Geography of France.

In the south and east of France the landscapes become a lot steeper. The French Alps and Pyrenees are characterised by plains surrounding very high mountains. Loads of folded and faulted rocks.

The Jura Mountains:

In France there is a combination of folded  mountains. The plateau stretches across France, Switzerland and into Germany. The Jura Mountains are the lowest in the east of France. A huge part of the eastern slopes are located in Switzerland while its western slopes are in France. The Mountain is a small crescent-shaped range, 400km long and 80km wide, this runs between the Black Forest and the Alps. The Jura Mountains highest point is the Crèt de la Neige while in the south it is 1,723 meters.

The Alps:

The Alps Mountain range is not all belonging to France beca8use it also runs through Italy. Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria and Slovenia. The French Alps start from the south of the Jura Mountains and reaches across 350 km, covering 33,000 km2 of the territory, from Lake Geneva to Nice. The western part of the Alpine Arc, the French Alps have a southern orientation. Between the Northern Alps and the Southern Alps the resulting horizontal stretch for the classic region.

The Northern Alps:

These Alps are higher, wetter, more wooden. The Northern Alps have four different types of landscape. There is the Prealps, the Sillon Alpin, the central massifs and the intra-alpine zone. The Northern Alps have four different types of landscape: the Prealps, the Sillon Alpin, the central massifs and the intra-alpine zone. The crystalline central massifs have the highest summits in the French Alps. Mont Blanc (4,807 m) in the whole of the Alps. Glaciers in the North Alps cover 400 km2 compared to only 4 km2 in the southern Alps. The Northern Alps are separated by the Southern Alps by a line running from Dròme Valley to the Col de Montgenèvre. The layout of the Southern Alps isn't as simple as the layout of the Northern Alps.  The Durance Valley is not as wide as the large internal corridor of the Sillon Alpine, and its tributary valleys are narrow. The Southern Alps, drier and less open, have stronger Mediterranean affinities.

The Pyrenees

The mountain range are in the southwest of Europe and are dived between France and Spain. The steepest side is found on the french side which is called the Pyrenees. A mountain range in the southwest of Europe, divided between France and Spain, the steepest slope of the Pyrenees is found on the French side. The runoffs are torrential and it becomes a real wall in places (Roncevaux Pass).

The Pyrenees are linked to the Alpine system, but have lower summits, higher passes, and a massive aspect in relation to the size of its crystalline rocks and the relative weakness of glacier erosion.

located in a 430 km long isthmus between the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean.