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.
Sagonne
18600
236
Saligny-le-Vif
18800
166
Sancergues
18140
725
Sancerre
18300
1 708
Sancoins
18600
3 347
Santranges
18240
435
Saugy
18290
72
Saulzais-le-Potier
18360
551
Savigny-en-Sancerre
18240
1 103
Savigny-en-Septaine
18390
689
Sennecay
18340
464
Sens-Beaujeu
18300
432
Serruelles
18190
51
Sevry
18140
73
Sidiailles
18270
311
Soulangis
18220
467
Soye-en-Septaine
18340
584
Saint-Aignan-des-Noyers
18600
101
Saint-Amand-Montrond
18200
11 394
Saint-Ambroix
18290
3 428
Saint-Baudel
18160
298
Saint-Bouize
18300
334
Saint-Caprais
18400
80
Saint-Ceols
18220
18
Saint-Christophe-le-Chaudry
18270
106
Saint-Denis-de-Palin
18130
343
Saint-Doulchard
18230
9 417
Sainte-Gemme-en-Sancerrois
18240
412
Saint-Eloy-de-Gy
18110
1 572
Sainte-Lunaise
18340
31
Sainte-Montaine
18700
205
Sainte-Solange
18220
1 220
Sainte-Thorette
18500
488
Saint-Florent-sur-Cher
18400
6 805
Saint-Georges-de-Poisieux
18200
414
Saint-Georges-sur-la-Pree
18100
638
Saint-Georges-sur-Moulon
18110
762
Saint-Germain-des-Bois
18340
577
Saint-Germain-du-Puy
18390
4 857
Saint-Hilaire-de-Court
18100
711
Saint-Hilaire-de-Gondilly
18320
193
Saint-Hilaire-en-Lignieres
18160
516
Saint-Jeanvrin
18370
168
Saint-Just
18340
2 824
Saint-Laurent
18330
169
Saint-Leger-le-Petit
18140
401
Saint-Loup-des-Chaumes
18190
306
Saint-Martin-d'Auxigny
18110
2 186
Saint-Martin-des-Champs
18140
5 032
Saint-Maur
18270
210
Saint-Michel-de-Volangis
18390
480
Saint-Outrille
18310
229
Saint-Palais
18110
496
Saint-Pierre-les-Bois
18170
328
Saint-Pierre-les-Etieux
18210
757
Saint-Priest-la-Marche
18370
248
Saint-Satur
18300
1 678
Saint-Saturnin
18370
69
Saint-Symphorien
18190
605
Saint-Vitte
18360
140
Subligny
18260
363
Sury-en-Vaux
18300
743
Sury-es-Bois
18260
290
Sury-pres-Lere
18240
574
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.