The Frioul archipelago is a group of four islands located off the

Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western Europe, Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa ...

coast of

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, approximately from

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fra ...

. The islands of the

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cover a total land area of approximately 200

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s. According to the 2015 census, the population was 146. The islands of Pomègues and Ratonneau are connected by a

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built in 1822.

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External links

www.frioul.net

www.frequence-sud.fr, ferries to Frioul
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