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.
Sailly
78440
238
Sartrouville
78500
51 828
Saulx-Marchais
78650
883
Senlisse
78720
555
Septeuil
78790
2 240
Soindres
78200
601
Sonchamp
78120
1 643
Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines
78730
6 243
Saint-Cyr-l'Ecole
78210
18 118
Sainte-Mesme
78730
930
Saint-Forget
78720
487
Saint-Germain-de-la-Grange
78640
1 886
Saint-Germain-en-Laye
78100
42 515
Saint-Hilarion
78125
919
Saint-Hubert-le-Roi
78690
Saint-Illiers-la-Ville
78980
305
Saint-Illiers-le-Bois
78980
456
Saint-Lambert-des-Bois
78470
Saint-Leger-en-Yvelines
78610
1 500
Saint-Martin-de-Brethencourt
78660
637
Saint-Martin-des-Champs
78790
5 032
Saint-Martin-la-Garenne
78520
922
Saint-Nom-la-Breteche
78860
5 386
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
78190
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
78191
Saint-Remy-les-Chevreuse
78470
8 208
Saint-Remy-l'Honore
78690
1 417
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
78182
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.