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.
Sace
53470
443
Saint-Berthevin
53940
7 346
Saulges
53340
322
Senonnes
53390
368
Simple
53360
371
Souce
53300
202
Soulge-sur-Ouette
53210
1 120
Saint-Aignan-de-Couptrain
53250
395
Saint-Aignan-sur-Roe
53390
888
Saint-Aubin-du-Desert
53700
290
Saint-Aubin-Fosse-Louvain
53120
251
Saint-Baudelle
53100
1 192
Saint-Berthevin
53940
7 346
Saint-Berthevin-la-Tanniere
53220
399
Saint-Brice
53290
313
Saint-Calais-du-Desert
53140
384
Saint-Cenere
53150
461
Saint-Charles-la-Foret
53170
Saint-Christophe-du-Luat
53150
773
Saint-Cyr-en-Pail
53140
470
Saint-Cyr-le-Gravelais
53320
553
Saint-Denis-d'Anjou
53290
1 544
Saint-Denis-de-Gastines
53430
1 712
Saint-Denis-du-Maine
53170
430
Sainte-Gemmes-le-Robert
53600
873
Saint-Ellier-du-Maine
53220
548
Sainte-Marie-du-Bois
53110
60
Saint-Erblon
53390
2 549
Sainte-Suzanne
53270
1 515
Saint-Fort
53200
1 635
Saint-Fraimbault-de-Prieres
53300
1 030
Saint-Gault
53360
Saint-Georges-Buttavent
53100
1 436
Saint-Georges-le-Flechard
53480
365
Saint-Georges-sur-Erve
53600
425
Saint-Germain-d'Anxure
53240
317
Saint-Germain-de-Coulamer
53700
414
Saint-Germain-le-Fouilloux
53240
1 035
Saint-Germain-le-Guillaume
53240
485
Saint-Hilaire-du-Maine
53380
842
Saint-Isle
53940
Saint-Jean-sur-Erve
53270
494
Saint-Jean-sur-Mayenne
53240
1 530
Saint-Julien-du-Terroux
53110
270
Saint-Laurent-des-Mortiers
53290
197
Saint-Leger
53480
173
Saint-Loup-du-Dorat
53290
351
Saint-Loup-du-Gast
53300
378
Saint-Mars-du-Desert
53700
4 072
Saint-Mars-sur-Colmont
53300
449
Saint-Mars-sur-la-Futaie
53220
644
Saint-Martin-de-Connee
53160
417
Saint-Martin-du-Limet
53800
499
Saint-Michel-de-Feins
53290
176
Saint-Michel-de-la-Roe
53350
255
Saint-Ouen-des-Toits
53410
1 732
Saint-Ouen-des-Vallons
53150
192
Saint-Pierre-des-Landes
53500
1 005
Saint-Pierre-des-Nids
53370
1 974
Saint-Pierre-la-Cour
53410
1 967
Saint-Pierre-sur-Erve
53270
141
Saint-Pierre-sur-Orthe
53160
498
Saint-Poix
53540
405
Saint-Quentin-les-Anges
53400
409
Saint-Samson
53140
340
Saint-Saturnin-du-Limet
53800
530
Saint-Sulpice
53360
136
Saint-Thomas-de-Courceriers
53160
244
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.