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.
La Baffe
88460
La Bourgonce
88470
La Bresse
88250
La Chapelle-aux-Bois
88240
La Chapelle-devant-Bruyeres
88600
La Croix-aux-Mines
88520
La Forge
88530
La Forge-de-Thunimont
88240
La Grande-Fosse
88490
La Haye
88240
La Houssiere
88430
La Neuveville-Devant-Lepan
88600
La Neuveville-sous-Chateno
88170
La Neuveville-sous-Montfor
88800
La Petite-Fosse
88490
La Petite-Raon
88210
La Salle
88470
La Trouche
88110
La Vacheresse-et-la-Rouillie
88140
La Voivre
88470
Lamarche
88320
Landaville
88300
Langley
88130
Laval-sur-Vologne
88600
Laveline-devant-Bruyeres
88600
Laveline-du-Houx
88640
Le Beulay
88490
Le Boulay
88600
Le Clerjus
88240
Le Magny
88240
Le Menil
88160
Le Mont
88210
Le Puid
88210
Le Roulier
88460
Le Saulcy
88210
Le Syndicat
88120
Le Thillot
88160
Le Tholy
88530
Le Val-d'Ajol
88340
Le Valtin
88230
Le Vermont
88210
Legeville-et-Bonfays
88270
Lemmecourt
88300
Lepanges-sur-Vologne
88600
Lerrain
88260
Les Ableuvenettes
88270
Les Forges
88390
Les Poulieres
88600
Les Rouges-Eaux
88600
Les Thons
88410
Les Vallois
88260
Les Voivres
88240
Lesseux
88490
Liezey
88400
Liffol-le-Grand
88350
Ligneville
88800
Lironcourt
88410
Longchamp
88000
Longchamp-sous-Chatenois
88170
Lubine
88490
Lusse
88490
Luvigny
88110
La Neuveville-devant-Lepanges
88600
La Neuveville-sous-Chatenois
88170
La Neuveville-sous-Montfort
88325
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.