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.
Sainville
28700
Sancheville
28800
Sandarville
28120
Santeuil
28700
Santilly
28310
Saulnieres
28500
Saumeray
28800
Saussay
28260
Senantes
28210
Senonches
28250
Serazereux
28170
Serville
28410
Soize
28330
Sorel-Moussel
28520
Souance-au-Perche
28400
Soulaires
28130
Sours
28630
Saint-Ange-et-Torcay
28170
Saint-Arnoult-des-Bois
28190
Saint-Aubin-des-Bois
28300
Saint-Avit-les-Guespieres
28120
Saint-Bomer
28330
Saint-Cheron-des-Champs
28170
Saint-Christophe
28200
Saint-Cloud-en-Dunois
28200
Saint-Denis-d'Authou
28480
Saint-Denis-des-Puits
28240
Saint-Denis-les-Ponts
28200
Sainte-Gemme-Moronval
28500
Saint-Eliph
28240
Saint-Eman
28120
Saint-Georges-sur-Eure
28190
Saint-Germain-la-Gatine
28300
Saint-Germain-le-Gaillard
28190
Saint-Hilaire-sur-Yerre
28220
Saint-Jean-de-Rebervilliers
28170
Saint-Jean-Pierre-Fixte
28400
Saint-Laurent-la-Gatine
28210
Saint-Leger-des-Aubees
28700
Saint-Loup
28360
Saint-Lubin-de-Cravant
28270
Saint-Lubin-de-la-Haye
28410
Saint-Lubin-des-Joncherets
28350
Saint-Lucien
28210
Saint-Luperce
28190
Saint-Maixme-Hauterive
28170
Saint-Martin-de-Nigelles
28130
Saint-Maurice-Saint-Germain
28240
Saint-Maur-sur-le-Loir
28800
Saint-Ouen-Marchefroy
28560
Saint-Pellerin
28290
Saint-Piat
28130
Saint-Prest
28300
Saint-Remy-sur-Avre
28380
Saint-Sauveur-Marville
28170
Saint-Symphorien-le-Chateau
28700
Saint-Victor-de-Buthon
28240
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.