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Transportation - note France, in 7 editions.
The entry for France published Transportation - note in 7 editions of 36, from 2019 to 2025. The text changed in 3 editions. Each is shown as published. Transportation - note in every entry.
- editions changed the text
- 3
- the first edition with it
- 2019
- the latest edition with it
- 2025
Published as “Transportation - note” (2019 to 2025).
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2025 edition
Changed since 2024The same text in 3 editions, 2019 to 2021.
- begun in 1988 and completed in 1994, the Channel Tunnel (nicknamed the Chunnel) is a 50.5-km (31.4-mi) rail tunnel beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover that runs from Folkestone, Kent, England to Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais in northern France;
- it is the only fixed link between the island of Great Britain and mainland Europe
begun in 1988 and completed in 1994, the Channel Tunnel (nicknamed the Chunnel) is a 50.5-km (31.4-mi) rail tunnel beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover that runs from Folkestone, Kent, England to Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais in northern France; it is the only fixed link between the island of Great Britain and mainland Europe
The same text in 2022 and 2023.
note 1: begun in 1988 and completed in 1994, the Channel Tunnel (nicknamed the Chunnel) is a 50.5-km (31.4-mi) rail tunnel beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover that runs from Folkestone, Kent, England to Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais in northern France; it is the only fixed link between the island of Great Britain and mainland Europe
note 2: France operates two icebreakers, one PC 3 or 4 class icebreaker based in French Polynesia for operations in Antarctica and one PC 5 or 6 class icebreaker based in the North Atlantic
- note - PC indicates a Polar Class vessel:
- PC 3 - year-round operation in second-year ice which may include multi-year ice inclusions (ice thickness up to 2.5 m);
- PC 4 - year-round operation in thick first-year ice which may include old ice inclusions (ice thickness up to 120 cm);
- PC 5 - year-round operation in medium first-year ice which may include old ice inclusions (ice thickness up to 70-120 cm);
- PC 6 - summer/autumn operation in medium first-year ice which may include old ice inclusions (ice thickness up to 30-70 cm)
Rewritten: too little of the 2021 text remains to mark the changes.
note 1: begun in 1988 and completed in 1994, the Channel Tunnel (nicknamed the Chunnel) is a 50.5-km (31.4-mi) rail tunnel beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover that runs from Folkestone, Kent, England to Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais in northern France; it is the only fixed link between the island of Great Britain and mainland Europe
note 2: France operates two icebreakers, one PC 3 or 4 class icebreaker based in French Polynesia for operations in Antarctica and one PC 5 or 6 class icebreaker based in the North Atlantic
note - PC indicates a Polar Class vessel: PC 3 - year-round operation in second-year ice which may include multi-year ice inclusions (ice thickness up to 2.5 m); PC 4 - year-round operation in thick first-year ice which may include old ice inclusions (ice thickness up to 120 cm); PC 5 - year-round operation in medium first-year ice which may include old ice inclusions (ice thickness up to 70-120 cm); PC 6 - summer/autumn operation in medium first-year ice which may include old ice inclusions (ice thickness up to 30-70 cm)
- begun in 1988 and completed in 1994, the Channel Tunnel (nicknamed the Chunnel) is a 50.5-km (31.4-mi) rail tunnel beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover that runs from Folkestone, Kent, England to Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais in northern France;
- it is the only fixed link between the island of Great Britain and mainland Europe
Rewritten: too little of the 2023 text remains to mark the changes.
begun in 1988 and completed in 1994, the Channel Tunnel (nicknamed the Chunnel) is a 50.5-km (31.4-mi) rail tunnel beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover that runs from Folkestone, Kent, England to Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais in northern France; it is the only fixed link between the island of Great Britain and mainland Europe
- begun in 1988 and completed in 1994, the Channel Tunnel (nicknamed the Chunnel) is a 50.5-km (31.4-mi) rail tunnel under the English Channel at the Strait of Dover;
- it runs from Folkestone, Kent, in England to Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, in northern France and is the only fixed link between the island of Great Britain and mainland Europe
begun in 1988 and completed in 1994, the Channel Tunnel (nicknamed the Chunnel) is a 50.5-km (31.4-mi) rail tunnel beneath under the English Channel at the Strait of Dover that Dover; it runs from Folkestone, Kent, in England to Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais Pas-de-Calais, in northern France; it France and is the only fixed link between the island of Great Britain and mainland Europe
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Central Intelligence Agency. “France: Transportation - note.” The World Factbook, 2019–2025 editions. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/france/transportation-note.