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.
Salles-d'Angles
16130
Salles-de-Barbezieux
16300
Salles-de-Villefagnan
16700
Salles-Lavalette
16190
Saulgond
16420
Sauvagnac
16310
Sauvignac
16480
Segonzac
16130
Serignac
16210
Sers
16410
Sigogne
16200
Sireuil
16440
Sonneville
16170
Souffrignac
16380
Souvigne
16240
Soyaux
16800
Saint-Adjutory
16310
Saint-Amant
16190
Saint-Amant-de-Boixe
16330
Saint-Amant-de-Bonnieure
16230
Saint-Amant-de-Graves
16120
Saint-Amant-de-Nouere
16170
Saint-Andre
16100
Saint-Angeau
16230
Saint-Aulais-la-Chapelle
16300
Saint-Avit
16210
Saint-Bonnet
16300
Saint-Brice
16100
Saint-Christophe
16420
Saint-Ciers-sur-Bonnieure
16230
Saint-Claud
16450
Saint-Coutant
16350
Saint-Cybardeaux
16170
Sainte-Colombe
16230
Sainte-Marie
16210
Sainte-Severe
16200
Sainte-Souline
16480
Saint-Estephe
16440
Saint-Eutrope
16190
Saint-Felix
16480
Saint-Fort-sur-le-Ne
16130
Saint-Fraigne
16140
Saint-Front
16460
Saint-Genis-de-Blanzac
16250
Saint-Genis-d'Hiersac
16570
Saint-Georges
16700
Saint-Germain-de-Confolens
16500
Saint-Germain-de-Montbron
16380
Saint-Gervais
16700
Saint-Gourson
16700
Saint-Groux
16230
Saint-Hilaire
16300
Saint-Laurent-de-Belzagot
16190
Saint-Laurent-de-Ceris
16450
Saint-Laurent-de-Cognac
16100
Saint-Laurent-des-Combes
16480
Saint-Leger
16250
Saint-Martial
16190
Saint-Martin-du-Clocher
16700
Saint-Mary
16260
Saint-Maurice-des-Lions
16500
Saint-Medard-de-Barbezieux
16300
Saint-Medard-de-Rouillac
16170
Saint-Meme-les-Carrieres
16720
Saint-Michel
16470
Saint-Palais-du-Ne
16300
Saint-Preuil
16130
Saint-Projet-Saint-Constant
16110
Saint-Quentin-de-Chalais
16210
Saint-Quentin-sur-Charente
16150
Saint-Romain
16210
Saint-Saturnin
16290
Saint-Severin
16390
Saint-Simeux
16120
Saint-Simon
16120
Saint-Sornin
16220
Saint-Sulpice-de-Cognac
16370
Saint-Sulpice-de-Ruffec
16460
Saint-Vallier
16480
Saint-Yrieix-sur-Charente
16710
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.