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.
Saffre
44390
Saille
44350
Saint-Nazaire
44600
Sautron
44880
Savenay
44260
Severac
44530
Sion-les-Mines
44590
Soudan
44110
Soulvache
44660
Saint-Aignan-Grandlieu
44860
Saint-Andre-des-Eaux
44117
Saint-Aubin-des-Chateaux
44110
Saint-Brevin-les-Pins
44250
Saint-Brevin-l'Ocean
44250
Saint-Colomban
44310
Saint-Cyr-en-Retz
44580
Sainte-Anne-sur-Brivet
44160
Sainte-Luce-sur-Loire
44980
Sainte-Marie
44210
Saint-Emilien-de-Blain
44130
Sainte-Pazanne
44680
Sainte-Reine-de-Bretagne
44160
Saint-Etienne-de-Mer-Morte
44270
Saint-Etienne-de-Montluc
44360
Saint-Fiacre-sur-Maine
44690
Saint-Gereon
44150
Saint-Gildas-des-Bois
44530
Saint-Guillaume
44160
Saint-Herblain
44800
Saint-Herblon
44150
Saint-Hilaire-de-Chaleons
44680
Saint-Hilaire-de-Clisson
44190
Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau
44640
Saint-Jean-de-Corcoue
44650
Saint-Joachim
44720
Saint-Julien-de-Concelles
44450
Saint-Julien-de-Vouvantes
44670
Saint-Leger-les-Vignes
44710
Saint-Lumine-de-Clisson
44190
Saint-Lumine-de-Coutais
44310
Saint-Lyphard
44410
Saint-Malo-de-Guersac
44550
Saint-Marc-sur-Mer
44600
Saint-Mars-de-Coutais
44680
Saint-Mars-du-Desert
44850
Saint-Mars-la-Jaille
44540
Saint-Meme-le-Tenu
44270
Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef
44730
Saint-Molf
44350
Saint-Nazaire
44600
Saint-Nicolas-de-Redon
44460
Saint-Omer-de-Blain
44130
Saint-Pere-en-Retz
44320
Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu
44310
Saint-Roch
44160
Saint-Sebastien-sur-Loire
44230
Saint-Sulpice-des-Landes
44540
Saint-Viaud
44320
Saint-Vincent-des-Landes
44590
Suce-sur-Erdre
44240
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.