National parks of France

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Regional and National natural parks in France. Indicated in green and purple colour respectively.

The national parks of France are a system of nine national parks throughout metropolitan France and its overseas departments, maintained by the government agency Parcs Nationaux de France. The French national parks protect a total area of 3,710 km² in central zones and 9,162 km² in secondary zones in metropolitan France. This puts over 2% of the total area of metropolitan France under some level of protection. French national parks draw over 7 million visitors every year.

Cévennes National Park (Parc national des Cévennes) (2 September 1970) - 913 km²
Écrins National Park (Parc National des Écrins) (27 March 1973) - 918 km²
Guadeloupe National Park (Parc national de la Guadeloupe) (20 February 1989) - 173 km²
Guiana Amazonian Park (Parc amazonien de Guyane) (2007) - 33,900 km²
Mercantour National Park (Parc national du Mercantour) (18 August 1979) - 685 km²
Port-Cros National Park (Parc national de Port-Cros) (14 December 1963) - 7 km² (mostly a marine parc, with little land area)
Pyrenees National Park (Parc national des Pyrénées) (23 March 1967) - 457 km²
Reunion National Park (Parc national de la Réunion) (2007) - 1,054 km²
Vanoise National Park (Parc national de la Vanoise) (6 July 1963) - 1,250 km²