Countries, who is my neighbours neighbour? France

Name the countries that are next but one to France.
Land borders only. In this instance it is mainland/metropolitan, European, France only.
The original country is not an answer.
For example, if the country was South Korea, the answers would be the countries that share a land border with any countries bordered by South korea. In this case, South Korea has only one land border, with North Korea. So the answers are the countries that share a land border with North Korea, namely China and Russia.
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Portugal
Netherlands
Morocco
Denmark
Poland
Czech Republic
Austria
Slovenia
Liechtenstein
San Marino
Vatican City
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Level 67
Sep 15, 2016
Monaco borders France directly.
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Level 67
Sep 15, 2016
Also, France considers French Guiana as a region rather than a territory or collectivity, so it is for all intents and purposes part of France in every bit the same way as Hawaii and Alaska are part of the US. This means Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay would qualify to be on this list.
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Level 59
Dec 13, 2017
they say only european
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Level 72
Sep 15, 2016
Face palm on Monaco. Proper school boy error that. Fixed.

I suspect France was a poor choice for an initial trial of this quiz given the complexities with Guiana. Adjusted the criteria to specify it is mainland France only.

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Level 76
Sep 15, 2016
You may want to add a reference to "mainland" (they call it "metropolitan" for some reason) France in the instructions.
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Level 54
Jun 30, 2023
The reason is that Corsica is part of metropolitan France (not an oversea territory), but not mainland France.
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Level 72
Jun 30, 2023
Added the “metropolitan” part to the caveats. It is academic for Corsica as it’s an island and has no land borders, but it’ll do no harm to have extra clarification.
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Level 60
Sep 15, 2016
Morocco? Spain does border Morocco at Ceuta and Melilla.
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Level 72
Sep 16, 2016
Question specifies mainland France, so Cueta and Melilla aren't included.
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Level 52
Sep 16, 2016
And this fact makes this quiz much more boring that it could be.
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Level 74
Oct 8, 2018
Hi. Mainland France, borders Spain, which borders Morocco. Unless we still misunderstand your explanation...
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Level 72
Oct 11, 2018
Yeah, I think I misunderstood the point the initial comment was tryign to make. Apologies OP. Added Morocco.
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Level 45
Dec 12, 2017
Got all of them right but you should make the explanation better though

and you forgot Luxembourg- France borders belgium which borders luxembourg

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Level 72
Dec 12, 2017
France borders Luxembourg directly
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Level 59
Dec 13, 2017
Actually france and The Netherlands border on an island(saint-martin i thought)

it isn't on the mainland but it is a direct border so it shouldn't be on this list i think

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Level 62
Apr 24, 2018
This is a great quiz idea. I think a series of these would be a good feature for points.
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Level 67
Jul 22, 2019
You should add the uk because Spain borders Gibraltar which is British territory.
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Level 72
Jul 25, 2019
The question specifies mainland France, so I should probably be consistent and only accept mainland UK and not any overseas dependencies or territories.