India 印度 => Country
Created 2012-04-05 21:37:00
Updated 2012-04-06 20:37:43
India is a country on the continent Asia, her capital is New Delhi. Here is the hierarchy of the India administrative divisions: India is subdivided into states, that are at their turn subdivided into districts, that are at their turn subdivided into cantons, that are at their turn subdivided into towns, villages.
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.
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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.
