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
3 883
Santeau
45170
362
Saran
45770
15 528
Sceaux-du-Gatinais
45490
632
Sebouville
45300
Seichebrieres
45530
188
Semoy
45400
3 079
Sennely
45240
642
Sermaises
45300
1 648
Sigloy
45110
657
Solterre
45700
518
Sougy
45410
881
Saint-Aignan-des-Gues
45460
349
Saint-Aignan-le-Jaillard
45600
569
Saint-Ay
45130
3 148
Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire
45730
2 063
Saint-Brisson-sur-Loire
45500
1 083
Saint-Cyr-en-Val
45590
3 316
Saint-Denis-de-l'Hotel
45550
2 917
Saint-Denis-en-Val
45560
7 389
Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois
45230
1 145
Saint-Firmin-des-Bois
45220
484
Saint-Firmin-sur-Loire
45360
515
Saint-Florent
45600
475
Saint-Germain-des-Pres
45220
1 932
Saint-Gondon
45500
1 134
Saint-Hilaire-les-Andresis
45320
1 011
Saint-Hilaire-Saint-Mesmin
45160
2 886
Saint-Hilaire-sur-Puiseaux
45700
174
Saint-Jean-de-Braye
45800
19 653
Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle
45140
16 946
Saint-Jean-le-Blanc
45650
8 486
Saint-Loup-de-Gonois
45210
115
Saint-Loup-des-Vignes
45340
451
Saint-Lye-la-Foret
45170
Saint-Martin-d'Abbat
45110
1 654
Saint-Martin-sur-Ocre
45500
1 279
Saint-Maurice-sur-Aveyron
45230
912
Saint-Maurice-sur-Fessard
45700
1 177
Saint-Michel
45340
333
Saint-Peravy-Epreux
45480
Saint-Peravy-la-Colombe
45310
675
Saint-Pere-sur-Loire
45600
1 088
Saint-Pryve-Saint-Mesmin
45750
5 365
Saint-Sigismond
45310
289
Sully-la-Chapelle
45450
418
Sully-sur-Loire
45600
5 684
Sury-aux-Bois
45530
772
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.