France

ICGs & TICs

France, thanks to its overseas departments, is currently the only country to belong to all four Intergovernmental Coordination Groups and to be advised by all four Tsunami Information Centres.

Metropolitan France

ICG/NEAMTWS & NEAMTIC

Réunion & Mayotte

ICG/IOTWMS & IOTIC

Guiane, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Barth & Saint-Martin

ICG/CARIBE-EWS & CTIC

French Polynesia, New Caledonia & Wallis and Futuna

ICG/PTWS & ITIC

Country data

France, in addition to its coastlines in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, has an extensive presence across the world's oceans, with overseas departments and territories in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific and Indian oceans.

Metropolitan France

Communities at risk lie in the country's Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts.

4,853 km

total coastline

Across the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean sea

25+ million

coastal population

Approximately 39% of the country's total

Indian Ocean territories

Comprised of the overseas departments of Réunion and Mayotte.

392 km

total coastline

Across the overseas departments of Réunion and Mayotte

1.2+ million

coastal population

Across both island territories

Caribbean departments

Communities at risk lie across the overseas island departments of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Barth, and Saint-Martin, and in the coastal areas of French Guiana.

1,125 km

total coastline

Across French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Barth, and Saint-Martin

1.1+ million

coastal population

Across all Caribbean and South American overseas departments