France and ESA has a space port in French Guiana where at least Ariane is doing commercial launches. When launching to space you would want to launch to the ea

France and ESA has a space port in French Guiana where at least Ariane is doing commercial launches. When launching to space you would want to launch to the east to get assistance from the earth rotation. You would want to launch over ocean so any debris/stages don't crash into populated areas. There's not that many places that is suitable. China has due to geo politics and secrecy three space ports deep inland and it's not unusual that launch stages crash into populated areas. Probably why they've started to launch from ocean platforms.