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Metropolitan France also has extensive river systems such as the Loire, the Garonne, the Seine and the Rhône, which divides the Massif Central from the Alps and flows into the Mediterranean sea at the Camargue, the lowest point in France. Corsica lies off the Mediterranean coast. The Exclusive Economic Zone of France extends over 11 million km² of ocean across the world. France's total land area, with its overseas departments and territories, is 674,843 square kilometres, 0.45% of the total land area on Earth. However, France possesses the second-largest Exclusive Economic Zone in the world, covering 11,035,000 square kilometres, approximately 8% of the total surface of all the EEZs of the world, just behind the United States and ahead of Australia.