The Maginot Line
On the western front, along France's eastern border (it was called the western front because it was on the west of Germany.
France built the Maginot line, after the name of a minister who built it. It was a line of forts running on the eastern border to protect France against Germany, but which proved useless as the German invasion went by another route through Belgium.
Thick forests covered much of the border; the rugged Vosges Mountains formed the rest of the border. This made the border hard to cross. -WORLD GEOGRAPHY & CULTURES TEXTBOOK
THe Eastern Front was the German border with what was then the Soviet Union. Phil
The main fronts in World War I were in France and in Russia. The Western Front was in France and the Eastern Front was in Russia.
After World War I, the type of war that France anticipated having in any future conflict was of the 'trench warfare' (or, World War I) style. With this in mind, the French constructed a massive set of trench- and pillbox-laden fortifications along their eastern border (adjacent to Germany); however, World War II would prove that their anticipations were mistaken.
yes
5 countries border Switzerland: France, Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein and Italy. Every other country in the world does not border Switzerland.
Five countries in the world border Switzerland. So other than France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland itself, all other countries in the world do not border Switzerland.
France is in the western part of the northern hemisphere. In the eurasian continent, the natural boundary between western world (Europe) and eastern world (Asia) is commonly considered to be the Ural mountains ("the Urals"), located in Russia.
Eastern part.
Monaco, a city-state located on the Mediteranean sea, has France as its only neighbour. The border is under 5.5 kilometres long. Monaco is the second-smallest state in the world, after the Vatican.