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.
Sarrigne
49800
Saulge-l'Hopital
49320
Saumur
49400
Savennieres
49170
Sceaux-d'Anjou
49330
Segre
49500
Segre
49500
Seiches-sur-le-Loir
49140
Sermaise
49140
Soeurdres
49330
Somloire
49360
Sorges
49130
Soucelles
49140
Soulaines-sur-Aubance
49610
Soulaire-et-Bourg
49460
Souzay-Champigny
49400
Saint-Andre-de-la-Marche
49450
Saint-Aubin-de-Luigne
49190
Saint-Augustin-des-Bois
49170
Saint-Barthelemy
49124
Saint-Barthelemy-d'Anjou
49124
Saint-Christophe-du-Bois
49280
Saint-Christophe-la-Couperie
49270
Saint-Clement-de-la-Place
49370
Saint-Clement-des-Levees
49350
Saint-Crespin-sur-Moine
49230
Saint-Cyr-en-Bourg
49260
Sainte-Christine
49120
Sainte-Gemmes-d'Andigne
49500
Sainte-Gemmes-sur-Loire
49130
Saint-Ellier
49320
Saint-Florent-le-Vieil
49410
Saint-Georges-des-Gardes
49120
Saint-Georges-des-Sept-Voies
49350
Saint-Georges-du-Bois
49250
Saint-Georges-sur-Layon
49700
Saint-Georges-sur-Loire
49170
Saint-Germain-des-Pres
49170
Saint-Germain-sur-Moine
49230
Saint-Hilaire-du-Bois
49310
Saint-Hilaire-Saint-Florent
49400
Saint-Jean-de-la-Croix
49130
Saint-Jean-de-Linieres
49070
Saint-Jean-des-Mauvrets
49320
Saint-Just-sur-Dive
49260
Saint-Lambert-des-Levees
49400
Saint-Lambert-du-Lattay
49750
Saint-Lambert-la-Potherie
49070
Saint-Laurent-de-la-Plaine
49290
Saint-Laurent-des-Autels
49270
Saint-Laurent-du-Mottay
49410
Saint-Leger-des-Bois
49170
Saint-Leger-sous-Cholet
49280
Saint-Lezin
49120
Saint-Macaire-du-Bois
49260
Saint-Macaire-en-Mauges
49450
Saint-Martin-d'Arce
49150
Saint-Martin-de-la-Place
49160
Saint-Martin-du-Bois
49500
Saint-Martin-du-Fouilloux
49170
Saint-Mathurin-sur-Loire
49250
Saint-Melaine-sur-Aubance
49610
Saint-Michel-et-Chanveaux
49420
Saint-Paul-du-Bois
49310
Saint-Philbert-du-Peuple
49160
Saint-Philbert-en-Mauges
49600
Saint-Pierre-Montlimart
49110
Saint-Quentin-en-Mauges
49110
Saint-Quentin-les-Beaurepaire
49150
Saint-Remy-en-Mauges
49110
Saint-Remy-la-Varenne
49250
Saint-Saturnin-sur-Loire
49320
Saint-Sauveur-de-Flee
49500
Saint-Sauveur-de-Landemont
49270
Saint-Sigismond
49123
Saint-Sulpice
49320
Saint-Sylvain-d'Anjou
49480
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.