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.
Serverette
48700
Servieres
48000
Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole
48120
Saint-Amans
48700
Saint-Andeol-de-Clerguemort
48160
Saint-Andre-Capceze
48800
Saint-Andre-de-Lancize
48240
Saint-Bauzile
48000
Saint-Bonnet-de-Chirac
48100
Saint-Bonnet-de-Montauroux
48600
Saint-Chely-d'Apcher
48200
Saint-Denis-en-Margeride
48700
Sainte-Colombe-de-Peyre
48130
Sainte-Croix-Vallee-Francaise
48110
Sainte-Enimie
48210
Sainte-Eulalie
48120
Sainte-Helene
48190
Saint-Etienne-du-Valdonnez
48000
Saint-Etienne-Vallee-Francaise
48330
Saint-Flour-de-Mercoire
48300
Saint-Frezal-d'Albuges
48170
Saint-Frezal-de-Ventalon
48240
Saint-Gal
48700
Saint-Georges-de-Levejac
48500
Saint-Germain-de-Calberte
48370
Saint-Germain-du-Teil
48340
Saint-Hilaire-de-Lavit
48160
Saint-Jean-la-Fouillouse
48170
Saint-Juery
48310
Saint-Julien-d'Arpaon
48400
Saint-Julien-des-Points
48160
Saint-Julien-du-Tournel
48190
Saint-Laurent-de-Muret
48100
Saint-Laurent-de-Treves
48400
Saint-Laurent-de-Veyres
48310
Saint-Leger-de-Peyre
48100
Saint-Leger-du-Malzieu
48140
Saint-Martin-de-Boubaux
48160
Saint-Martin-de-Lansuscle
48110
Saint-Maurice-de-Ventalon
48220
Saint-Michel-de-Deze
48160
Saint-Paul-le-Froid
48600
Saint-Pierre-de-Nogaret
48340
Saint-Pierre-des-Tripiers
48150
Saint-Pierre-le-Vieux
48200
Saint-Privat-de-Vallongue
48240
Saint-Privat-du-Fau
48140
Saint-Rome-de-Dolan
48500
Saint-Saturnin
48500
Saint-Sauveur-de-Ginestoux
48170
Saint-Sauveur-de-Peyre
48130
Saint-Symphorien
48600
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.