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
329
Saillans
26340
1 125
Salettes
26160
127
Salles-sous-Bois
26770
212
Saou
26400
535
Saulce-sur-Rhone
26270
1 774
Sauzet
26740
1 937
Savasse
26740
1 342
Sederon
26560
302
Serves-sur-Rhone
26600
735
Solerieux
26130
318
Souspierre
26160
101
Soyans
26400
348
Saint-Agnan-en-Vercors
26420
398
Saint-Andeol
26150
58
Saint-Auban-sur-l'Ouveze
26170
218
Saint-Avit
26330
661
Saint-Bardoux
26260
611
Saint-Barthelemy-de-Vals
26240
1 916
Saint-Benoit-en-Diois
26340
32
Saint-Bonnet-de-Valclerieux
26350
218
Saint-Christophe-et-le-Laris
26350
408
Saint-Didier-de-Charpey
26300
Saint-Dizier-en-Diois
26310
34
Saint-Donat-sur-l'Herbasse
26260
3 898
Sainte-Croix
26150
85
Sainte-Eulalie-en-Royans
26190
544
Sainte-Euphemie-sur-Ouveze
26170
93
Sainte-Jalle
26110
281
Saint-Ferreol-Trente-Pas
26110
237
Saint-Gervais-sur-Roubion
26160
809
Saint-Jean-en-Royans
26190
3 113
Saint-Julien-en-Quint
26150
128
Saint-Julien-en-Vercors
26420
226
Saint-Laurent-d'Onay
26350
136
Saint-Laurent-en-Royans
26190
1 400
Saint-Marcel-les-Sauzet
26740
1 177
Saint-Marcel-les-Valence
26320
5 192
Saint-Martin-d'Aout
26330
414
Saint-Martin-en-Vercors
26420
390
Saint-Martin-le-Colonel
26190
177
Saint-Maurice-sur-Eygues
26110
668
Saint-May
26510
45
Saint-Michel-sur-Savasse
26750
537
Saint-Nazaire-en-Royans
26190
726
Saint-Nazaire-le-Desert
26340
142
Saint-Pantaleon-les-Vignes
26770
438
Saint-Paul-les-Romans
26750
1 773
Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux
26130
9 097
Saint-Rambert-d'Albon
26140
5 747
Saint-Restitut
26130
1 449
Saint-Roman
26410
166
Saint-Sauveur-en-Diois
26340
64
Saint-Sauveur-Gouvernet
26110
218
Saint-Sorlin-en-Valloire
26210
2 090
Saint-Thomas-en-Royans
26190
520
Saint-Uze
26240
1 939
Saint-Vallier
26240
4 138
Saint-Vincent-la-Commanderie
26300
423
Suze
26400
255
Suze-la-Rousse
26790
1 950
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.