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.
Salles
47150
Samazan
47250
Saumejan
47420
Saumont
47600
Sauvagnas
47340
Sauveterre-la-Lemance
47500
Sauveterre-Saint-Denis
47220
Savignac-de-Duras
47120
Savignac-sur-Leyze
47150
Segalas
47410
Sembas
47360
Senestis
47430
Serignac-Peboudou
47410
Serignac-sur-Garonne
47310
Seyches
47350
Sos
47170
Soumensac
47120
Saint-Antoine-de-Ficalba
47340
Saint-Astier
47120
Saint-Aubin
47150
Saint-Avit
47350
Saint-Barthelemy-d'Agenais
47350
Saint-Caprais-de-Lerm
47270
Saint-Colomb-de-Lauzun
47410
Sainte-Bazeille
47200
Sainte-Colombe-de-Duras
47120
Sainte-Colombe-de-Villeneuve
47300
Sainte-Colombe-en-Bruilhois
47310
Sainte-Gemme-Martaillac
47250
Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot
47110
Sainte-Marthe
47430
Sainte-Maure-de-Peyriac
47170
Saint-Etienne-de-Fougeres
47380
Saint-Etienne-de-Villereal
47210
Saint-Eutrope-de-Born
47210
Saint-Front-sur-Lemance
47500
Saint-Gayrand
47400
Saint-Georges
47370
Saint-Geraud
47120
Saint-Hilaire-de-Lusignan
47490
Saint-Jean-de-Duras
47120
Saint-Jean-de-Thurac
47270
Saint-Laurent
47130
Saint-Leger
47160
Saint-Leon
47160
Saint-Martin-Curton
47700
Saint-Martin-de-Beauville
47270
Saint-Martin-de-Villereal
47210
Saint-Martin-Petit
47200
Saint-Maurice-de-Lestapel
47290
Saint-Maurin
47270
Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Balerme
47220
Saint-Pardoux-du-Breuil
47200
Saint-Pardoux-Isaac
47800
Saint-Pastour
47290
Saint-Pe-Saint-Simon
47170
Saint-Pierre-de-Buzet
47160
Saint-Pierre-de-Caubel
47380
Saint-Pierre-de-Clairac
47270
Saint-Pierre-sur-Dropt
47120
Saint-Quentin-du-Dropt
47330
Saint-Robert
47340
Saint-Romain-le-Noble
47270
Saint-Salvy
47360
Saint-Sardos
47360
Saint-Sauveur-de-Meilhan
47200
Saint-Sernin
47120
Saint-Sixte
47220
Saint-Sylvestre-sur-Lot
47140
Saint-Urcisse
47270
Saint-Vincent-de-Lamontjoie
47310
Saint-Vite
47500
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.