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.
Saivres
79400
1 388
Salles
79800
6 134
Sansais
79270
786
Sanzay
79150
Saurais
79200
185
Sauze-Vaussais
79190
1 673
Sciecq
79000
597
Scille
79240
386
Secondigne-sur-Belle
79170
560
Secondigny
79130
1 824
Seligne
79170
121
Sepvret
79120
596
Sompt
79110
307
Souche
79000
Soudan
79800
2 095
Soulievres
79600
Soutiers
79310
272
Souvigne
79800
770
Saint-Amand-sur-Sevre
79700
1 331
Saint-Andre-sur-Sevre
79380
669
Saint-Aubin-de-Baubigne
79700
Saint-Aubin-du-Plain
79300
556
Saint-Aubin-le-Cloud
79450
1 910
Saint-Christophe-sur-Roc
79220
603
Saint-Clementin
79150
549
Saint-Coutant
79120
218
Saint-Cyr-la-Lande
79100
358
Saint-Denis
79220
258
Sainte-Blandine
79370
924
Sainte-Eanne
79800
683
Sainte-Gemme
79330
269
Sainte-Neomaye
79260
1 331
Sainte-Ouenne
79220
786
Sainte-Pezenne
79000
Sainte-Radegonde
79100
471
Sainte-Soline
79120
379
Saint-Etienne-la-Cigogne
79360
132
Sainte-Verge
79100
1 496
Saint-Florent
79000
475
Saint-Gelais
79410
1 789
Saint-Genard
79500
356
Saint-Generoux
79600
378
Saint-Georges-de-Noisne
79400
716
Saint-Georges-de-Rex
79210
407
Saint-Germain-de-Longue-Chaume
79200
398
Saint-Germier
79340
207
Saint-Hilaire-la-Palud
79210
1 637
Saint-Jacques-de-Thouars
79100
473
Saint-Jean-de-Thouars
79100
1 391
Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes
79600
602
Saint-Jouin-de-Milly
79380
218
Saint-Laurs
79160
527
Saint-Leger-de-la-Martiniere
79500
1 031
Saint-Leger-de-Montbrun
79100
1 244
Saint-Liguaire
79000
Saint-Lin
79420
375
Saint-Loup-Lamaire
79600
993
Saint-Loup-sur-Thouet
79600
Saint-Maixent-de-Beugne
79160
361
Saint-Maixent-l'Ecole
79400
7 668
Saint-Marc-la-Lande
79310
366
Saint-Marsault
79380
Saint-Martin-de-Bernegoue
79230
793
Saint-Martin-de-Macon
79100
323
Saint-Martin-d'Entraigues
79110
Saint-Martin-de-Sanzay
79290
965
Saint-Martin-de-Saint-Maixent
79400
1 115
Saint-Martin-du-Fouilloux
79420
224
Saint-Martin-les-Melle
79500
892
Saint-Maurice-la-Fougereuse
79150
552
Saint-Maxire
79410
1 161
Saint-Medard
79370
170
Saint-Pardoux
79310
1 576
Saint-Paul-en-Gatine
79240
450
Saint-Pierre-a-Champ
79290
Saint-Pierre-des-Echaubrognes
79700
1 402
Saint-Pompain
79160
934
Saint-Porchaire
79300
1 660
Saint-Remy
79410
843
Saint-Romans-des-Champs
79230
181
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.