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.
Sadroc
19270
Saillac
19500
Salon-la-Tour
19510
Sarran
19800
Sarroux
19110
Segonzac
19310
Segur-le-Chateau
19230
Seilhac
19700
Serandon
19160
Serilhac
19190
Servieres-le-Chateau
19220
Sexcles
19430
Sioniac
19120
Sornac
19290
Soudaine-Lavinadiere
19370
Soudeilles
19300
Soursac
19550
Saint-Angel
19200
Saint-Antoine-les-Plantades
19270
Saint-Augustin
19390
Saint-Aulaire
19130
Saint-Bazile-de-la-Roche
19320
Saint-Bazile-de-Meyssac
19500
Saint-Bonnet-Avalouze
19150
Saint-Bonnet-Elvert
19380
Saint-Bonnet-la-Riviere
19130
Saint-Bonnet-l'Enfantier
19410
Saint-Bonnet-les-Tours-de-Merle
19430
Saint-Bonnet-pres-Bort
19200
Saint-Cernin-de-Larche
19600
Saint-Chamant
19380
Saint-Cirgues-la-Loutre
19220
Saint-Clement
19700
Saint-Cyprien
19130
Saint-Cyr-la-Roche
19130
Saint-Dezery
19200
Sainte-Fereole
19270
Sainte-Fortunade
19490
Saint-Eloy-les-Tuileries
19210
Sainte-Marie-Lapanouze
19440
Saint-Etienne-aux-Clos
19200
Saint-Etienne-la-Geneste
19440
Saint-Exupery-les-Roches
19200
Saint-Frejoux
19200
Saint-Geniez-o-Merle
19220
Saint-Germain-Lavolps
19290
Saint-Germain-les-Vergnes
19330
Saint-Hilaire-Foissac
19550
Saint-Hilaire-les-Courbes
19170
Saint-Hilaire-Luc
19160
Saint-Hilaire-Peyroux
19560
Saint-Hilaire-Taurieux
19400
Saint-Jal
19700
Saint-Julien-aux-Bois
19220
Saint-Julien-le-Pelerin
19430
Saint-Julien-le-Vendomois
19210
Saint-Julien-Maumont
19500
Saint-Julien-pres-Bort
19110
Saint-Martial-de-Gimel
19150
Saint-Martial-Entraygues
19400
Saint-Martin-la-Meanne
19320
Saint-Martin-Sepert
19210
Saint-Mathurin-Leobazel
19430
Saint-Merd-de-Lapleau
19320
Saint-Merd-les-Oussines
19170
Saint-Mexant
19330
Saint-Pantaleon-de-Lapleau
19160
Saint-Pantaleon-de-Larche
19600
Saint-Pardoux-Corbier
19210
Saint-Pardoux-la-Croisille
19320
Saint-Pardoux-le-Neuf
19200
Saint-Pardoux-le-Vieux
19200
Saint-Pardoux-l'Ortigier
19270
Saint-Paul
19150
Saint-Priest-de-Gimel
19800
Saint-Privat
19220
Saint-Remy
19290
Saint-Robert
19310
Saint-Salvadour
19700
Saint-Setiers
19290
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.