France is a country on the continent Europe, her capital is Paris. Here is the hierarchy of the France administrative divisions: France is subdivided into regions, that are at their turn subdivided into departments, that are at their turn subdivided into cantons, that are at their turn subdivided into communes, cities, that are at their turn subdivided into villages, called-places.
How French name their localities: department, city, town, district ?
You find also their zipcode.
The cities, towns in France are all called communes with a Mayer as administtrative chief,
independently of its population and town size. Sometime, a town with only 3 souls
has a mayer.
Salavre
01270
292
Samognat
01580
733
Sandrans
01400
535
Sault-Brenaz
01790
1 059
Sauverny
01220
1 125
Savigneux
01480
3 203
Segny
01170
1 643
Seillonnaz
01470
139
Sergy
01630
1 884
Sermoyer
01190
680
Serrieres-de-Briord
01470
1 160
Serrieres-sur-Ain
01450
119
Servas
01240
200
Servignat
01560
161
Seyssel
01420
968
Simandre-sur-Suran
01250
669
Songieu
01260
129
Sonthonnax-la-Montagne
01580
351
Souclin
01150
263
Saint-Alban
01450
5 750
Saint-Andre-de-Bage
01380
577
Saint-Andre-de-Corcy
01390
3 047
Saint-Andre-d'Huiriat
01290
550
Saint-Andre-le-Bouchoux
01240
315
Saint-Andre-sur-Vieux-Jonc
01240
1 077
Saint-Benigne
01190
1 164
Saint-Benoit
01300
115
Saint-Bernard
01600
652
Saint-Bois
01300
123
Saint-Champ
01300
143
Saint-Cyr-sur-Menthon
01380
1 631
Saint-Denis-en-Bugey
01780
2 165
Saint-Denis-les-Bourg
01000
5 535
Saint-Didier-d'Aussiat
01340
857
Saint-Didier-de-Formans
01600
1 855
Saint-Didier-sur-Chalaronne
01140
2 800
Sainte-Croix
01120
85
Sainte-Euphemie
01600
1 490
Sainte-Julie
01150
877
Saint-Eloi
01800
390
Sainte-Olive
01330
310
Saint-Etienne-du-Bois
01370
2 481
Saint-Etienne-sur-Chalaronne
01140
1 493
Saint-Etienne-sur-Reyssouze
01190
531
Saint-Genis-Pouilly
01630
8 797
Saint-Genis-sur-Menthon
01380
395
Saint-Georges-sur-Renon
01400
203
Saint-Germain-de-Joux
01130
497
Saint-Germain-les-Paroisses
01300
385
Saint-Germain-sur-Renon
01240
246
Saint-Jean-de-Gonville
01630
1 534
Saint-Jean-de-Niost
01800
1 459
Saint-Jean-de-Thurigneux
01390
671
Saint-Jean-le-Vieux
01640
240
Saint-Jean-sur-Reyssouze
01560
736
Saint-Jean-sur-Veyle
01290
1 107
Saint-Julien-sur-Reyssouze
01560
640
Saint-Julien-sur-Veyle
01540
711
Saint-Just
01250
2 824
Saint-Laurent-sur-Saone
01620
1 757
Saint-Marcel
01390
1 671
Saint-Martin-de-Bavel
01510
461
Saint-Martin-du-Frene
01430
1 118
Saint-Martin-du-Mont
01160
1 660
Saint-Martin-le-Chatel
01310
800
Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost
01700
3 907
Saint-Maurice-de-Gourdans
01800
2 484
Saint-Maurice-de-Remens
01500
706
Saint-Nizier-le-Bouchoux
01560
733
Saint-Nizier-le-Desert
01320
881
Saint-Paul-de-Varax
01240
1 518
Saint-Rambert-en-Bugey
01230
2 208
Saint-Remy
01310
843
Saint-Sorlin-en-Bugey
01150
1 112
Saint-Sulpice
01340
136
Saint-Trivier-de-Courtes
01560
1 011
Saint-Trivier-sur-Moignans
01990
1 932
Saint-Vulbas
01150
966
Sulignat
01400
598
Surjoux
01420
74
This is very different from the Chinese calling. There one has
Chief of Village, Chief of Town, Chief of City.
In France, the zipcode is generally composed of 5 digits, of which the first two
are the code of the departement that it belongs to.
Nourishing 65,350,000 people in January 2012 (
INSEE),
France has an area of 670,922 km², the 14th of that of China,
or 7 times of the Zhejiang POrovince who produces 70% of world garments,
of which 547,030 km² Metropolitan France in Western Europe.
By land area, it is the largest country of the European Union (EU).
It is the third largest country in Europe,
just after Russia and Ukraine, the second if you include the ultra-marine departments.
Finally it is the 41st largest country in the world and the second by its exclusive economic zone.
In hexagonal, its metropolitan territory covers continental approximately 1,000 km
from north to south and from east to west.
With the overseas, the extent of its coastline is 8,245 km.