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.
Saleon
05300
Salerans
05300
Savines-le-Lac
05160
Savournon
05700
Serre-Chevalier
05330
Serres
05700
Sigottier
05700
Sigoyer
05130
Sorbiers
05150
Saint-Andre-d'Embrun
05200
Saint-Andre-de-Rosans
05150
Saint-Apollinaire
05160
Saint-Auban-d'Oze
05400
Saint-Bonnet-en-Champsaur
05500
Saint-Chaffrey
05330
Saint-Clement-sur-Durance
05600
Saint-Crepin
05600
Saint-Disdier
05250
Sainte-Colombe
05700
Sainte-Marie
05150
Saint-Etienne-en-Devoluy
05250
Saint-Etienne-le-Laus
05130
Saint-Eusebe-en-Champsaur
05500
Saint-Firmin
05800
Saint-Genis
05300
Saint-Jacques-en-Valgodemard
05800
Saint-Jean-Saint-Nicolas
05260
Saint-Julien-en-Beauchene
05140
Saint-Julien-en-Champsaur
05500
Saint-Laurent-du-Cros
05500
Saint-Leger-les-Melezes
05260
Saint-Martin-de-Queyrieres
05120
Saint-Maurice-en-Valgodemard
05800
Saint-Michel-de-Chaillol
05260
Saint-Pierre-Avez
05300
Saint-Pierre-d'Argencon
05140
Saint-Sauveur
05200
Saint-Veran
05350
Superdevoluy
05250
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.