elevation: 410 m

The climate is cold and temperate (Köppen climate classification Cfb), and is greatly influenced by altitude. Being the highest part of the Alps, Mont Blanc and surrounding mountains can create their own weather patterns. Temperatures drop as the mountains gain in height, and the summit of Mont Blanc is a…

Average elevation: 4,092 m

Average elevation: 322 m

Average elevation: 950 m

Average elevation: 136 m

Average elevation: 51 m

Average elevation: 125 m

Average elevation: 45 m

Average elevation: 534 m

Average elevation: 1,072 m

Average elevation: 276 m

Average elevation: 367 m

Average elevation: 2,175 m

Average elevation: 2,289 m

Average elevation: 1,145 m

Average elevation: 951 m

Average elevation: 407 m

Average elevation: 90 m

Average elevation: 556 m

Average elevation: 516 m

Average elevation: 4 m

Average elevation: 114 m

Average elevation: 85 m

Average elevation: 3 m

Average elevation: 593 m

Average elevation: 161 m

Average elevation: 50 m

Average elevation: 137 m

Average elevation: 86 m

Average elevation: 94 m

Average elevation: 1,181 m

Average elevation: 529 m

Average elevation: 139 m

Average elevation: 1,880 m

Average elevation: 144 m

Average elevation: 76 m