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.
Sablet
84110
1 276
Saignon
84400
1 067
Sannes
84240
172
Sarrians
84260
5 871
Sault
84390
1 402
Saumane-de-Vaucluse
84800
848
Savoillan
84390
99
Seguret
84110
927
Serignan-du-Comtat
84830
2 465
Sivergues
84400
49
Sorgues
84700
18 211
Saint-Christol
84390
1 423
Saint-Didier
84210
329
Sainte-Cecile-les-Vignes
84290
2 353
Saint-Hippolyte-le-Graveyron
84330
172
Saint-Leger-du-Ventoux
84390
32
Saint-Marcellin-les-Vaison
84110
350
Saint-Martin-de-Castillon
84750
768
Saint-Martin-de-la-Brasque
84760
761
Saint-Pantaleon
84220
244
Saint-Pierre-de-Vassols
84330
505
Saint-Romain-en-Viennois
84110
866
Saint-Roman-de-Malegarde
84290
321
Saint-Saturnin-les-Apt
84490
2 725
Saint-Saturnin-les-Avignon
84450
5 056
Saint-Saturrnin-Les-Avignons
84450
Saint-Trinit
84390
128
Suzette
84190
121
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.