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.
La Baffe
88460
715
La Bourgonce
88470
853
La Bresse
88250
4 946
La Chapelle-aux-Bois
88240
679
La Chapelle-devant-Bruyeres
88600
La Croix-aux-Mines
88520
556
La Forge
88530
584
La Forge-de-Thunimont
88240
La Grande-Fosse
88490
118
La Haye
88240
295
La Houssiere
88430
584
La Neuveville-Devant-Lepan
88600
La Neuveville-sous-Chateno
88170
La Neuveville-sous-Montfor
88800
La Petite-Fosse
88490
95
La Petite-Raon
88210
886
La Salle
88470
553
La Trouche
88110
La Vacheresse-et-la-Rouillie
88140
124
La Voivre
88470
144
Lamarche
88320
1 074
Landaville
88300
311
Langley
88130
191
Laval-sur-Vologne
88600
640
Laveline-devant-Bruyeres
88600
655
Laveline-du-Houx
88640
227
Le Beulay
88490
109
Le Boulay
88600
661
Le Clerjus
88240
586
Le Magny
88240
1 048
Le Menil
88160
1 195
Le Mont
88210
52
Le Puid
88210
104
Le Roulier
88460
204
Le Saulcy
88210
330
Le Syndicat
88120
1 974
Le Thillot
88160
3 786
Le Tholy
88530
1 620
Le Val-d'Ajol
88340
4 224
Le Valtin
88230
92
Le Vermont
88210
53
Legeville-et-Bonfays
88270
55
Lemmecourt
88300
29
Lepanges-sur-Vologne
88600
945
Lerrain
88260
490
Les Ableuvenettes
88270
64
Les Forges
88390
132
Les Poulieres
88600
240
Les Rouges-Eaux
88600
80
Les Thons
88410
129
Les Vallois
88260
108
Les Voivres
88240
344
Lesseux
88490
151
Liezey
88400
292
Liffol-le-Grand
88350
2 431
Ligneville
88800
312
Lironcourt
88410
77
Longchamp
88000
1 276
Longchamp-sous-Chatenois
88170
105
Lubine
88490
251
Lusse
88490
458
Luvigny
88110
118
La Neuveville-devant-Lepanges
88600
La Neuveville-sous-Chatenois
88170
La Neuveville-sous-Montfort
88325
178
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.