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Volcanoes in France
France has 73 volcanoes on Detourmap — volcanoes, craters, calderas and lava fields. The best known is Île Amsterdam. All of them are below.
- Volcanoes
- 73
- Of nature
- 73 of 966
- Little known
- 62 of 73
- Oldest
- Fontaine chaude 1818
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9.Soufrière
Nature · Notable
Active stratovolcano located in Basse-Terre Island, Guadeloupe, French West Indies
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28.Mont Marion-Dufresne
Nature · Hidden gem
Mountain on île de l'Est, French Southern and Antarctic Lands
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49.Mont Denise
Nature · Hidden gem
Inactive volcano in the Massif Central, Haute-Loire, Auvergne, France; preceded by the Orgues d'Espaly on the left.
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51.San Peyre
Nature · Hidden gem
A cone of volcanic origin located in Esterel, in Mandelieu-la-Napoule, west of the Alpes-Maritimes in France
Questions about this page
How many volcanoes are there in France?
73 on this map, out of 966 nature & landscapes in France. That is what Wikidata records with coordinates, a photograph and a Wikipedia article, so it is a floor rather than a census.
What is the best known volcanoe in France?
Île Amsterdam. Islands in the southern Indian Ocean.
Which volcanoes in France are the least visited?
62 of the 73 rank as little known — a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages. They sit at the bottom of the ranked list below.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.
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