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
Samognat
01580
Sandrans
01400
Sault-Brenaz
01790
Sauverny
01220
Savigneux
01480
Segny
01170
Seillonnaz
01470
Sergy
01630
Sermoyer
01190
Serrieres-de-Briord
01470
Serrieres-sur-Ain
01450
Servas
01240
Servignat
01560
Seyssel
01420
Simandre-sur-Suran
01250
Songieu
01260
Sonthonnax-la-Montagne
01580
Souclin
01150
Saint-Alban
01450
Saint-Andre-de-Bage
01380
Saint-Andre-de-Corcy
01390
Saint-Andre-d'Huiriat
01290
Saint-Andre-le-Bouchoux
01240
Saint-Andre-sur-Vieux-Jonc
01240
Saint-Benigne
01190
Saint-Benoit
01300
Saint-Bernard
01600
Saint-Bois
01300
Saint-Champ
01300
Saint-Cyr-sur-Menthon
01380
Saint-Denis-en-Bugey
01780
Saint-Denis-les-Bourg
01000
Saint-Didier-d'Aussiat
01340
Saint-Didier-de-Formans
01600
Saint-Didier-sur-Chalaronne
01140
Sainte-Croix
01120
Sainte-Euphemie
01600
Sainte-Julie
01150
Saint-Eloi
01800
Sainte-Olive
01330
Saint-Etienne-du-Bois
01370
Saint-Etienne-sur-Chalaronne
01140
Saint-Etienne-sur-Reyssouze
01190
Saint-Genis-Pouilly
01630
Saint-Genis-sur-Menthon
01380
Saint-Georges-sur-Renon
01400
Saint-Germain-de-Joux
01130
Saint-Germain-les-Paroisses
01300
Saint-Germain-sur-Renon
01240
Saint-Jean-de-Gonville
01630
Saint-Jean-de-Niost
01800
Saint-Jean-de-Thurigneux
01390
Saint-Jean-le-Vieux
01640
Saint-Jean-sur-Reyssouze
01560
Saint-Jean-sur-Veyle
01290
Saint-Julien-sur-Reyssouze
01560
Saint-Julien-sur-Veyle
01540
Saint-Just
01250
Saint-Laurent-sur-Saone
01620
Saint-Marcel
01390
Saint-Martin-de-Bavel
01510
Saint-Martin-du-Frene
01430
Saint-Martin-du-Mont
01160
Saint-Martin-le-Chatel
01310
Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost
01700
Saint-Maurice-de-Gourdans
01800
Saint-Maurice-de-Remens
01500
Saint-Nizier-le-Bouchoux
01560
Saint-Nizier-le-Desert
01320
Saint-Paul-de-Varax
01240
Saint-Rambert-en-Bugey
01230
Saint-Remy
01310
Saint-Sorlin-en-Bugey
01150
Saint-Sulpice
01340
Saint-Trivier-de-Courtes
01560
Saint-Trivier-sur-Moignans
01990
Saint-Vulbas
01150
Sulignat
01400
Surjoux
01420
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.