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Territories of France, excluding Antarctic territories.Citizens from all these territories, including the overseas administrative divisions, are French citizens, vote in national elections (presidential, legislative), and all of the inhabited territories are represented in the Senate.
France is divided into eighteen administrative regions (French: régions, singular région), of which thirteen are located in metropolitan France (in Europe), while the other five are overseas regions (not to be confused with the overseas collectivities, which have a semi-autonomous status). [1]
Administrative divisions of France. The departmental seat of government is known as the prefecture (préfecture) or chef-lieu de département and is generally a town of some importance roughly at the geographical centre of the department. This was determined according to the time taken to travel on horseback from the periphery of the department.
France is currently divided into 26 "régions"; 22 of these form metropolitan France, which includes the continental nation and the island of Corsica, and 4 are overseas. Régions are further subdivided into 100 " départements ", including the 4 départements d'outre-mer ("Overseas Departments") or "DOMs".
List of first-level administrative divisions by population List of FIPS region codes in FIPS 10-4 , withdrawn from the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) in 2008 Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), which covers the subdivisions of the members of the European Union
An arrondissement (French pronunciation: [aʁɔ̃dismɑ̃] ⓘ) [1] is the third level of administrative division in France generally corresponding to the territory overseen by a subprefect. As of 2023, the 101 French departments are divided into 333 arrondissements (including 13 overseas). [2] The capital of an arrondissement is called a ...
Pages in category "Administrative divisions of France, by region" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The French Constitution provides that, in general, French laws and regulations (France's civil code, penal code, administrative law, social laws, tax laws, etc.) apply to French overseas regions the same as in metropolitan France, but can be adapted as needed to suit the region's particular needs. Hence, the local administrations of French ...