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Former provinces of Angoumois, Aunis, Poitou and Saintonge: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA) Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA) Provençal: Provença-Aups-Còsta d'Azur (Prouvènço-Aup-Costo d'Azur) 93 Marseille: Former historical province of Provence and County of Nice annexed by France in 1860. Rhône-Alpes: Rhône-Alpes: Arpitan: Rôno-Arpes
Total France: 66,361,658 By area. The total area of France is 632,734 km 2, of which 543,940 km 2 (86.0%) is in Europe (Metropolitan France). [4] Rank Region
14 provinces + 50 districts 1 dependency: Rotuma: 7 districts: Finland: Regional 18 regions (maakuntaa) 70+ subregions (seutukuntaa) 293 municipalities (kuntaa) [ap] 1 autonomous region (itsehallinnollinen maakunta): Åland: 16 municipalities (kommuner (kuntaa)) France: Regional 18 regions (régions) [aq] 101 departments (départements) 332 ...
Provinces of royal France superimposed by modern administrative boundaries and the names of the actual regions Regions and departments of France from 1982 to 2015. Historically, France was divided into a complex mosaic of more or less independent entities.
Map of the provinces of France in 1789. They were abolished the following year. Under the Ancien Régime, the Kingdom of France was subdivided in multiple different ways (judicial, military, ecclesiastical, etc.) into several administrative units, until the National Constituent Assembly adopted a more uniform division into departments (départements) and districts in late 1789.
Up until 2016, the first level NUTS regions of France consisted of Ile de France, Bassin Parisien, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Est, Ouest, Sud-Ouest, Centre-Est, Méditerranée and the Départements d'outre-mer. [1] The Départements d'outre-mer consisted of all the overseas departments of France, while the remaining eight statistical regions were made up of the 22 regions of France.
How do UK small boat arrivals compare with those to Europe? There were more than 180,000 arrivals by sea in Europe during 2024, with Italy receiving more than a third. Greece and Spain also ...
Modern France is the result of centuries of nation building and the acquisition and incorporation of a number of historical provinces into the French domain. The names of these provinces are still used to designate natural, historical and cultural regions, and many of them appear in modern région or département names.