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
971
Sancheville
28800
796
Sandarville
28120
408
Santeuil
28700
272
Santilly
28310
360
Saulnieres
28500
626
Saumeray
28800
431
Saussay
28260
1 074
Senantes
28210
642
Senonches
28250
3 244
Serazereux
28170
498
Serville
28410
369
Soize
28330
308
Sorel-Moussel
28520
1 816
Souance-au-Perche
28400
562
Soulaires
28130
437
Sours
28630
1 980
Saint-Ange-et-Torcay
28170
285
Saint-Arnoult-des-Bois
28190
884
Saint-Aubin-des-Bois
28300
997
Saint-Avit-les-Guespieres
28120
330
Saint-Bomer
28330
206
Saint-Cheron-des-Champs
28170
Saint-Christophe
28200
149
Saint-Cloud-en-Dunois
28200
233
Saint-Denis-d'Authou
28480
516
Saint-Denis-des-Puits
28240
128
Saint-Denis-les-Ponts
28200
1 880
Sainte-Gemme-Moronval
28500
976
Saint-Eliph
28240
866
Saint-Eman
28120
115
Saint-Georges-sur-Eure
28190
2 579
Saint-Germain-la-Gatine
28300
Saint-Germain-le-Gaillard
28190
324
Saint-Hilaire-sur-Yerre
28220
512
Saint-Jean-de-Rebervilliers
28170
222
Saint-Jean-Pierre-Fixte
28400
294
Saint-Laurent-la-Gatine
28210
458
Saint-Leger-des-Aubees
28700
253
Saint-Loup
28360
359
Saint-Lubin-de-Cravant
28270
65
Saint-Lubin-de-la-Haye
28410
920
Saint-Lubin-des-Joncherets
28350
4 170
Saint-Lucien
28210
242
Saint-Luperce
28190
903
Saint-Maixme-Hauterive
28170
444
Saint-Martin-de-Nigelles
28130
1 639
Saint-Maurice-Saint-Germain
28240
443
Saint-Maur-sur-le-Loir
28800
391
Saint-Ouen-Marchefroy
28560
343
Saint-Pellerin
28290
373
Saint-Piat
28130
1 177
Saint-Prest
28300
2 183
Saint-Remy-sur-Avre
28380
3 694
Saint-Sauveur-Marville
28170
953
Saint-Symphorien-le-Chateau
28700
850
Saint-Victor-de-Buthon
28240
542
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.