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.
Sagnat
23800
Sannat
23110
Sardent
23250
Savennes
23000
Sermur
23700
Soubrebost
23250
Soumans
23600
Sous-Parsat
23150
Saint-Agnant-de-Versillat
23300
Saint-Agnant-pres-Crocq
23260
Saint-Alpinien
23200
Saint-Amand
23200
Saint-Amand-Jartoudeix
23400
Saint-Avit-de-Tardes
23200
Saint-Avit-le-Pauvre
23480
Saint-Bard
23260
Saint-Chabrais
23130
Saint-Christophe
23000
Saint-Dizier-la-Tour
23130
Saint-Dizier-les-Domaines
23270
Saint-Dizier-Leyrenne
23400
Saint-Domet
23190
Sainte-Feyre
23000
Sainte-Feyre-la-Montagne
23500
Saint-Eloi
23000
Saint-Etienne-de-Fursac
23290
Saint-Fiel
23000
Saint-Frion
23500
Saint-Georges-la-Pouge
23250
Saint-Georges-Nigremont
23500
Saint-Germain-Beaupre
23160
Saint-Goussaud
23430
Saint-Hilaire-la-Plaine
23150
Saint-Hilaire-le-Chateau
23250
Saint-Julien-la-Genete
23110
Saint-Julien-le-Chatel
23130
Saint-Junien-la-Bregere
23400
Saint-Laurent
23000
Saint-Leger-Bridereix
23300
Saint-Leger-le-Gueretois
23000
Saint-Loup
23130
Saint-Maixant
23200
Saint-Marc-a-Frongier
23200
Saint-Marc-a-Loubaud
23460
Saint-Marien
23600
Saint-Martial-le-Mont
23150
Saint-Martial-le-Vieux
23100
Saint-Martin-Chateau
23460
Saint-Martin-Sainte-Catherine
23430
Saint-Maurice-la-Souterraine
23300
Saint-Maurice-pres-Crocq
23260
Saint-Medard-la-Rochette
23200
Saint-Merd-la-Breuille
23100
Saint-Michel-de-Veisse
23480
Saint-Moreil
23400
Saint-Oradoux-de-Chirouze
23100
Saint-Oradoux-pres-Crocq
23260
Saint-Pardoux-d'Arnet
23260
Saint-Pardoux-le-Neuf
23200
Saint-Pardoux-les-Cards
23150
Saint-Pardoux-Morterolles
23400
Saint-Pierre-Bellevue
23460
Saint-Pierre-Cherignat
23430
Saint-Pierre-de-Fursac
23290
Saint-Pierre-le-Bost
23600
Saint-Priest
23110
Saint-Priest-la-Feuille
23300
Saint-Priest-la-Plaine
23240
Saint-Priest-Palus
23400
Saint-Quentin-la-Chabanne
23500
Saint-Sebastien
23160
Saint-Silvain-Bas-le-Roc
23600
Saint-Silvain-Bellegarde
23190
Saint-Silvain-Montaigut
23320
Saint-Silvain-sous-Toulx
23140
Saint-Sulpice-le-Dunois
23800
Saint-Sulpice-le-Gueretois
23000
Saint-Sulpice-les-Champs
23480
Saint-Vaury
23320
Saint-Victor-en-Marche
23000
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.