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.
Sandillon
45640
Santeau
45170
Saran
45770
Sceaux-du-Gatinais
45490
Sebouville
45300
Seichebrieres
45530
Semoy
45400
Sennely
45240
Sermaises
45300
Sigloy
45110
Solterre
45700
Sougy
45410
Saint-Aignan-des-Gues
45460
Saint-Aignan-le-Jaillard
45600
Saint-Ay
45130
Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire
45730
Saint-Brisson-sur-Loire
45500
Saint-Cyr-en-Val
45590
Saint-Denis-de-l'Hotel
45550
Saint-Denis-en-Val
45560
Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois
45230
Saint-Firmin-des-Bois
45220
Saint-Firmin-sur-Loire
45360
Saint-Florent
45600
Saint-Germain-des-Pres
45220
Saint-Gondon
45500
Saint-Hilaire-les-Andresis
45320
Saint-Hilaire-Saint-Mesmin
45160
Saint-Hilaire-sur-Puiseaux
45700
Saint-Jean-de-Braye
45800
Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle
45140
Saint-Jean-le-Blanc
45650
Saint-Loup-de-Gonois
45210
Saint-Loup-des-Vignes
45340
Saint-Lye-la-Foret
45170
Saint-Martin-d'Abbat
45110
Saint-Martin-sur-Ocre
45500
Saint-Maurice-sur-Aveyron
45230
Saint-Maurice-sur-Fessard
45700
Saint-Michel
45340
Saint-Peravy-Epreux
45480
Saint-Peravy-la-Colombe
45310
Saint-Pere-sur-Loire
45600
Saint-Pryve-Saint-Mesmin
45750
Saint-Sigismond
45310
Sully-la-Chapelle
45450
Sully-sur-Loire
45600
Sury-aux-Bois
45530
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.