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.
Maillane
13910
Mallemort
13370
Marignane
13700
Marignane
13727
Marseille
13371
Marseille
13009
Marseille
13008
Marseille
13322
Marseille
13308
Marseille
13001
Marseille
13323
Marseille
13667
Marseille
13006
Marseille
13015
Marseille
13467
Marseille
13002
Marseille
13004
Marseille
13014
Marseille
13016
Marseille
13567
Marseille
13000
Marseille 1er Arrondissement
13001
Marseille 2e Arrondissement
13002
Marseille 3e Arrondissement
13003
Marseille 4e Arrondissement
13004
Marseille 5e Arrondissement
13005
Marseille 6e Arrondissement
13006
Marseille 7e Arrondissement
13007
Marseille 8e Arrondissement
13008
Marseille 9e Arrondissement
13009
Marseille 10e Arrondissement
13010
Marseille 11e Arrondissement
13011
Marseille 12e Arrondissement
13012
Marseille 13e Arrondissement
13013
Marseille 14e Arrondissement
13014
Marseille 15e Arrondissement
13015
Marseille 16e Arrondissement
13016
Marseille-Armees
13998
Marseille-Armees
13998
Marseille-Cheques
13900
Marseille-le-Rove
13740
Marseille-Quai-a-Export
13001
Martigues
13500
Mas-Blanc-des-Alpilles
13103
Mas-Thibert
13104
Maussane-les-Alpilles
13520
Meyrargues
13650
Meyreuil
13590
Mimet
13105
Miramas
13140
Molleges
13940
Moules
13280
Mouries
13890
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.