À côté de, en face de, à l'extérieur de, à l'intérieur de, près de, loin de, au coin de (French Prepositions)

In French, there are a lot of prepositions of place: basic ones such as dans, sur, derrière etc and prepositional phrases of place.

How to use prepositional phrases of place in French

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The following prepositions are used to indicate relative physical positions of one thing to another.  

Note that the indefinite article de must contract if followed by a masculine article le (du) and the plural les (des). 

Case of à l'extérieur de versus en dehors de:

- À l'extérieur de means outside in a geographical way, literally out of [something]

- En dehors de is more the abstract outside, in the sense of apart from, but can also be used with locations.