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.
Sahune
26510
Saillans
26340
Salettes
26160
Salles-sous-Bois
26770
Saou
26400
Saulce-sur-Rhone
26270
Sauzet
26740
Savasse
26740
Sederon
26560
Serves-sur-Rhone
26600
Solerieux
26130
Souspierre
26160
Soyans
26400
Saint-Agnan-en-Vercors
26420
Saint-Andeol
26150
Saint-Auban-sur-l'Ouveze
26170
Saint-Avit
26330
Saint-Bardoux
26260
Saint-Barthelemy-de-Vals
26240
Saint-Benoit-en-Diois
26340
Saint-Bonnet-de-Valclerieux
26350
Saint-Christophe-et-le-Laris
26350
Saint-Didier-de-Charpey
26300
Saint-Dizier-en-Diois
26310
Saint-Donat-sur-l'Herbasse
26260
Sainte-Croix
26150
Sainte-Eulalie-en-Royans
26190
Sainte-Euphemie-sur-Ouveze
26170
Sainte-Jalle
26110
Saint-Ferreol-Trente-Pas
26110
Saint-Gervais-sur-Roubion
26160
Saint-Jean-en-Royans
26190
Saint-Julien-en-Quint
26150
Saint-Julien-en-Vercors
26420
Saint-Laurent-d'Onay
26350
Saint-Laurent-en-Royans
26190
Saint-Marcel-les-Sauzet
26740
Saint-Marcel-les-Valence
26320
Saint-Martin-d'Aout
26330
Saint-Martin-en-Vercors
26420
Saint-Martin-le-Colonel
26190
Saint-Maurice-sur-Eygues
26110
Saint-May
26510
Saint-Michel-sur-Savasse
26750
Saint-Nazaire-en-Royans
26190
Saint-Nazaire-le-Desert
26340
Saint-Pantaleon-les-Vignes
26770
Saint-Paul-les-Romans
26750
Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux
26130
Saint-Rambert-d'Albon
26140
Saint-Restitut
26130
Saint-Roman
26410
Saint-Sauveur-en-Diois
26340
Saint-Sauveur-Gouvernet
26110
Saint-Sorlin-en-Valloire
26210
Saint-Thomas-en-Royans
26190
Saint-Uze
26240
Saint-Vallier
26240
Saint-Vincent-la-Commanderie
26300
Suze
26400
Suze-la-Rousse
26790
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.