Italy is a country on the continent Europe, her capital is Rome. Here is the hierarchy of the Italy administrative divisions: Italy is subdivided into regions, that are at their turn subdivided into provinces, that are at their turn subdivided into communes, that are at their turn subdivided into towns, villages.
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.
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.
